Benny Davis
Witches and Women in Genre
One of the most prominent with stories in my life was a film based on a
Roald Dahl book called “The Witches”. I first saw it when I was about 7 years
old or so.
It terrified me because of one scene in particular, when the main
character, a boy about my age when I first saw the movie, stumbles upon a
meeting of witches in an eerie hotel where he and his parents are staying.
During this meeting, a bully character stumbles into the room in which the
witches are congregated, and is subsequently turned into a mouse, in a
transformation scene that should not have been approved for children.
Here is the scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fz63MfhUK9g
If you don’t believe me, watch the scene for yourself. It is truly
unnerving and uncanny. Since then, I have been very skeptical about watching
witch movies, as you might imagine!
-Benny Davis
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