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The Witches (2020)

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The Witches (2020)	comment	The Witches is a 2020 fantasy horror comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis, Guillermo del Toro & Kenya Barris, based on Roald Dahl's 1983 novel of the same name. It is the second film adaptation of the novel, following Nicolas Roeg's 1990 version.In 1960s Alabama, an orphaned young boy named Charlie Hansen (Jahzir Bruno) stumbles across a conference of witches, while staying with his grandmother Agatha (Octavia Spencer) at a hotel, and gets turned into a mouse by the Grand High Witch (Anne Hathaway). Chris Rock narrates the story as an older Charlie, telling the firsthand account of his experience as a child. Stanley Tucci also stars as Mr. Stringer the hotel manager.The film was originally intended for a domestic theatrical release, but instead premiered on HBO Max on October 22, 2020 (later being pulled from the platform in 2022). It was released in theaters internationally on October 28.Previews: HBO Max trailer, International trailer.
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The Witches (2020) / int_121b3725	type	Age Lift
The Witches (2020) / int_121b3725	comment	Age Lift: Octavia Spencer is visibly younger than 89, the age of book Grandmamma.
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The Witches (2020) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Witches (2020) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Grandmamma reassures the boy that since they left in a hurry and went to a white people's hotel, the witches have no idea where they are. Cue GHW's cat Hades leaving the hotel window, where he overheard the whole thing and reports it to the Grand High Witch.
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The Witches (2020) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
The Witches (2020) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: According to supplementary materials, the young boy's name is Charlie Hansen and his grandmother is named Agatha.
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The Witches (2020) / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Witches (2020) / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The movie ostensibly shows the plot as a presentation being given to a room of students.
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The Witches (2020) / int_1e8f4221	type	Fingore
The Witches (2020) / int_1e8f4221	comment	Fingore: In an attempt to reach for the three mice in the vents, the Grand High Witch ends up butchering her claws on a fan, and has to bandage them up later. It's a pretty grisly moment, though for the sake of the PG rating, her blood is pitch black.
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The Witches (2020) / int_2317bc85	type	Tampering with Food and Drink
The Witches (2020) / int_2317bc85	comment	Tampering with Food and Drink: Grandmamma remembers that the witch who cursed Alice gave her a caramel. The witch with the snake tries to offer one to the boy, but he has the sense to not take it. That, and he's frozen in fear. Downplayed with the Witchesâ€™ plan of spiking chocolate and candy with Formula 86, as it only turns the consumer into a mouse. Daisy lampshades it after the three mice escape the Grand High Witch.
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The Witches (2020) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Witches (2020) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Unique to this version, the entire film is framed as a story that the protagonist (as an adult) tells to a classroom full of children. It's revealed at the end of the film that he was sharing his tale as a way of preparing the children for their grand mission to hunt down the witches of the world. A new scene is added in which Grandmama attempts to create an antidote for Formula 86; the attempt is sadly unsuccessful, meaning her grandson is fated to remain a mouse forever (though he doesn't seem to mind). Unlike previous versions, the Grand High Witch narrowly avoids eating the formula-laden soup, allowing her to face Grandma and the mice in her hotel room for one final confrontation. The book ends with Grandmama and her mouse grandson planning out their attack on the rest of the world's witches. The film expands on this by showing the pair grow older and, as mentioned above, training a brand new generation of witch hunters.
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The Witches (2020) / int_236846ce	type	Too Smart for Strangers
The Witches (2020) / int_236846ce	comment	Too Smart for Strangers: Zigzagged. Grandmamma says you never accept candy from a stranger because it may be a witch using the candy to curse you. On the other hand, they may find ways to curse you anyway if you can't run away fast enough.
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The Witches (2020) / int_237f7eeb	type	Missing White Woman Syndrome
The Witches (2020) / int_237f7eeb	comment	Missing White Woman Syndrome: Exploited by the witches as part of the Setting Update. The witches specifically target poor black children, as targeting rich white children would draw much more attention. Grand High Witch shocks the witches at the convention by saying she wants to go after all the kids, regardless of if they will be missed.
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The Witches (2020) / int_25dc6ef5	type	Apathetic Citizens
The Witches (2020) / int_25dc6ef5	comment	Apathetic Citizens: While the people in the dining room flee from the onslaught of witch-mice, no one apparently hears either the GHW screaming at Grandmamma for trying to steal from her, and her threats to rip out the lady's heart, nor the subsequent melee when the mouse-kids successfully forcefeed GHW the formula and then have to outrun her mouse guise. Justified in the latter case, because all the hotel staff and guests attention would have been focused on the dining room at the time.
