Beware the Man in the Toilet
Witches be crazy! Or at least they all are in Álex de la Iglesia’s Witching & Bitching (2013), an over the top, insane joyride where everyone’s complaining about something and men and women just can’t get along.
José (Hugo Silva, I’m So Excited, To Hell With the Ugly) and Antonio (Mario Casas, The Mule, Brain Drain) have a plan. They’re gonna disguise themselves as street performers and rob a gold exchange shop. Dressed up as a silver-painted Jesus and a green army man, they pull off the heist with the help of José’s young son Sergio (Gabriel Ángel Delgado, All is Silence, The Boat). After their escape results in gunfire and many of their cohorts getting shot or arrested, they hijack a taxi and escape into the countryside. On their way to France, they run into a coven of witches and things get even weirder.
Witching & Bitching is funny, atmospheric and just plain crazy. You will never see a robbery quite like the one that opens the film. The moment where Spongebob gets gunned down as Jesus retaliates with his shotgun is pretty spectacular and utterly ridiculous. And that’s just the first ten minutes. From there, each situation escalates in strange unforeseen ways, culminating in a hundred-foot-tall, naked, buxom, monster witch who eats and shits out what I can only assume is supposed to be the anti-christ. Awesome!
I loved every single minute of Witching & Bitching. If I didn’t have to keep watching a new horror flick every day for the next fourteen days, I’d probably watch this one again. Highly recommended.
Availability: Netflix US, Netflix Canada
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