The Horror! The Witch! x4 – High Camp, transfiguration and expressionism

3 November, 2021

Halloween just passed but I'm still under its spell, so here I am, sharing with you four of the movies that kept me company these past days, all part of the unique (and infinite) vein of witch horrors. Of course, that's an overstatement – it's hard to step out of a stereotype that many titles do nothing but take it in stride (the evil witch with pointy nose, covered in warts), something that the movies below avoid or exploit excessively.

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Journalist and film critic, with a master's degree in film critics. Collaborates with Scena9, Acoperișul de Sticlă, FILM and FILM Menu magazines. For Films in Frame, she brings the monthly top of films and writes the monthly editorial Panorama, published on a Thursday. In her spare time, she retires in the woods where she pictures other possible lives and flying foxes.