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The Witches (2020) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
The Witches (2020) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: In the poster shown above, the Grand High Witch raises her arms in a way that mirrors her pose from the original book's cover◊. In the book's ending, the Boy and Grandmama plan to turn the remaining witches of the world into mice and then wipe them out with cats. This is alluded to in the film's climax when the rat-ified Grand High Witch is eaten alive by Hades.
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The Witches (2020) / int_2d0ad20f	type	There Is No Cure
The Witches (2020) / int_2d0ad20f	comment	There Is No Cure: Agatha tries and fails to synthesize a cure to the witches' Mouse Maker potion which has transformed her grandson and other children into mice, meaning the mice children are stuck that way for the remainder of their lives.
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The Witches (2020) / int_2dff6b95	type	Two Guys and a Girl
The Witches (2020) / int_2dff6b95	comment	Two Guys and a Girl: The boy, Bruno and Mary become this after all three of them have been turned into mice.
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The Witches (2020) / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
The Witches (2020) / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: The Grand High Witch herself falls under this. While she's undeniably the most powerful of the witches, honing several otherworldly abilities and blatant Super-Strength, made of diamonds she is not, as shown when she expresses immense pain after shredding her own claws in the vents. To quote Anne Hathaway, "she is one of those people who can't take any pain, but loves inflicting it". It's noteworthy however, that when the GHW is bloodlusted and chasing after the children as a mouse herself, while she might not be invulnerable to the numerous mousetraps she's set, she's certainly not afraid of the risk they pose to her, either. They get set off and fly snapping shut around the scene like debris from explosions in a warzone as she fearlessly charges through them.
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The Witches (2020) / int_2f75473	type	Number of the Beast
The Witches (2020) / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: Unsurprisingly, the Grand High Witch's hotel room is number 666. The Boy and Grandma live directly above her in room 766, which Grandma takes as an omen that "a big test is coming".
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The Witches (2020) / int_33a82edb	type	HammerSpace
The Witches (2020) / int_33a82edb	comment	Hammerspace: Another of the witches' magic powers, as shown when one of them pulls a long, bone-like length of wood out of her small purse to bar the doors of the meeting room shut.
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The Witches (2020) / int_33d5b7f2	type	Adapted Out
The Witches (2020) / int_33d5b7f2	comment	Adapted Out: The boyâ€™s second pet mouse, William, is notably absent from this version. Like the 1990 film, this adaptation removes the three frog children the Boy meets in the Grand High Witch's room. Grandmama's cigar smoking habits are omitted from this adaptation. Two key traits of a witch are notably removed from this iteration: the blue saliva and the oddly-colored pupils. Both of these were replaced with two new distinctive traits: wide, gaping mouths with razor sharp teeth, and one ugly claw-toe on each foot.
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The Witches (2020) / int_37d94ed9	type	Agony of the Feet
The Witches (2020) / int_37d94ed9	comment	Agony of the Feet: Weaponized. Before the Grand High Witch gets the chance to kill Grandmama, Bruno and Mary snap her toes with mouse traps, which both distracts her and leaves her open enough for the Boy to feed her a bottle of Mouse Maker.
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The Witches (2020) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Witches (2020) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Chris Rock narrates much of the story as the grown up protagonist. Doesn't that sound familiar? This is not the only film Octavia Spencer interacts with animals.
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The Witches (2020) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
The Witches (2020) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Bruno stopping to eat a piece of cheese in a mousetrap while he's being chased by the transformed GHW.
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The Witches (2020) / int_3d64e6e9	type	Adaptational Comic Relief
The Witches (2020) / int_3d64e6e9	comment	Adaptational Comic Relief: The Grand High Witch, of all characters. She gets subjected to a number of slapstick Amusing Injuries not in prior versions, (crushing her hand with a mallet, getting her toes caught in mouse traps, etc.)
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The Witches (2020) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Witches (2020) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Grandmamma doesn't have the means to change the children back from mouse-children, and their lifespans are severely shortened by this. She takes them in, however, and makes her home friendly and fun for them. A decade later, Bruno and Mary are implied to be gone, but the boy and Grandmamma are still around, continuing to raise new generations of witch hunters so they can protect children and stop witches.
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The Witches (2020) / int_439a64d3	type	Our Witches Are Different
The Witches (2020) / int_439a64d3	comment	Our Witches Are Different: Grandmamma specifically calls them demons that only look like humans. Their main distinctive feature here is the fact that they are bald and wear wigs to blend into human society. While the other witches still have square, toe-less feet, the Grand High Witch bears a long, single toe on each of hers. The film demonstrates two aspects that are unique to this adaptation - they only have two Creepy Long Fingers and a thumb per hand, and "elongated mouths that stretch to their ears", complete with Scary Teeth and a forked tongue - the mouth resembles a Glasgow Grin when the witches are passing themselves off as human women. Additionally, whenever they sustain an injury or die, they turn into metallic dust shards, further demonstrating they're not human.
