Orion Pictures shares with Bloody Disgusting a feast of exclusive new images from Gretel & Hansel, their dark new spin on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale in theaters January 31, 2020.
In the film, “A long time ago in a distant fairytale countryside, a young girl (Sophia Lillis) leads her little brother (Sammy Leakey) into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.”
The new imagery shows off marvelous set and costume design, as well as the unique eye of director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House).
“It’s awfully faithful to the original story,” Perkins previously told EW. “It’s got really only three principal characters: Hansel, Gretel, and the Witch. We tried to find a way to make it more of a coming of age story. I wanted Gretel to be somewhat older than Hansel, so it didn’t feel like two twelve-year-olds — rather a sixteen-year-old and an eight-year-old.”
Alice Krige plays the creepy witch in Orion’s latest horror offering.
