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- 2016
- Unrated
- Oscilloscope
- 2 h
- 2016
- Unrated
- Oscilloscope
- 2 h
Summary Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperatio...
Directed By: Anna Biller
Written By: Anna Biller
- 2016
- Unrated
- Oscilloscope
- 2 h
- 2016
- Unrated
- Oscilloscope
- 2 h
The Love Witch
6.1
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Summary Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperatio...
Directed By: Anna Biller
Written By: Anna Biller
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
82
89% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
7% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 27 Critic Reviews
82
89% Positive
24 Reviews
24 Reviews
7% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
4% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
LA film-maker Anna Biller achieves an ecstasy of artificiality in this amazing retro fantasy horror, delivered with absolute conviction.
If The Love Witch simply raised the profile of its director, Anna Biller — a true auteur who not only wrote, directed, produced, and edited this film but also designed and hand made its sets and costumes — then it would be a success.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
6.1
53% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
25% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
22% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
6.1
53% Positive
31 Ratings
31 Ratings
25% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
22% Negative
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
Good **** you know what your are about to wacth. It's Strange, Nostalgic, Sexy, Feminist in a way, classy. It is a good 70's horror b-movie homage
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The film has an artisanal intensity that prevents it from turning into a smug and predictable exercise in political revision.
It’s a lot of fun. Unfortunately, in her slavish devotion to creating the world of schlocky, B-grade sex-infused horror films, she recreates the good and the bad, the latter including some boring stretches that could’ve been lost in the two-hour running time. But it’s all quite enjoyable and a knowing take on patriarchy besides.
Though a little too languid at two hours, The Love Witch is appropriately seductive.
The Love Witch is a seductive 60s time-capsule that calls back to the technicolor charms of early genre filmmaking.
Weirdest. Feminist. Movie. Ever.
I had a feeling this would be my kind of movie, after all people were saying it was like Lana del Rey + witches so I was interested and wasn't actually happy with it, I get why people say the stuff and kinda agree but this isn't what I expected. The film has great moments, many of them, but some not so great stuff overshadowed them for me.
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The only thing that makes the movie good, which uses pretense as per its style, is its leading lady, Samantha Robinson. If it had been half an hour shorter, it could have been a more sedate movie.
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An aesthetic wet-dream with an irresistibly seductive leading lady, The Love Witch may well be, but in dramatic terms it's a grinding bore. Full credit to writer-director-designer Anna Biller for owning absolute control of her feature debut, which one can easily believe was pre-conceived within an inch of it's life, but for all the fetishistic swoon factor of faithfully relocating mid-'60s style and mood into a nominally contemporary setting, she can't (yet) dramatize or properly edit a scene to save herself. As a result, it goes on forever, while the tongue-in-cheek attitude is so unbearably arch it leaves the actors stranded in a joking-but-not-joking limbo. There are a few good laughs, especially in an early sequence where our titular spellbinder goes home with her first conquest, but not enough. And, even making allowances for "subversion of genre", horror-fans will find it irredeemably fright-free.
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Production Company
Anna Biller Productions
Release Date Nov 11, 2016
Duration 2 h
Rating Unrated
Tagline She Loved Men... To Death.
Awards
Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chicago Independent Film Critics Circle Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Dublin International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
