Witchcraft from Within:
Hippies, Murder, and Shakespeare

Predictions of the future do not come from fried-chicken-eating pot-smoking deadbeats out of the ‘70s. Even in the mixed up world of a fast-food adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth conjured up by writer/director Billy Morissette
, every man has free will and chooses his own destiny. Morissette
's version equates fast food to royalty, imparting the entrepreneurial spirit of assistant manager Joe "Mac" McBeth onto the monarchical ambitions of Lord Macbeth. Mac takes the form of a frustrated fast food clerk, surviving in the lowest class of trailer dwelling trash, aspiring only to be the best clerk he can and hopefully be rewarded for his efforts, eventually commencing a series of small town murders to rise to the top. Paralleling the roles of the weird witches of the original play, the three prophetic hippies of Scotland, PA are manifestations of Mac's subconscious, propagating his violent actions beyond the capability of......

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