TV: Another Revisionist Take On Hansel & Gretel, ‘Witchslayer Gretl’, Gets A Teaser

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Posted by EvanDickson on February 14, 2012 @ 10:50pm
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Gretel21412 TV: Another Revisionist Take On Hansel & Gretel, Witchslayer Gretl, Gets A Teaser

Originally scheduled for November, and originally titled Gretl, Witchslayer Gretl is now set to debut on the Syfy Channel February 25th at 9/8C. I’m sure the genesis of the project has nothing to do with the high profile Hansel And Gretel: Witch Hunters (starring Jeremy Renner) that recently got bumped to next year. There’s also Black Forest: Hansel And Gretel & The 420 Witch coming out this year. For my sanity’s sake, let’s cap it at three for now, okay?

In the Syfy version starring Shannen Doherty, “As an adult, a witch hunter (Hansel) returns to the village where he lived as a child to find and kill the witch who killed his sister, Gretl (Doherty), only to find that Gretl is not dead and danger lurks around every corner.”

John Boylan, Sarain Boylan and Jefferson Brown, round out the cast with Erica Cox, Marianthi Evans, Sophia Ewaniuk, Nahanni Johnstone, and Daniela Lazzaro.

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[Special Report] Take A Hit Off ‘Black Forest: Hansel and Gretel & The 420 Witch’!

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Posted by EvanDickson on February 13, 2012 @ 11:30pm
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BlackForestLand21012 [Special Report] Take A Hit Off Black Forest: Hansel and Gretel & The 420 Witch!

Directed by Duane Journey, Black Forest: Hansel and Gretel & The 420 Witch updates the Grimm Brothers’ classic fairytale to modern-day Pasadena. Except now the forest is an immense indoor hydroponic marijuana farm. So naturally some liberties have been taken with the existing text. It’s being described as a bit Edgar Wright and a bit Pineapple Express but very gory.

The film is “about a brother and sister who battle a witch that uses a special drug to lure teenagers into her suburban home where she devours them to maintain her youth and beauty.”

Written by David Tillman and produced by Dark Highway Films, Black Forest stars Molly Quinn (“Castle”), Michael Welch (Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse), Lara Flynn Boyle (“Twin Peaks”, Men In Black II) and introduces Bianca Saad.

Sound like your kind of thing? I was able to visit the set recently, so hit the jump for my report! READ MORE