honestly at that age id have killed the witch on day one. she did cut a pie with a machete lol that was pretty badass. I still find it funny too the first step to eating her house is to smash her windows lol, real subtle lol
a month of captivity and i started thinking those children deserve death.Then the witch being oursmarted i figured unbelievable retards out smarting retards. I love how the step mother is dead, No explanation shes just dead. lol hilarious.
@SelenaGomez772131960 It was either by starvation or, it was the same reason why the witch died since the stepmother and the witch are both played by Joan Collins where many people here on YouTube wonder if the stepmother disguised herself as the witch just to get rid of Hansel and Gretel forever. Also, some people wonder if the stepmother and witch are both sisters. I wonder if they're mother and daughter. Maybe once the witch died, the stepmother could have killed herself out of sadness.
@theAlchemistfox yes. Maybe she got sick? killed herself? She was kind of melodramatic, so she could have been driven to kill herself, maybe she did it out of guilt?
"Do not deny my pleasure! Stick out your finger! No no no! that will not do at all! I want mounds of young boy flesh; quivering jibering flesh.. ohhh oooh, I grow weak with happiness at the very thought of it! But I must be patient... Patience is a virtue that I have heard. We need food, more food! And YOU, no exercising in there! Just eating and eating!"
Now it'd be messed up if Hansel and Gretel had eaten those gingerbread cookies when they first found the house. Of course, they wouldn't have known at the time, but it's still disturbing...
That's true. (If they did eat them, it would be scary once the gingerbread kids turned back into human, there would be sparks inside Hansel and Gretel's stomach where the kids came out back together instead of broken in pieces after being eaten since there were sparks from 7:04-7:08). I guess the reason Hansel and Gretel didn't eat the gingerbread kids was because, they were focusing more on the candy house with lots of flavors where the house looked more delicious than the gingerbread kids.
Although this is pretty cheesie, the story is pretty demented, especially for a kid's story. This terrified me when I was a kid, almost as much as Return to Oz did.
This has taken me down memory lane, very nostalgic. I remember when I was young, I was really scared by this and Red Riding Hood's Wolf. I even remember having nightmares being so scared! Wonderful story!
I just love a good old fashion fairytale, I just recently graduated as an elementary teacher and I just hate how it's not encouraged anymore for kids to read these traditional fairytales cause they're considered violent and they supposedly teach kids the wrong things to do, so now teachers are encouraging kids to read different versions of these stories where the villians have a change of heart or something it's ridiculous. Somethings need to stay the same!
@VenomOXP thank u! I guess we'll be the few teachers out there to teach kids that's ok to push someone into a burning oven as long as it's self defense, heehee. Good luck with everything, we did not pick an easy field.
@kay2be2 this is true. it takes tough ppl. i guess if you can stomach a story like this than you can stomach a few years in the classroom. Lets just hope the kids don't push us into the oven! lol
The scene where Gretel pushes the witch into the oven scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I remember it so clearly, like it was yesterday. I had to cover my ears so I wouldn't hear the witch screaming.
At 7:13, was that boy who came on screen with the overalls and white shirt the same boy who was in the cage with Hansel in the beginning as soon as the witch put Hansel in the cage?
That's a good point. Maybe either they didn't know that it was Hansel and Gretel who turned them back into kids since they were non living Gingerbread cookies who were not alive because of the witch until she was killed. Another reason why the Gingerbread kids didn't thank them was that, maybe they must have thought that Hansel and Gretel were Gingerbread cookies too who turned back, and a third reason could be that they forgot to thank them because they were excited to be turned back.
I remember seeing a different version of "Hansel and Gretal" performed onstage, and after the witch is shoved into the oven, you see this skeletal hand try to grab the children for a moment until it goes back in...now that would've upped the scare factor here...
How did the witch know Hansel and Gretel's names since they never told her their names? I know that Hansel said Gretel's name while they were in the witch's bed (the witch must have listened to Hansel secretly as she was looking outside through her broken window that Gretel ate) but, Gretel didn't say Hansel's name. Or maybe I wonder that the reason why the witch knew their names because, since she's a witch, she must have magic powers to read minds and out of magic, she knew their names.
Ironic that Gretel only thinks to flip the latch and free Hansel in one second flat after the witch dies. Why didn't she just pack the food in a satchel instead of burying it, flip the latch and free him at an earlier point, and abscond with him and the food into the woods. Derrrrr lol
I guess the reason why she didn't free Hansel earlier was because, a little earlier in the story as the witch said that she was going to fix the window, Gretel asked her what she could do, and the witch told her to just go outside and do whatever children do, then she picked up a knife and pointed it to Gretel telling her not to try to run away to get help (probably meaning that she will stab her with the knife if she does try). So I guess this is the reason why she didn't free him earlier.
