Poison for the Fairies (1984)

Date	User	Rating
Oct 09, 2022	Mentaculus	66 _44th
As with Taboada’s ‘Hasta el viento tiene miedo’ the film certainly shows a general social malice and personal cruelty between its characters, but the direction is also listless and bland. The two 11-year-old leads are excellent, especially our ‘witch’, and you both love and hate their abuser-victim power dynamic, kept in isolation - there are no adults, here. It honestly doesn’t seem like it’s coming together… then the end happens, and I had to wipe my jaw off the floor. Audible audience gasps.
May 08, 2020	???	65 _48th
Beautiful story flattened by mediocre direction, but touching nontheless. One remarkable choice to edit out most of the adult actors and leave two great child-actresses to each other.
Nov 04, 2018	driscarpin	89 _85th
Nem me lembro de quando tive um gozo tão grande com um final de filme como tive com esse. Desculpem o jargão psicanalítico, mas o cerne desse filme é ser infestado de psicanálise tanto no que vemos, quanto no que sentimos. Todo seu desenrolar é calcado na dúvida se estamos vendo uma perversidade polimórfica bem engendrada na fantasia infantil bifurcando o masoquismo versus sadismo, ou se estamos vendo a ascensão real da perversão como psicopatia. Tanto faz, o que fica é o nosso gozo.
Oct 09, 2015	Lord Moe	82 _53rd
A very unassuming movie that is carried almost entirely by two young girls. The story is about a new girl in town named Flavia. She meets a classmate named Veronica who claims to be a witch. Flavia doesn't believe Veronica at first but as time goes on Veronica begins to play tricks on Flavia, leading her to believe that witches really do exist. The existence of witchcraft in the film is left rather ambiguous for the movie until the end where we are left with a jawdropping ending.
Jan 02, 2015	salomaord	50 _0th
Carlos Enrique Taboada #1
Dec 30, 2009	Dreamer	75 _80th
If you go into this expecting a scary horror movie you are likely to be disappointed. However, it works very well as a child's point-of-view movie about childrens' belief/make-belief in the supernatural (and the harm this can potentially do).
Dec 21, 2006	MartinTeller	64 _23rd
I had some hope that this might be an undiscovered masterpiece, but no. Slightly creepy but never really scary. Practically nothing happens until the shocking ending. I liked how they never showed any adult faces (with one or two dramatic exceptions), that was a nice touch.

Average Percentile 58.73% from 71 Ratings