We’re all too familiar with the rather dark reputation the Brothers Grimm have received among literary circles, particularly with their timeless fairy tales we’ve come to know so well. One of them, 1812’s Hansel and Gretel, remains a staple in folkloric literature, because who doesn’t love a story about two children who are abandoned by their parents, forced to live on their own in the woods, and come across a cannibalistic old lady who tries to eat them by boiling them to death? To say that director Oz Perkins puts an even darker spin into the tale is a bit of an understatement, but he nonetheless pulls it off (mostly) with his latest entry in horror,
Gretel and Hansel
Gretel and Hansel
Gretel and Hansel
We’re all too familiar with the rather dark reputation the Brothers Grimm have received among literary circles, particularly with their timeless fairy tales we’ve come to know so well. One of them, 1812’s Hansel and Gretel, remains a staple in folkloric literature, because who doesn’t love a story about two children who are abandoned by their parents, forced to live on their own in the woods, and come across a cannibalistic old lady who tries to eat them by boiling them to death? To say that director Oz Perkins puts an even darker spin into the tale is a bit of an understatement, but he nonetheless pulls it off (mostly) with his latest entry in horror,