Hungry Wives
Hungry Wives

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Joan Mitchell is an alienated suburban housewife pushing 40, who has a boorish businessman husband and a distant, distracted 19-year-old daughter whose, on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her current situation, Joan seeks solace in witchcraft after visiting Marion Hamilton, a local tarot reader and leader of a secret black arts wicca sect, who inspires Joan to follow her own path. After dabbling a little in witchcraft, Joan, believing herself to have becom... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Hungry Wives:

Jan White
Raymond Laine
Ann Muffly
Joedda McClain
Bill Thunhurst
Neil Fisher

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Joan Mitchell is an alienated suburban housewife pushing 40, who has a boorish businessman husband and a distant, distracted 19-year-old daughter whose, on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her current situation, Joan seeks solace in witchcraft after visiting Marion Hamilton, a local tarot reader and leader of a secret black arts wicca sect, who inspires Joan to follow her own path. After dabbling a little in witchcraft, Joan, believing herself to have become a real witch, withdraws into a fantasy world and sinks deeper and deeper into her new lifestyle until the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred and eventually tragedy results.

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Eye for Film - 7/10 by Jennie KermodeIt's not at all what his fans will be familiar with, but it's an intriguing psychological drama.
Combustible Celluloid - 2/10 by Jeffrey M. AndersonIt's certainly an interesting film, but fans of Romero's Martin (1978) or his zombie films will not find more of the same.
User Review - 8/10 by Adam F"Season of the Witch" is not as you might suspect a horror film, it actually leans more towards a drama and psychological thriller type of story and to really enjoy the movie it's important to know this from the get-to. The film is also unusual at times, with weird, trippy dream sequences that will likely only make sense on a second viewing but once you get invested in the story, it's an enjoyable watch. The film convincingly portrays the frustration of a woman in the 70's that wants to be empowered and take the reins on her sexuality but can't until she finds a way to give herself the power to change her world. The film realistically portrays modern witches (no pointy hats or flying brooms here) and in that way it is interesting to see a realistic film from Romero. It does have a few problems with editing and sounds but the acting is adequate and it's an interesting story that is sure to spark some discussions with your friends once the film is over. (VHS, October 19, 2012)
User Review - 8/10 by Heather MGeorge a romero from the early 70s, looks cheap as hell, but it comes off pretty good, and entertaining. jan white playing a bored housewife, with fantasys of her crappy life as she sees it. she also has visions of what could be in herself. its when her friends introduce her to possibilities of witchcraft, she feels this could be her place in life, this indeed could be a origin story of this womans journey. not gory but phycological to a great deal, and everything pulls together. jan white is great to watch and she holds her own, while others faulter. its overall a entertaining film in romero who people tend to think of in terms of the living dead.
User Review - 6/10 by Carlos IGeorge Romero's post Night and pre Dawn tale of a housewife's descent into witchcraft is entertaining and benefits from decent cinematography. It gets a little heavy handed with some of the dialogue but has that aura of a dream like state in some of the scenes that I am fond of.
User Review - 6/10 by Paul CRomero's character study/drama with some horror trappings dealing with a put-upon housewife in the early 70's who finds an escape through the occult. While the acting, sound, and film quality can all be a bit rough at times, the film is still worth a peak as a time capsule.
User Review - 6/10 by Rich PWhen it comes to Romero films, this is supposedly the only one of his films that he has said that he would like to remake. That being said, that says a lot about the film, as there are some really cool, interesting and totally Romero-esque moments in the film but much of the film definitely reflects this knowledge that he would like to remake it. The pacing is quite bad at times, and frequently, you may ask yourself "where is this film going?"and won't seem very focused at times. However, the ending is pretty awesome, cool and surprisingly feministic.
