Having never read the book as a kid, the 1990 on screen adaptation of The Witches was always classic childhood nostalgia for me... And the older I got, the more I noticed how dark in tone that movie truly could get. It had the potential to be a horror/comedy if it wanted to be. So when the news broke that Robert Zemeckis himself was directing Anne Hathaway as the Grand High Witch in a remake, with Octavia Spencer as the Grandmother, I was surprisingly all in. With names like these and then some, there's no way this can fail. Right? Enjoy, people.