I grew up with the original book by Roald Dahl, who notoriously hated the movie’s change to the ending so much he stood outside movie theaters with a megaphone telling people not to watch it. The original ending (spoilers) is darker than the movie: Luke is never turned back into a human but stays a mouse, fated to die in a couple of years due to a mouse’s short lifespan. But he celebrates this because he will die at the same time as his grandma, who only has a few years left to life in her old age. We never learn of Bruno’s fate, but it is speculated (half-seriously) his parents drowned him in a bucket of water.
The most annoying thing about the Dahl with a megaphone story is that most people wouldn't've recognised him and would have just thought him some random nutter. Talent over fame, for sure.
Don't watch this movie, it's not for kids despite appearances, it's a miserable story about two children who have their lives robbed from them. Yeah I'm guessing a lot of people tuned him out, a fantastic writer who couldn't understand that changing the source material was necessary to create a kid's movie, as opposed to the Diary of Fievel mouskovits.
Just remember that Roald Dahl was quite an awful and cantankerous human being. His publisher dropped him because he kept sending dozens of hateful letters demanding that they give him a very specific type of pencil. He also serial cheated on his wife and was openly anti-sematic. It's a miracle his books managed to escape most of his terrible character traits, though he did have to change the Oompa Loompas into little orange men, as they were originally pigmy black people. The publisher couldn't let that little bit of racism through from the start.
I just realized that the Grand High Witch had to have thoroughly tested her potion, but she wasn't aware that the mice can talk, which means she's been transforming and immediately stomping children a LOT.
Hmmm... If my copy of the book was somewhere easy to get to I'd kinda want to check what that had to say about the invention of that potion. I seem to recall the book going into a lot of detail about the ingredients in the potion. (I think in the book she was just providing the recipe to them, not pre-made vials.) Lots of random objects were being used symbolically in it to channel the grand high witch's intentions into it. Specifically I remember an alarm clock being an ingredient, to create the timer from ingestion until the potion takes effect. I forget if any testing was mentioned in the book or if she just had faith in her genius potionmaking skills and expected it to meet expectations... Although it is named as the 86th version of the potion so that does suggest 85 failed attempts so she would've needed testing to know that it needed refinement all those times. Anyway, awfully short-sighted to only verify successful transformation and to not observe long term effects. They may be hoping that all the kids turned into mice just end up dead soon after, but they can't guarantee it. And it'd be wise for them to verify that the transformation won't reverse itself if the kid lives long enough as a mouse. (Sure we know from our outside perspective watching the movie or reading the book that it's permanent. But how can the witches be certain of that?)
@@MuljoStpho Even if they did do any testing, would you want to be the mouse to reveal to the witch that you could talk? I think if I'd been turned into a mouse by a witch, I'd probably keep my mouth shut out of utter fear she'd do something even worse.
23:10 That is a potato cleaner. My dad use to have on in his take away. It is quite simple, it is like a sandpaper bottom, water pours in and it spins really fast and sands the skin off the potato and makes it smooth with very little waste. Its a neat tool.
the whole thing about the girl being trapped in the painting haunts me to this day. MY mother had/has a similar looking painting and i would always look to see if the people seemed to have moved a little or not. TO THIS DAY! it's been over 30 years and paintings like that still creep me out Hairy Butt Chin
I saw this as a young kid and the part at the beginning with the girl trapped in the painting use to scare me more than the witches. Imagine both sides of the situation... watching your daughter in a painting moving and changing everyday, with no way to free her.... or being the girl trapped in there having your parents look at you but have no way to communicate to them as you slowly get older.
When I was a kid it felt like Roald Dahl was the only author that mattered. There are some really good film versions of his books too, this one, Danny champion of the world, The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox etc. Brilliant stuff.
This movie freaked out a lot of kids back in the 90's! I read the book while I was in school! The ending is a lot different than the movie. The special makeup effects were done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the same company who designed the Muppets
@@vanyadolly a few years ago I saw a pic a tourist posted of a traditional little street/lane. It was the spot the little girl disappeared before going into the painting. near 30 years and its imprinted on my brain.
I still remember when this movie came out. And it has been one of my ABSOLUTE favorites ever since. As a kid i loved everything about this movie and was absolutely amazed at what they pulled off with the in-camera effects, the captivating cinematography, the atmosphere and the amazing performances of Ajelica Huston, Rowan Atkinson and everyone else in the cast. I always loved the Outsider-Witch who helped Luke at the end. I had such a great relationship with my grandma too as a kid so the portrayal of Luke's Nan really resonated with me SOOO much. And she too had Diabetis.
I watched this movie so many times when I was a kid that I wore out my tape. The 80s and early 90s were some of the best kids movies ever made--they didn't flinch from hard subjects and they weren't afraid to completely traumatize you ;D
I had nightmares about this movie and Alien when I was in kindergarten. I watched it 2 halloweens ago at my brother's house and noticed all the low budget things in the editing like half of the witches in the meeting being men stand ins LOL!
My grandparents had it on tape in the early 90s, but it only started from the witches meeting in the hotel I still enjoyed it very much and watched it every time I visited 😊
I feel like it has to be said: the assistant to the head witch was AMAZING as a character named Bubbles in Absolutely Fabulous (British TV series). Cracks me up every time.
@@RichardX1 A reverse of King's Green Mile concept -- or rather, given precedence, King's concept was a reverse of Dahl's. Dahl was crazy inventive, but King comes close. Both favourites of mine.
