“The Winter Witch” (** out of four) was a lumbering horror psychodrama about a woman (Rose Hakki) who returns to her ancestral home and finds that several children have been slaughtered in the nearby woodland and suspects that a notorious winter witch may be responsible and teams up with her daughter (Evie Hughes) and her estranged grandmother (Rula Lenska) to put a stop to the witch’s murderous domination once and for all. Gorgeously shot by David Graham but story dawdles and never gathers much momentum or intrigue. A disappointment from director Richard John Taylor whose last outing “The Krays: Dead Man Walking” was much more fierce and exciting.