No I don't think so. The witch threatened she would eat Hansel immediately if Gretel was away getting help. Gretel should have freed Hansel when she was delivering the food (she had a month to plan this), and set him free while the witch was in the house or asleep, which would have given them more than enough time to both run away together (with the food) The witch is bent and osteoporotic, she wouldn't be able to run far. lol
That's a very good point. Unless maybe Gretel was also trying to figure out a way for her to turn the gingerbread cookies back into children, even though Gretel was probably scared, and she also probably wanted to figure out a way to try to defeat the witch, which she did.
Also, even though the witch is very old on a cane, maybe she has magic powers as a witch where she would've been able to find out where Hansel and Gretel are and where they have run away too. (This is just my guess).
I've often wondered about that myself. The witch hadn't even locked the cage, as she didn't have a key. Gretel could have simply waited until the witch was out of sight, and then opened the cage, and they'd make a break for it. Of course then there wouldn't have been much of a story.
@Garrettk41 ah, but remember, she is a Witch, and at the time, witches were highly feared and thought to have great terrible powers, so if they did run, she could've lost their scent, realized they were missing, and fly after them!
True that, but then again, if she has such a bad sense of smell, it might take her a while to figure out which direction to search in. Still, you never know.
wait..so The girl who played Gretel died? wow..thats crazy ..anybody know when? and from what? I think somebody that is what some sort of overdose...anyone that has more details I would appreciate it! THX!
The girl who played as Gretel (her real name is Bridgette Andersen) died on May 18, 1997, and she died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol.
Thank You for Putting this video up..I used to watch this all the time when I was young ...in the 1980's..we used to rent this from the video store.(along w/ all the other fairie tale theatre shows) Hansel & Gretel is my all time fav.I recently bought the DVD's Fairie Tale Theatre of 'Goldilocks &the 3 Bears &'Little Red Riding Hood' .I found them @ Walgreens for just.$5 Each!
*I Love the dialogue between the witch & Gretel.some of it is just soo funny..especially when they banter back & forth
Thanx a ton for uploading this.. I was searching this movie for years as it was the first hollywood movie I saw on TV when I was a kid.. have attached many fond memories with it & the Nostalgia that is associated with the scenes.. I would like to thank u frm the bottom of my heart! Bless ya..
I'm sure the witch doesn't have a job (she couldn't have a job in the middle of the forest since of course, there are no stores, offices, etc. around) so if the witch doesn't have a job, I wonder where she gets all that food from to make into a candy house and I wonder where she gets the food from to cook and feed children (she probably doesn't have money to buy food so I'm not sure where she gets all that food from).
Clearly she utilizes a courier service from the nearest hamlet, which she pays for by selling the children's skeletons or by sexually servicing the courier.
Yes that's true. She probably gets food using her magical powers. The reason why I wondered where the food was coming from was because, I never saw her using magic in the story.
Maybe the stepmother was the witch's sister because, if the stepmother was the witch, she couldn't of disguised herself as a witch by running away in the woods from Hansel and Gretel's father (the father probably would've followed her to the candy house and found Hansel and Gretel if she was the witch disguising herself). So maybe the witch is the stepmother's older sister who are both interested as sisters in not being nice to kids.
At the end, was the witch trying to cook Gretel instead of Hansel since Gretel got more fat than Hansel since Gretel has eaten more food than Hansel? I thought this since because, the witch said at 5:25 that she has a surprise for Gretel which she did change her mind about who to eat even though she said "no" to Gretel that she didn't change her mind. (Probably I wonder once she cooked and ate Gretel, she probably would've let Hansel run free since he never got fat for her to eat).
I know this is a strange question but, for the show because of old age, was the witch blind from 0:34-0:36, 3:14-3:16, and 3:42-3:45 since she couldn't see that Hansel was holding out a stick instead of his finger? Or, I wonder maybe that the witch wasn't paying attention whether Hansel was sticking out either his finger or a stick. (She was probably mostly focusing and thinking about fatness and not looking where she was touching).
Not necessarily blind, but she clearly has poor eyesight, possibly a side effect of Multiple Schlerosis, since she seems to find fat kids so attractive. Liking fatty meat is one thing, but the way she waxes on about underage pudginess is more than a little unsettling.