Cucumber Sandwich is a classic. Normally its white bread, where you spread a layer of Philadelphia cream cheese on the top slice and bottom slice with one or two layers of thinly sliced cucumber in between. Then remember to cut of the crust and cut them twice diagonally so they are small triangles. It is a nice delicate fingerfood, perfect for snacking.
I had this movie running on a loops as a kid. It was always very fun and we generally enjoyed that creepy amd graphic practical effects, make up, puppets....it's just what we had (Gremlins, The Neverending Story, the Dark Crystal). I was also a fan of The worst witch series in the 80s as well. Glad to see someone have fun with it!
This movie really freaked me out when I watched it the first time at 7 years old. I still find it surprising that it was a children's movie, but then again it did come out in the 90's and a lot of things where questionable back then. Love your reactions they are always so honest and funny.
Roald Dahl wrote this. Remember what happened to the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? Or James' parents before he found the giant peach...? Or Miss Trunchbull from Matilda? Guy was a sick f***, but man he could write! 🙂
The best kids movies came out before the new millenium. They've oversanitzed the majority of them nowadays. That doesn't mean they can't be good, but they could have been better.
@@bizznatch1478 Totally agree. Children crave honesty, bc anything else makes their lives miserable (to them). Roald was hyper-honest (like his American doppelganger, Judy Blume), and leaned into how scary the world will be. That's why we loved his work.
I love Roald Dahl books and this is one of my favorites growing up. I love how his books for kids are darker than most. In the book he stays a mouse btw.
I just discovered you yesterday. You have reacted to soooo many of my favorite movies! I’m so excited for all of this content! Your editing is great, and I love seeing your genuine reactions!
I worked in child care and ran a summer program that took kids on day trips. We took them to the movies to see this 😂 I didn’t know it would be so bad lol
And today was the day Ash discovered she was a witch. 😂 I haven't read the book in a very long time, but I think the transformation into a mouse was irreversible, so it had a very different ending. I loved this movie as a kid. Films like this cemented my love of Roald Dahl stories. My favorite book of his is "George's Marvelous Medicine" and I always wanted to see a film adaptation of it and imagined someone like Tim Burton directing.
Fun fact: Rowan Atkinson had a real like Mr. Bean moment when he left his taps running in his hotel room (the frantically knocking porter was told "go away, I'm asleep"). The resulting flood wrote off much of the movie’s production team's electrical equipment on the floor below.
The oxymoronic nature of his comment would have rendered me senseless for a long period of time. I think he meant he was 'trying to sleep', if the comment was accurately reported.
Jane Horrocks, who played the Grand High Witch's assistant, is a fantastic singer and talented at imitating voices. The film Little Voice, which I recommend, is a good showcase for her talent.
Loved her as Eddie's assistant Bubble. She was also in an episode of The Young Ones. That reminds me Ashleigh needs to react to Drop Dead Fred. It has one of her girl crushes.
This film is a bit of an usual one for the director, Nicholas Roeg; he was more known for somewhat more adult and somewhat weird fare like Performance, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and one of my personal favourites, Don't Look Now, so this was quite a big change of pace for him doing something that's (at least in theory) a bit more family friendly.
I think he was an inspired choice to direct this, because he didn't shy away from the horrific elements the way a traditional family film director might have. (Except maybe for the softened ending, but that was probably a studio decision.)
The perky assistant to Huston's character was the voice of the scatterbrained chicken that is always knitting in Chicken Run. "Oh, 'ave you been on 'oliday?" "I don't want to be a pie!" That one. Also played Bubble on Absolutely Fabulous.
It was scary to me as a kid because my family kept telling me its too scary and I'll cry if I watch it. It stands as my favorite in the horror genre. I did not even bother watching the reboot movie...The new clown looks like such a joke. I now understand why Tim Curry refused to dress up that way and simply used his talent to be creepy.
I first saw this at age 12, which was young enough for me to really enjoy it, and old enough not to be traumatized by it. It's been one of my favorites ever since, and I loved watching you react to it!
Hi Ash!! Watching this, I was thinking that if you and Anjelica Huston were had a band , you could call it Hairy Butt Chin and the Toe Poppin' Mommas! Hahaha! This story comes from the same author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you KNOW he loves grandparents and how to mix the creepy with the wholesome. This has been a great Hallobeans already!
Love this movie. A teacher read this book to us as kids. When I eventually saw the movie I was blown away by how it was almost exactly how I pictured it in my imagination.
Funny I did not like reading harry Potter because I could not clearly imagine the junk they had to get past in the castle. The rest of the books read better. It's sad to me that books like this one (Witches) and ones like IT are much more graphic and dark than the movies.
Yes, the weather is often overcast in Norway.... though the hotel is actually in England and not in Norway. The Grandmother's from Norway originally, but the family lives in England. (Roald Dahl's parents were from Norway, but he himself grew up in England, though he spent his childhood summers in Norway with his grandparents. Apparently, the grandmother in this story is based on Roald Dahl's own grandmother! ) ^_^
I was between 9 and 11 when I saw this, I read the book first so I knew what was coming but even knowing they were going to peel off their skin suits to show their true form it STILL shocked me because imagination and actually seeing it are 2 different things. Fun Fact: it's been 30ish years since then and this is my second time seeing this.
