Gretel & Hansel comes from a really good pairing: Take one Grimm fairy tale and pair it with period realism and vaguely Wiccan imagery. But is there an actual horror feast that awaits, or is it all ...

The Brothers Grimm were aptly named: fairy tales like “Hansel and Gretel,” about a destitute couple dying of famine, who abandon their children in the woods to save their own lives, are already scary ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It’s no accident that the new horror movie, Gretel & Hansel, reverses the title of the Brothers Grimm-popularized fairy tale about ...

Gretel & Hansel is a delightfully twisted exploration-adventure crafted entirely by hand in watercolor. Abandoned in a cursed forest, you play as Gretel, guiding her brother home while outwitting ...

Gretel & Hansel is not messing around. Gretel (Lillis)’s mother (Fiona O’Shaughnessy) tries to marry her off, and when Gretel doesn’t impress the guy she tells her daughter to smile more. Women will ...

Over the course of the past few years, we've seen a rise in period horror films that explore what fear would have been like centuries ago. Many of these films stray away from the tropes that horror ...

The Canadian Opera Company’s new production of Hansel and Gretel has arguably been the most anticipated event of its current season, and it’s mostly because of director Joel Ivany. The overture is a ...

Engelbert Humperdinck’s music for “Hansel and Gretel” is such an eclectic and cinematic composition that to hear it is to take an evocative ride through your own past. I variously found myself back in ...

Any girl who reads a fairy tale learns early on to be suspicious of magical gifts—no blessing of beauty gifted to a princess, nor a second sight that elevates a humble village girl, is given freely.