Look out world,The Love Witchis about to be unleashed upon an unexacting male populace. And they’ll be none the wiser of her wicked ways! Thistantalizing thrilleris set to hit Los Angeles on Friday, November 11 before arriving in New York on November 18. We have the sexy new red band trailer, which stars Samantha Robinson in a star-making turn as an alluring witch who gets more than she bargained for.
On behalf of Oscilloscope Laboratories, Anna Biller writes, produces and directsThe Love Witch. This astonishingly lush, entrancing marvel debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year. It also recently screened at BAMcinemaFest and Fantasia.Oscilloscope Laboratorieswill release the film in35mmthis fall, with additional screenings at select theaters across the country to be announced at a later date.
InThe Love Witch, Samantha Robinson stars as Elaine, a beautiful youngwitch. She is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims.
When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With avisual stylethat pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the ’60s,The Love Witchexplores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism. David Ehrlich of IndieWire calls it a ‘spellbinding homage to old pulp paperbacks and the Technicolor melodramas of the 1960s’ and ‘a throwback that’s told with the kind of perverse conviction and studied expertise that would make Quentin Tarantino blush.’
Samantha Robinson is joined by a stellarensemble castthat includes Jeffrey Vincent Parise, Elle Evans, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Lily Holleman and Ryan Poole. This sexy indie thriller has its work cut out for it, though. It will be opening against Paramount Pictures' thrilling alien invasion dramaArrivalstarring Amy Adams, as well as director Ang Lee’sBilly Lynn’s Long Halftime Walkand the horror movieShut In. Take a look atThe Love Witchand let her cast a spell on you.