Growing up as a child of the ‘80s, I was a little older when I watched this but it scared the crap out of my younger sister. I laughed at the hairy butt chin! 😂 We had some scary kids movies in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Not sure if you’ve done Return to Oz, but that is another crazy kids movie that scarred me for life! 😳
I used to watch this on cable all the time. When HBO busted out their Halloween movies for October. Jim Henson was the executive producer and his creature shop did all of the puppets and animatronics. I'm glad you liked this one, and thumbs up on your Hairy Butt Chin phrase. Captures the look perfectly! 😆
'Of course it stops when I zoom in and look crazy.' Bwahahahahaha! I love the lack of filter you have when you ramble after the movie. I don't lol as much on any other channel. Thank you for making me laugh so much!
Hairy butt chin! "Even though she's evil she's still so hot" - SO. TRUE. This one terrified me cause I saw it when I was seven but it became one of my fav movies as a kid and your reaction was perfect! I highly recommend if you're a fan of Anjelica Huston reading her memoirs - plural. Her story was grand ( ;) ) enough to need two volumes.
They drop the potatoes into a piece of kitchen machinery and it automatically peels them. A lot of large restaurants and military units have them. It has sides like a cheese grater.
When the mice run, they are real mice. When they are talking and blinking their eyes and wiggling their ears, they are animatronics. But, the animatronic are actually very large. The way they are photographed makes them look small.
This is one of the only channels I watch where I can hear "Jesus Christ, Mr. Bean, that was a human at one point!" and not think anything was out of the ordinary. Keep up the great work Ashleigh!
Having read the book, I share Roald Dahl’s displeasure with the change of ending in this. Otherwise, it’s a faithful adaptation, and a solid film. Anjelica Huston is perfectly cast as the Grand High Witch.
@@presumed_guilty Essentially, the kid permanently remains a mouse, but is more or less ok with it as his lifespan as a mouse will be roughly the same length as his grandmother’s remaining years, thus neither of them will be without the other. They both then decide to spend the years they have left together hunting witches across the globe.
And power, she is immensely powerful. Be fitting if she becomes the Good Version of the Grand High Witch, who battle and defeat Evil Witches, since they give them all a bad name.
Please watch Haunted Honeymoon. It's a perfect movie for your lighthearted Hallowbeans days. It stars Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner. You'll love it! Love watching all you're videos.
Jane Horrocks who played the good witch in the end is an incredible actress find time to watch her performance in "Little Voice" along side Ewan Mcgregor and Sir Michael Cain, You will love it.
Rumor is at one point Angelica Houston's niece and some of her friends were watching the film and she still had the outfit makeup and wig so as a prank once a certain scene came up she walked in and scared them
@@jamesmoyner7499 Seconding that, loved that version, from one of my favourite animation teams growing up, Cosgrove Hall who also made Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.
Charlie and the chocolate factory was my favorite as a kid. I draw and I’d draw the sets and make paper dolls of the characters to play around with them.
The thing the cooks were putting the potatoes into was a restaurant sized potato peeler. The inner sides and bottom have some grit imbedded in them to sand of the skins
Ashleigh does some serious work for her viewers: crying, laughing and choking on spit, (almost) puking, fighting spiders, hugging beans, screaming in the dark... and I'm just member since June. Greetings from germany, we just had celebration of 33 years unity.
nice review. 1990 was a very long time ago. "The Witches" must have been hard to pull off but they did it. For such a seemingly lighthearted movie it does have some scary scenes. Imagery that kids would remember for years later. I think I was a little too old for this type of movie when it came out. It hits home much better with little kids. I enjoyed your review. Here are 3 films you might try : #1 a FistFul of Dollars #2 The Gate #3 Saw
There was a remake of "the Witches"a year or so back and it wasn't nearly as good as this one! The original ending is that the boy and Grandma plan to spend the rest of their lives hunting witches and making the Formula to turn them into mice. The boy, even though he won't live that long given he is now a mouse, is glad he won't outlive his Grandmother. The animatronic mice of Luke and Bruno are so friggin' adorable! "You SQUASHED me!" XD
Not the Hairy Butt Chin 😂 Of all the scary scenes in this movie, the painting freaked me out the most! I never looked at my mom's painting the same again. ( Always checking the windows in the painted house)
Thanks, Ashleigh! 🧙♀ #AshleighBurton #HalloBeans #SpookySeason #Halloween #NicolasRoeg #TheWitches #TheWitches1990 I love that this was based on a tale by the brilliant and prolific Roald Dahl. ❧ 'Miss Irvine' was portrayed by the amazing *Jane* *Horrocks* who I originally knew as 'Bubble' in ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. I you'd like to see more of her stellar work, check out LITTLE VOICE (1998) and GETTING IT RIGHT (1989).
Back in the 3rd grade, I had a fantastic teacher who read this book to us in class. She was a great story teller, and the book is fantastic, so I was riveted. Roald Dahl is so good at creating absolutely horrible characters.
I thought I remembered the ending differently . . . but I might be misremembering the book by Roald Dhal, which I read to my kids when they were little. His books often had a certain darkness to them. The film version of Matilda is well worth a look and has Danny Devito in it.
_Can someone on Patreon, please, request Ash to watch 1998's _*_'Practical Magic' (staring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman)_*_ next???_ it's Halloween season!!🕸🎃 i'd request this one myself but i can't be on patreon :(
I have a schizotypal disorder and the world seems gray and uninteresting to me, but your videos treat me better than any medication. Although they have one disadvantage is that they end. Thank you Ashleigh!
