Storyline
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 Cage, Stephen Campbell Moore, Stephen Graham, Ron Perlman, Elen Rhys, Christopher Lee, Ulrich Thomsen, Rory McCann, Fernanda Dorogi, Rebekah Kennedy, Matt Devere, Robert Sheehan, Claire Foy, Kevin Rees, Andrew Hefler, Róbert Bánlaki, Barna Illyés, Simone Kirby, Nicholas Sidi, Nicola Sloane, Ada Michelle Loridans, Lisa Marie Dupree
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Reviews
55
Movieline
Season of the Witch is barely even a Nicolas Cage movie. He wanders through the picture, zombified.
50
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
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
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.
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