Plot
Abandoned by their
father deep in a forest one night, young Hansel and Gretel enter a gingerbread house and are quickly nabbed by the old witchwho
resides in it. The witch forces Hansel to continuously eat candy while making
Gretel prepare the oven, but before she has a chance to eat them, the siblings
outsmart her and throw her into the oven. Throughout the years after the
incident, Hansel and Gretel become ruthless bounty hunters dedicated to
exterminating witches. Their work is relatively easy because for an unknown
reason, they are immune to harmful witch spells and curses. Hansel, however, is diabetic as a result of his ordeal with the old witch and
needs to take a regular shot of insulin every day.
One day, in the German town of Augsburg, Hansel and
Gretel prevent Sheriff Berringer from executing Mina, a young woman falsely
accused of witchcraft. Mayor Englemann has hired the siblings to find and
rescue several children abducted by witches. At the same time, Sheriff
Berringer hires four trackers for the same mission, hoping to regain the
respect of the Mayor. However, all but one of the trackers are killed that
night by the grand witch Muriel, who sends the surviving member back to the
town tavern to explode as a warning to the siblings and the locals. Hansel and
Gretel, with the help of the Mayor's assistant Jackson, capture the Tall Witch
and interrogate her. They discover that the witches are preparing for the Feast
of the Blood Moon, which
requires sacrificing 12 children - six boys and six girls, each born on a
separate month. When the siblings find out that the witches need one more girl
to complete their ritual, Sheriff Berringer refuses to cooperate with them in
locating her. Suddenly, Muriel, the Candy Witch and the troll Edward attack the town and abduct the targeted
girl before springing their comrade out of jail. Gretel is knocked unconscious
throughout the ordeal, but is brought to safety by a local boy named Ben, who
is aspiring to be a witch hunter himself. Hansel grabs a fleeing Candy Witch by
her broomstick, but is lost in the forest.
The next morning, Hansel
is found by Mina, who takes him to a spring to heal his wounds. Meanwhile,
Gretel enters the forest to search for her brother, but she is assaulted by
Sheriff Berringer and his men, who are arresting her for luring the witches to
their town. Then, from out of nowhere, Edward charges at the men and mutilates
them before bringing Gretel to a waterfall to mend her injuries. When asked by
Gretel why he saved her, Edward tells her that trolls serve witches before he
walks away. Hansel and Gretel reunite at an abandoned cabin, which they
discover is not only their childhood home, but also a witch's lair. Muriel
appears in front of them, telling them the truth of their past. It is revealed
that Hansel and Gretel's mother was a white
witch named Adrianna who
betrayed her kind by marrying a farmer. On the night of the Blood Moon, the
heart of a white witch is needed to create a potion that makes witches
impervious to fire. As Adrianna was too powerful for the sacrifice, Muriel
targeted Gretel, who was revealed to be a white witch herself. Muriel spread a
rumor across the village about Hansel and Gretel's mother. To keep the siblings
away from the angry villagers, their father left them in the forest, but when
he returned to their home, he was hanged by the villagers while Adrianna was
burned at the stake before his eyes. Following this revelation, the siblings
battle Muriel before Muriel stabs Hansel and abducts Gretel for the ceremony.
Hansel wakes up to the
sight of Mina, who reveals herself to be a white witch. After Mina uses a spell
to bless the siblings' arsenal, Hansel, Mina and Ben head to the top of a hill
to disrupt the Feast of the Blood Moon. While Mina mows down dozens of witches
with a Gatling gun, Hansel
squares off against Muriel's minions and frees the children while Edward defies
Muriel's orders and releases Gretel before he is thrown off the cliff by
Muriel. With the ceremony ruined by the sunrise, Muriel and the surviving
witches attempt to flee by broomsticks, but the witches are shredded by piano wire traps while Ben shoots Muriel off her
broomstick. On her way to meet up with Hansel, Gretel finds an unconscious
Edward and uses her stun
gun to defibrillate him back to life. Hansel, Gretel and Mina follow
Muriel's trail to the old gingerbread house. During their confrontation, Mina
is fatally stabbed by Muriel. The siblings engage in a grueling fight against
Muriel inside the gingerbread house until they decapitate her with a shovel. In
the end, Hansel and Gretel collect the rest of their reward for rescuing the
children before embarking on their next hunt, with Ben and Edward joining them.
Cast
- Jeremy Renner as Hansel
- Cedric Eich as young Hansel
- Gemma Arterton as Gretel
- Alea Sophia Boudodimos as young Gretel
- Famke Janssen as Muriel
- Pihla Viitala as Mina
- Derek Mears as Edward
- Robin Atkin Downes as Edward (voice)
- Ingrid Bolsø Berdal as Horned Witch
- Joanna Kulig as Redhead Witch
- Thomas Mann as Ben
- Peter Stormare as Sheriff Berringer
- Rainer Bock as Mayor Engleman
- Monique Ganderton as Candy Witch
- Zoë Bell as Tall Witch
- Thomas Scharff as Hansel and Gretel's father
- Kathrin Kühnel as Adrianna
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