This Horror Movie Has a Hilarious Title, But Marvel Fans Should Watch It Anyway

Horror probably isn’t the first thing Marvel fans think of when they talk about the MCU, but it should be this Halloween season. As fans await the releases of anticipated Marvel movies like Avengers: Doomsday and Spider-Man: Brand New Day, a horror film that just hit streaming should be at the top of their watchlists. The movie, a fairy tale with an action horror twist, started streaming as streaming services padded their libraries in September with horror movies just in time for Halloween.

The movie in question is Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, and it started streaming on Paramount+ on September 1st. The film, written and directed by Tommy Wirkola, was released in theaters in 2013, two years after its lead, Jeremy Renner, made his MCU debut as Hawkeye with a cameo in Thor. In the film, Renner stars opposite Gemma Arterton as the fairy tale siblings Hansel and Gretel. Set 15 years after they defeated the witch who planned to eat them, Hansel and Gretel are now grown up and work as skilled bounty hunters who take down witches.

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Why You Should Watch Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters

We won’t lie, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters isn’t a good movie, and it certainly won’t make it onto any “top 10 best movies” lists. In fact, the film is downright bad. But those words and the film’s 17% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes shouldn’t keep you from watching it. For all of its faults, Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is incredibly entertaining and a perfect turn-your-brain-off-and-just-enjoy type of film.

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The movie is non-stop over-the-top action from start to finish, delivering a solid action-adventure film amid a dark fairy tale setting brought to life with great special effects. The movie prioritizes fun and action over depth and is non-stop over-the-top action from start to finish, delivering a solid action-adventure film amid a dark fairy tale setting of witches and trolls brought to life with great special effects. Renner and Arterton have great on-screen chemistry and bring a fun and believable brother-sister dynamic to the film, with Renner’s grumpy Hansel balancing the high-energy and badass heroine of Arterton’s Gretel. Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters is the perfect film to turn on when you just want to sit back and have some ridiculously stupid fun.

Other Halloween Movies Now on Paramount+

Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters joined the Paramount+ streaming lineup on September 1st alongside other Halloween-perfect movies such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and the first three Scary Movie films. The streamer brought even more horror and horror-adjacent films to its lineup on October 1st.

Paramount+ subscribers can now stream 30 Days of Night, Lake Placid, the first three Scream films, The Babysitter, The Evil Dead (1981), The Menu, Urban Legend, and more. The majority of this month’s horror arrivals started streaming at the start of the month, but one more will arrive later on. Bryan Bertino’s Dakota Fanning-led 2025 horror flick Vicious is scheduled to start streaming on Paramount+ on October 10th.

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