GRETEL & HANSEL Trailer and Featurette Witness the official GRETEL & HANSEL trailer and featurette! The film, directed by Oz Perkins, stars Sophia Lillis, Sammy Leakey and also starring Charles Babalola, Alice Krige, and Jessica De Gouw. GRETEL & HANSEL will be released in theaters on January 31. A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.