After watching this reaction, I'm realizing that I don't think I've ever seen the beginning of this movie. I'm pretty sure I always managed to come in around the time of the witch convention.
I grew up with the original book by Roald Dahl, who notoriously hated the movie’s change to the ending so much he stood outside movie theaters with a megaphone telling people not to watch it.
The original ending (spoilers) is darker than the movie: Luke is never turned back into a human but stays a mouse, fated to die in a couple of years due to a mouse’s short lifespan. But he celebrates this because he will die at the same time as his grandma, who only has a few years left to life in her old age. We never learn of Bruno’s fate, but it is speculated (half-seriously) his parents drowned him in a bucket of water.
The most annoying thing about the Dahl with a megaphone story is that most people wouldn't've recognised him and would have just thought him some random nutter. Talent over fame, for sure.
Yeah. It's a bit of a shame that he was so grumpy, and had his name removed from the movie
Don't watch this movie, it's not for kids despite appearances, it's a miserable story about two children who have their lives robbed from them.
Yeah I'm guessing a lot of people tuned him out, a fantastic writer who couldn't understand that changing the source material was necessary to create a kid's movie, as opposed to the Diary of Fievel mouskovits.
Just remember that Roald Dahl was quite an awful and cantankerous human being. His publisher dropped him because he kept sending dozens of hateful letters demanding that they give him a very specific type of pencil. He also serial cheated on his wife and was openly anti-sematic. It's a miracle his books managed to escape most of his terrible character traits, though he did have to change the Oompa Loompas into little orange men, as they were originally pigmy black people. The publisher couldn't let that little bit of racism through from the start.
"he stood outside movie theaters with a megaphone telling people not to watch it."
Down with this sort of thing!
Careful now!
No one can write creepy children books, than Roald Dahl.
He is a Master
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@@momakesvids5704 Of course
😂… Once again the kids born in the 80’s and 90’s are tough due to the movies that came out… Still cracking up at Not the Hairy Butt Chin 😂
So true…. I remember growing up with this movie lol
The last true free generation late gen x early millennials, born in 1978 here
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Exactly
Early-mid 80s...but I'm not the toughest. This movie DID kinda freak me out but didn't stop me from watching it a few times in my childhood.
Beans purring throughout the reaction was particularly atmospheric. Thank you, Beans, for your invaluable contributions! ❤❤❤
I thought I was hearing that in the background, even had my ear to the speaker, lol.
For a moment I read "Beans purring," but was trying to recall Mr. Bean making purring noises!! Not even kidding!!! LOL, oh dear!!
Haha she loved the mice 😂
@@christi776 What cat wouldn't? 😋
I just realized that the Grand High Witch had to have thoroughly tested her potion, but she wasn't aware that the mice can talk, which means she's been transforming and immediately stomping children a LOT.
Hmmm... If my copy of the book was somewhere easy to get to I'd kinda want to check what that had to say about the invention of that potion. I seem to recall the book going into a lot of detail about the ingredients in the potion. (I think in the book she was just providing the recipe to them, not pre-made vials.) Lots of random objects were being used symbolically in it to channel the grand high witch's intentions into it. Specifically I remember an alarm clock being an ingredient, to create the timer from ingestion until the potion takes effect. I forget if any testing was mentioned in the book or if she just had faith in her genius potionmaking skills and expected it to meet expectations... Although it is named as the 86th version of the potion so that does suggest 85 failed attempts so she would've needed testing to know that it needed refinement all those times.
Anyway, awfully short-sighted to only verify successful transformation and to not observe long term effects. They may be hoping that all the kids turned into mice just end up dead soon after, but they can't guarantee it. And it'd be wise for them to verify that the transformation won't reverse itself if the kid lives long enough as a mouse. (Sure we know from our outside perspective watching the movie or reading the book that it's permanent. But how can the witches be certain of that?)
@@MuljoStpho Even if they did do any testing, would you want to be the mouse to reveal to the witch that you could talk? I think if I'd been turned into a mouse by a witch, I'd probably keep my mouth shut out of utter fear she'd do something even worse.
I could certainly use such a potion on my enemies 😂
@@MuljoStpho In the book she gives both the recipe and the pre made vials to the older witches.
😊yea agreed 👍 charleighkimber.4611.
23:10 That is a potato cleaner. My dad use to have on in his take away. It is quite simple, it is like a sandpaper bottom, water pours in and it spins really fast and sands the skin off the potato and makes it smooth with very little waste. Its a neat tool.
It's proper name is a "potato rumbler"
the whole thing about the girl being trapped in the painting haunts me to this day. MY mother had/has a similar looking painting and i would always look to see if the people seemed to have moved a little or not. TO THIS DAY! it's been over 30 years and paintings like that still creep me out
Hairy Butt Chin
My Aunt had one too. I TOTALLY DID THE SAME!!!
I'll never look at pictures the same
Me too!
@@awkwardashleigh Mr Bean , Rowan Atkinson , you can see him as 24 -27 year old in , Not the nine o'clock news 1979-1982 , scenes can be found on YT .
I saw this as a young kid and the part at the beginning with the girl trapped in the painting use to scare me more than the witches. Imagine both sides of the situation... watching your daughter in a painting moving and changing everyday, with no way to free her.... or being the girl trapped in there having your parents look at you but have no way to communicate to them as you slowly get older.
