TIFF 2013: There’s a Lot of Witching and Bitching in This New One-Sheet

Steve Barton |

Aug 21, 2013

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TIFF 2013: There's a Lot of Witching and Bitching in This New One-Sheet Playing as part of the Midnight Madness programme at the Toronto International Film Festival is Alex de la Iglesia’s Las Brujas de Zugarramurdi (Witching and Bitching), and right now we have an international poster for you cats to chew on. Check it out!

The flick centers on a band of thieves trying to flee to France after purloining 25,000 gold rings from a Spanish city. A curse is placed on them, and they fall into the clutches of the witches of the Navarrese town of Zugarramurdi.

Witching‘s ensemble cast boasts some of Spain’s biggest film and TV stars, such as Mario Casas (I Want You), Hugo Silva (Sex, Parties and Lies) and Carmen Maura, who earned a Best Actress award at San Sebastian in 2000 for her role in Commonwealth. Further cast members are Terele Pavez, Carolina Bang, Secun de la Rosa, Pepon Nieto and Jaime Ordonez.

According to De la Iglesia, Witching and Bitching is a mix of his 1995 groundbreaking hit The Day of the Beast with multi-awarded 2000 comedy Commonwealth. “It is an outrageous comedy, in the line of ‘It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World,’ but a horror comedy,” De la Iglesia explained.