Vampires and zombies took a big bite out of the horror box office in Sinners and 28 Years Later , and with Del Toro’s Frankenstein hitting theaters next week, it would seem that a return to classic marquee monsters is one of the stories of this summer’s movie season. But there’s one old-school hobgoblin that’s lurking around the edges of this narrative, omnipresent, repeated across a number of notable new titles, but still somehow avoiding the limelight: the witch. In one week alone this month, Wednesday returned to Netflix for a second season, Zach Cregger’s Weapons shocked audiences with a scene-stealing sorceress, and Chuck Russell’s remake of Witchboard swapped out the original’s malefic warlock for a new, far more dangerous witch. The Philippous’ Bring Her Back also

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