The best witch movies all follow this lead. They are comedies, dramas, romances, and more, but they all revel in breaking the ...

To adequately convey the horror and suffering of war — particularly as they are inflicted on children — lies beyond the power of words. There’s no dialogue or narration in “The 4th Witch.” None is ...

What you nurture grows. And for a nameless girl at the center of Manual Cinema’s exquisitely creative tale “The 4th Witch,” her need to avenge the death of her parents becomes a rage-fueled, ...

Like Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Coven opens with the voices of (so-called) witches. Like Macbeth, it speaks strongly to audiences’ obsession with pagan magic and ‘fallen’ women. But where Shakespeare’s ...

Centuries before haunted house attractions or horror films, audiences thrilled to magic lantern shows. Also known as phantasmagorias, these performances featured hand-painted glass slides illuminated ...