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Spain, France · 2013
1h 50m
Director Álex de la Iglesia
Starring Hugo Silva, Gabriel Ángel Delgado, Mario Casas, Carmen Maura
Genre Comedy, Horror
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In this heist film turned horror fest, director Álex de la Iglesia's love of mayhem is on full display as a gang of gold thieves lands in a coven of witches who are preparing for an ancient ritual -- and in need of a sacrifice.
Village Voice by Alan Scherstuhl
A major achievement in sunny wretchedness, Álex de la Iglesia's splatter-comedy Witching & Bitching projectile pukes its outrages at you with a gusto recalling the early days of those (sadly) reformed upchuckers Sam Raimi and Peter Jackson.
The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Known for his genre pastiches, the director, Álex de la Iglesia (“El Crimen Perfecto”), rarely lets the pace flag, and the buddy comedy, gross-out humor and horror elements make for a harmonious mix.
Álex de la Iglesia has a real flair for wild action sequences that remain exhilaratingly coherent and sensical.
Transitioning from Reservoir Dogs to From Dusk Till Dawn with a lunatic’s grace, Witching & Bitching resolves itself as a gloriously gory civil war between men and the grotesquely literal manifestations of how the worst of them see the fairer sex.
It's ludicrous genre fun even if you didn't take into account the properly-bewitching Ms. Bang.
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Plenty of movies sympathize with outcasts, but only De La Iglesia’s sympathize with their ugliest feelings: envy, resentment, and self-loathing.
New Orleans Times-Picayune by Mike Scott
Witching and Bitching -- though perhaps a bit overlong, and prone to meandering -- is unapologetic about what it is: a crazy, just-for-fun film that revels in its own bad taste.
Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez
De la Iglesia’s knack for offending audiences while showing them a good time is stronger than ever: Witching and Bitching isn’t much on substance or logic, but man, is it fun.
McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore
It’s the best Almodovar movie Almodovar never made, a riotous, gory farce that might be the funniest movie of the summer, and surely is the coolest.
RogerEbert.com by Simon Abrams
Witching and Bitching is accordingly overlong, and conceptually thin. But like most of de la Iglesia's films, it's also freakishly energetic, and often hysterical.
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