A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying e... Read allA long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
- Awards
- 4 wins & 16 nominations
Samuel Leakey
- Hansel
- (as Samuel J. Leakey)
Abdul Alshareef
- Knight
- (uncredited)
Beatrix Perkins
- Clicky
- (uncredited)
Manuel Pombo
- Knight
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Rob Hayes
- Jacob Grimm(uncredited)
- Wilhelm Grimm(uncredited)
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Storyline
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- TriviaAt one point a song floats over the soundtrack: "My mother, she killed me, my father, he ate me, and my little sister, my bones she kept, what a pretty bird am I!" This comes from another Grimm fairy tale, "The Juniper Tree,"widely considered by scholars as the darkest of all their tales. In it, a spiteful mother beheads her stepson and blames it on her daughter. She then cooks the corpse and feeds it to his husband, as the daughter picks up the bones from under the table and plants it under a juniper tree on the family's garden. A small bird appears from the grave, singing the song in question while picking a pair of new shoes, a gold chain and a mill stone, and then carries them to the house. The bird then gives the shoes to the daughter, the chain to the father and drops the stone on the stepmother, killing her. As she dies, the bird turns into a boy again and the story ends. The film borrows some thematic elements this tale.
- GoofsGretel and Hansel talk while sitting on a bed in the foreground. On the adjoining bed in the background a cat stands up and jumps to the floor. However the cat reappears on the bed and disappears several times throughout the scene.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Half in the Bag: IT Chapter Two (2019)
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What's with all the negative reviews?
I watched the trailer and it looks like a well staged movie. Then I came to Imdb to my surprise, so many bad reviews. I was skeptical but yet I give it a try. The movie itself is captured beautifully, props to the cameraman, almost every scene is an art of some sort.
The story itself, I can say, a bit slow paced, but storyline was good. There are plots that made me wonder, but all are answered in the end. Overall an enjoying remake of Hansel and Gretel with a little bit of twist at the end. DO NOT TRUST THE POORLY RATED REVIEWS!!!
At minimum I'd say around 6.5/10. But for me I loved it so 8/10.
The story itself, I can say, a bit slow paced, but storyline was good. There are plots that made me wonder, but all are answered in the end. Overall an enjoying remake of Hansel and Gretel with a little bit of twist at the end. DO NOT TRUST THE POORLY RATED REVIEWS!!!
At minimum I'd say around 6.5/10. But for me I loved it so 8/10.
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- Countries of origin
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- Language
- Also known as
- Gretel & Hansel: Truyện Cổ Kỳ Dị
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $5,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $15,347,654
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $6,154,007
- Feb 2, 2020
- Gross worldwide
- $22,304,357
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.55 : 1
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