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The Witches (2020) / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
The Witches (2020) / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Grandmamma asks Daisy/Mary why she didn't tell them she was a mouse-child during the months that the boy was caring for her. From her tone, it's obvious Grandmamma would have treated her like one of her kids and not a pet. Mary points out that talking mice freak people out and she didn't know who she could trust.
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The Witches (2020) / int_475d592d	type	You Dirty Rat!
The Witches (2020) / int_475d592d	comment	You Dirty Rat!: When the witches are fed their own potion, their rodent forms look like large, scabby rats rather than the cute mice the children turn into.
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The Witches (2020) / int_476d2edb	type	Snakes Are Sinister
The Witches (2020) / int_476d2edb	comment	Snakes Are Sinister: The Grand High Witch wears a snake-shaped ornament around her neck, which actually comes alive during the witches' meeting. And as in the book, the protagonist has an encounter with a witch who tries to entice him with a snake.
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The Witches (2020) / int_48373d9a	type	Silence of Sadness
The Witches (2020) / int_48373d9a	comment	Silence of Sadness: After the protagonist's parents are killed in a car accident, he is relatively quiet and doesn't say a lot besides turning down his grandmother's meals. He snaps out of it once Grandma cheers him up.
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The Witches (2020) / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
The Witches (2020) / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: The boy says "Mommy!" when trapped in the wrecked car, and his parents don't respond.
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The Witches (2020) / int_49512ae5	type	Pets as a Present
The Witches (2020) / int_49512ae5	comment	Pets as a Present: Grandmamma gives the boy a white mouse as a present. The boy starts training Daisy to do tricks, planning to start a whole mouse circus.
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The Witches (2020) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Witches (2020) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The last time we see the mouse-ified Grand High Witch, she's shown getting pounced upon by her cat Hades. The offscreen sounds of vicious meowing and distressed squeaking is enough to tell you she's doomed.
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The Witches (2020) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Witches (2020) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I'll fetch him!" said by Daisy before going to rescue Bruno. The boy has the appropriate response: "Did you just talk?!"
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The Witches (2020) / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
The Witches (2020) / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: The rat-witches are considerably more grotesque-looking than in prior versions.
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The Witches (2020) / int_53e1ce4e	type	Please Wake Up
The Witches (2020) / int_53e1ce4e	comment	Please Wake Up: The boy calls out for his parents while hanging upside down from the car wreck. He starts freaking out when they don't respond, more so when the cops pull only him out and not his mom and dad.
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The Witches (2020) / int_5473668f	type	Logo Joke
The Witches (2020) / int_5473668f	comment	Logo Joke: The film features a new cinematic Roald Dahl logo midway through the credits; the letters of Dahl's first name are formed from various elements of other stories he wrote (those which, coincidentally, were adapted into films before), whilst his last name is a Wonka bar, complete with a golden ticket.
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The Witches (2020) / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
The Witches (2020) / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: In previous versions of the story, the Grand High Witch's "human" face was merely a Latex Perfection mask that hid an extremely aged, putrefied face. Here, she looks like a beautiful woman throughout the film, though she still has quite the Nightmare Face whenever her huge, snake-like mouth is exposed. It is implied that she's much uglier than she appears, but we only get a glimpse of this other form and it's never brought up again otherwise.
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The Witches (2020) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Witches (2020) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Subverted. Two cops safely get the boy out of the car wreck, while comforting him. They also call Grandmamma to pick him up.
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The Witches (2020) / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Witches (2020) / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: The Grand High Witch, once Grandmama releases Hades from his cage, tries to beg her pet not to eat her. Being an animal who's been abused and starving, it fails.
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The Witches (2020) / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Witches (2020) / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Grandmamma says that witches only make "poor" children disappear. If a rich white kid disappears, it will cause an uproar. But no one cares about the poor, especially if they are black. Unfortunately, the ladies may still meet at a fancy hotel and we find out GHW isn't as pragmatic.
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The Witches (2020) / int_5eac5867	type	Bald of Evil
The Witches (2020) / int_5eac5867	comment	Their main distinctive feature here is the fact that they are bald and wear wigs to blend into human society.
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The Witches (2020) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
The Witches (2020) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: The boy's opening narration compresses the book's first chapter into a slide presentation he's giving to students. The movie removes the lengthy scene where the GHW instructs her followers to seek out the ingredients and brew Formula 86 themselves. Now, the Witch simply has a stock of bottles prepared for them from the get go (note that in the book, she only did this for the ancient witches who were too frail to find the ingredients on their own).
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The Witches (2020) / int_60ab1d1e	type	Catchphrase Insult
The Witches (2020) / int_60ab1d1e	comment	Catchphrase Insult: "Stupid", for the Grand High Witch. She uses it very frequently.
