WitchSlayer Gretl

5/5/2019

***Witchhunters fighting a coven of witches in the forest*** Presumably a sequel to the 1812 fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm about a brother & sister and their run-in with a witch in the forests of medieval Germany, Hansel and Gretl (SIC) are now in their late 30s or so. Hansel (Paul McGillion) desperately searches for his sister who was apprehended by a witch queen when they were kids; he teams-up with a former witch, Lara (Sarain Boylan), and the vengeful daughter of a blacksmith, Ehren (Emilie Ullerup). Shannen Doherty is on hand in a vital role and Jefferson Brown plays a warlock. “Witchslayer Gretl” (2012) was SyFy’s knockoff of the big budget “Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters” (2013), which debuted eleven months later. There were a couple of other mockbusters: The Asylum's “Hans