I'm 25 and this show still creeps me out. The woods scenes and the witch was done very well. They could never do a show like this nowadays, since they pick on fat kids.
I wasn't sure whether the father at the end was either crying or praying that Hansel and Gretel were missing since he says that he thanks the Lord that they're home.
...I sometimes wonder if that diry-old tramp is still out there pussy-baiting another loser or if her remains are buried at the bottom of some filty swamp from some jealoused notorous wifebeater!
Joan Collins reminds me of my brother's former girlfriend --- cunning and sneaky; she tricked him of him money while neglected "her" children (from another loser); my mom caught her shopping with another dude, and that was her last ride in our family!
They should have taken pieces of the house or food from inside to live off of for awhile...or they might as well just go back n live in the candy house
They could've done that since they were probably very hungry but, they were more interested in getting back home since I'm sure they missed their father very much (but not their stepmother).
Um... so the kids she had eaten previously magically come back to life?? And then they all run off in separate ways into the forest?? Um, I don't get it.... lol
Basically, the idea is, the witch used magic to seduce the father, and talked him into abandoning the children. Then she moved on (glamored a fake death, or simple left, as some versions of the story portray) to meet up with the kids in the woods.
hahaha yeah....that witch is a current day ...whats the word...uh oh yeah, SLUT. The whole premise is she stole the step-mothers man....fucked up the step children by asking for that kids "bone"... and going on and on about young boy flesh...the witch clearly just needs to get laid...clearly.
She most likely got sick, or starved to death. But alos, If you google this story, wikepedia says that theorists believe the stepmother and the witch were meant to be the SAME person! And in most films, they are played by the same actress... It is quite funny how the stepmother passes away right along with the witch.
That's true that Joan Collins played as the stepmother and the witch but, since she is playing as two different characters here, I wonder why she passed away as the stepmother just because she was killed as the witch by Gretel.
(Also, you might be right that, as the stepmother, she passed away from starving to death but, I thought that if she passed away from starving to death, the father would've also passed away from starvation too since they were going through the same problems).
If I was Gretel, I would turn to that witch and say, "You know something? You have way too much free time on your hands, and you are in more dire need of a good lay, than any female in history!"
honestly at that age id have killed the witch on day one. she did cut a pie with a machete lol that was pretty badass. I still find it funny too the first step to eating her house is to smash her windows lol, real subtle lol
Swinship 1 month ago
a month of captivity and i started thinking those children deserve death.Then the witch being oursmarted i figured unbelievable retards out smarting retards. I love how the step mother is dead, No explanation shes just dead. lol hilarious.
Swinship 1 month ago
I first saw this when I was 10 or so, it scared the crap out of me.
trainradioable 1 month ago
The Grimms wrote about pedophiles, cannibals, rapists, murderers and every other evil bastard you could think of!
kalimaganeshshivan 1 month ago
At 0:17, did the witch say "I'm going to eat now" or did she say "it's been a week now?"
afriendofbean 2 months ago
@afriendofbean the second one.
anzolettilino 1 month ago
@anzolettilino Thank you.
afriendofbean 1 month ago
@afriendofbean you are welcome.
anzolettilino 1 month ago
"Cooking and killing. Killing and cooking. Oh what a lovely life."
riiiiiiiiiiiiggghhht. slowly backing away now.
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Oh Hansel ! Don't be upset, please? I only did it to save you and I am so hungery.
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How did the step mother die?
SelenaGomez772131960 3 months ago
@SelenaGomez772131960 It was either by starvation or, it was the same reason why the witch died since the stepmother and the witch are both played by Joan Collins where many people here on YouTube wonder if the stepmother disguised herself as the witch just to get rid of Hansel and Gretel forever. Also, some people wonder if the stepmother and witch are both sisters. I wonder if they're mother and daughter. Maybe once the witch died, the stepmother could have killed herself out of sadness.
afriendofbean 2 months ago
@SelenaGomez772131960 The father killed her
jpjones46 2 months ago
So... did the step-mother die? or was she killed?
theAlchemistfox 3 months ago
@theAlchemistfox yes. Maybe she got sick? killed herself? She was kind of melodramatic, so she could have been driven to kill herself, maybe she did it out of guilt?
AmethystEyes 3 months ago
@theAlchemistfox The father killed her
jpjones46 2 months ago
The gingerbread witch is creepy
dania4510001 4 months ago
How did Bridget Anderson died?
dania4510001 4 months ago
@dania4510001 She died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol.
afriendofbean 2 months ago
Witch damn near had an orgasm!!
