Movie Friday

[lumineaux]

“Season of the Witch” is rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned). Hanged witches, skewered wolves and a pustular Christopher Lee.


When the best thing that can be said about a movie is that it isn't in 3-D, that's a sign . . .


And what does Roger Ebert, national treasure that he is, have to say about this movie?  Well. . . .  (http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110105/REVIEWS/110109993)

"Yes, Cage and Perlman, so you suspect “Season of the Witch” will not be an exercise in understatement. “The killing of the women and children must stop!” they agree. Having arrived at this conclusion after 12 years of rape and pillage, they do not qualify as quick studies."
 
"A possible clue to this film's mindset as a Buddy Movie is that the Claire Foy character has no name and is known only as The Girl. Not even The Witch."

"You know I am a fan of Nic Cage and Ron Perlman (whose very existence made the “Hellboy” movies possible). Here, like cows, they devour the scenery, regurgitate it to a second stomach found only in actors and chew it as cud."


Edited to add:  This movie currently has a 1% favorable rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  Oh dear lord.  http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/10010694-season_of_the_witch/

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[lissa510.livejournal.com]

"We liberals are earnestly deploring the superstition that forced them [the witches] to confess Salem-style, until they spring back up from the dark waters, and, hey, they actually were witches. Sometimes Glenn Beck is right." -from the review