Spooky Costume Design
Fletcher on recreating the look of the original film down to the iconic costumes, which unfortunately didn’t make it back to this production: “Some of [the clothes] deteriorated. They are in a museum in Seattle, Washington but they’re in terrible shape. So we had to start from scratch. And I thought really way outside of the bubble—like you know how all these big superhero movies change everything up. At the end of the day, Lynn and I had these conversations with [costume designer] Sal Pérez Jr about just staying true to what their witches’ clothes were, [and] give it new material. The symbols on all three of the witches outfits, especially Bette’s, mean something. It’s sort of now modern-day Wicca. But in the 1600s, that version of witchcraft which was tethered to the earth, the ocean, the stars, it’s all tied together. It’s all reflected in Winifred’s cloak.”
