I fully understand that this is an Asylum mockbuster. I actually think this movie is more inventive than its inspiration, it's more like Texas Chainsaw Massacre than Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. It's the typical "victims trapped in cannibal's house and must escape" horror movie, except with a witch that uses candy and food as her magic. What's not to love about that? And it's full of nods to fairy tales; there's a stepmother, she wears a red hood, victims are 'fattened up' to be cooked, the witch is killed in her own oven, the bakery is called The Gingerbread House. It's clever. In this way it's more clever than Witch Hunters, that just used the fairy tale as an anchor for a mindless action movie.
The acting isn't that bad (I have seen much, much worse), and I could never hate a performance by Dee Wallace. There may be some silliness but it is subsumed by the campy fun - just laugh along. With a bigger budget and some artistic competence it could have been much more, but who cares? This is fine just as it is.
The acting isn't that bad (I have seen much, much worse), and I could never hate a performance by Dee Wallace. There may be some silliness but it is subsumed by the campy fun - just laugh along. With a bigger budget and some artistic competence it could have been much more, but who cares? This is fine just as it is.