Synopsis
A gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.
2013 ‘Las brujas de Zugarramurdi’ Directed by Álex de la Iglesia
A gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.
Ведьмы из Сугаррамурди, 女巫不該讓男人流淚, Las Brujas De Zugarramurdi, Witching and Bitching, Les Sorcières de Zugarramurdi, As Bruxas de Zugarramurdi, Die Hexen von Zugarramurdi, Čarodějnice, 마녀사냥꾼, Zugarramurdi'nin Cadıları, Bűbáj és kéjelgés, 苏镇巫女, Le streghe son tornate, Witching And Bitching, Вештичарке и бичарке, Cadılar, ალქაჯები სუგარამურდიდან, Відьми з Сугаррамурді, スガラムルディの魔女, Wiedźmy z Zugarramurdi
Wasn't worth the 6.99 I dished out for it on Amazon! Trust me it's NOT a Horror Comedy!
Majority of the film is spent on men bitterly bitching and moaning about women and women bitterly bitching and moaning about men! Not exactly my idea of entertainment!
Stories about the battle of the sexes is nothing new! It's been done successfully time and time again because it was done with cerebral humor and intellectual wit, something sorely lacking in this film!
It crossed over into the realm of complete and utter ridiculousness!
In short... it was a hot mess!
There are a few brief scenes that were slightly amusing but not enough to save this film from being tossed into Naughty's Shit List and moi throwing away the key!
Only yesterday I was wondering when I might get to see this Álex de la Iglesia piece and as if by witchcraft it appears on Netflix.
*looks nervously over shoulder*
After being treated to a history of witches over the opening credits (Maggie Thatcher! I knew it!), we join a heist in action with wacky costumes and exaggerated gunplay. Cops firing everywhere without fear of clipping non-robbers! During the getaway we get to know our would-be thieves and they're all emasculated shells of men (with exception of young kid in tow) reduced to petty crime to cling on to manhood or whatever. We also get to know a pair of cops in pursuit and they're no better off and indeed…
Witching and Bitching is a pretty wild horror comedy. It follows a group of robbers who come across some cannibalistic witches. They must survive the night as they try to escape from them.
When I heard about this movie immediately wanted to see it. Assuming this would be a new favorite but it unfortunately never meet those expectations. The whole cast was committed with Macarena Gomez being my favorite. I am a bit biased because I remember her from the nightmarish 30 Coins (2020). Even though the movie does embrace its concept it never hit the heights as it should. It does have a pretty bonkers third act that I appreciate but it was to late to repair the rest…
Alex de la Iglesia's latest genre offering is an agreeably barking mad supernatural battle of the sexes. It settles into its crazy groove from the very outset with a fantastically deranged heist setpiece involving Jesus Christ, The Invisible Man and an uzi-totting Spongebob Squarepants (no, really it does!). That it then proceeds to up the madness levels from here is quite the achievement, but it does so, as our ragtag group of (anti)heroes wind up in a bizarre backwater village which makes Royston Vasey look like a template for normality. With its underlying theme of gender conflict represented via witchcraft and weirdness, this hurtles towards an utterly demented climax which is as truly nightmarish as it is completely insane.
Yes,…
Quite possibly as close to the perfect horror comedy as you can get. This thing is rather peculiar but gleefully energetic and hilarious as hell. The opening alone is utterly bonkers. It reminds me a bit of From Dusk Till Dawn where a heist film turns into a survival about halfway. For some reason AMC+ says its 1h10m long but when I press play, it's actually 1h53m long. Despite being 20 minutes too long, I find it very dynamic and constantly funny. Putting some nice spin on several familiar genre tropes. There's a lot of crude humor, plenty of gore and the special effects are great too. The lead characters in this are very strange and hot, and they complement each other perfectly without leaving out the other actors who also do an excellent job with their peculiar roles in the film. Love it.
“The devil has no tail, but his pussy is a cave.”
Such is the kind of nuanced gender commentary offered by the men in Álex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching, a simple yet utterly bonkers battle of the sexes that chuckles at male chauvinism before castrating it completely. Teetering on the verge of irrelevance 12 years after his last good film (800 Bullets), the increasingly prolific Spanish director has returned to what he does best, pulling himself back from the brink with an unbridled genre exercise that plays like a stale American sitcom as re-imagined by Guillermo del Toro during a fatal Adderall overdose.
FULL REVIEW ON THE DISSOLVE: thedissolve.com/reviews/859-witching-and-bitching/
Cover: ⭐⭐☆☆☆
Atmosphäre: ⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Spannung: ⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Erotik: ⭐⭐️⭐️☆☆
Spaß: ⭐⭐️⭐️⭐️☆
Ekel: ⭐⭐️⭐️☆☆
2020 First Time Watches Ranked
"I don't fear witches. What I fear are sons of bitches. They're numerous and everywhere."
I'm starting to see a pattern when it comes to Álex de la Iglesia's films. I tend to love his first acts because they're full of humor and manic fun. It's around his films' halfway points that they start to lose steam with inconsistent returns and, in the final stretch, they ultimately become cacophonous messes. More so than with El Bar, Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi never fully lives up to its potential. That said, it says something that I still had as good a time as I did with a film that throws the battle of the sexes into a…
This movie is a trip! It opens with Jesus, a toy soldier, and an armed child robbing a pawn shop and gets weirder from there! So, if you're looking for a fun, unique, foreign comedy, check out this hidden gem from Spain. It's freakin' awesome!
Aún no sé cómo es posible que, haciéndose larga, siendo completamente desproporcionada, abusando de todo y terminando no sé sabe dónde ni cómo, me lo haya pasado bastante bien.