A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
- Awards
- 3 wins & 5 nominations
April Schutte
- April Showers
- (as April Showers)
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- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaWhile writing the script for The Love Witch, Anna Biller had been reading relationship self-help books, and one particular piece of advice that stuck out to her was that if a woman wants to keep a man around, she should love him less than he loves her. She noticed a parallel between this advice and the female characters in classic cinema who love someone to death such as Ellen in Leave Her to Heaven (1945), so she decided to created the character Elaine in the same vein.
- GoofsElaine performs a seductive dance for Richard, causing him to bite her rear end in a fit of lust. Before he bites her, red bite marks are already visible on her right buttock from previous takes.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Brows Held High: The Love Witch's Subtle Cinematic Subversion (2017)
Featured review
This is a difficult one to review because it isn't really a horror. There's nothing scary about it and I can understand that a lot of geeks out there rejected this throwback to the sixties early seventies.
If you watch it in that perspective then you will like this a lot because the way the cinematography was done is clearly an ode to those days. In fact, the score, the editing, the lighting, the colour grading the way of acting and speaking, it's all done in a sixties style. Maybe for some clocking in at two hours is way too long for some and I can understand that because it's all talking and talking. But it do offers some 'magick' when the witches arrive. It's so beautifully done and it all looks like a real coven. The nudity, the rituals, everything.
So if you are into witchcraft then this is one to pick up. If you are into very old horrors with talking and talking it's your stuff. If you think you are going to see gore or even red stuff, forget it.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
If you watch it in that perspective then you will like this a lot because the way the cinematography was done is clearly an ode to those days. In fact, the score, the editing, the lighting, the colour grading the way of acting and speaking, it's all done in a sixties style. Maybe for some clocking in at two hours is way too long for some and I can understand that because it's all talking and talking. But it do offers some 'magick' when the witches arrive. It's so beautifully done and it all looks like a real coven. The nudity, the rituals, everything.
So if you are into witchcraft then this is one to pick up. If you are into very old horrors with talking and talking it's your stuff. If you think you are going to see gore or even red stuff, forget it.
Gore 0/5 Nudity 1,5/5 Effects 0/5 Story 2/5 Comedy 0/5
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $228,894
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $17,980
- Nov 13, 2016
- Gross worldwide
- $258,576
- Runtime2 hours
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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