The Love Witch Reviews
watching The Love Witch felt like being hexed into a 1960s Technicolor soap opera—stunning, hypnotic, and just a little unhinged. Elaine’s deadly charm, paired with the film’s vintage aesthetic, had me equally mesmerized and questioning my wallpaper choices. Campy, gorgeous, and overall a vibe 9/10 would fall under its spell again
This movie is perfect
Absolutely suggested to whoever love the italian giallo. Whatching the movie you felt into a Dario argento or Lúcio Fulci film. The director Also used music from Lúcio Fulci "the woman in a lizard skin". Marvellous
Meh. I liked the 60's 70's throwback vibe. But the rest... just kept waiting for something interesting to happen. Weird doesn't mean interesting.
A bit campy with contrived acting. A story of love, gender and witchcraft. Whoever plays Elaine probably does a better job than the other actors, in that she appears a bit more committed to her role. Elaine is still annoying with all extra mannerisms that make her sound and look like an idiotic reality tv star. Once you get past all Elaine’s mannerisms and everyone’s odd acting, the story is not terrible. Her pursue of a love to her wanting, devaluing men when they love her too much, and not tolerating men who can’t love her enough.
Feels like a campy 1970 horror sexploitation film, wanted to hate it, but it was so oddly satisfying
The bad reviews are from people who don’t understand the style/era this movie is emulating/parodying. The dialogue is made to sound stilted on purpose like a dubbed Giallo film. I absolutely adored the acting, color, scenery, costuming, and comedy. Every shot was absolutely decadent perfection. Looking forward to following the writer/director and lead actress through their future careers. They are both creative geniuses, and this film was inspired.
If you love witches this is your movie. The acting is so odd in a captivating way. I will warn that this is an intellectual movie. If you enjoy allegories and symbolism then this will be right up your alley. If you watch movies at face value without looking for any deeper meaning, skip this. However, it is fantastic and i absolutely recommend checking it out.
She loved men... to death The Love Witch is a 2016 American comedy horror film written, edited, directed, produced, and scored by Anna Biller 🧙 Can’t recommend it. Meh, it passed the time. Sort of. 😕 It’s so bad, it’s hilarious… A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
Close to everything about this film feels intentional. From the dislikable main character to the exaggerated acting. This film was intended for the director, we just happen to also be here. I feel this film did a lot right that was underappreciated by many viewers. Elaine's intention is to be flawed but confident. She believes it is the fault of woman to not give themselves entirely to man. She mistakes love for lust. She is cruel, egotistical, lustful, incapable of seeing the fault of her own actions, a mockery to witchcraft, and packaged as the ideal male fantasy. Her character is not intended to show "modern-day feminism". She is made to be a close to poster child of a patriarchal fantasy. In the end this idea she holds ends up hurting her. When she meets the dedective, she fully believes he is the man she is intended to marry. However, he is the first man she inable to seduce. The two of them hold backward ideas of love in vastly different ways. There is heavy emphasize on this character. It is him that teaches Elaine she will never have full control and he blantantly tells her she is an insatiable being. The film also speaks on the taboo of a woman's sexuality. This concept, paired with the dated style of the film, is intended to comment on how throughout history woman are shamed for sexuality until they can hold an image a man desires, and after that are shamed again. I could talk about many aspects of the film for far too long. Though I will skip over that and cut to my deal breaker. I feel the film was distateful in its use of nudity. I understand it was commentary on sexual exploitation of woman (especially the idea of sexy witches) through a similiarly done performance. Intead I felt it was overdone and did not add much to the story that isn't obtained through Elaine's dialogue. The Love Witch is trying to come the absolute idea of love being divine and explore that through depicting the inverse. The cause of this is long and uncomfortable scenes. These causes a mockery of woman and overally sexual. Gives the film genuine negative energy,
I really enjoyed this movie. Its not like anything else I've seen before and i think that's what was intended. It doesn't take itself too seriously, its heavy on style and not trying to win any oscars. The cinematography and style is definitely the best part. if you're looking for a movie with it all, good plot, dialogue, cinematography, great acting, you should look elsewhere. This is worth a watch for those looking for an artistic movie that isn't without its flaws.
Would absolutely smash.
Not your ordinary movie. Looking for something different, and colorful? Here it is! Not scary.
I didn't know it was possible to be literally transported back to 1960, which is what the director managed to pull off. The costumes, make-up, set design, "bad acting", and the choice to shoot it on 35 mm film was all clearly intentional, and it worked (kudos to the director). The lead actress, Samantha Robinson is incredible, and I hope we see more of her, and more of this type of "time machine" filmmaking.
Classy. Too classy for me.
Poor acting, weak plot. Nice style and colors. Set in the 70s, but if you notice, the surroundings and cars are modern lol. That witch was dumb. Missed opportunity to have a great film. Ending sucked too.
The only thing that makes the movie good, which uses pretense as per its style, is its leading lady, Samantha Robinson. If it had been half an hour shorter, it could have been a more sedate movie.
Overrated. The only good thing is the visuals. Apart from that, a dull boring 2 hours of my life I will never get back!!
If you like artsy movies and interpreting them, this is for you. If you do NOT enjoy artsy movies and interpreting them, you will hate it. Do not expect huge plot twists or action. It's a well made movie that has a great cinematography and good social commentary. I love it.
Tem atuações ótimas, a personagem Elaine é incrível e traz uma visão verdadeira da magia.