Global InformationWitchslayer Gretl information
| Witchslayer Gretl | |
|---|---|
 DVD released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment | |
| Also known as | Gretl Gretl: Witch Hunter |
| Genre | Dark fantasy |
| Inspired by | Hansel and Gretel by Brothers Grimm |
| Screenplay by | Brook Durham |
| Story by | Angela Mancuso |
| Directed by | Mario Philip Azzopardi |
| Starring | Paul McGillion Shannen Doherty |
| Composer | Stacey Hersh |
| Country of origin | Canada United States |
| Original language | English |
| Production | |
| Executive producers | Angela Mancuso Lewis Chesler David Perlmutter |
| Producer | Robert Vaughn |
| Cinematography | Russ Goozee |
| Editor | Marvin Lawrence |
| Running time | 87 minutes |
| Production companies | Chesler/Perlmutter Productions Shaw Media Sony Pictures Television Syfy Vesuvius Productions |
| Original release | |
| Network | Syfy |
| Release | February 25, 2012 |
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Witchslayer Gretl (also known as Gretl[1] and Gretl: Witch Hunter[2]) is a 2012 American-Canadian[3] dark fantasy television film written by Brook Durham and Angela Mancuso, and directed by Mario Philip Azzopardi. Inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, it stars Paul McGillion as Hansel, a witch hunter who comes into conflict with his witch-possessed sister, Gretl, played Shannen Doherty. It was one of several similarly-themed Hansel and Gretel films (such as Hansel and Gretel and Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft) that were made in an attempt to "cash-in" on the 2013 film Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.[4]
- ^ Dickson, Evan (14 February 2012). "TV: Another Revisionist Take On Hansel & Gretel, Witchslayer Gretl, Gets A Teaser". bloody-disgusting.com. Bloody Disgusting. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ Barton, Steve (14 February 2012). "A Teaser for Syfy's Gretl: Witch Hunter". dreadcentral.com. Dread Central. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ Cristina Bacchilega (2013). Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the Politics of Wonder. Wayne State University Press. p. 273. ISBN 9780814334874. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
- ^ Jack Zipes (2016). Grimm Legacies: The Magic Spell of the Grimms' Folk and Fairy Tales. Princeton University Press. p. 74. ISBN 9780691173672. Retrieved 5 November 2020.