Witching and Bitching (2013) poster
2013 · horror · comedy · fantasy

Witching and Bitching

Directed by Álex de la Iglesia1h 49m2013
ElsewhereIMDb6.416kRT83%Metacritic73TMDB6.4692
  • sombre
  • kinetic
  • intense
  • inventive
Movie DNA

Sombre, breathless, extreme horror / comedy, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A gang of gold thieves land in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual... and in need of a sacrifice.

Our read · Witching and Bitching (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, surreal horror · comedy · fantasy entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want manic Spanish horror-comedy that starts with a heist gone wrong.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upgraphic violencegorechild perilbody horror

Skip it tonightSubtitled chaos, witch gore, and a child in peril are dealbreakers tonight.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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