If you love Anjelica Huston, you should totally watch Ever After at some point. One of my comfort movies!
fine ... go catch a chicken
One of my most favorite movies ever!
yes, absolutely!
OMG Absolutely!!!!! She KILLS in that film. Actually the whole cast is incredible in that film. Definitely my favourite Cinderella adaption.
I love her as Morticia Addams the best.
When I was a kid it felt like Roald Dahl was the only author that mattered. There are some really good film versions of his books too, this one, Danny champion of the world, The BFG, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Fantastic Mr Fox etc. Brilliant stuff.
The story of the little girl having to live her life in the painting was always slightly haunting to me.
for sure for me too
also sad :(
@@awkwardashleigh Someone is pretending to be you, look under my post in regards to Hocus Pocus 2
@@awkwardashleigh Unless you are giving out PS5 but I did not see the check by the name, but it seems a bit suspect.
@@LottaLove
A lot of responders are getting hit with fake messages.
I think I saw this movie a million times as a kid. Mr Bean tossing the mouse across the room is still absolutely hilarious.
This movie freaked out a lot of kids back in the 90's!
I read the book while I was in school!
The ending is a lot different than the movie.
The special makeup effects were done by Jim Henson's Creature Shop, the same company who designed the Muppets
I was one of them! For years I couldn't remember anything about it except for that girl stuck in the painting. 😱 Absolutely horrifying.
@@vanyadolly a few years ago I saw a pic a tourist posted of a traditional little street/lane. It was the spot the little girl disappeared before going into the painting. near 30 years and its imprinted on my brain.
Oooooo I want to read the book now thanks!😅
I was one of those kids! I had read the book several times with no issues but seeing the movie gave me NIGHTMARES.
Roald Dahl really knew how to scare the crap out of kids.
I still remember when this movie came out. And it has been one of my ABSOLUTE favorites ever since. As a kid i loved everything about this movie and was absolutely amazed at what they pulled off with the in-camera effects, the captivating cinematography, the atmosphere and the amazing performances of Ajelica Huston, Rowan Atkinson and everyone else in the cast. I always loved the Outsider-Witch who helped Luke at the end. I had such a great relationship with my grandma too as a kid so the portrayal of Luke's Nan really resonated with me SOOO much. And she too had Diabetis.
I absolutely loved this movie as a kid. This movie balances seriously scary and wholesomely clean so effectively!
😅yea agreed 👍 elijahvincent.985.
I watched this movie so many times when I was a kid that I wore out my tape. The 80s and early 90s were some of the best kids movies ever made--they didn't flinch from hard subjects and they weren't afraid to completely traumatize you ;D
Return to Oz and Mombie's screaming head room.
I had nightmares about this movie and Alien when I was in kindergarten. I watched it 2 halloweens ago at my brother's house and noticed all the low budget things in the editing like half of the witches in the meeting being men stand ins LOL!
Go back just a little further… to 1978… and “Watership Down.”
My grandparents had it on tape in the early 90s, but it only started from the witches meeting in the hotel
I still enjoyed it very much and watched it every time I visited 😊
Saw this in the theater with mom when I was 8. I was both fascinated and terrified. Was one of my favorite movies as a kid.
I feel like it has to be said: the assistant to the head witch was AMAZING as a character named Bubbles in Absolutely Fabulous (British TV series). Cracks me up every time.
I'm glad someone else saw that too. I love Jane Horrocks; she's also great in another new show called "Bloods." It's on Hulu.
In the book Luke stays a mouse and loves every minute of it. They travel around hunting down all the witches listed in the Grand High Witch's book.
I would have loved that ending better for sure!
But he lives a mouse's lifespan. A couple of years, tops.
@@RichardX1 A reverse of King's Green Mile concept -- or rather, given precedence, King's concept was a reverse of Dahl's. Dahl was crazy inventive, but King comes close. Both favourites of mine.
Cucumber Sandwich is a classic. Normally its white bread, where you spread a layer of Philadelphia cream cheese on the top slice and bottom slice with one or two layers of thinly sliced cucumber in between. Then remember to cut of the crust and cut them twice diagonally so they are small triangles.
It is a nice delicate fingerfood, perfect for snacking.
Because of this movie I tell people I only take showers once a month. The look on their faces is hilarious.
Once a month?
You're a dare devil aren't you, I recommend once a year and avoid washing your hands or face just to be safe
Well then, you'd be telling part of the fairy tale Bearskin if you don't wash for a yr. Actually, that story was 7 yrs.
I had this movie running on a loops as a kid. It was always very fun and we generally enjoyed that creepy amd graphic practical effects, make up, puppets....it's just what we had (Gremlins, The Neverending Story, the Dark Crystal). I was also a fan of The worst witch series in the 80s as well. Glad to see someone have fun with it!
This movie really freaked me out when I watched it the first time at 7 years old. I still find it surprising that it was a children's movie, but then again it did come out in the 90's and a lot of things where questionable back then. Love your reactions they are always so honest and funny.
Roald Dahl wrote this.
Remember what happened to the kids in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?
Or James' parents before he found the giant peach...?
Or Miss Trunchbull from Matilda?
Guy was a sick f***, but man he could write! 🙂
all the best kids movies have horror and violence in them, its what kids WANT
The best kids movies came out before the new millenium. They've oversanitzed the majority of them nowadays. That doesn't mean they can't be good, but they could have been better.
