The Love Witch (2016)

Film details
View on IMDb ↗CastSamantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford, Robert Seeley, Jennifer Ingrum, Randy Evans, Clive Ashborn, Lily Holleman
KeywordsSatire, Horror Comedy, Black Comedy, Crime, Erotic Thriller, Romance, Folk Horror, Gothic, Surrealism, Sex Comedy
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
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The 21st Century’s Greatest Horror Films
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