The Love Witch

2016 Directed by Anna Biller

She loved men... to death

Elaine, a beautiful young witch, 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, and she ends up 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.

Samantha Robinson Gian Keys Laura Waddell Jeffrey Vincent Parise Jared Sanford Robert Seeley Jennifer Ingrum Randy Evans Clive Ashborn Lily Holleman Jennifer Couch Stephen Wozniak April Showers Giselle DaMier Elle Evans Fair Micaela Griffin Dani Lennon Gina Venditti Frank Farmer Kyle Derek Alisha Honoré Christopher LeCrenn Neil Gillen Amy Segal Jacob Peacock Ron Kari Robert Michael Anderson Jacklyn Chung-Young Larva Show All…

Alternative Title

러브 위치

comedy fantasy romance

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Review by nawal ★★★★ 2

this is how I imagine lana del rey living her life
Review by brat pitt ★★★★½ 4

the love witch™: "goddess, please, send me a beautiful, sweet man to love me as i love him."
me: can't relate
the love witch™: "in the end, we're all just compost anyway. everything regenerates. i'd like to come back as a cat."
me: can relate
Review by davidehrlich ★★★★ 6

Say hello to your new obsession: A spellbinding homage to old pulp paperbacks and the Technicolor melodramas of the 1960s, Anna Biller’s “The Love Witch” is a throwback that’s told with a degree of perverse conviction and studied expertise that would make Quentin Tarantino blush. Shot in velvety 35mm and seen through the lens of a playfully violent female gaze, the film follows a beautiful, narcissistic young sorceress named Elaine (Samantha Robinson, unforgettable in a demented breakthrough performance) as she blows into a coastal Californian town in desperate search of a replacement for her recently murdered husband. Sex, death, Satanic rituals, God-level costume design, and cinema’s greatest tampon joke ensue, as Biller spins an archly funny — but also hyper-sincere — story about the true price of the patriarchy. There hasn’t been anything quite like it in decades.
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Review by Lucy ★★★½ 4

near the end there, i was ALMOST asleep because of how tired i am right now, but then she did THAT™ and i woke RIGHT the fuck up
Review by sexy clown ★★★½ 76

i honestly dont know how i feel about anna biller after reading this (i disagree with.. a lot of what she posits... like ??? & everything after the highlighted bit reads as nonsense to me and there's a whole lot more where that came from in the post but thats just my 2c) but her sense for production design is truly unparalleled.. this movie is beautiful - the costuming, set design, lighting, casting (especially of those "handsome" imo fugly ~all-american~ white dudes who mirror the men that often show up as protags and occasionally love interests in women-centered sexploitation and horror of the era she mimics) are all perfectly evocative of 70s genre films and i think what differentiates her from…
Review by adrianbalboa ★★★ 11

i know it’s the aesthetic but the people in this movie really talk like that episode of schitt’s creek where david says no one in this family can keep a secret and moira goes “isn’t 9am a little early for character assassination, david?”
Review by willa ★★★½ 2

this is what i imagine being on an acid trip at a renaissance fair would feel like
Review by Kait ★★★★ 8

ok but what's her sign
Review by Luke ★★★★ 1

"Some men go their entire lives without seeing a tampon"
*moments later*
Men not knowing what a tampon is.
This is a technicolor feminist masterpiece.
Review by Luigi ★★★★½ 2

samantha robinson's eye makeup deserves its own academy award®
Review by 👽hayley👽 ★★★½

what do u call high art - a picasso painting or samantha robinson in blue eyeshadow making a man fall in love with her so deeply he literally dies of heart failure ?????
Review by demi adejuyigbe 17

We got bored and a bit disillusioned/confused with what parts of the movie were meant to be satirical and which were meant in earnest, so we gave up with 40 minutes left. The commitment to the 60s technicolor style is admirable and wonderful in how it looks, but really frustrating in how poor the acting is as a result. Not for me!

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Review by francis tamaru ★★★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

okay wtf this film is really good. its genius. i love it idk even how to explain
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it masks itself in this gaudy vintage light and you think it's a terrible ripoff of 70's horror films. the people talk strangely, the characters are all in some kind of daze. you think it's bad acting until you realize how perfectly calculated everything is in its imperfection. it's a giant curtain. you think that maybe the film is actually dealing with real magic of a modern day witch. you think that the film is just some ugly poorly acted play... but then you realize that elaine has actual problems that are relatable to actual…
Review by Jake Rosenberg

“It’s the damn witches again!”
Posits three truly daring questions:
1. What if Under the Skin was kitschy af?
2. What if Midsommar was 0% traumatic & 100% silly?
3. What if the sex scenes in The Room were ACTUALLY GOOD
Wardrobe, sets, lighting, music, & acting are the definition of iconic. Heavy handed cringe aside, I like how what starts as campy exploitation slowly reveals itself as a scathing indictment of patriarchy & how men are so self absorbed that they don’t realize how much they objectify women, subsequently blaming women for desiring emotional attachment, & resultantly driving women to play just as dirty in seeking their own emotional fulfillment. Schlock at its most poetic, or vice versa, whichever you will.
Alexa play Burn the Witch from A Moon Shaped Pool
Review by Jacob Gehman ★★★½

I have no idea what to say about this.
Anna Biller's second film is an experience. Its aesthetic—both visual and the way actors present themselves and their lines—is a bit campy, particularly the latter which feels inspired by daytime soaps. The visuals feels like 1970s throwback, particularly by way of giallo (or, perhaps more accurately, American stuff inspired by giallo). Neither element are particularly off-putting, although the soapy feel does require some getting used to.
A part of my confusion with The Love Witch is that I'm pretty confident that the surface narrative and the subtext are doing two vastly different things here. Because on the surface, The Love Witch is a fairly simple story of a witch, obsessed with…
Review by Mariam Mahmoud ★★★★

im sure lana del rey ghostwrote this ❤️
Review by irishboy1996 ★★★★★

Loved the 60s/70s style this went for!!! Great witchy flick!
Review by isabellaspud

really a lot for my eyes to think about and brain to look at
Review by Amanda Landa ★★★½

watched it zooted and knocked out the 1st time
The use of Technicolor and the uber 70s design is absolutely stunning, yet it didn’t save the slow pacing and acting.
Review by laryssa ★★★★

lana del rey versão bruxa (na minha cabeça eu sou assim)
Review by mady ★★★

oh to be a witch aimlessly giving men love potions and peeing in bottles
Review by Hope ★★★★½

Pussy so bomb, make a grown man cry
Review by Bethany Jackson ★★★

Obviously the aesthetic and visual language of the film are its strongest points. Unfortunately that wasn’t enough to carry the whole thing. By the end of the movie, I only felt ambivalence toward the titular character. She was never understandable enough to love, nor was she ever diabolical enough to hate-love. The message of romantic idealism as inherently destructive was interesting, though.
Review by vitória. ★★★★

esse filme é do signo de escorpião