Deon82 4 months ago
THE DOOR IS SIMPLY LATCHED SHUT! ALL GRETEL HAS TO DO IS OPEN THE F'N DOOR!!!!
BrendonWayne2p 4 months ago
0:58, looks like she is having a big one. LOL
Maddiebp 4 months ago
Just read on IMDB that the actress that played Gretel ODed years ago RIP Gretel : (
robbyj2 4 months ago
She should watch him eat
doctorwho993 4 months ago
"Well its easy for you to say
you sit in a little cage all day
while I'm running to and fro
fetch this, boil that, c-c-c-c-cook!"
Gretel is so adorable! <3
R.I.P Bridgette Andersen, you were a great actress!
PharaohEdward 7 months ago
knew she was a violent little murderess from the first moment i clapped eyes on her.
what, no Moral Of The Story, shelley, to end this tale of dysfunction, attempted murder, cannibalism, murder and more murder?
MrTonyInchpractice 7 months ago
Great pushing-into-oven technique, Grethel! Now just duplicate it on the stepmother.
JakobDailes 8 months ago
@JakobDailes
well, it's implied that the witch is the stepmother, that's why she's dead too....
ZelphKinderhook 8 months ago
worm food! heheheheh...
sylicone221 8 months ago
I love this. One of the best H&G witches I have seen. She is creepy, but gets into her role and has a macabre kind of charm.
ccipollini1984 9 months ago
@ccipollini1984 you should check out lynn redgrave in the movie version. she's also one of the best i've ever seen
Woofers617 6 months ago
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the little girl is worm food now heheheheee
sylicone221 9 months ago
"I slammed the door on her and I'm glad she's dead"
from the mouths of babes, I guess...
Banana1025 9 months ago
sounds like what almost every 35+ year old school teacher wants!-----boy flesh 15 years and younger to play with. ha ha
MultiBuck78 9 months ago 2
ooooooooooooo poor wich and step mother. are they both in heaven
sesaya25 10 months ago
@sesaya25 not heaven hell
unang1054575 9 months ago
both children are good actors
sesaya25 10 months ago
09:06 The Associate Director is just called 'Amy'.
WorldNews92 10 months ago
Haha ya i was just thinking that same thing that does sound like that song
gronolachunks 10 months ago
the ending music sounds like Some Day My Prince Will Come, from Snow White! LOL!
maleficentdiva 10 months ago
I like the girl called gretel and she's so cute and adorable
hoichina 11 months ago
@hoichina yeah to bad she died so young
oliveberry13 11 months ago
"Cooking and killing! Killing and cooking!... ohhh, it's a lovely life!"
hollywoodcritic100 11 months ago 6
"Do not deny my pleasure! Stick out your finger! No no no! that will not do at all! I want mounds of young boy flesh; quivering jibering flesh.. ohhh oooh, I grow weak with happiness at the very thought of it! But I must be patient... Patience is a virtue that I have heard. We need food, more food! And YOU, no exercising in there! Just eating and eating!"
hollywoodcritic100 11 months ago 4
Now it'd be messed up if Hansel and Gretel had eaten those gingerbread cookies when they first found the house. Of course, they wouldn't have known at the time, but it's still disturbing...
wizardwarrior713 1 year ago
That's true. (If they did eat them, it would be scary once the gingerbread kids turned back into human, there would be sparks inside Hansel and Gretel's stomach where the kids came out back together instead of broken in pieces after being eaten since there were sparks from 7:04-7:08). I guess the reason Hansel and Gretel didn't eat the gingerbread kids was because, they were focusing more on the candy house with lots of flavors where the house looked more delicious than the gingerbread kids.
afriendofbean 1 year ago
"your step mother is dead" hmm...good way to break it to the children, and no sadness on his part...suspicious much? ;)
bjjs6d9 1 year ago 3
Although this is pretty cheesie, the story is pretty demented, especially for a kid's story. This terrified me when I was a kid, almost as much as Return to Oz did.
ebeatworld 1 year ago
i'm melting im melting...or in this case im burning im burning
RosesareAllie 1 year ago 3
Why don't they just stay and eat the house? since the witch is dead...
SanosukeEiji 1 year ago
@SanosukeEiji thats what i would do lol ;)
RosesareAllie 1 year ago
they kiss ?
RapperJ4 1 year ago
I just realized that the stepmother was also the witch too. lol!