Kids like to be scared, just like adults.
@@bizznatch1478 Totally agree.
Children crave honesty, bc anything else makes their lives miserable (to them).
Roald was hyper-honest (like his American doppelganger, Judy Blume), and leaned into how scary the world will be.
That's why we loved his work.
I love Roald Dahl books and this is one of my favorites growing up. I love how his books for kids are darker than most. In the book he stays a mouse btw.
I’m cracking up! Absolutely loved Editing Ashley’s appearance at 0:51. You’re killing me!
I just discovered you yesterday. You have reacted to soooo many of my favorite movies! I’m so excited for all of this content! Your editing is great, and I love seeing your genuine reactions!
I worked in child care and ran a summer program that took kids on day trips. We took them to the movies to see this 😂 I didn’t know it would be so bad lol
It sure fueled a lot of my childhood nightmares.
OMG, I was hoping you'd do this one day! This was literally my favorite movie as a kid! 😭❤😭❤😭❤
do not contact , this is a scammer.
And today was the day Ash discovered she was a witch. 😂
I haven't read the book in a very long time, but I think the transformation into a mouse was irreversible, so it had a very different ending.
I loved this movie as a kid. Films like this cemented my love of Roald Dahl stories. My favorite book of his is "George's Marvelous Medicine" and I always wanted to see a film adaptation of it and imagined someone like Tim Burton directing.
Nah... She's likely known she is her whole life... Most of Us do... 😉🧹🔮
Fun fact: Rowan Atkinson had a real like Mr. Bean moment when he left his taps running in his hotel room (the frantically knocking porter was told "go away, I'm asleep"). The resulting flood wrote off much of the movie’s production team's electrical equipment on the floor below.
The oxymoronic nature of his comment would have rendered me senseless for a long period of time. I think he meant he was 'trying to sleep', if the comment was accurately reported.
Jane Horrocks, who played the Grand High Witch's assistant, is a fantastic singer and talented at imitating voices. The film Little Voice, which I recommend, is a good showcase for her talent.
Loved her as Eddie's assistant Bubble. She was also in an episode of The Young Ones. That reminds me Ashleigh needs to react to Drop Dead Fred. It has one of her girl crushes.
Nevermind the Horrocks was legendary and funny.
She was Babs in Chicken Run too
Ahhh! I’m so glad you’re doing this movie!
Also interesting to note that Miss Irvine, the secretary witch, also played "Bubbles" in "Absolutely Fabulous."
This film is a bit of an usual one for the director, Nicholas Roeg; he was more known for somewhat more adult and somewhat weird fare like Performance, The Man Who Fell to Earth, and one of my personal favourites, Don't Look Now, so this was quite a big change of pace for him doing something that's (at least in theory) a bit more family friendly.
I read The man who fell to Earth and then I decided to watch the movie but I couldn't even finish it, it was a bit crazy but not in a good way.
I think he was an inspired choice to direct this, because he didn't shy away from the horrific elements the way a traditional family film director might have. (Except maybe for the softened ending, but that was probably a studio decision.)
The perky assistant to Huston's character was the voice of the scatterbrained chicken that is always knitting in Chicken Run. "Oh, 'ave you been on 'oliday?" "I don't want to be a pie!" That one. Also played Bubble on Absolutely Fabulous.
I remember seeing this in the theater when I was 10. Between this and the IT miniseries, I was good and traumatized that year.
It was scary to me as a kid because my family kept telling me its too scary and I'll cry if I watch it. It stands as my favorite in the horror genre. I did not even bother watching the reboot movie...The new clown looks like such a joke. I now understand why Tim Curry refused to dress up that way and simply used his talent to be creepy.
I first saw this at age 12, which was young enough for me to really enjoy it, and old enough not to be traumatized by it. It's been one of my favorites ever since, and I loved watching you react to it!
okay it's gonna be a surprise for you Ashleigh but a cucumber sandwich is a sandwich that has sliced cucumber in it.
they're pretty good.
And sometimes whith a small amount of butter and a pinch of salt my grandma used to make them for her bridge parties and I would sneak one lol
Hi Ash!! Watching this, I was thinking that if you and Anjelica Huston were had a band , you could call it Hairy Butt Chin and the Toe Poppin' Mommas! Hahaha! This story comes from the same author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, you KNOW he loves grandparents and how to mix the creepy with the wholesome. This has been a great Hallobeans already!
Yay im excited to watch this. It actually came on TV the other day and mom and I watched it 😁😁 I had forgotten so much since seeing it as a kid!!
Part of this movie was filmed in Newquay, Cornwall, UK where I live. 7:22 That is the Headland Hotel.
Love this movie. A teacher read this book to us as kids. When I eventually saw the movie I was blown away by how it was almost exactly how I pictured it in my imagination.
Funny I did not like reading harry Potter because I could not clearly imagine the junk they had to get past in the castle. The rest of the books read better. It's sad to me that books like this one (Witches) and ones like IT are much more graphic and dark than the movies.
Great reaction, Ashleigh. I loved your 'Hairy Butt Chin', I'm looking forward to all your 'Hallobeans' films.
The talking mice are an amazing creation of the Jim Henson creature shop.
Thanks!
I forgot how cute the little mice are! I love this movie!