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The Witches (2020) / int_60f92ddd	type	Oireland
The Witches (2020) / int_60f92ddd	comment	Oireland: The witches include an Irishwoman named Saoirse who dresses all in green, has red hair, and speaks in an exaggerated accent.
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The Witches (2020) / int_64070096	type	Cowardly Lion
The Witches (2020) / int_64070096	comment	Cowardly Lion: Justified; Grandmamma is Properly Paranoid about witches, refusing to let one grab her grandson right under her nose. You can't do anything to stop a witch's magic, only to avoid it. She tells the boy that the best solution for dealing with a witch is run and don't let them catch you. Yet, in the climax, she stands her ground mouthing off to GHW, to prove she's not a scared little girl anymore and to buy her grandson, Bruno and Mary time to set traps on the Grand High Witch to force-feed her Delayed Mouse Maker. This is while GHW is threatening to rip her heart out of its chest and squeeze her to death.
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The Witches (2020) / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Witches (2020) / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: The inversion is Played for Drama; Grandmamma recounts that she ran from a witch who cursed Alice Blue. GHW then sees Grandmamma when the latter dropped her knitting onto GHW's balcony and asks if they know each other. Grandmamma goes Oh, Crap! and says no. Much later at the dinner, GHW has her "Eureka!" Moment and goes to confront Grandmamma; she says Grandmamma as a girl had pigtails. It's only because the Mouse Maker potion kicks in that GHW doesn't go beyond taunting her about what happened to Alice Blue.
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The Witches (2020) / int_6e7268ad	type	Parrot Pet Position
The Witches (2020) / int_6e7268ad	comment	Parrot Pet Position: The boy (in mouse form) climbs on his grandmother's shoulders this way.
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The Witches (2020) / int_6ec4232f	type	Casting Gag
The Witches (2020) / int_6ec4232f	comment	Casting Gag: The Latin American Spanish dub brings back two of the 1990 film's original voice actors, albeit in different roles: Rebeca PatiÃ±o, one of the 1990 film's additional voices, dubs Grandmamma in this version. Queta CalderÃ³n dubbed Miss Irvine and the female chef in the 1990 film. Here, she's one of the additional voices.
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The Witches (2020) / int_6f63a334	type	Perplexing Plurals
The Witches (2020) / int_6f63a334	comment	Perplexing Plurals: We get this little exchange when the three mice escape the Grand High Witch.
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The Witches (2020) / int_72455542	type	Adaptational Intelligence
The Witches (2020) / int_72455542	comment	Adaptational Intelligence: Grand High Witch in the book assumed the boy and Bruno were dead after they turned into mice. The trailers show her visibly confronting the boy in mouse guise with a Slasher Smile. Additionally, she doesn't drink the soup as she recognizes the Grandma as a little girl that managed to escape her and manages to not have the soup that turns the others into mice like the others as a result of this earlier epiphany. This forces the boy and the others into use more complex tactics in order to turn her into a mouse.
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The Witches (2020) / int_736d791f	type	Adaptational Badass
The Witches (2020) / int_736d791f	comment	Adaptational Badass: The Grand High Witch explicitly has Super-Strength and levitational powers in this adaptation. On top of that, she has the ability to grotesquely extend her arms to unbelievable lengths, which allows her to nearly catch the mice children with her own two claws. In this version of the dinner transformation scene, many of the mouse witches attempt to fight back against the humans trying to kill them, unlike the book and first film, where they merely scampered around helplessly while they were exterminated one-by-one. Bruno was The Load in the book, and poor Mary the mouse suffered a punt-kicking, which caused her to run. Movie Bruno is still not the fastest kid, but he does help in stopping GHW from killing Grandmamma. Mary in the meantime is revealed to be the most adept of the trio, having been a mouse for four months.
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The Witches (2020) / int_738d1a0f	type	Because You Were Nice to Me
The Witches (2020) / int_738d1a0f	comment	Because You Were Nice to Me: This is part of the reason why Mary rescues the boy and Bruno from the witches, getting them to the safety of a distant air vent. She says she understood how the boy felt about losing his parents, as an orphan herself, and he was always nice to "Daisy".
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The Witches (2020) / int_73d4b01a	type	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It
The Witches (2020) / int_73d4b01a	comment	In Case You Forgot Who Wrote It: The posters and trailer title cards have Roald Dahl's name above the title.
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The Witches (2020) / int_77cd64fa	type	Abled in the Adaptation
The Witches (2020) / int_77cd64fa	comment	Abled in the Adaptation: In the book, Grandmama had a missing thumb (the result of a past encounter with a witch). Here, both of her thumbs are still intact. That's because she didn't meet the witch; her friend Alice Blue did. Grandmamma had the sense to run away when she saw a strange lady offering Alice candy.