Alissa124 1 year ago
its good to see it here..ive watched it in the Philippines when i was young.........
crischad1928 1 year ago
She Has A Breast On Her Chin 4:80! LOL And Her Face
BRITNEYSBITCH777 1 year ago
this ish is cold blooded!!
mleeper45 1 year ago
This has taken me down memory lane, very nostalgic. I remember when I was young, I was really scared by this and Red Riding Hood's Wolf. I even remember having nightmares being so scared! Wonderful story!
bwashinski 1 year ago
Trip down the memorey lane. Thank you for posting this video. Loved FTT as a child. Still do (blush)
shaziaali1000 1 year ago
2:53 awwwwwww
hunnykun101 1 year ago
lol ORGASM 0:56
juventinorocks 1 year ago
I just love a good old fashion fairytale, I just recently graduated as an elementary teacher and I just hate how it's not encouraged anymore for kids to read these traditional fairytales cause they're considered violent and they supposedly teach kids the wrong things to do, so now teachers are encouraging kids to read different versions of these stories where the villians have a change of heart or something it's ridiculous. Somethings need to stay the same!
kay2be2 1 year ago 2
@kay2be2 from one recent elem. ed. graduate to another... i couldn't agree more!
VenomOXP 1 year ago
@VenomOXP thank u! I guess we'll be the few teachers out there to teach kids that's ok to push someone into a burning oven as long as it's self defense, heehee. Good luck with everything, we did not pick an easy field.
kay2be2 1 year ago
@kay2be2 this is true. it takes tough ppl. i guess if you can stomach a story like this than you can stomach a few years in the classroom. Lets just hope the kids don't push us into the oven! lol
VenomOXP 1 year ago
OMG I loved this show when I was small. Thanks so much for posting.
RWLSara 1 year ago
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ccorbin83 1 year ago
cool
dawngoth20 1 year ago
i bet hanzel could slide through that bar :-)
Dragonlilly12 1 year ago
The scene where Gretel pushes the witch into the oven scared the hell out of me when I was a kid. I remember it so clearly, like it was yesterday. I had to cover my ears so I wouldn't hear the witch screaming.
methesupergirl 1 year ago
Stepmother is nothing more but a fleshy axe wound buried in the back yard. What a happy ending!
jholl78 1 year ago
Mountains of young boy flesh!?!?
jholl78 1 year ago
@jholl78
she totally came as well.
erasermotorlizard 1 year ago
why doesnt she open the door to the cage so she and her brother can both run away
CiciNicoleBuio 1 year ago
... if I returned to my father's home after the second time he tried to ditch me in the woods, he'd end up in an oven too. Just sayin.
PinkLadyErin1 1 year ago
The father and the two children should have went back to the house and ate the house
21Pinkandgirly 1 year ago
2 against one come on lol
ictph3 1 year ago
"No No No!!!"
SuspiriaTits 2 years ago 2
That witch just creamed her panties talking about fat rolls.
coolchkaims 2 years ago 11
that door was unlocked the whole time !!!!!!!!
u2MRtheFLY 2 years ago 6
i know they could have killed the witch at anytime lol
londonchick103 2 years ago 2
a bit shady at the end with the step moms death(murder?) and all
amarkiss55 2 years ago
THANKS
jamie0090 2 years ago
They should tell this story to more kids so they would have more reason to put down their video games and McD's and get off their lardy asses.
lollipopfop 2 years ago 27
0:55 looks like she just got done masturbating. LMAO!
spotdathief 2 years ago 4
At 7:13, was that boy who came on screen with the overalls and white shirt the same boy who was in the cage with Hansel in the beginning as soon as the witch put Hansel in the cage?
afriendofbean 2 years ago
Ginger kids could've said thanks!
vrus85 2 years ago
That's a good point. Maybe either they didn't know that it was Hansel and Gretel who turned them back into kids since they were non living Gingerbread cookies who were not alive because of the witch until she was killed. Another reason why the Gingerbread kids didn't thank them was that, maybe they must have thought that Hansel and Gretel were Gingerbread cookies too who turned back, and a third reason could be that they forgot to thank them because they were excited to be turned back.
afriendofbean 2 years ago
piss me up when I see that witch!
elsurunidoMENOSCHILE 2 years ago
I remember seeing a different version of "Hansel and Gretal" performed onstage, and after the witch is shoved into the oven, you see this skeletal hand try to grab the children for a moment until it goes back in...now that would've upped the scare factor here...
