
A 14th-century Crusader returns to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. A priest, a grieving knight, a disgraced itinerant and a headstrong youth who can only dream of becoming a knight join a mission troubled by mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention o... (Full plot summary below)
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A 14th-century Crusader returns to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. A priest, a grieving knight, a disgraced itinerant and a headstrong youth who can only dream of becoming a knight join a mission troubled by mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention over the fate of the girl. When the embattled party arrives at the abbey, a horrific discovery jeopardises the knight's pledge to ensure the girl fair treatment, and pits them against an inexplicably powerful and destructive force.
Leave your thoughts about Season of the Witch.
| MovielineStephanie ZacharekSeason of the Witch is barely even a Nicolas Cage movie. He wanders through the picture, zombified. |
| USA TodayScott BowlesA mishmash of horror and history genres that's not as bad as its trailers but ultimately is dragged down by, of all things, its star. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertYou know I am a fan of Nic Cage and Ron Perlman. Here, like cows, they devour the scenery, regurgitate it to a second stomach found only in actors and chew it as cud. It is a noble effort, but I prefer them in their straight-through Human Centipede mode. |
| Boxoffice MagazineVadim RizovThough it slows down in the back half, the opening acts of Season are reasonably entertaining. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe pretty good stuff comes early, when Nic and Ron, weary of wasting women and children, suffer an attack of conscience and desert the Crusades. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe best thing about it is Claire Foy's performance as the seething, caged is-she-a-witch?. Foy, like a Brit Kristen Stewart, has an entrancing sparkle of disdain. |
| L.A. WeeklyNick PinkertonThe makeup department's glommed-on plague pustules are fantastic, but the concession to modern technology in a badly rendered last-act CGI demon, cut and pasted from a Diablo II screen-grab, is so eminently lame as to cure all fear of hellfire. |
| The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttCage supplies energy but no depth in his portrayal of a disillusioned knight. Ditto that for Perlman, who never feels comfortable in the sidekick role so he pretty much goes through the (exaggerated) motions. |
| EmpireDavid HughesDoes to the medieval era what Cage's Wicker Man did to Anthony Shaffer. Hokum and not in a good way. |
| Time OutKeith UhlichIt's "Centurion Deux" without the second-coming-of-Carpenter pretense, though you still wish the trashiness were more distinctive. |