New Red Band Trailer for HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS
A new red band trailer for HANSEL & GRETEL: WITCH HUNTERS has been released. 15 years after their traumatic gingerbread-house incident, siblings Hansel (Jeremy Renner) and Gretel (Gemma Arterton) have become a formidable team of bounty hunters who track and kill witches all over the world. I’m so relieved Gretel becomes a damsel in distress by the end of the trailer because we truly don’t get enough of that in films these days.
Like all red band trailers, this one is far better than its green band counter-part that was previously released (and poorly received) a few months ago. The film was actually supposed to be released in March of this year but Paramount decided to push it back nine months to January –a.k.a. Dump Month– of 2013. They were also undecided about whether to go with the pg 13 or r-rating cut and if I’m able to put two and two together, it looks like they opted for the latter I’m very glad they did. It looks like it could be a fun film for genre fans, especially if they make the most out of that R-rating. Famke Janssen and Peter Stormare also star. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters opens in 3D (YAYYYYYY…) on January 11th, 2013.
Catching up with Hansel (Renner) and Gretel (Arterton) 15 years after the traumatic incident involving a gingerbread house, the siblings have evolved into vengeful bounty hunters dedicated to exterminating witches. Over the years, the siblings became expert hunters, famous for their proficiency at tracking and taking down their prey. Although still recovering from their ordeal, their work is relatively easy as for an unknown reason harmful spells and curses do not work well against them.
The Mayor of Augsburg recruits them to rid the town and nearby forests of an evil sorceress (Janssen) who is planning to sacrifice many local children at the witches’ gathering during the upcoming ‘Blood Moon’ night in two days time. To make things worse, the duo also has to deal with the brutal Sheriff Berringer (Stormare) who has taken power in Augsburg and conducts a very indiscriminate witch-hunt of his own.
Trailer courtesy of IGN.