Calum Gilchrist
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Review: The Season of the Witch
14 Jan
Nicolas Cage said in an interview that he did this film in honour of Christopher Lee and Vincent Price, but it was in no way on par with those films, although I haven’t actually seen the original Horror films, although they are quite high on my to watch list.
Season of the Witch was not good. The story was basically; take the witch from A to B, but be careful as she’s a witch. Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman were decent, although the “banter” between their characters felt a little stretched and was pretty corny to say the least. The film opens with several large-scale battles during the Crusades. Firstly, the battles look really fake when there are wide shots, secondly it portrayed the Crusades to seem positive at first. Which they most definitely were not. I will admit that they did try to right it, in one of the early scenes.
Overall the film was pretty poor. It wasn’t incredibly interesting, although I didn’t hate it enough to leave, which I have done before. I really like Nic Cage and Ron Perlman but this film was just a bit… shlocky. It really wasn’t that enjoyable. The penultimate scenes were quite interesting and slightly more exciting but it still didn’t redeem the film.
The Season of the Witch: 1/5
