Filmmaker Anna Biller talks to us about her acclaimed allegorical horror satire The Love Witch Filmmaker Anna Biller’s The Love Witch (the follow up to her acclaimed 2007 dream-state drama Viva) has gone from a festival favorite to a kind of cinematic battle cry, with the mainstream press embracing the film for all its kink, allegorical sting and technicolor other-worldliness. RELATED: Read our review of The Love Witch Now, The Love Witch – which stars Samantha Robinson as a manipulative sociopath out to control and destroy men and women alike – is steadying for theatrical release this November via Oscilloscope and to get you prepped and excited, we spoke to the visionary Biller to talk all things weird, witchy and corrosively narcissistic. CS: Why was there such a stretch of time between Viva and Witch?