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Ella and Jonah are twins who have gained a scholarship to a prestigious school. Despite being bullied for being working class, Jonah is eyeballed by the other top students for joining "the Circle," a coven in the school that performs HumanSacrifice to a powerful witch's spirit to secure their futures. Meanwhile, Gretel discovers their heritage as witch hunters. Revealing this to Jonah, the twins team up to stop the Circle once and for all.

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Ella and Jonah ({{Creator/Fivel|Stewart}} and Creator/BoobooStewart) are twins who have gained a scholarship to a prestigious school. Despite being bullied for being working class, Jonah is eyeballed by the other top students for joining "the Circle," a coven in the school that performs HumanSacrifice to a powerful witch's spirit to secure their futures. Meanwhile, Gretel discovers their heritage as witch hunters. Revealing this to Jonah, the twins team up to stop the Circle once and for all.


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* CoversAlwaysLie: See that image up there? The one depicting a shotgun and sword-wielding, leather-dressed Booboo and Fivel Stewart standing in front of a burning castle? The only accurate thing on it is that the Stewarts are playing the lead characters.
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* ShirtlessScene: Par the course for a David [=DeCoteau=] film, Jonah spends an entire scene without a shirt at one point.
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'''''Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft''''' is a 2013 {{horror film|s}} directed by Creaotr/DavidDecoteau, featuring Creator/EricRoberts and [[Music/TheRunaways Cherie Currie]] and distributed by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}.

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'''''Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft''''' is a 2013 {{horror film|s}} directed by Creaotr/DavidDecoteau, Creator/DavidDecoteau, featuring Creator/EricRoberts and [[Music/TheRunaways Cherie Currie]] and distributed by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}.
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'''''Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft''''' is a 2013 {{horror film|s}} directed by David [=DeCoteau=], featuring Creator/EricRoberts and [[Music/TheRunaways Cherie Currie]] and distributed by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}.

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'''''Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft''''' is a 2013 {{horror film|s}} directed by David [=DeCoteau=], Creaotr/DavidDecoteau, featuring Creator/EricRoberts and [[Music/TheRunaways Cherie Currie]] and distributed by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}.
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* LargeHam: Headmaster Sebastian and The Great Witch are quite prone to chew the scenary once their true nature is exposed.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: The Great Witch can apparently change his normal voice to a booming deep one.
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'''''Hansel & Gretel: Warriors of Witchcraft''''' is a 2013 {{horror film|s}} directed by David [=DeCoteau=], featuring Creator/EricRoberts and [[Music/TheRunaways Cherie Currie]] and distributed by Creator/{{Lionsgate}}.

Ella and Jonah are twins who have gained a scholarship to a prestigious school. Despite being bullied for being working class, Jonah is eyeballed by the other top students for joining "the Circle," a coven in the school that performs HumanSacrifice to a powerful witch's spirit to secure their futures. Meanwhile, Gretel discovers their heritage as witch hunters. Revealing this to Jonah, the twins team up to stop the Circle once and for all.
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!!This film contains examples of:

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:After slaying the Great Witch, Ella and Jonah decide to walk the Earth and slay the powerful witches the Circle bred.]]
* BigBad: The Great Witch of the Woods, the powerful spirit the Circle sacrifices people to.
* ChildEater: The Great Witch of the Woods only eats children's souls.
* TheCorruptor: The Circle spends the film trying to corrupt Jonah into joining them. [[spoiler:He ends up rejecting the cult and has them taken down.]]
* DisappearsIntoLight: Witches vanish in a burst of blue light when they die.
* DistinguishingMark: People with magical bloodlines are denoted by a circle-shaped birthmark on the back of their heads.
* EmptyShell: When the Great Witch devours souls, it causes the victim to become an amnesiac husk generally perceived by normals as insane.
* EvilAllAlong: [[spoiler:Ella's seemingly kindly guidance counselor Ms. Keegan is secretly The Great Witch herself.]]
* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler:It's initially implied that Headmaster Sebastian is in on the Circle's conspiracy, but he's revealed to be a Witch Slayer and trains Ella to take the Great Witch out.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:The surviving members of the Circle are redeemed by memory wipe when their leader is killed.]]
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade:
** The Salem Witch Trials are depicted as a just war against a real coven of child-eating witches, as opposed to the paranoid slaughter of innocents it really was.
** Creator/TheBrothersGrimm are theorized to have written down their fairy tales to warn people about dark magic and evil witches. In actuality, they simply wanted to maintain a German cultural identity in a time of political unrest.
* ImmortalityImmorality: The Great Witch eats souls to stay immortal.
* InTheBlood: Magical ability is a genetic trait in this universe.
* JerkJock: The current human leader of the Circle is also the captain of the baseball team.
* TheMockbuster: Of ''Film/HanselAndGretelWitchHunters''.
* NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist: Landon, current field leader of the Circle, claims that he's {{mercy kill}}ing the poor students he sacrifices due to the challenges they have to face in life, but he's actually just sacrificing them for power.
* RedemptionRejection: [[spoiler:Jonah tries to convince Landon to join him and stop the cult, but Landon refuses. He's later redeemed by memory wipe.]]
* ReligionOfEvil: The main antagonists are a pagan coven at a school who perform HumanSacrifice to secure successful futures.
* RoleCalled
* SalemIsWitchCountry: The film is set in Salem, Massachusetts.
* SoulEating: The Great Witch makes meals out of child souls to stay immortal.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Twisted example. The Great Witch will eat any soul, but male souls are her favourite.
* VillainOpeningScene: The Circle sacrificing a fellow student's soul to the Great Witch.
* WickedWitch: The Great Witch of the Woods, a powerful spirit who eats children's souls.
* WouldNotHitAGirl: Jonah does not want to hit the female members of the Circle. Luckily, his sister has no such problems.
* TheWitchHunter: The Witch Slayers are an organization of mages who kill evil mages.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:The Great Witch killed Ella and Jonah's parents.]]
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