No matter how you cut it, The Witches is a really disturbing tale ... This was clearly not lost on the people who hired Robert Zemeckis to do a new adaptation for another generation of children.

Reimagining Roald Dahl's beloved story for a modern audience, Robert Zemeckis's visually innovative ... glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort.

"The Witches" is directed by Robert Zemeckis of "Forrest Gump" and "Back to the Future" fame, with Chris Rock serving as narrator. This reimagining of "The Witches" is set in the American south ...

the world's Grand High Witch is gathering her coven at the same resort, and has a nefarious plan in store. Co-writer/director Robert Zemeckis's take on the beloved Roald Dahl fantasy, starring ...