Film Review: “Bell, Book and Candle”
a 1958 film by Richard Quine

I watched another movie, this one technically takes place around Christmas, but it’s about witches so I decided it fits the genre.

“Bell, Book and Candle” is a 1958 film by Richard Quine about a witch named Gillian who lives in New York. The premise: Gillian fancies her upstairs neighbor, Shepard, she finds out he’s dating a girl she didn’t like from schooldays, decides to enchant him to fall in love with her on the night that just so happens to be the eve of his wedding, he breaks up with his old girl, is head over heels infatuated with Gillian, then Gillian ends up telling him she’s a witch and confessing to the spell, Shepard goes to break the spell, breaks the spell, tries to get back with his old boo thang, she doesn’t want him anymore so then he goes back to Gillian who’s heartbrokenly in love with him at this point and that’s their love story. I’m told it’s a romantic comedy.

The story wasn’t super captivating but there were some scenes I was a fan of, particularly the scene where Gillian enchants Shepard using her cat hehe. The costume design was also really nice, Gillian is styled in some nice pieces and so I enjoyed watching this for the fashion. Some select screengrabs, enjoy :)

Overall movie rating: 3/10