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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013)
★ 6.1 · 7,071 ratings on TMDB
Revenge is sweeter than candy.
After getting a taste for blood as children, Hansel and Gretel have become the ultimate vigilantes, hell-bent on retribution. Now, unbeknownst to them, Hansel and Gretel have become the hunted, and must face an evil far greater than witches... their past.
DirectorTommy Wirkola
The emergence reading
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, power, magic, revenge, faith.
zero-distanceUSprejudicepowermagicrevengefaith
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Vampire Academy (2014)E8/E9/E10 · magic, power
The King's Daughter (2022)E8/E9/E10 · magic, power
The Beastmaster (1982)E8/E9/E10 · magic, power
Barbie in A Mermaid Tale (2010)E8/E9/E10 · magic, power
Beowulf & Grendel (2005)E8/E9/E10 · faith, power
Snow White and the Huntsman (2012)E8/E10 · magic, powerSame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
