Synopsis
A 14th century Crusader returns with his comrade to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. The Church commands the two knights to transport a witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence.
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Cast
- Nicolas CageBehman
- Ron PerlmanFelson
- Ulrich ThomsenEckhardt
- Christopher LeeCardinal D'Ambroise
- Fernanda DorogiGivaudon
- Stephen GrahamHagamar
- Rebekah KennedyPeasant Trurk Girl
- Matt DevereSergeant in Arms
- Robert SheehanKay
- Claire FoyThe Girl
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Movieline
Season of the Witch is barely even a Nicolas Cage movie. He wanders through the picture, zombified. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
The 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. - 40
Empire
Does to the medieval era what Cage's Wicker Man did to Anthony Shaffer. Hokum and not in a good way. - 40
L.A. Weekly
The 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. - 40
The Hollywood Reporter
Cage 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. - 30
Los Angeles Times
Season of the Witch is at its worst when it tries to be a straight-ahead action-adventure film. The early sequence set against the epic battles of the Crusades is almost brazenly bad with its unconvincing "300"-style special effects. - 30
Salon
Off the top of my head, I'm guessing that Season of the Witch claims a place in the top five all-time bizarre and pointless homages to art cinema. - 30
Variety
Both overblown and undercooked, Season of the Witch is a fine example of a film that would've been great fun if only its creators had a sense of humor about the wild brew of absurdity they had percolating.