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The Witches (2020) / int_796fa10c	type	The Ageless
The Witches (2020) / int_796fa10c	comment	The Ageless: It's implied that witches don't actually age since they aren't human beings. Note that when we're properly introduced to the Grand High Witch, she looks exactly how she did back when Grandmama was a child.
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The Witches (2020) / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
The Witches (2020) / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: The first witch that the boy meets can't even pretend to be charming. He has a Deer in the Headlights reaction to her suddenly appearing with a snake wrapped around her wrist.
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The Witches (2020) / int_7c401ed8	type	Fear Is the Appropriate Response
The Witches (2020) / int_7c401ed8	comment	Fear Is the Appropriate Response: Grandmamma starts packing the minute she realizes a witch is targeting her grandson. She tells the boy that the best thing you can do if a witch wants to make you disappear is run for it, and accept nothing from strangers.
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The Witches (2020) / int_7eda7f78	type	Transformation Horror
The Witches (2020) / int_7eda7f78	comment	Transformation Horror: The boy's body breaks out into purple pustules as he transforms into a mouse.
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The Witches (2020) / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Witches (2020) / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: Zigzagged. The boy smiles a little when Grandmamma makes a quip about sea snakes eating Daisy, but he decides to stay inside, just in case something would hurt his mouse on the beach. This little decision leads to him observing the witches' meeting.
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The Witches (2020) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
The Witches (2020) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: Chris Rock is having fun as the boy all grown up, narrating the beginning of the movie. The Grand High Witch is very bombastic as Evil Is Hammy notes.
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The Witches (2020) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
The Witches (2020) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: The hotel concierge in the book threatens to drown the boy's mice if they are caught outside their cage. Here, while he doesn't know about Daisy the mouse, he is kinder when telling Grand High Witch that the hotel has a "no pets" policy in general. Bruno is much friendlier to the boy, offering him a handshake and telling Mrs. Jenkins he made a new friend. This makes the witch calling him a "greedy brat" much worse, since he was stupid, not mean.
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The Witches (2020) / int_851dda8f	type	Humanoid Abomination
The Witches (2020) / int_851dda8f	comment	Humanoid Abomination: The witches only look like human women, but are actually demonic beings that possess devastating magical powers, and it is also briefly implied their human looks conceal a far more frightening and unnatural true form. The Grand High Witch, in particular, as she boasts superhuman strength, can levitate and is able to extend her arms to unholy lengths to capture her prey.
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The Witches (2020) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
The Witches (2020) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The ending teases that it'll wimp out on the book's notorious Bittersweet Ending just like the 1990 film, but then ends up just splitting the difference. The kids are stuck as mice, but they at least retain their human lifespans.
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The Witches (2020) / int_8970d739	type	The One That Got Away
The Witches (2020) / int_8970d739	comment	The One That Got Away: Grandmamma's friend Alice Blue was cursed by the Grand High Witch, but Grandmamma herself escaped the witch. Years later, GHW seems to find Grandmamma familiar when she first sees her, and then later fully realizes that Grandmamma was the girl with the pigtails who got away from her when she had cursed Alice Blue. GHW was not happy that Grandmamma got away from her and is quite happy to have the chance to finish what she started.
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The Witches (2020) / int_90d44f44	type	Karmic Death
The Witches (2020) / int_90d44f44	comment	Karmic Death: As in the book, all the witches fall victim to the same mouse potion they intended to use on children, and end up getting wiped out en masse by the hotel staff. Doubly so for the Grand High Witch, who's not only given a taste (or rather, an entire bottle) of her own medicine, she's ultimately done in by her own cat, Hades, whom she cruelly caged up and abandoned earlier in the day. Which in Grandmamma's case is payback for Alice.
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The Witches (2020) / int_93bbff72	type	Monster Mouth
The Witches (2020) / int_93bbff72	comment	Monster Mouth: The witches all have these, but when posing as human women, they have what looks like a Glasgow Grin.
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The Witches (2020) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Witches (2020) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The Grand High Witch has a saccharine smile as she talks about how the hotel will get rid of "brats".
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The Witches (2020) / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Witches (2020) / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The witches have this reaction during the dinner scene when one of them turns into a rat, making them realize all too late just what is in their soup.
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The Witches (2020) / int_a4414a05	type	Adaptation Dye-Job
The Witches (2020) / int_a4414a05	comment	Adaptation Dye-Job: Subverted. The boy and Bruno do become brown mice like in the original novel, but their fur is different shades of brown to better tell them apart (this is similar to the first film adaptation). Played straight with the Grand High Witch, who sports a blonde wig instead of a black one like in the book and first film.
