Witch films (Genre/Form Term)
- Warlock films
- Witchcraft films
- Broader heading: Paranormal films
- Related: Fantasy films
Work cat.: The house with a clock in its walls, 2018 (Summary: This magical adventure tells the spine-tingling tale of 10-year-old Lewis, who goes to live with his uncle in a creaky old house with a mysterious tick-tocking heart. But his new town's sleepy façade jolts to life with a secret world of warlocks and witches)
López, D. Films by genre, ©1993 (Witch Film (Witchcraft Film); witches and their magical powers; movies about witches, if not plentiful, are nevertheless a very distinct group; the witch film includes both horror and non-horror films. Examples: Maid of Salem (1937); City of the Dead (1960); El espejo de la bruja (1960); Witchcraft (1964); The Witches (1966); Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968); The Witchmaker (1968); The Devonsville Terror (1983); Necropolis (1986); The Witches of Eastwick (1987); The Witches (1990))
Peitzman, L. 32 witch movies you have to see, via BuzzFeed news website, posted Nov. 2, 2018, viewed Feb. 22, 2019 (Häxan (1922); The Wizard of Oz (1939); I Married a Witch (1942); Bell, Book and Candle (1958); Black Sunday (1960); Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971); Suspiria (1977); The Witches of Eastwick (1987); The Witches (1990); Hocus Pocus (1993); The Craft (1996); The Covenant (2006); Suspiria (2018))
Sutton, S. They don't make witch movies like they did in the '90s, via Cosmopolitan website, posted Oct 22, 2018, viewed Feb. 22, 2019 (witch movies; witch films; the on-screen genre)
The best witchcraft films, via Cinema Paradiso website, Feb. 22, 2019 (Witches and warlocks are often the subject of horror films, and even though most people think of evil when mentioned, sometimes these characters are the good guys. We've focused on films with magic elements; The Craft (1996); Black Sunday (1960); Haxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922); The Conjuring (2013); Kiki's Delivery Service (1989); Suspiria (1977))
Ashgate encyclopedia of literary and cinematic monsters, 2016: ("warlock films")
Wikipedia, Aug. 11, 2022 (Category:Paranormal films. Films about the paranormal, purported phenomena described in popular culture, folk, and other non-scientific bodies of knowledge, whose existence within these contexts is described as beyond normal experience or scientific explanation; paranormal phenomena include extrasensory perception (ESP), telekinesis, ghosts, poltergeists, life after death, reincarnation, faith healing, human auras, and so forth)
Films that feature witches and/or warlocks and the practice of witchcraft.
