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She continued, “My touchstones for the show are like The Wizard of Oz, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, The NeverEnding Story, and The Princess Bride. That’s the sort of deep down of it. And then the real horror stuff is more like a dollop here and a dollop there, where we get like legitimately scary.”
Each episode focuses on a different witch in the coven and their nightmare scenario. Agatha’s nightmare embraces ’80s camp horror, while Alice (Ali Ahn), the fire witch, journeys into ’70s psychedelic horror. The witches’ horror aesthetic shapes each trial, allowing the team to pull their favorite tropes from decades of horror media.
