At the time, Huston was dating Jack Nicholson, who would frequently phone the hotel and send huge flower bouquets, much to the excitement of the staff. The flood wrote off much of the production team’s electrical equipment on the floor below. Bean style calamity when he left the bath taps running in his room (the frantically knocking porter was told “go away, I’m asleep”). During the shoot, Rowan Atkinson caused a Mr. Much of the rest was shot on location in the Headland Hotel situated on the coast in Newquay, Cornwall. The early portion of the film was shot in Bergen in Norway. The following people did special puppeteer work in this film: Anthony Asbury, Don Austen (Luke and Bruno's mouse forms), Sue Dacre, David Greenaway, Brian Henson, Robert Tygner, and Steven Whitmire. It was the final film that Jim Henson personally worked on before his death, the final theatrical film produced by Lorimar Productions, and the last film made based on Dahl's material before his death (both Henson and Dahl died that year). The Witches was adapted from the children's book of the same title by British author Roald Dahl. Stella Tanner as Loisette "Lois" Leffour.Roberta Taylor as Jacqueline (chef witch).Anne Lambton as Pamela (The Woman in Black).
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Luke and Helga return to their home, where they are delivered Ernst's trunk full of money and an address book of all witches in the United States. Stringer slays Ernst with a meat cleaver as Helga returns Bruno to his parents. The formula turns all the witches into mice, and the staff and hotel guests join in killing them, unknowingly ridding England of its witches. As the witches enter the dining room, Miss Irvine, Ernst's assistant who has become disillusioned by her mistress's harsh treatment of her, quits working with the witches and thus gets spared from the massacre that is about to happen. Jenkins also orders the soup, though Helga stops him from consuming it at the last minute. Luke manages to drop the bottle into a pot of cress soup destined for the witches' dinner tables. Luke devises a plan to kill the witches by sneaking into Ernst's room to steal a bottle of the potion. He finds Bruno and reunites with Helga, who has since recovered. The Grand High Witch then appears, seizing Luke and taking him back to the ballroom (somehow without being spotted), where he is forced to drink a potion, turning him into a mouse, though he avoids being squashed. Luke attempts to escape and runs to Helga in their room, but finds her resting after having a dizzy spell. Having already been given chocolate laced with the formula a few hours earlier, Bruno is lured into the room, turns into a mouse and flees. Ernst unveils her latest weapon: a magic potion to turn children into mice, which they will use on confectionery products in sweet shops and candy stores to be opened using money provided by Ernst. Luke inadvertently discovers the witches while training his pet mice behind a screen inside the ballroom, where the witches hold their meeting. Also staying at the hotel are a convention of witches, masquerading as the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, with the Grand High Witch, the all-powerful German-accented leader of the world's witches, attending their annual meeting under the name Eva Ernst. Stringer, after his pet mice frighten a maid who is having an affair with the manager.
They stay at a seaside hotel, where Luke meets and befriends a gluttonous but friendly boy, Bruno Jenkins, while getting on the bad side of the hotel manager, Mr. Her doctor advises them to spend the summer by the sea. On Luke's ninth birthday, Helga falls ill with diabetes. While building a treehouse, Luke is approached by a woman he quickly realises is a witch, though he sees through her ruse and escapes, hiding at the top of the tree until his grandmother comes outside and the witch leaves. After Luke's parents are killed in a car accident, Helga becomes Luke's legal guardian and they move to England. Helga tells him that her childhood friend Erica fell victim to a witch and cursed to spend the rest of her life trapped inside a painting, ageing gradually and changing her position in the canvas until she finally disappeared a few years earlier. During a vacation with his grandmother Helga in Norway, nine-year-old American boy Luke Eveshim is warned about the witches, female demons with a boundless hatred for children and various methods of destroying or transforming them.
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