LaDracul 2 years ago
Its obvious that he killed his wife!
Jonaries 2 years ago 29
LMAO he says "Your step-mother is dead! With a huge smile on his face! " LOL
CutieGutie 2 years ago 5
lol
spotdathief 2 years ago
Also, I think it's hilarious how that just say she's dead but don't even go on to say what happened to her.
Also, if that wa smy Dad I would be pissed at him! lol
CutieGutie 2 years ago
@Jonaries
yeah he totally kicked her ass.
erasermotorlizard 1 year ago
@Jonaries haha totally!
VenomOXP 1 year ago
@Jonaries
If Joan Collins was my wife, I'd do the same thing!
ccipollini1984 9 months ago
@Jonaries no; He divorsed his wife or she fell down the well and killed herselfe.
dawngoth20 6 months ago
How did the witch know Hansel and Gretel's names since they never told her their names? I know that Hansel said Gretel's name while they were in the witch's bed (the witch must have listened to Hansel secretly as she was looking outside through her broken window that Gretel ate) but, Gretel didn't say Hansel's name. Or maybe I wonder that the reason why the witch knew their names because, since she's a witch, she must have magic powers to read minds and out of magic, she knew their names.
afriendofbean 2 years ago
Ironic that Gretel only thinks to flip the latch and free Hansel in one second flat after the witch dies. Why didn't she just pack the food in a satchel instead of burying it, flip the latch and free him at an earlier point, and abscond with him and the food into the woods. Derrrrr lol
cyberose23 2 years ago
I guess the reason why she didn't free Hansel earlier was because, a little earlier in the story as the witch said that she was going to fix the window, Gretel asked her what she could do, and the witch told her to just go outside and do whatever children do, then she picked up a knife and pointed it to Gretel telling her not to try to run away to get help (probably meaning that she will stab her with the knife if she does try). So I guess this is the reason why she didn't free him earlier.
afriendofbean 2 years ago
No I don't think so. The witch threatened she would eat Hansel immediately if Gretel was away getting help. Gretel should have freed Hansel when she was delivering the food (she had a month to plan this), and set him free while the witch was in the house or asleep, which would have given them more than enough time to both run away together (with the food) The witch is bent and osteoporotic, she wouldn't be able to run far. lol
cyberose23 2 years ago
That's a very good point. Unless maybe Gretel was also trying to figure out a way for her to turn the gingerbread cookies back into children, even though Gretel was probably scared, and she also probably wanted to figure out a way to try to defeat the witch, which she did.
Also, even though the witch is very old on a cane, maybe she has magic powers as a witch where she would've been able to find out where Hansel and Gretel are and where they have run away too. (This is just my guess).
afriendofbean 2 years ago
I've often wondered about that myself. The witch hadn't even locked the cage, as she didn't have a key. Gretel could have simply waited until the witch was out of sight, and then opened the cage, and they'd make a break for it. Of course then there wouldn't have been much of a story.
Garrettk41 2 years ago
@Garrettk41 ah, but remember, she is a Witch, and at the time, witches were highly feared and thought to have great terrible powers, so if they did run, she could've lost their scent, realized they were missing, and fly after them!
Scar2401 2 years ago
True that, but then again, if she has such a bad sense of smell, it might take her a while to figure out which direction to search in. Still, you never know.
Garrettk41 2 years ago
This was one of my favorites from the series.
thecouponingdiva 2 years ago
I must say that Joan Collins impressed me very much! People don't give her enough credit for the good actress that she is.
bbath7 2 years ago
Whoa! think for a minute of all the ptsd cases that would come out of this story!
Bubblesnuff 2 years ago
wait..so The girl who played Gretel died? wow..thats crazy ..anybody know when? and from what? I think somebody that is what some sort of overdose...anyone that has more details I would appreciate it! THX!
JasonMorgansGirl 2 years ago
The girl who played as Gretel (her real name is Bridgette Andersen) died on May 18, 1997, and she died from an accidental overdose of drugs and alcohol.
afriendofbean 2 years ago 2
really???
spotdathief 2 years ago
Yes that's what she died from.
afriendofbean 2 years ago
Thank You for Putting this video up..I used to watch this all the time when I was young ...in the 1980's..we used to rent this from the video store.(along w/ all the other fairie tale theatre shows) Hansel & Gretel is my all time fav.I recently bought the DVD's Fairie Tale Theatre of 'Goldilocks &the 3 Bears &'Little Red Riding Hood' .I found them @ Walgreens for just.$5 Each!
