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Season of the Witch (2011)

PG-13 01/07/2011 Adventure, Fantasy, Action 1h 35m
55%
User
Score
5.4/10
11%
28/100

Not all souls can be saved.

Overview

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.

Dominic Sena

Director

Bragi F. Schut

Writer

Top Billed Cast

Nicolas Cage

Nicolas Cage

Behman

Ron Perlman

Ron Perlman

Felson

Ulrich Thomsen

Ulrich Thomsen

Eckhardt

Christopher Lee

Christopher Lee

Cardinal D'Ambroise

Fernanda Dorogi

Fernanda Dorogi

Givaudon

Stephen Graham

Stephen Graham

Hagamar

Rebekah Kennedy

Rebekah Kennedy

Peasant Trurk Girl

Matt Devere

Matt Devere

Sergeant in Arms

Robert Sheehan

Robert Sheehan

Kay

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Media

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Reviews

A review by Per Gunnar Jonsson

Written on January 12, 2018

It never received very god critics and I have to say it wasn’t the best film that I have seen, even though Nicolas Cage is one of my favorite actors. Then again, I never really like it when my favorite actors die at the end of the movie. Also the CGI, especially at the end of the film, was of rather mediocre quality.

Anyway, on the whole it was a fairly nice medieval sword swinging fantasy/supernatural action flick and not at all as bad as the critics tried to make it but then I’m not really surprised that the critics are off-whack as usual....

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A review by Wuchak

Written on February 21, 2018

***Knights, crusades, black plague, witches, castles, foreboding forests and demons***

RELEASED IN EARLY 2011 and directed by Dominic Sena, "Season of the Witch" chronicles events when two ex-Teutonic Knight crusaders (Nicolas Cage & Ron Pearlman) traveling through Styria in modern-day Austria are enlisted to escort an alleged witch suspected of causing the black death (Claire Foy) to a remote monastery in the mountains for trial and to hopefully stop the devastating plague. Stephen Campbell Moore (Debelzaq), Stephen Graham (Hagamar) and Robert Sheehan (Kay) accompany the Knights.

This is basically the American version of "Black Death," a European film released around the same time. Both movies are dark, gritty and brutal in their depictions of Medieval Europe, but "Season of the Wit...

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A review by Filipe Manuel Neto

Written on September 8, 2022

**A perfect example of how disrespect for the past and history can totally annihilate a film, even if it is fiction.**

I really enjoy watching period films. However, my work as a historian gives me some antibodies to these films, for reasons linked to the lack of ability to harmonize creative freedom and strict respect for the historical facts and period customs. So, it was with some curiosity that I decided to see this film. After seeing it, I just wanted to slap director Dominic Sena and screenwriter Bragi Schut. None deserve any respect for what has been done here. The film is an insult to historians… even if it is not deliberate!

The script is the film's biggest problem, with a writing that seems to glue together fragments of several different stories: we start with the Crusade...

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