Director Oz Perkins
Genre Fantasy | Horror | Thriller
Cast Sophia Lillis, Jessica De Gouw, Charles Babalola, Sammy Leakey
Rating PG-13
Release Date January 31st, 2020
“A girl and her younger brother unwittingly stumble upon the house of an evil witch in the dark woods.”
From director Oz Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House), Gretel & Hansel is a horror thriller that takes place a long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside and follows a young girl who leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil. Check out the official trailer below!!
Ted Takes Fun Facts, Gretel & Hansel:
Director Oz Perkins stated the title was changed because this version focuses on Gretel, who is older: "It's awfully faithful to the original story. It's got really only three principal characters: Hansel, Gretel, and the Witch. We tried to find a way to make it more of a coming of age story. I wanted Gretel to be somewhat older than Hansel, so it didn't feel like two twelve-year-olds -- rather a sixteen-year-old and an eight-year-old. There was more of a feeling like Gretel having to take Hansel around everywhere she goes, and how that can impede one's own evolution, how our attachments and the things that we love can sometimes get in the way of our growth."