*I Love the dialogue between the witch & Gretel.some of it is just soo funny..especially when they banter back & forth
JasonMorgansGirl 2 years ago
Thanx a ton for uploading this.. I was searching this movie for years as it was the first hollywood movie I saw on TV when I was a kid.. have attached many fond memories with it & the Nostalgia that is associated with the scenes.. I would like to thank u frm the bottom of my heart! Bless ya..
amanmutreja 2 years ago
Good thing Hansel & Gretel didn't eat the gingerbread earlier. :-D
angelgabriela88 2 years ago
I'm sure the witch doesn't have a job (she couldn't have a job in the middle of the forest since of course, there are no stores, offices, etc. around) so if the witch doesn't have a job, I wonder where she gets all that food from to make into a candy house and I wonder where she gets the food from to cook and feed children (she probably doesn't have money to buy food so I'm not sure where she gets all that food from).
afriendofbean 2 years ago
Clearly she utilizes a courier service from the nearest hamlet, which she pays for by selling the children's skeletons or by sexually servicing the courier.
LowellMorgan 2 years ago
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JasonMorgansGirl 2 years ago
I think she gets the food by her magical powers,of course , she is a witch after all.
Jangwoofilms 2 years ago
Yes that's true. She probably gets food using her magical powers. The reason why I wondered where the food was coming from was because, I never saw her using magic in the story.
afriendofbean 2 years ago
Step-mother = witch
or
Step-mother = witch's sister
any ideas?
deathcometh61 2 years ago
Maybe the stepmother was the witch's sister because, if the stepmother was the witch, she couldn't of disguised herself as a witch by running away in the woods from Hansel and Gretel's father (the father probably would've followed her to the candy house and found Hansel and Gretel if she was the witch disguising herself). So maybe the witch is the stepmother's older sister who are both interested as sisters in not being nice to kids.
afriendofbean 2 years ago
In any case, this story has none too positive a view on women.
LowellMorgan 2 years ago
I'd say it comes down on adults in general
stardappledgreen 2 years ago
@LowellMorgan on the other hand, it is Gretel, the girl, that wits out the witch. So it is even, I'd say. ;-)
Hopsklamotte 2 years ago
At the end, was the witch trying to cook Gretel instead of Hansel since Gretel got more fat than Hansel since Gretel has eaten more food than Hansel? I thought this since because, the witch said at 5:25 that she has a surprise for Gretel which she did change her mind about who to eat even though she said "no" to Gretel that she didn't change her mind. (Probably I wonder once she cooked and ate Gretel, she probably would've let Hansel run free since he never got fat for her to eat).
afriendofbean 2 years ago
RIP Bridgette Anderson!
jackiehallam62 2 years ago
I know this is a strange question but, for the show because of old age, was the witch blind from 0:34-0:36, 3:14-3:16, and 3:42-3:45 since she couldn't see that Hansel was holding out a stick instead of his finger? Or, I wonder maybe that the witch wasn't paying attention whether Hansel was sticking out either his finger or a stick. (She was probably mostly focusing and thinking about fatness and not looking where she was touching).
afriendofbean 2 years ago
The witch was meant to have been short-sighted and not able to tell the difference from the stick for Hansel's finger.
daydreamerjane 2 years ago
Not necessarily blind, but she clearly has poor eyesight, possibly a side effect of Multiple Schlerosis, since she seems to find fat kids so attractive. Liking fatty meat is one thing, but the way she waxes on about underage pudginess is more than a little unsettling.
LowellMorgan 2 years ago
I'm 25 and this show still creeps me out. The woods scenes and the witch was done very well. They could never do a show like this nowadays, since they pick on fat kids.
LoneStarPatriot 2 years ago
This is my favorite version of Hansel & Gretel. :D thank you for posting it!
Amarian86 2 years ago
I wasn't sure whether the father at the end was either crying or praying that Hansel and Gretel were missing since he says that he thanks the Lord that they're home.
afriendofbean 2 years ago
who would push a little old lady into and oven if i saw that happen i would puch gretel and save the witch
trevorwwetbq 2 years ago
rolls of Fat! mounds of jiggling young boy flesh!
i stand corrected, THIS is the best movie version made. before i thought the modern movie was better but nope this one is.
