IFC Midnight has acquired all North American distribution rights to Alex de la Iglesia’s horror comedy Witching & Bitching, the closing night film at this past September’s Toronto Fest’s Midnight Madness, reports Variety.
Though still boasting an acerbic edge – the film turns on the war of the sexes as love as perennial power struggke, per De la Iglesia – for many critics, Witching & Bitching marks a return to the zany, satiric genre-grafting style of early De la Iglesia’s movies, yoking black comedy, a relish for local detail, fantasy genre and this time round vfx rarely seem in Spain.
Witching & Bitching will see a theatrical U.S release in 2014 and simultaneous bow on VOD platforms.
The pic co-stars teen heart-throbs Mario Casas and Hugo Silva as two ne’er-do-wells who pull a Madrid heist, then flee towards France, only to fall into the maws of local witches at Navarre’s Zugarramurdi, its millennium-old coven center of occult activities.