User Review - 6/10 by John WNot traditional horror, but definitely Romero horror (albeit a bit dated it is still a snapshot of the times). It's not as in your face as NOTLD, more subtle and carrying a variation of the themes of class, race, and consumerism. This strikes me as being more about the levels of collateral damage of the "machine". The father/husbands pursuit of success alienates his wife, which starts the second cycle of damage. The success also alienates the daughter, plenty of material things, but lack of cohesive family structure and another cycle of damage begins. Not his best, but still a great film and like all Romero stories will leave you thinking.
User Review - 4/10 by Al MI adore George A. Romero, so I really wanted to like this film, but unfortunately it plays a bad, boring, and overly pretentious episode of Desperate Housewives. Romero's attempt to experiment with style comes off the worst kind of wannabe artistry, the acting is stiff and less compelling than some pornography films, and the plot lacks action. Nothing interesting happens in the film, and its attempt to delve into the dark, repressed depths of suburban housewife psychology ends up being as cliched as the stories on the cover of Cosmo every month. I admire Season of the Witch's attempts to be surrealistic and to evoke dreamstates, but I find that even these moments come off as turgid and unconvincing.
User Review - 4/10 by Eric RAfter the failed attempt to branch himself outside the horror genre with the romantic dramedy "There's Always Vanilla", director George A. Romero decided to return to the genre that made him famous with "Night of the Living Dead". Still this isn't a full blown horror film as the title "Season of the Witch" would suggest (that's just one of three titles this picture is known by). It's more like an artistic horror film along the lines of Romero's later and MUCH better "Martin" but "Season of the Witch" misses the mark making it a step back on the right track for Romero but another failure that quickly fell out of the public eye and into oblivion. Filmed as "Jack's Wife" (and briefly released with that title), Romero opts to open the film with a surreal dream sequence. We are then introduced to Joan Mitchell, a bored housewife whose successful husband is never home due to being an workaholic and her daughter is grown and moved out the house. One of her friends introduces her to the world of witchcraft so she decides to become sexually liberated with a young college professor and begins to smoke pot and dabble in the occult. The problem with "Season of the Witch" is that it's so damn slow moving and talky. It's mostly made of groups of women sitting around, talking witchcraft, occasionally smoking pot, and talking some more. It attempts to focus in on the dark repressed desires of a suburban housewife but just comes off as an extremely dull, pretentious drama with only vague horror undertones. I found myself board almost as much as the character was in the film. Romero breaks up the tedium with surrealist dream sequences where Joan is stalked by a devil masked killer. These scenes are well shot and suspenseful and are the only really memorable aspect about the picture. The first home video release of this film retitled it "Season of the Witch" and used a still frame of this devil-masked stalker to adorn the cover artwork to make people believed this was a balls out horror film audiences had come to expect from Romero. It was deceptive but at the same time a clever title change and marketing scheme as it worked on me. The title, cover artwork and the tagline "from the director of Night of the Living Dead" and "Dawn of the Dead" suckered me right in. Romero directing a film about witchcraft? Sign me up! You can imagine my disappointment when I got a dull drab film about womens liberation from being measly housewives. "Season of the Witch" just comes out confused as it not entirely a horror film yet it's not entirely a drama or whatever other genre you want to put it in. The plot won't really appeal to horror fanatics or really anyone else for that matter. Distributors of the film were also dumbfounded on how to market it and they retitled it "Hungry Wives" for a majority of its theatrical release and gave it suggestive poster artwork to fool audiences into thinking this was a soft-core porn flick. Soft core fans would have been even more disappointed than horror fans! This is definitely a step in the right direction for Romero as it is a return of his stylistic approach (sorely lacking in "There's Always Vanilla") and the subject matter has his trademark hidden meanings, it's just a damn shame it's such a borefest. The film is definitely one of Romero's least known films (though the title makes some people think the new film starring craptacular Nicolas Cage is a remake of this, which it isn't) and deservably so. "Season of the Witch", though shows signs of Romero getting back on track, still ends up being another failed project that will only appeal to Romero worshipers. The DVD release from Anchor Bay Entertainment packaged the film with Romero's other 'lost' film "There's Always Vanilla" for those of you who have to see ALL of this cult director's films, even the poor ones.

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