In virtually every respect, Osgood Perkins’s darkly atmospheric “Gretel & Hansel” could not be more different from the last major effort to borrow the Grimm Brothers’ mythic siblings for the big ...

The Brothers Grimm were aptly named: fairy tales like “Hansel and Gretel,” about a destitute couple dying of famine, who abandon their children in the woods to save their own lives, are already scary ...

We all know the story. A pair of siblings—a boy and a girl—get lost in the woods and are taken in by a cannibalistic old witch. They outwit her with their smarts, barely escaping from her house of ...

Over the course of the past few years, we've seen a rise in period horror films that explore what fear would have been like centuries ago. Many of these films stray away from the tropes that horror ...

It’s a big bad world out there and the latest film from horror director Oz Perkins gives us just a taste of it. Orion Pictures’ 'Gretel & Hansel' is a reimagining of the well-known Grimm’s fairy tale.

Paramount and MGM’s R-rated Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is leading the Friday box office after scoring a healthy $500,000 in Thursday night grosses. The 3D film rolled out in north of 2,000 screens ...

The little clock at the top of the stage whirrs round madly, the gauze rises on the atmospheric panorama of the German countryside, and we are back in the embrace of Antony McDonald’s inventive ...

Engelbert Humperdinck’s music for “Hansel and Gretel” is such an eclectic and cinematic composition that to hear it is to take an evocative ride through your own past. I variously found myself back in ...