458: The Witches (1990)

I Hate It But I Love It

Kat Angus and Jocelyn Geddie

Discussion, Comedy, Ihibili, Film, Tv & Film, Ihateitbutiloveit, Tv, Lovehatepodcast

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Listener Request Month continues with our #3 pick, The Witches (1990)! We discuss Roald Dahl's complicated legacy, praise Anjelica Huston for giving an amazing performance under less than amazing circumstances, and wonder why ANY of this needed to occur. At least the mice puppets were cute?

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0:00.0	I hate it!
0:02.0	I hate it! but I love it.
0:26.4	I hi-bi-li, everybody.
0:27.8	I hi-hi-bi-lid.
0:28.4	Welcome to I hate it, but I love it.
0:30.0	I'm Jocelyn Getty.
0:31.0	I am Kat Angus, and this is the podcast about all the pop culture you love and hate simultaneously.
0:35.0	We are continuing listener request month this week with the 1990 version of The Witches.
0:40.8	That's correct.
0:41.8	This submission came to us from Chris, who had this to say.
0:45.1	It's a fun movie with a good story, although they did make changes from the source material
0:48.9	to give it a less depressing ending, LOL.
0:51.3	True.
0:52.1	I remember loving it as a kid, but also being a bit scared at times.
0:55.5	And I know you guys have mentioned doing it, but having yet.
0:58.0	I just want to say, I was so charmed by the bright tone of this submission.
1:02.9	And it reminded me of this game that Jesse Armstrong, the creator of Succession and his writers have called Dangerous Bangers. And the premise
1:13.3	of Dangerous Bangers is that you have to recommend a movie to your friends that's going to be
1:18.3	watched altogether at a movie night. But the key is that you can't have seen that movie in a while.
1:23.1	So you don't actually know for sure whether or not it is a banger, hence a dangerous banger.
1:28.6	Right.
1:28.9	So he's like, I've had some dangerous bangers that I thought were going to hit hard and they did not.
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