Scar2401 2 years ago
...I sometimes wonder if that diry-old tramp is still out there pussy-baiting another loser or if her remains are buried at the bottom of some filty swamp from some jealoused notorous wifebeater!
fambothexterminator 2 years ago
Joan Collins reminds me of my brother's former girlfriend --- cunning and sneaky; she tricked him of him money while neglected "her" children (from another loser); my mom caught her shopping with another dude, and that was her last ride in our family!
fambothexterminator 2 years ago
They should have taken pieces of the house or food from inside to live off of for awhile...or they might as well just go back n live in the candy house
mecballer21 2 years ago
They could've done that since they were probably very hungry but, they were more interested in getting back home since I'm sure they missed their father very much (but not their stepmother).
afriendofbean 2 years ago
wait a minute. No key? All she did was run and throw the door to the prison open. They could have just run? wtf/
dsperlin 2 years ago 3
" Do not DENY me my pleasha"
vcat27 2 years ago 3
"I want ROLLS and ROLLS of FAT!!!! FAT FAT FAT FAT."
The witch would love America's childhood obesity epidemic.
fairwhitephantom 2 years ago 5
ha ha old witch had an orgasm at 0:57
androc75 2 years ago 4
5:12-5:16 Gretel FINALLY stands up to the witch!!
Rkerekes13 2 years ago 3
thats awful! "gretel have you gotten fatter?" if my big brother said that to me id kick his ass! hahahaha
ghfan317 2 years ago 6
lmao!!
stropus 2 years ago
"We shall live together in great happiness..."
well, until they starve to death.
laquotes 2 years ago 3
I guess the only thing to do is just hunt for food!!
bellrh01 2 years ago
Gretal kicked that witch's butt!
YEAH!
And all the children were returned to normal. Good. I love this fairytale.
SasatheShy 2 years ago 2
she said young boy flesh...lol
annawiggles 3 years ago 6
no doubt...hahahaha he gave her a bone to feel on...LOL
julie1300 2 years ago 2
you don't have to ask for my bone ;)
iloveyoujules 2 years ago
If you think about it, Hansel and Gretel is really the most psychotic children's story ever told.
wanderingjew2008 3 years ago 6
so what the fuck.. happened to the step mom
raejase 3 years ago
She was the witch, in a way.
JarOfBuckeyes 2 years ago
Um... so the kids she had eaten previously magically come back to life?? And then they all run off in separate ways into the forest?? Um, I don't get it.... lol
Lexipops84 3 years ago
when i saw this as a kid it really freaked me out. I didn't know how low budget it was.
kcuf2007 2 years ago
was it on channel 4,early 90s?
martinpetrov3 2 years ago
Basically, the idea is, the witch used magic to seduce the father, and talked him into abandoning the children. Then she moved on (glamored a fake death, or simple left, as some versions of the story portray) to meet up with the kids in the woods.
Melissa3839 3 years ago 3
hahaha yeah....that witch is a current day ...whats the word...uh oh yeah, SLUT. The whole premise is she stole the step-mothers man....fucked up the step children by asking for that kids "bone"... and going on and on about young boy flesh...the witch clearly just needs to get laid...clearly.
julie1300 2 years ago
Oh My....
truck2112yes 2 years ago
She most likely got sick, or starved to death. But alos, If you google this story, wikepedia says that theorists believe the stepmother and the witch were meant to be the SAME person! And in most films, they are played by the same actress... It is quite funny how the stepmother passes away right along with the witch.
Melissa3839 3 years ago 3
Also they both have an obsession with food-- the stepmom with food in general, and the witch with eating children.
Melissa3839 3 years ago 5
That's true that Joan Collins played as the stepmother and the witch but, since she is playing as two different characters here, I wonder why she passed away as the stepmother just because she was killed as the witch by Gretel.
(Also, you might be right that, as the stepmother, she passed away from starving to death but, I thought that if she passed away from starving to death, the father would've also passed away from starvation too since they were going through the same problems).
afriendofbean 2 years ago
i just wonder how the stepmom died
iLoveGosselinGirls 3 years ago 3
She most likely starved
MenstrualCupInfo 2 years ago
If I was Gretel, I would turn to that witch and say, "You know something? You have way too much free time on your hands, and you are in more dire need of a good lay, than any female in history!"
MoviesRock569 3 years ago
I just thought of something else.. Hansel DOES look thin enough to squeeze through that opening flap on the door.
MoviesRock569 3 years ago
That's what I was thinking. They both could have gotten away together when the witch was inside.
RachelAS09 3 years ago
dat bitch burned
rebels127 3 years ago
That was beyond creepy!
I love the look on the girl's face when he says "your stepmother is dead"
lookatdoor 3 years ago 5