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The Witches (2020) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Witches (2020) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: In the book, the Boy's pet mice William and Mary merely run off following their owner's transformation, and they're never seen again afterwards. Here, not only does Mary (who serves as the only pet mouse this time) accompany her owner and Bruno on their adventure, she's revealed to be a fellow human being who had also been transformed into a mouse. The movie takes a page from its 1990 predecessor by giving more focus to the Snake Witch, who in this continuity actually hexes Grandmama with a nasty cough.
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The Witches (2020) / int_a8c6a317	type	Super-Strength
The Witches (2020) / int_a8c6a317	comment	The Grand High Witch explicitly has Super-Strength and levitational powers in this adaptation. On top of that, she has the ability to grotesquely extend her arms to unbelievable lengths, which allows her to nearly catch the mice children with her own two claws.
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The Witches (2020) / int_ac4c677f	type	De-power
The Witches (2020) / int_ac4c677f	comment	De-power: While the Grand High Witch is shown to have Super-Strength, Levitation & Telekinesis, these don't carry over to her rat form as she's restrained under a clear ice-bucket and can then only pound on it and make toothless threats. She's left to her fate at the paws of her pet cat Hades, as the heroes take all of her fortune, potion bottles and contact information for all the other witches.
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The Witches (2020) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Witches (2020) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Grandmamma has this reaction when she sees a mouse calling her with her grandson's voice.
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The Witches (2020) / int_af4d6174	type	Setting Update
The Witches (2020) / int_af4d6174	comment	Setting Update: Inverted; while both the book and first film took place during the decades they were released in (The '80s and 90's, respectively), this adaptation goes backward in time, instead placing the story in the 1960's. It also shifts the location from England to Alabama.
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The Witches (2020) / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Witches (2020) / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: In the end, Grandmamma has a trunk full of money and addresses for all the witches in the world. She spends a portion of the cash to tip the staff in the hotel, as partly an apology for turning the ladies into mice and causing a ruckus in the dining room.
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The Witches (2020) / int_b4a6ae4c	type	Everyone Has Standards
The Witches (2020) / int_b4a6ae4c	comment	Everyone Has Standards: The hotel manager is disturbed when he hears GHW saying they'll get rid of "brats" and tells them they must mean "rats". She gives him a withering Death Glare in response.
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The Witches (2020) / int_b7fa9b36	type	Adaptational Explanation
The Witches (2020) / int_b7fa9b36	comment	Adaptational Explanation: In the book, Grandmamma claims that in Norway people know about witches and are used to them cursing their children. Not so much in the movie; in deep south Alabama, no one knows that witches exist and they fail to see the magic that ensues. Grandmamma wouldn't have known about them if she hadn't seen one curse her friend Alice, run away in time before GHW could get her, and watch Alice change in front of her. Thus, she can't convince her parents or the townsfolk about curses and decides to teach herself how to counterattack with folk magic. Mary mentions that Grandmamma is the first adult who knows about these curses.
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The Witches (2020) / int_b97a2fa7	type	Forced Transformation
The Witches (2020) / int_b97a2fa7	comment	Forced Transformation: Grandmamma's best friend Alice was turned into a chicken. She also retained her human mind, even if she couldn't talk, and met with Grandmamma every day. As per usual, both the boy and Bruno are turned into mice by the witches. Daisy (real name Mary) is also revealed to be a former human child.
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The Witches (2020) / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
The Witches (2020) / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: The Grand High Witch keeps a bottle of Formula 86 in the metal bustier she wears beneath her dresses.
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The Witches (2020) / int_bc03c871	type	Child Hater
The Witches (2020) / int_bc03c871	comment	Child Hater: In true Roald Dahl tradition, witches are said to despise children due to their rancid, "poopy" odor (at least according to the way the witches' noses perceive smell).
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The Witches (2020) / int_bda88535	type	Life Isn't Fair
The Witches (2020) / int_bda88535	comment	Life Isn't Fair: Grandmamma admits this when she talks to the boy about losing her daughter and son-in-law.
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The Witches (2020) / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Witches (2020) / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: The Grand High Witch does this to Grandma, remarking about the Forced Transformation she inflicted onto her friend into a chicken.
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The Witches (2020) / int_c181a846	type	Dies Differently in Adaptation
The Witches (2020) / int_c181a846	comment	Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the original, the Grand High Witch is exterminated alongside her fellow witches after they turn into mice. She still transforms into a mouse here, but this time she ends up getting devoured by her own pet cat.
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The Witches (2020) / int_c26ebed4	type	Finagle's Law
The Witches (2020) / int_c26ebed4	comment	Finagle's Law: Grandmamma has an Oh, Crap! expression when she realizes there are witches at the hotel, and her grandson had the bad luck to run into them. A lot of bad circumstances had to happen for the boy to be trapped.
