Rotten Tomatoes is on blast this week for hiding saving the reveal of their score for Warner Bros. Justice League, which is allegedly looming around the 43% mark. It’s performing better than the likes of Suicide Squad and Batman V. Superman, yet far from the 98% that Wonder Woman holds. On the opposite spectrum is Nicolas Roeg‘s little film from 1990 called The Witches, Jim Henson‘s final film starring Angelica Huston as a witch intent on turning the world’s children into mice.
It’s a little-known fact that this children’s horror fantasy holds a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews from 33 critics with an average rating of 7.7/10. Roger Ebert gave the film 3 out of 4 stars, calling the film “an intriguing movie, ambitious and inventive, and almost worth seeing just for Anjelica Huston’s obvious delight in playing a completely uncompromised villainess.” Even though The Witches was well received by critics and audiences alike, it performed poorly at the box office ($10M worldwide).
Ironically, the book’s author, Roald Dahl, regarded the film as “utterly appalling” because of the ending that “contrasted with the book.”
I’d also like to think this proves some sort of point about Rotten Tomatoes, although I just like living in a world where The Witches performed better than a studio’s $350M nightmare project. Ha.
Other horror films with 100% on RT include 1931’s Frankenstein and 1935’s The Bride of Frankenstein.