History Film / GretelAndHansel2020

* AmbiguousTimePeriod: It's not clear when the film takes place, though feudalism is still in place. The technology level would suggest some time in the 1600s.

* BlackVikings: The huntsman and several of Holda's child victims are black. While it's not clear when and where the film takes place, it would be extremely unusual for black people to be simply living on their own in a rural, European civilization of this technology level. Until the 1700s, black immigration was primarily limited to large cities, and black people were usually employed as servants.

''Gretel and Hansel: A Grim Fairy Tale'', is a 2020 American supernatural horror {{Grimmification}} adapted from Literature/HanselAndGretel. The film is directed by Oz Perkins (''Film/TheBlackcoatsDaughter'', ''Film/IAmThePrettyThingThatLivesInTheHouse''), produced by Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Dan Kagan, and the screenplay is written by Perkins and Rob Hayes. In the film, Hansel and Gretel enter a dark wood in order to find work and food to assist their poor parents. They stumble upon the home of a witch. Starring Creator/SophiaLillis as Gretel, Sam Leakley as Hansel and Alice Krige as Holda, the Witch.

* CreepyChild: The child in the pink cap

* GingerbreadHouse: Being an adaptation of Hansel and Gretel, it of course appears here. Promotional material shows it to be triangule-shaped in this version.

* NoNameGiven: There’s no mention as to the given name of the child in the pink cap.

* SceneryPorn: As creepy as the scenes in the woods can be at parts, there’s no denying the splendor of the trees and the autumn leaves.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: The child in the pink cap made her father eat a red hot pole.]]

* UnexplainedAccent: Gretel speaks with the barest wisp of an Irish accent over an American accent. Hansel and the Huntsman speak with English accents. Holda speaks with an Irish accent. It's not clear why all of these people are speaking differently when they live in the same area or are in the same family.

** Gretel is warned by the huntsman to “look out for wolves.” He means this figuratively because he says that wolves can be charming and silver tongued. Holda, a predatory witch, has images of wolves on the walls inside her house, likely alluding to Literature/LittleRedRidingHood another Brothers Grimm story [[note]] albeit one that usurped Charles Perrault [[/note]] with similar themes of stranger danger.

*** Gretel also looks in a triangular peephole in Holda’s front door, briefly appearing as the eye of providence. Eyes are often considered symbols of judgment and consciousness, alluding to her early suspicions of Holda.

* TheLostWoods: It wouldn't be a Hansel and Gretel adaptation without dark and scary woods.
* WhereTheHellIsSpringfield: It's unclear where the film takes place. The fairy tale is German, and Hansel and Gretel retain their German names, but everyone speaks with British or Irish accents. It's not even clear whether it's supposed to take place on Earth or if it's an entirely fantastical world.

* {{Narrator}}: Gretel acts as narrator from start to finish.

* AgeLift: Gretel is usually not much older than ten in most adaptations, but here she's played by seventeen year old Sophia Lillis.

* BoyishShortHair: Gretel has close cropped brunette locks.

* CompositeCharacter / DecompositeCharacter: The siblings have their aspects split and merged:
** Gretel has her name and gender, but has Hansel's role of being the responsible older sibling but still kept her role of being [[spoiler: the Witch's killer]].
** Hansel is given Gretel's role of being the younger sibling who needs guidance and help and still keeps his role as [[spoiler: the sibling that was about to be fatted and eaten]].

* DirtyOldMan: Played for drama. The man interviewing Gretel for the housekeeping position is this.

* IAmAHumanitarian: The witch is seen pulling a long string of human's hair out of her mouth in the teaser. [[spoiler:Made worse when it's revealed that the food Holda shared with the siblings is made of children]]
* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler:How Holda dies.]]
* MinimalistCast: There are six characters that appear onscreen that are named or have lines.

* NiceHat: Most of the characters are seen with headwear at least once, it its most evident with the beautiful child’s pink cap.

* NotSoDifferent: Holda argues that she and Gretel are this.

* ShoutOut: According to the director, the mushrooms that Gretel and Hansel end up [[MushroomSamba tripping]] on were visually inspired by the ones from ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros.''

''Gretel and Hansel: A Grim Fairy Tale'', is a 2020 American supernatural horror {{Grimmification}} adapted from Literature/HanselAndGretel. The film is directed by [[Film/TheBlackcoatsDaughter Oz]] [[Film/IAmThePrettyThingThatLivesInTheHouse Perkins]], produced by Fred Berger, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Dan Kagan, and the screenplay is written by Perkins and Rob Hayes. In the film, Hansel and Gretel enter a dark wood in order to find work and food to assist their poor parents. They stumble upon the home of a witch. Starring Sophia Lillis as Gretel, Sam Leakley as Hansel and Alice Krige as Holda, the Witch.

* WomanInWhite: Gretel wears a white dress at the beginning and the end. Also doubles as {{Bookends}}

* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler: On one hand, Gretel and Hansel defeat Holda unscathed, and the spirits of her previous victims pass on. On the other hand, they go their separate ways with no indication if their paths will ever cross again, and there’s a possibility that Gretel is slipping into FromNobodyToNightmare.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Holda’s two pronged stang.

** Hansel is given Gretel's role of being the younger sibling who needs guidence and help and still keeps his role as [[spoiler: the sibling that was about to be faten and eaten]].

* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: It’s implied that Holda’s first victims were her two older children.]]

* FoodPorn: Holda likes to keep a laden table for mealtimes. [[spoiler: averted hard when Gretel sees for herself that she’s enchanting human remains to look and taste like delicious food.]]

* FaaxAffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Holda, even after she figures out that Gretel is onto her.]]

* AffablyEvil: [[spoiler: Holda, even after she figures out that Gretel is onto her.]]

* CompositeCharacter / DeompositeCharacter: The siblings have their aspects split and merged:

* [[BigSisterInstinct BigBrotherInstinct]]: Gretel has this towards Hansel, but it’s most apparent during the climax.

* AdultFear: And how! There’s the fear of not being able to provide for your children, children being preyed upon for some reason or another, CreepyUnchildlikeBehavior, the list goes on.

* AdultFear: And how! There’s not being able to provide for your children, children being preyed upon for some reason or another, CreepyUnchildlikeBehavor, the list goes on.

*** Gretel also looks in a triangular peephole in Holda’s front door, briefly appearing as the eye of providence. Eyes are often considered symbols of judgment an consciousness, alluding to her early suspicions of Holda.

* Foreshadowing: In one of her dreams, Gretel approaches the beautiful child, whose head falls off when Gretel touches her, [[spoiler: an indication that the child isn't the true culprit.]]

* ChekhovsGun: Holda’s two pronged staff.