Making the central characters Black in the South in the 1960s is a pointed choice that the filmmakers never really explore, aside from a handful of vague references to the racial divide in America. That commentary comes from the shift of the setting from contemporary (at the time of the book’s release) England to 1968 Alabama, where the unnamed main character (Jahzir Kadeem Bruno), an 8-year-old orphan, has moved with his also unnamed grandmother (Octavia Spencer). RELATED: The Witches Trailer Gives Us a Remake (Almost) Everyone Can Get Excited About It feels less like a unique nightmare vision and more like something plastic and prefabricated, despite its muddled efforts to introduce an element of social commentary into Dahl’s story. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, the new version of The Witches is as CGI-driven as any modern studio blockbuster, in contrast to the detailed practical effects from Jim Henson Productions in the original. It’s hard to say whether the late Dahl would be more pleased with this new film, which in some ways follows his book more closely but makes other, more substantial changes than Roeg’s movie did.
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