The ten best movie witches
Hollywood's most notable hocus pocus hags
Tue Feb 12 2013
Vampires are dead: 2013 is officially the season of the witch. As ‘Beautiful Creatures’ (aka ‘the new “Twilight”’) opens, Cath Clarke and Tom Huddleston pick the best screen sorceresses.
Queen Grimhilde (voice of Lucille La Verne)
Film
‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ (1937)
Appearance
The fairest of them all. And she’s going to keep it that way, come hell or high water.
Evil deeds
This being pre-botox, her drastic measures to stay youthful and more beautiful than Snow White involve a huntsman, an axe and a shiny red apple.
Scare factor
8/10. The scene where she transmogrifies into a scabby crone – with the aid of a magic potion and some wild proto-psychedelic animated effects – is one of the most wonderfully witchy scenes in cinema.
Wyrd words
‘One bite, and all your dreams will come true.’
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