In 1983, Tim Burton collaborated with Disney on an extremely strange adaptation of Grimms' Fairy Tales, but it led to a ...

When the Brothers Grimm wrote down centuries of Germanic folklore in the early 1800s, they were filled with violence, gore and depravity. Unlike the more sanitized 20 th century revisions of these ...

“Stephen King’s reading of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ is captivating and thrilling, bringing new depth to this classic tale,” Lynn Caponera, executive director of The Maurice Sendak Foundation, said in a ...

It’s no accident that the new horror movie, Gretel & Hansel, reverses the title of the Brothers Grimm-popularized fairy tale about two abandoned children and the witch that’s all too eager to eat them ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The novels of Stephen King may not seem designed for bedtime reading, at least if you value a good night’s sleep, but the author has always had a fondness for fairy tales. Especially ...

When it comes to Christmas-time family fare, there may be no equivalent to The Nutcracker, Tchaikovsky’s ballet warhorse. In the world of opera, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel comes the ...

Have you ever thought about what happened to little Hansel and Gretel after they escaped that evil witch’s gingerbread house? Probably not, but Norwegian writer/director Tommy Wirkola did, and in his ...