The Love Witch (2016)

Film details

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DirectorAnna Biller
Year2016
CountryUSA
TypeMovie
Runtime120m
CastSamantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford, Robert Seeley, Jennifer Ingrum, Randy Evans, Clive Ashborn, Lily Holleman

Review

"LA film-maker Anna Biller achieves an ecstasy of artificiality in this amazing retro fantasy horror, delivered with absolute conviction. It's designed, produced, written, directed and generally auteured by Biller herself, and lit and photographed by M David Mullen – apparently without digital fabrication. The Love Witch goes beyond camp, beyond pastiche; it ignites the pulpy surfaces of its tale and produces a smoke of bad-dream sexiness and scariness. It's a B-movie with A-grade potency. But you have to stay with it, you have to understand its absolute seriousness before getting the comedy and the satire of the transactional politics in sex." - Peter Bradshaw, Guardian

Ranking history

The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS IN TOP 1,0004
HIGHEST#9022025
LOWEST#1,6012019
#846#1,252#1,657TOP 1,00020192020202120232024202520262019 — #1,601 · Outside Top 1,0002020 — #1,003 · Outside Top 1,0002021 — #1,095 · Outside Top 1,0002023 — #937 · Top 1,0002024 — #965 · Top 1,0002025 — #902 · Top 1,0002026 — #935 · Top 1,000
Top 1,000Outside Top 1,000Missing ranking data

Dashed lines indicate missing ranking data. Select a point to view that year's published list. The 1,000 Greatest Horror Films list was not updated in 2022.

The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films

EDITIONS RANKED6
HIGHEST#1802020
LOWEST#3162021
Published rankingNot ranked (outside published list)

The list was not updated from 2016 to 2019 or in 2022. It expanded from a Top 250 to a Top 500 in 2021. Full rankings beyond the published lists are not available. Dotted segments and hollow points indicate editions in which the film was outside the published list; their exact ranks are unknown.

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