Arriving almost seven years to the day since the miserable but immediately forgotten Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, Gretel & Hansel is bursting through the sugar-glass ceiling with a film that gives our heroine top billing. Here, she’s played by It, Sharp Objects, and Nancy Drew rising star Sophia Lillis in a supernatural horror take that’s quite a bit more faithful and almost certainly less stupid than the version with Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arterton. (It’s subtitled A Grim Fairy Tale. Get it???) But since it hits theaters later in this dumping ground month of January, be cautious of following these breadcrumbs of cool hair-puking shots to theaters.
