The Love Witch Page #3

Synopsis: Elaine, a beautiful young witch, is determined to find a man to love her. In her gothic Victorian apartment she makes spells and potions, and then picks up men and seduces them. However her spells work too well, and she ends up with a string of hapless victims. When she finally meets the man of her dreams, her desperation to be loved will drive her to the brink of insanity and murder. With a visual style that pays tribute to Technicolor thrillers of the 1970s, THE LOVE WITCH explores female fantasy and the repercussions of pathological narcissism.
Director(s): Anna Biller
Production: Oscilloscope Laboratories
  3 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
82
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
UNRATED
Year:
2016
120 min
$226,223
6,647 Views


for the blessings that we share.

- Blessed be, Variah.

- Go home, witches.

Go home.

- Just ignore them.

They're always

giving us trouble.

- I didn't know this town

was hostile to witches.

- Well, it's certainly

not San Francisco.

But it's not bad

for a small town.

Not all of them

embrace our methods

of practicing witchcraft.

But, I don't see why we

ought to be so uptight now.

Back in the day, we

all made love freely

and put up Baphomet posters

and no one was dogmatic

about whether they were a witch

or a satanist or thelemites,

or a druid or a

wiccan or whatever.

And it was fun.

But our classes and circles

have been very popular.

- What have you been teaching?

- Let's see, I've got a

new class on Sidral magic

and Barbara's got a new

class on organite alchemy.

Otherwise, we're still

teaching the staples,

energy grounding,

earth-based spirituality,

pagan arts and crafts,

candle work, the spellcraft

master class, ancient mysticism,

herbs and spices, and

sex magic, of course.

- Oh, are you still

teaching that?

- Yes, in fact, we've invited

some girls here tonight

for a seminar about the

power of sexual dancing.

Dancing is such a powerful

thing for women and girls.

- Are you still dancing?

- Yeah, some of us dance

here on amateur night.

You should come.

- Hi, Barbara.

Hi, Gahan.

Sorry we're late.

- Hello lovely ladies,

please have a seat.

Elaine, this is star

and her sister moon.

They're our students

for tonight.

Girls, this is our

dear friend Elaine.

- Hi.

- Hi.

- I was just pointing

out that dancing

is a powerful thing

for women and girls.

We asked you to

meet us here tonight

so you could learn about that.

Do you see how

powerful that girl is?

These men would do

anything for her.

Wouldn't you like to have

that power yourselves?

Then let us begin.

All witches need to figure

out where their power lies.

And we feel that a

woman's greatest power

lies in her sexuality.

We don't view this power as

satanic or anti-feminist,

but as a celebration of

woman as a natural creature.

An earthly body, a spiritual

essence, and a womb.

- The whole history of

witchcraft is interwoven

with the fear of

female sexuality.

They burned us at the

stake because they feared

the erotic feelings

we illicited in them.

Later, they used marriage

to hold us in bondage

and made us into servants,

whores, and fantasy dolls

never asking us what we wanted.

- They teach us that a

normative human being

is a hyper-rationalist,

stoic male

and that women's emotions

and intuitions are illnesses

that need to be cured.

And they believe that men

and women are different

and that true equality

lies in that difference.

- We strive for male/female

polarity and to regain

our primal power as goddesses.

We need to teach

men how to love us

using ways they can understand.

So goddesses, use perfume,

wear high heels and makeup,

learn to dress your

hair in attractive ways,

display flesh artfully,

and know what to conceal.

Be a mother and a lover.

Stand your ground, but always

let the man feel like a man.

- Use sex magic to

destroy his fear of you

and to open his heart to

the floodgates of love.

Only then will he begin to

see you as a human being

with all of your inner beauty.

Then, when his heart

is open to love,

you may do with

him what you will.

- I love you, Elaine.

You know that, don't you?

I love you very much.

But you need to be more careful.

Dinner was late three

times this week.

And that house is

a total pigsty.

Do you know that I

found an old hot dog

under the bed this morning?

And why don't you

ever brush your hair?

You need to take better care

of yourself and of the house.

I'm embarrassed to

have people over.

I've been really

patient up until now,

but you need to

step up your game.

- I have a

crazy b*tch for a daughter.

What?

You're not crazy.

Well, if you're not

crazy then you're stupid.

Which is it?

Are you crazy or are you stupid?

And you could lose a few pounds.

You're looking a little fatty.

- Oh my god, Elaine,

you've lost so much weight.

You have such a hot body now.

Do you like it when I

touch you like this?

Or like this?

I wanna make you come.

- Don't be frightened, Elaine.

I would never hurt you.

I'm not the big, bad wolf.

You need to have perfect

love and perfect trust.

- Hast thou the courage

to make the assay?

- I have two words, perfect

love and perfect trust.

- Assist me to erect

the ancient altar

at which in days

past all worshiped.

From the old times, a

woman was the altar.

And the sacred place was

the point within the center

of the circle, the

origin of all things.

Therefore, should we adore it.

- Good morning, sergeant Griff.

Congratulations

on your promotion.

- Thanks, Connie.

Is there any coffee.

- Yeah, I just made some.

I made it just the

way you like it.

- Is there anything

you don't do well?

- Why don't you try me

sometime and find out?

- How's the coffee, Steve?

- Uh, too strong.

- Well, I like it strong.

Man's gotta stay awake

on the job after all.

- Why, have you been

keeping late nights?

- Maybe so.

- But, now that

you've been promoted,

maybe you ought to start

thinking about settling down.

- Me, you kidding?

- Sergeant meadows, a

lady's here to see you.

- I'm Shelly Curtis.

I phoned about Wayne Peters,

the teacher who disappeared.

- Yes, of course.

Have a seat, miss Curtis.

You say you think Mr. Peters

might have been kidnapped?

- Yes, no one's seen

him for two weeks.

I went by his house and

the mail's piled up.

We had lunch the

day he disappeared.

I saw him drive away with a

strange woman near the Plaza.

- Do you have any idea where

he might have gone with her?

- Wayne used to spend weekends

up in a cabin he

had in the woods.

He used to take dates there.

- Oh, Jesus.

- Hey Griff, look.

- Good lord.

- What the hell is this?

- I don't know.

We're going to

have to dig, Steve.

- I know.

I think you should go

back to the house, Shelly.

- Mmm, mmm,

this cake is

absolutely fantastic.

And what a great dinner.

- Thank you.

I enjoy cooking.

Hope you don't mind

my calling you.

Sometimes it's so

hard to be alone.

- Not at all.

I get a little lonely, too,

when Trisha is out of town.

- How long have you

and Trish been married?

- 10 years this September.

- 10 years?

It's really amazing.

No one has ever loved me the

way you love Trish, no one.

- What about your husband?

- My husband never loved me.

He couldn't wait to

get away from me.

- I'm sorry.

Sometimes I think Trish would

like to get away from me, too.

- Poor baby.

Poor, poor baby.

So, tell me, what turns you on?

- What turns me on?

Wow, no one's ever

asked me that before.

Let me think.

You know what

really turns me on?

Flying.

- Flying?

- Yeah, flying a plane.

You don't know what

kinda high it is.

You're soarin' up

there above everything.

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Anna Biller

Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker who has directed two feature films. more…

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