The Witches is a 1990 comedy-fantasy film based on the book of the same name by Roald Dahl. It was directed by Nicolas Roeg and produced by The Jim Henson Company for. About This Book. Grandmamma loves to tell about witches. Real witches are the most dangerous of all living creatures on earth. There's nothing they hate so much as. The Witches is about, well, witches. It's the story of a little boy who learns about witches from his grandmother, only to have a few unfortunate real-life run-ins. Roald Dahl's The Witches tells the story of a brave young boy and his Norwegian grandmother as they battle England's witches. The Witches has 182,646 ratings and 3,852 reviews. Jessica said: Warning: Extremely Long Review and Childhood StorytellingWhen I was ten or eleven, I w. WHAT’S HOT; Assassins, witches and magic: Read Queen of Shadows with us; Check out the latest Mockingjay Part 2 poster; What to read next: Book recommendations. The Witches is a fantasy story by Roald Dahl where this average boy gets turned into a mouse at the annual witch meeting being held at a hotel in England. The Witches is a children's book by British author Roald Dahl, first published in London in 1983 by Jonathan Cape. The book, like many of Dahl's works, is illustrated. Directed by Nicolas Roeg. With Anjelica Huston, Mai Zetterling, Jasen Fisher, Rowan Atkinson. A young boy stumbles onto a witch convention and must stop them, even. The Witches is a slow-to-get-going but ultimately entertaining yarn about a nasty coven conspiring to turn Britain's entire populace of single-digiters into mice.