Warner Bros. has dropped the trailer for Robert Zemeckis’ The Witches today. It is an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s 1983 novel of the same name and stars Anne Hathaway and Octavia Spencer in the lead. Anne is the diabolical Grand High Witch who abhors young kids.

Debutant Jahzir Kadeem Bruno stars as a young boy who moves in with his grandmother played by Spencer in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. The boy and is grandmother find themselves in an unexpected battle against a coven of witches who aim to turn the town’s children into mice. The young boy along with his friends is turned into a mouse and must find a way to reverse the spell and stop the witches with the help of his feisty grandmother.

Witches are real, and they are everywhere! Watch the official trailer for #TheWitchesHBOMax streaming exclusively on HBOMax in the US on October 22! pic.twitter.com/zTZUGI9ZWu

— Warner Bros. Pictures (@wbpictures) October 2, 2020

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The Witches also stars Stanley Tucci, Kristin Chenoweth, and the voice of Chris Rock as the film’s narrator. The film will release on HBO Max on October 22 and will release in theatres internationally on October 28.

Watch the trailer here:

(Source: YouTube)