The Love Witch | 2016 | UK Quad
The Love Witch is a 2016 film written and directed by Anna Biller. It stars Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Jared Sanford, Robert Seeley and Jennifer Ingrum. The storyline is based on Elaine, a beautiful young witch who start a new life after the death of her husband Jerry. She uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her with disastrous results. The Love Witch uses the figure of the witch as a metaphor for women in general, as both an embodiment of men's fears of women, and of women's own innate powers of intuition and as mothers and sorceresses. The character of Elaine is an examination of the femme fatale archetype. The film embraces the camp of 1960s horror, examining issues of love, desire, and narcissism through a feminist persp...