This is not something you watch from a movie, but more from a high- school play. The first impression, it is either bad players who don't know how to act properly or a mediocre director who can see that the acting was very bad. They have done several version of Snowhite, why not Hansel & Gretel now. It seems that now is the time to make a different version of the fairy-tales.
Most people have read the story of Hansel & Gretel during their kindergarten time. Loved the concept, but the execution was the complete opposite. Overall, rather dull and pointless at the end of the day. The only person to inject life into her part was Sarain Boylan. Speaking of Doherty I was surprised that for a lead role how little she was in Witchslayer: Gretl until the final third of the film, where it sort of picks up but it was too late to care.
The script is anachronistic and stilted, the characters are just as lifeless as the pace and the acting is incredibly stiff, even from Shannon Doherty. Even worse was the story, yet another movie that had a good, no great, concept, that fell so hard on terrible execution, the action was generic(crossbows fired, witches stabbed) and didn't maintain my interest much, and the story was predictable and so sluggish that I almost drifted off once or twice. The effects are cheap, even for SyFy, and I have seen some schlock in my lifetime in that aspect, and the editing has a haphazard look to it. And the costumes didn't feel authentic, as far as I know these actors could've come fresh from a fancy dress party or something. I didn't see much life or anything at the couple of shacks there were or the cave covered in moss. For one thing, I didn't think much effort went into the set design and stuff. However, the execution didn't work for me and overall I did find it dull.
It was a very interesting idea and could have been tolerable at least with the right execution. This is a real shame, because Witchslayer Gretl(or Gretl: Witch Hunter) alongside Black Forest(similar genre, and while flawed was a better movie) had one of the better ideas in a long time from SyFy.
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