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The Witches (2020) / int_c2f7db18	type	Alien Blood
The Witches (2020) / int_c2f7db18	comment	Alien Blood: Witch blood is black and steaming, as if it were fresh tar, even congealing into jagged lumps like it.
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The Witches (2020) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Witches (2020) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The GHW poisons the boy "the Shakespeare way" by pouring poison in his ear. Hamlet's father was killed that way. (Bonus points for the GHW's actress sharing the name of Shakespeare's wife.)
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The Witches (2020) / int_c8b3e136	type	Moody Trailer Cover Song
The Witches (2020) / int_c8b3e136	comment	Moody Trailer Cover Song: The trailer remixes "Reach Out (I'll Be There)" by the Four Tops into a haunting overture to evoke the witches' evil natures.
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The Witches (2020) / int_ca3e24dc	type	Monkey Morality Pose
The Witches (2020) / int_ca3e24dc	comment	Monkey Morality Pose: The boy, Bruno, and Daisy do this when Mr. Stringer gets bitten in the crotch by the newly mouse-ified Snake Witch. They're also shown doing the poses on the poster.
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The Witches (2020) / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The Boy and Grandmamma are never addressed by name at any point in the film; after all, how often do grandparents/grandchildren call each other by name, rather than using an endearment?
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The Witches (2020) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Grandmamma told Alice's family that the chicken on their porch was their daughter. They didn't believe her, and she gave up trying to explain.
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The Witches (2020) / int_d17d7135	comment	Death by Genre Savviness: Grandmamma and the boy both suffer from this; the former has them go to a rich white people hotel to hide until the witch in their town disappears, reasoning that her grandson should be safe in a place among white people. The boy also starts to train Daisy in the grand ballroom where the Society For the Prevention Of Cruelty to Children is having their meeting, pointing out that by that logic they should like kids. Unfortunately for both of them, witches were in the hotel, masquerading as the Society. The silver lining is that death doesn't ensue.
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The Witches (2020) / int_d2b59903	comment	Cool Old Lady: Grandmamma asks her grandson to dance with her, on seeing how sad he is about losing his parents. She doesn't give up on him when the boy is still grieving, buying him a mouse as a present. When the boy says he wants nails to build a house for Daisy, Grandmamma says get galvanized nails because they're rustproof.
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The Witches (2020) / int_d40a8a0f	comment	Suddenly Voiced: Justified with Mary who, unlike her book counterpart, is actually a human-turned-mouse like the other boys, and is thus fully capable of speaking.
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The Witches (2020) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: The boy and his grandmother are Norwegian-English in the book. Here, they're African-American. Likewise, the witch who tries to first curse the boy with a snake was English-white in the book; here she's black. Birgit Svenson is portrayed here as an African-American child named Alice. The Grand High Witch is portrayed as more explicitly Norwegian compared to the previous film that had a more German accent.
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The Witches (2020) / int_d99a228f	comment	Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Something Mary points out when Grandmamma asks why she didn't tell them she was a talking mouse-child; people freak out about talking mice. Mary worried she would freak out the boy and Grandmamma. Their reaction is to reassure her no, not at all, and she becomes an honorary grandchild along with Bruno.
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The Witches (2020) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: Mr. Stringer is one; he's very kind to the guests, and gently warns them about having no pets. When GHW insists on bringing her cat to tea, he puts his foot down but offers a cat carrier as a compromise. He also apologizes for asking Grandmamma if she had mice in her purse — which she did but still— and offers her the best seat in the dining room as an apology and to buy her silence about a potential infestation. The exterminator who sets traps in Grandmamma's room. He jokes with her that the maid who saw a "swarm of rats" is a bit high-strung and he's just erring on the side of caution. The exterminator also shows her where the traps are, so she won't be snapped in turn.
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The Witches (2020) / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
The Witches (2020) / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: As the witches turn into rats in the dining room, most of the patrons flee in a panic while the hotel staff bravely confront the rodents. All except Grandmamma, who sits up straighter and watches the antics with quiet amusement and satisfaction. She just needs a cup of tea to complete the image.
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The Witches (2020) / int_e2c91d45	type	Comfort Food
The Witches (2020) / int_e2c91d45	comment	Comfort Food: Grandmamma starts cooking up a storm when her grandson is grieving. She makes him hot chocolate, chicken wings, and cake. Even though the boy isn't hungry at first and was having a trauma response to being in a car crash that killed his parents (which downplays his response to grandmother's kind gestures of food and dancing), and it takes talking it out with Grandmamma for him to start recovering, he starts cheering up over time.
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The Witches (2020) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Daisy/Mary is the protagonist's only pet mouse in this version. In the book, he had two mice: Mary and William.
