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Director Anna Biller‘s cult horror-comedy The Love Witch is now streaming on Screambox.

In the film, Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment, she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder.

“I wanted to make a movie about a witch because I think that every woman is made to feel like a witch by the men who don’t understand her: that is, mysterious, dangerous, different, abnormal,” said Anna Biller when the film was initially released. “Elaine, the main character, has men constantly freaking out around her because of her sexiness. But...

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Stars: Samantha Robinson, Gian Keys, Laura Waddell, Jared Sanford | Written and Directed by Anna Biller

If Viva was Anna Biller’s ode to 1970s sexploitation films, The Love Witch is the auteur’s loving – and really quite lovely – homage to the 1960s horror heyday of Hammer Films and Roger Corman. Funny, seductive, and in the end oddly moving, it may be the best indie horror movie since… well, since another indie horror movie with the words “The” and “Witch” in the title. And it couldn’t be more different.

Samantha Robinson plays Elaine, a recently-widowed witch who moves to California, into a grand old house owned by her fellow mystic, Barbara (Jennifer Ingrum). There she meets Trish (Laura Waddell), an interior decorator. The ladies chat about men, and it quickly becomes clear that their views sharply diverge on the role of women, and what the love of a man means.

Take the Technicolor photography of classic ‘60s melodramas, mix vigorously with equal parts surrealism and Jean Rollin-esque eroticism and what does one get in return? Well, in so many words, one gets one of 2016’s most lavishly crafted experiments in genre and one of its most deliciously arch dramas.

The end result of the above mentioned mixture is a film entitled The Love Witch, a truly one of a kind film from one of a kind filmmaker Anna Biller. Witch introduces us to Elaine, a breathtakingly beautiful young witch on the hunt for love. Following up her underrated 2007 film, Viva, Biller takes to the world of witchcraft and cults for a film that sets its eyes as much on the world of ‘60s melodramas as it does the sexploitation films from just a decade later.

We first meet Elaine as she’s driving along the coast of Northern California...

Anna Biller’s new film “The Love Witch” follows Elaine (Samantha Robinson), a beautiful young witch who’s determined to find a man to love her. She makes spells and potions and uses them to help pick up and seduce men, but when her spells work too well, she ends up with a string of hapless victims. Though when she meets the man of her dreams, Elaine’s desperation to be loved drives her to the brink of insanity and murder. The film co-stars Laura Waddell (“Crimson Peak”), Jeffrey Vincent Parise (“Mad Men”), Gian Keys (“F**Kin’ Actors”), and more. Watch an exclusive promo below featuring The Love Witch herself warning moviegoers about the “anti-attractiveness” of talking and texting during a movie, currently playing in Landmark theaters.

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Biller’s previous feature “Viva” and her 16mm shorts have screened at major film festivals and art spaces around the world.

2Nd Update (9/23, 3:23 Pdt): An earlier version of this article listed Elle Evans as the actress who plays the title role in The Love Witch. That distinction in fact goes to Samantha Robinson. We regret the error. Update (9/22, 11:37 Pm Pdt): The same day this article was published, Paramount pushed back the release date for Rings from October 28 to February 3, 2017. Original Article: Fall has traditionally been viewed as the prime time of year for the horror film, but this summer was actually a pretty good one for the genre, with movies like The Conjuring 2, Lights Out, and the surprise smash Don't Breathe doing gangbusters business in the midst of blockbuster season. But the year's not over yet! With September in full swing, there are a number of worthwhile (and, yes, questionable) titles looming on the release calendar over the next three months. Below, you can find a rundown of 12 upcoming horror films,...

Oscilloscope Laboratories is proud to present the brand new poster for&#160Anna Biller's&#160astonishingly lush, entrancing marvel,&#160The Love Witch.&#160This alluring poster was painted&#160by Michael Koelsch.&#160The enticing horror comedy debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival and screened at BAMcinemaFest and Fantasia. Oscilloscope Laboratories will release the film in 35mm in November, with additional screenings in the following weeks at select theaters across the country.

Elaine, a beautiful young&#160witch, is determined to find a man to&#160love&#160her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However, her spells work too well, leaving her with a string of hapless victims.

When she finally meets&#160the&#160man of her dreams, her desperation to be&#160loved&#160will drive her to&#160the&#160brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of&#160the&#160'60s,...

Look out world, The Love Witch is about to be unleashed upon an unexacting male populace. And they'll be none the wiser of her wicked ways! This tantalizing thriller is set to hit Los Angeles on Friday, November 11 before arriving in New York on November 18. We have the sexy new red band trailer, which stars Samantha Robinson in a star-making turn as an alluring witch who gets more than she bargained for.

On behalf of Oscilloscope Laboratories, Anna Biller writes, produces and directs The Love Witch. This astonishingly lush, entrancing marvel debuted at the Rotterdam Film Festival earlier this year. It also recently screened at BAMcinemaFest and Fantasia. Oscilloscope Laboratories will release the film in 35mm this fall, with additional screenings at select theaters across the country to be announced at a later date.

In The Love Witch, Samantha Robinson stars as Elaine, a beautiful young&#160witch. She is determined...

When her seemingly everlasting search for love brings her to California, Elaine (Samantha Robinson) seizes the opportunity to reconnect with her coven and brush up on her craft. Between lunches with her loved-up landlord (Laura Waddell) at The Victorian Tea Room, in which they gossip about men and philosophise about feminism, she seduces a local […]

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