Hot Trailer: ‘Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters’ Red Band

COMMENTS (31)

• This looks ridiculous. “Van Helsing” by way of “Brothers Grimm” or “Season of the Witch.” Looks like the kind of movie where everybody realized it was a HUGE mistake on Day 2 of production and just went for it anyway.

  Comment by bounder — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 3:05pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Luckily for this movie, the bar set by YOUR HIGHNESS is low.

    Comment by Carrie Stetko — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 8:28pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Van Helsing looks like high brow PBS programming compared to this crap. It looks so lame.

    Comment by Fan — Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 6:04am PDT  Reply to this post

• Looks like another Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter… and I don’t mean that in a good way.

  Comment by James Garney — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 3:07pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yawn. This doesn’t even veer into ‘secretly fun, over-the-top’ territory. It just looks stale.

  Comment by CR — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 3:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• When it doubt, up the gore quotient and give the music some extra punch. It never fails.

  Comment by Ripsnorter — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 3:12pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Looks plain dumb…

  Comment by curt Ries — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 3:51pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Looks like they borrowed the title graphic look of the blood splatter from the Roland Emmerich film “Anonymous.”

  Comment by Chris F — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 4:00pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I will watch anything with Jeremy Renner in it.

  Comment by Iris — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 4:10pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • This movie certainly seems to put that statement to the ultimate test…

    Comment by James — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 5:59pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Hansel and Gretel & the 420 Witch with Lara Flynn Boyle opens in 2012 as well. Just in time for Oscar season.

  Comment by Sweden — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 4:11pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Rolled my eyes at the NY Times story about movies losing cultural significance. Now I’m not so sure….

  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/29/movies/hollywood-seeks-to-slow-cultural-shift-to-tv.html?hpw

  Comment by matt — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 4:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well i’m not surprised. i’m sorry but Tommy Wirkola’s film “Dead Snow” was not good. i walked out of it at Sundance. So big mistake having him direct a studio film.

  Comment by gman — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 4:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • Dead Snow had an awesome premise, but a horrid execution, much like Iron Sky. Oh well.

    Comment by NervisRex — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 6:47pm PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s like an SNL parody, only tragic because it’s real crap.

  Comment by Jake Gittes — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 4:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• The last couple of months a new terrific movie has come out every week, so I’m not down on movies. I feel like I’m falling in love with them all over again.
  But 20 seconds into this, hate hated this movie with a deep passion.

  Comment by ChristopherMaker — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 5:18pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well, it is the best trailer version thus far. However, that clever, tongue-in-cheek tone is tough to sustain. When it works, it can be great. But when it’s doesn’t, it’s just stupid. Impossible to tell at this point. However, does feel rather niche (translation = solely targeting the fickle young males).

  Comment by Honestly — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 5:19pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Yikes. And I love both Gemma (a very hot girl, indeed) and Jeremy but this looks STANKY, and so much like a bunch of other crap over the last five years.

  Comment by monique — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 5:38pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I won’t watch anything with Jeremy Renner. He’s Headed into Gerard Butler land.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 5:41pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I like this it looks like it’s a lot of fun. They should save it for the summer it would do much better. Teenagers will love this movie it’s inventive and it’s got some humor to it.

  Comment by Anonymous — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 5:48pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think this looks like plain, old fun!

  Also think it`s funny to see that the feedback elsewhere to this trailer is generally positive, except this site. As always…

  Comment by Billy Bob — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 6:24pm PDT  Reply to this post

  • that is because this is a site for film professionals, who know a lousy trailer when they see one. the “generally positive” feedback you are referring to is at splatter fan-sites and the like…

    Comment by peter — Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 4:38am PDT  Reply to this post

    • Professionals?

      You mean like the people who greenlit this movie? Like the movie says, burn em all!,

      Comment by Haha — Monday November 5, 2012 @ 1:30am PST  Reply to this post

• Jeremy Renner is great, but woefully miscast here.

  Mark Wahlberg comes to mind as someone who could’ve pulled off the humor far better (and we all know Wahlberg is great at action as well.)

  Comment by Wicked — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 6:32pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Everyone involved with making this movie should be embarrassed. This should go straight-to-video or the releasing studio is going to lose a lot of money.

  Comment by Uber Critic — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 10:06pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I think I would have preferred this concept without the one-liners and weapon gadgetry.

  At its core, there’s a neat idea here – a grown up Hansel and Gretel seek revenge on all witches – that’s a great place to start. But why play it so campy? Do it as straight up gritty supernatural thriller and I would have been very interested. This just looks silly.

  Comment by Rob — Monday October 29, 2012 @ 10:33pm PDT  Reply to this post

• While I don’t necessarily disagree with the earlier comments, and although I agree it doesn’t look very good, it honestly doesn’t look any worse than 75 % of other movies released over the last decade or so.

  Comment by Here In Flyover — Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 7:22am PDT  Reply to this post

• EUREKA!!!! No wonder I can’t get a script sold in this town. I’ve got it now. My next script: “George W. Bush and Huckleberry Finn: Zombie Killers”

  Look out for it summer 2015

  Comment by struggling writer — Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 9:08am PDT  Reply to this post

• This. Was actually made.

  Comment by b — Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 11:00am PDT  Reply to this post

• Seems a little a too anti-witch for me…

  Comment by procrastinator — Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 1:49pm PDT  Reply to this post

• “I don’t think we’re hunting witches… the witches are hunting us!” Is it too early to start an oscar campaign?

  Comment by Renner's Career Plummeting — Tuesday October 30, 2012 @ 10:43pm PDT  Reply to this post