The Witches of Hollywood

Having found Cinema Red: Natives & Horror (2019-also reviewed) to be an interesting swift doc about Native Americans in Horror cinema,I was happy to spot the online Soho Horror Film Festival screening/streaming a doc about the history of Wicca and witches in Horror,leading to me meeting the witches of Hollywood.View on the film:Bubbling away for an hour, director Sophie Peyrard casts a lively spell which examines the depiction of witches and Wicca across the decades in film and TV, with great chosen clips from the likes of the original Sabrina the Teenage Witch to the remake of Suspiria.Combining all the clips together, Peyrard interviews a number of academics and brings out fascinating detail on how the repulsion and fear of witches in Hollywood, represents a fear of women becoming increasingly liberated across the decades,from the spells which were cast on the silver screen.