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The Witches (2020) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Witches (2020) / int_e567510d	comment	It's noteworthy however, that when the GHW is bloodlusted and chasing after the children as a mouse herself, while she might not be invulnerable to the numerous mousetraps she's set, she's certainly not afraid of the risk they pose to her, either. They get set off and fly snapping shut around the scene like debris from explosions in a warzone as she fearlessly charges through them.
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The Witches (2020) / int_e6521611	comment	The film demonstrates two aspects that are unique to this adaptation - they only have two Creepy Long Fingers and a thumb per hand, and "elongated mouths that stretch to their ears", complete with Scary Teeth and a forked tongue - the mouth resembles a Glasgow Grin when the witches are passing themselves off as human women.
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The Witches (2020) / int_e68b72	type	The Load
The Witches (2020) / int_e68b72	comment	Bruno was The Load in the book, and poor Mary the mouse suffered a punt-kicking, which caused her to run. Movie Bruno is still not the fastest kid, but he does help in stopping GHW from killing Grandmamma. Mary in the meantime is revealed to be the most adept of the trio, having been a mouse for four months.
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The Witches (2020) / int_e8a03fe8	type	Moral Pragmatist
The Witches (2020) / int_e8a03fe8	comment	Moral Pragmatist: When they're raiding GHW's room, the mouse-kids point out that Hades is locked in a cage. Grandmamma looks sympathetic. Then she says she can't risk the mouse-kids' lives; they'll free Hades before they leave. Though when GHW is trapped, Grandmamma opens the cat carrier and tells Hades that he is a free cat.
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The Witches (2020) / int_ee9c050	type	Extendable Arms
The Witches (2020) / int_ee9c050	comment	Extendable Arms: The Grand High Witch can extend her arms in a grotesque manner to catch her prey.
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The Witches (2020) / int_ef3ba585	type	"Harmful to Pets" Reminder
The Witches (2020) / int_ef3ba585	comment	"Harmful to Pets" Reminder: Bruno, who was turned into a mouse, tries to eat a grape but Daisy tells them that grapes are poisonous to mice. note There's actually some dispute over this. Grapes and raisins are extremely poisonous to dogs and cats, less definitively so to mice, and some mouse owners avoid them just to be safe.
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The Witches (2020) / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
The Witches (2020) / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: The Grand High Witch briefly appears in Grandma's flashback as the witch who hexes her neighbor Alice. This comes into play later in the film, when the Witch recognizes Grandma as Alice's friend.
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The Witches (2020) / int_f00fce0e	type	Resourceful Rodent
The Witches (2020) / int_f00fce0e	comment	Resourceful Rodent: The main characters are turned into mice by witches and they have to outsmart them so they turn back into humans.
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The Witches (2020) / int_f33ff01c	comment	Adaptational Context Change: In the scene where Grandmamma tries to show Bruno is a mouse to his parents, he bluntly says in the book that he doesn't talk when his mouth is full. She calls him disagreeable. In the movie, he explains, "Father hates it when I talk with my mouth full" and Grandmamma gives him a look of utter sympathy, since she heard he didn't want his parents to see him like this.
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The Witches (2020) / int_f4bda58e	type	Good Shapeshifting, Evil Shapeshifting
The Witches (2020) / int_f4bda58e	comment	Good Shapeshifting, Evil Shapeshifting: Luke, Bruno, and Mary all appear distinctly cute as mice. By contrast, witches who are given the Grand High Witch's formula become ferocious rats instead. In the finale, the Grand High Witch gets her own dose of the formula catapulted into her mouth: not only does she become a rat instead of a mouse, she's also bald-headed, covered in patchy black fur, and looks nothing short of monstrous.
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The Witches (2020) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
The Witches (2020) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: The boy, Bruno and Mary were turned into mice. All three of them are instrumental in not only stopping the witches but also making sure GHW doesn't kill Grandmamma. Hades, the poor dear, gets locked in a cat carrier for the crime of liking it. The Grand High Witch then keeps him locked there all night. After GHW is turned into a mouse, and trapped, Grandmamma coolly unlocks Hades's carrier and lets the cat act on natural instincts. Soon, GHW is begging for her life from her former pet.
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The Witches (2020) / int_fc7c4f92	comment	Canon Immigrant: Liebchen, the Grand High Witch's black cat who appeared exclusively in the 1990 film, also appears in this film under the name "Hades".
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The Witches (2020) / int_fdf22cfd	type	Evil Is Hammy
The Witches (2020) / int_fdf22cfd	comment	The Grand High Witch is very bombastic as Evil Is Hammy notes.
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The Witches (2020) / int_ff6ae1f6	comment	Evil-Detecting Dog: Mouse in this case; the boy's white mouse Daisy starts sniffing frantically when she and the boy witness the Grand High Witch starting the meeting. It's because she was a child cursed by witches.
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