After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches… their past.

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Film Cast:

• Hansel: Jeremy Renner
• Gretel: Gemma Arterton
• Muriel: Famke Janssen
• Mina: Pihla Viitala
• Edward: Derek Mears
• Edward (voice): Robin Atkin Downes
• Berringer: Peter Stormare
• Ben Wosser: Thomas Mann
• Horned Witch: Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
• Tall Witch: Zoë Bell
• Red Haired Witch: Joanna Kulig
• Candy Witch / Mother: Monique Ganderton
• Desert Witch (uncredited): Stephanie Corneliussen
• Tracker Jonathan: Christian Rubeck
• Father: Thomas Scharff
• Adrianna: Kathrin Kühnel
• Young Hansel: Cedric Eich
• Young Gretel: Alea Sophia Boudodimos
• Deputy: Matthias Ziesing
• Deputy: Sebastian Hülk
• Gamekeeper: Vegar Hoel
• Tracker William: Jeppe Beck Laursen
• Mute Tracker: Stig Frode Henriksen
• Bürgermeister Englemann: Rainer Bock
• Witch: Rose Wakesho
• Mary Behlmer: Lucy Ella von Scheele
• Tumor Witch (uncredited): Vanessa Wieduwilt
• Deputy #4 (uncredited): Tommy Wirkola

Film Crew:

• Casting: Deborah Aquila
• Costume Design: Marlene Stewart
• Production Design: Stephen Scott
• Stunts: Antje Rau
• Stunts: Mathis Landwehr
• Stunts: Alexandra Nazahn
• Stunts: Katja Richter
• Art Direction: Stephan O. Gessler
• Still Photographer: David Appleby
• Producer: Will Ferrell
• Set Decoration: Bernhard Henrich
• Supervising Art Director: Andreas Olshausen
• Art Direction: Anja Müller
• Editor: Jim Page
• Director of Photography: Michael Bonvillain
• Casting: Jennifer L. Smith
• Producer: Adam McKay
• Producer: Kevin J. Messick
• Original Music Composer: Atli Örvarsson
• Stunts: Jennifer Caputo
• Producer: Tommy Wirkola
• Stunt Double: Monique Ganderton
• Screenplay: Dante Harper
• Casting: Tricia Wood
• Draughtsman: Elliot Scott
• Script Supervisor: Lori Wyant
• Art Department Coordinator: Ingeborg Heinemann
• Visual Effects Editor: Chris O’Connell
• Compositors: Brian N. Bentley
• Stunt Double: Florian Hotz
• Stunt Double: Vanessa Wieduwilt
• Stunts: Maja Aro
• Stunt Double: Stephani Burkhard
• Stunts: Jackson Spidell
• Production Office Assistant: Katharina Hingst
• Stunts: Jana Reinhardt
• Stunt Double: Kristin Haberland

Movie Reviews:

• Andres Gomez: Nice fantasy and action movie. Interesting to see again Gemma Arterton and good FX but nothing else to remark.
• Per Gunnar Jonsson: This is a movie which you watch for the action and the special effects and pretty much nothing else. As such it is a excellent movie. The original story of Hansel & Gretel is essentially only used to boot this movie. The movie itself plays out when Hansel & Gretel are adult witch hunters.

  The movie is pretty much action all the way. It is fairly violent and goory action at that. It is not a movie for the kids. To me this is an advantage. I do not think I would have liked it as much if they had dumbed it down to a standard PG-rated Hollywood creation. I really enjoyed the hard-ass Hansel & Gretel duo kicking witch ass in so many way.

  The special effects are not bad and the medieval yet kind of modern weaponry that Hansel & Gretel swings around are quite cool looking. Not very believable perhaps but then neither are witches so… The witches themselves are also fairly cool. Especially the witch-gathering near the end of the movie is indeed a grim (ha ha) collection of freaky creatures.

  I was not too thrilled about the idiot law keeper. His utter stupidity bugged me throughout the entire movie. I really whished they would have dragged out the end for him a bit more. Well he did meet a suitable end at least.

  Overall, I enjoyed this movie a lot. If you though this was to be “just” a Hansel & Gretel movie the you are probably going to be disappointed. I knew more or less what I went for so I was just enjoying myself. I was surprised at the level of gore, exploding heads, troll-squished humans etc… but, as I said above, I think it was a good thing that they did let it be done in the way the producer/director obviously intended for it to be made.

• Wuchak: ***Kick axx continuation of the sylvan fairy tale about slaying diabolical witches***

  In Medieval Germany, Hansel & Gretel (Jeremy Renner & Gemma Arterton) are now adults and formidable witch slayers, not to mention considered heroes in the community. When numerous children turn-up missing, they trace the problem to an unholy celebration orchestrated by a grand witch (Famke Janssen). Fetching Pihla Viitala plays a redhead villager accused of witchcraft.

  “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” (2013) is a dark fantasy/action/comedy/horror that takes the German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm and envisions events about twenty years later. Imagine the excellent “Season of the Witch” (2011) meshed with the fantasy elements of the fable and you’d have a good idea of this movie. “Dracula Untold” (2014) and “Snow White and the Huntsman” (2012) are good contemporary associations, but “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” is noticeably superior.

  This movie just kicks total axx from beginning to end with Gemma jaw-dropping as the take-no-sheet heroine and Renner rising to the challenge. The witches are ee-vil and worthy of nothing other than immediate slaughter, which is basically the siblings’ modus operandi. There’s a lot of thrilling action and gore, some of it so over-the-top it’s amusing; there’s even a terrible troll. And the movie LOOKs great. If you like dark woodsy adventure and don’t mind fantasy, don’t miss out on this excellent film.

  The film is doesn’t overstay its welcome at 1 hour, 28 minutes; and was fittingly shot completely in Germany.

  GRADE: A