Yes, the weather is often overcast in Norway.... though the hotel is actually in England and not in Norway. The Grandmother's from Norway originally, but the family lives in England. (Roald Dahl's parents were from Norway, but he himself grew up in England, though he spent his childhood summers in Norway with his grandparents. Apparently, the grandmother in this story is based on Roald Dahl's own grandmother! ) ^_^
I was between 9 and 11 when I saw this, I read the book first so I knew what was coming but even knowing they were going to peel off their skin suits to show their true form it STILL shocked me because imagination and actually seeing it are 2 different things. Fun Fact: it's been 30ish years since then and this is my second time seeing this.
I love how Beans purr is so loud, when she jumps up on you, we can hear it through the Audio.. 😍
Growing up as a child of the ‘80s, I was a little older when I watched this but it scared the crap out of my younger sister. I laughed at the hairy butt chin! 😂 We had some scary kids movies in the ‘80s and ‘90s. Not sure if you’ve done Return to Oz, but that is another crazy kids movie that scarred me for life! 😳
Indeed, return to Oz still haunts my dreams.
Return to Oz pretty much lost me from the start when 'kindly old Aunt Em' took Dorothy to a mental asylum for electric shock treatment. 😅
Yeah, but it’s really beautiful. Maybe even a little steampunk.
I used to watch this on cable all the time. When HBO busted out their Halloween movies for October. Jim Henson was the executive producer and his creature shop did all of the puppets and animatronics. I'm glad you liked this one, and thumbs up on your Hairy Butt Chin phrase. Captures the look perfectly! 😆
This was MY MOVIE as a child in the 1990s. I watched this every week on VHS, along with Little Mermaid and Beeteljuice and Wizard of Oz.
yeah this was my jam too but id sub in James and the giant peach, my favorite martian ,then the wizard of oz lol 90s rule
Well that's an eclectic collection of films if I ever saw one
'Of course it stops when I zoom in and look crazy.' Bwahahahahaha! I love the lack of filter you have when you ramble after the movie. I don't lol as much on any other channel. Thank you for making me laugh so much!
Such a fun reaction! And Beans is absolutely adorable! ❤️
Where can I vote for upcoming movies? Tucker and dale vs evil HAS to be on the list this month lol
If you become a subscriber on her Patreon, you can vote. But you'll be happy to know there will be no need to vote for that movie this month
Hairy butt chin!
"Even though she's evil she's still so hot" - SO. TRUE.
This one terrified me cause I saw it when I was seven but it became one of my fav movies as a kid and your reaction was perfect! I highly recommend if you're a fan of Anjelica Huston reading her memoirs - plural. Her story was grand ( ;) ) enough to need two volumes.
😄💓 yea true 👍
Yes true 👍 ineed
They drop the potatoes into a piece of kitchen machinery and it automatically peels them. A lot of large restaurants and military units have them. It has sides like a cheese grater.
When the mice run, they are real mice. When they are talking and blinking their eyes and wiggling their ears, they are animatronics. But, the animatronic are actually very large. The way they are photographed makes them look small.
This is one of the only channels I watch where I can hear "Jesus Christ, Mr. Bean, that was a human at one point!" and not think anything was out of the ordinary. Keep up the great work Ashleigh!
Having read the book, I share Roald Dahl’s displeasure with the change of ending in this. Otherwise, it’s a faithful adaptation, and a solid film. Anjelica Huston is perfectly cast as the Grand High Witch.
Yeah, it’s a shame they changed the ending. I remember reading somewhere they had the original ending from the book and it didn’t test well.
Anyone want to save me the trouble of looking up the differences between endings
@@presumed_guilty Essentially, the kid permanently remains a mouse, but is more or less ok with it as his lifespan as a mouse will be roughly the same length as his grandmother’s remaining years, thus neither of them will be without the other. They both then decide to spend the years they have left together hunting witches across the globe.
They actually filmed the original ending for Dahl and he cried but when it released theatrically it was changed
Only the 2020 film stayed true to the original book’s ending.
I like how the last witch’s goodness is reflected in her appearance.
And power, she is immensely powerful. Be fitting if she becomes the Good Version of the Grand High Witch, who battle and defeat Evil Witches, since they give them all a bad name.
Please watch Haunted Honeymoon. It's a perfect movie for your lighthearted Hallowbeans days. It stars Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner. You'll love it! Love watching all you're videos.
Definitely. I love this movie. She has to watch it.
YES! Haunted Honeymoon is one of my favorite Gene Wilder movies. One of the best twist ending ever.
God, I just realized I've been watching you for over a year. This is my 2nd Hallo-Beans. Scary stuff.
I loved this one as a kid and I absolutely had nightmares, both of the witches, as well as being turned into a mouse! A perfect 'baby's first horror'
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid.
You're honestly number 2 on my list of top 5 youtubers that I like to watch.
This movie scared the hell out of me as a kid..and I watched it regularly. 😂
Posting on a Wednesday?! What a nice surprise, and one of my childhood favorites no less. Let's go!
Jane Horrocks who played the good witch in the end is an incredible actress find time to watch her performance in "Little Voice" along side Ewan Mcgregor and Sir Michael Cain, You will love it.
I completely FORGOT that you did extra episodes during Hallobeans! What a wonderful surprise.
This terrified me as a child in the 80’s. I loved it, though. Soooo, so much better than the remake.
@@bizznatch1478 I just remember being 7 years old a scared stiff.
