One of Bloody Disgusting’s favorite up-and-coming filmmakers is Osgood Perkins, the son of the great Anthony Perkins (Psycho) who directed the astounding A24 thriller The Blackcoat’s Daughter and Netflix’s chilling I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House.
It looks as if Perkins is bringing his nightmarish style to Gretel & Hansel (get tickets), Orion Pictures’ dark new spin on the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale. This film is said to flip the script on the classic fairytale in a dark and twisted way, this time giving Gretel -played by IT: Chapter One‘s breakout star Sophia Lillis – the spotlight and focusing on her journey as a true coming-of-age tale with a unique and terrifying twist.
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.”
As John Squires noted in regards to the trailer, “The classic tale was always a dark one, of course, but Perkins’ film looks more in line with The Witch than it does other adaptations of the tale. It also looks to be an absolutely gorgeous film, with a muted color palette that promises a much more ‘grim’ vision for the story. This is no children’s book, it’s a straight up horror movie. And we cannot wait to head into these woods.”
Tickets are now available for purchase with Orion set to tell the tale of Gretel & Hansel on January 31, 2020.
