The Three Witches – Macbeth (1971)

Also referred to as the Weird Sisters or the Wayward Sisters, Shakespeare’s three witches have set a creepy precedent for our contemporary perception of witches, and are represented at their most disturbing in Roman Polanski’s 1971 effort at The Scottish Play. Ugly, hunch-backed, crooked-nosed and with nasal voices, Polanski’s witches appear in the first scene of the film hailing General Macbeth and delivering ambiguous and threatening prophecies of his rise to the King’s throne of Scotland. The witches establish the underlying tone of dark, supernatural magic that runs throughout the film, and are force to be reckoned with and feared by throughout as they dictate the fate of Scotland: “Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn and caldron bubble”…