Rumor is at one point Angelica Houston's niece and some of her friends were watching the film and she still had the outfit makeup and wig so as a prank once a certain scene came up she walked in and scared them
This is my favorite Roald Dahl book after Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. James and the Giant Peach closely follows. WITCHES 1990 ROCKS
I love all his books, the BFG was my favorite but I hated that movie adaptation.
@@MsWaif Then I highly suggest watching the great animated version from the 80's that had Roald Dahl stand up in the theater applauding it.
@@jamesmoyner7499 Seconding that, loved that version, from one of my favourite animation teams growing up, Cosgrove Hall who also made Danger Mouse and Count Duckula.
Charlie and the chocolate factory was my favorite as a kid. I draw and I’d draw the sets and make paper dolls of the characters to play around with them.
I still have the giant poster from the theaters back in the day. Framed alongside the original Jacob's Ladder poster.
Two things I remember:: SHORT movie, and mildly terrifying.
both true
Ashley, you're format is impeccable. From your intro to editing Ashley. Just 😘👌
Ashleigh, if you are a witch, you're a good witch! :)
The proper term would be white witches, but it’s the same.
The thing the cooks were putting the potatoes into was a restaurant sized potato peeler. The inner sides and bottom have some grit imbedded in them to sand of the skins
Ashleigh does some serious work for her viewers: crying, laughing and choking on spit, (almost) puking, fighting spiders, hugging beans, screaming in the dark...
and I'm just member since June. Greetings from germany, we just had celebration of 33 years unity.
nice review. 1990 was a very long time ago. "The Witches" must have been hard to pull off but they did it. For such a seemingly lighthearted movie it does have some scary scenes. Imagery that kids would remember for years later. I think I was a little too old for this type of movie when it came out. It hits home much better with little kids. I enjoyed your review. Here are 3 films you might try : #1 a FistFul of Dollars #2 The Gate #3 Saw
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There was a remake of "the Witches"a year or so back and it wasn't nearly as good as this one!
The original ending is that the boy and Grandma plan to spend the rest of their lives hunting witches and making the Formula to turn them into mice. The boy, even though he won't live that long given he is now a mouse, is glad he won't outlive his Grandmother.
The animatronic mice of Luke and Bruno are so friggin' adorable!
"You SQUASHED me!" XD
Fun fact: A few of the Monty Python cast are in drag in the witches meeting(including Michael Palin).
And the 2020 film kept the original ending of the book.
Glad you’re doing movie reactions on Wednesdays again! Please keep doing so!
Not the Hairy Butt Chin 😂
Of all the scary scenes in this movie, the painting freaked me out the most! I never looked at my mom's painting the same again. ( Always checking the windows in the painted house)
Thanks, Ashleigh! 🧙♀ #AshleighBurton #HalloBeans #SpookySeason #Halloween #NicolasRoeg #TheWitches #TheWitches1990 I love that this was based on a tale by the brilliant and prolific Roald Dahl. ❧ 'Miss Irvine' was portrayed by the amazing *Jane* *Horrocks* who I originally knew as 'Bubble' in ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS. I you'd like to see more of her stellar work, check out LITTLE VOICE (1998) and GETTING IT RIGHT (1989).
I looooved her as Bubble! She's so fantastic in everything in she does
@@shannonbryan2191 Agreed! 💜
23:11 it's a "potato rumbler". It has glass paper sides, that strip the peel off the potatoes.
Back in the 3rd grade, I had a fantastic teacher who read this book to us in class. She was a great story teller, and the book is fantastic, so I was riveted. Roald Dahl is so good at creating absolutely horrible characters.
Good at creating horrible characters, yes... it'd just be nice if most of those weren't the result of his own racism turned into cartoonish levels.
My cat liebchen was named after the grand High witch's cat. Such a great movie xx
I thought I remembered the ending differently . . . but I might be misremembering the book by Roald Dhal, which I read to my kids when they were little. His books often had a certain darkness to them. The film version of Matilda is well worth a look and has Danny Devito in it.
Both the book, and the 2020 film is the original ending.
“Hairy Butt Chin”
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I really feel Ike this could have been a Monday or Friday Hallobeans pick…it’s STILL terrifying!🥴🙈🤷🏽♀️
_Can someone on Patreon, please, request Ash to watch 1998's _*_'Practical Magic' (staring Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman)_*_ next???_ it's Halloween season!!🕸🎃
i'd request this one myself but i can't be on patreon :(
Great childhood classic. enjoyed watching it again with you.
LOVE this movie! It’s a Halloween tradition for me now to watch it and make the soup they eat which is apparently pea soup 🤷🏻♂️
Great Reaction While everyone was watching and liking HOCUS POCUS i always loved The Witches
My favorite reactor, glad you loved this movie . Was one of my favorites growing up
I have a schizotypal disorder and the world seems gray and uninteresting to me, but your videos treat me better than any medication. Although they have one disadvantage is that they end. Thank you Ashleigh!
After watching this reaction, I'm realizing that I don't think I've ever seen the beginning of this movie. I'm pretty sure I always managed to come in around the time of the witch convention.
I enjoyed your reaction so much! I love your existence Ashleigh ;-)
The effects for 1990 in this movie is amazing .Always love your reactions Ash. 🙂
I am delighted that your mic picked up Beans' purrs.
Classic! Also, I believe the rotating bowl in the kitchen was a potato tumbler to take off the skins.
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