Season of the Witch (2011)

Fourteenth century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

Director:

Dominic Sena

Writer:

Bragi F. Schut (as Bragi Schut)

Stars:

Nicolas Cage, Ron Perlman, Claire Foy

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Nicolas Cage	...	Behmen
Ron Perlman	...	Felson
Stephen Campbell Moore	...	Debelzaq
Stephen Graham	...	Hagamar
Ulrich Thomsen	...	Eckhart
Claire Foy	...	The Girl
Robert Sheehan	...	Kay
Christopher Lee	...	Cardinal D'Ambroise
Kevin Rees	...	Dying Monk
Andrew Hefler	...	Jail Bailiff
Fernanda Dorogi	...	Old Woman (Givaudon)
Rebekah Kennedy	...	Peasant Turk Girl
Matt Devere	...	Sergeant in Arms
Róbert Bánlaki	...	Livery Boy
Barna Illyés	...	Cardinal's Priest

Storyline

A 14th century Crusader returns to a homeland devastated by the Black Plague. A beleaguered church, deeming sorcery the culprit of the plague, commands the two knights to transport an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will perform a ritual in hopes of ending the pestilence. A priest, a grieving knight, a disgraced itinerant and a headstrong youth who can only dream of becoming a knight join a mission troubled by mythically hostile wilderness and fierce contention over the fate of the girl. When the embattled party arrives at the abbey, a horrific discovery jeopardises the knight's pledge to ensure the girl fair treatment, and pits them against an inexplicably powerful and destructive force.

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Plot Keywords:

middle ages | knight | monk | witch | 14th century | 

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Taglines:

Not all souls can be saved.

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, violence and disturbing content

Did You Know?

Trivia

For this movie, Tippett Studio designed the demon that manifests in the finale.

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Goofs

In the beginning of the movie, a war scene is placed in the middle of a desert with geographical name of Gulf of Edremit. Gulf of Edremit is in West-Northern Anatolia and has a temperate oceanic climate with a rich natural habitat and therefore not a desert. Also it is actually a gulf.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Peasant Girl: No! No... please! I beg you. I beg you. I'm not a witch.

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Connections

Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Scariest Movie Witches (2015)

User Reviews

Really bad film - no attempt to avoid anachronisms

This is a truly bad film. Terrible dialogue - and no attempt whatsoever to fit into the time period - they might as well have worn watches and looked up things on their iPads. Yankland hadn't been invented yet, but most of the characters talk in Yank, with yank idiom, as if the action is taking place in Los Angelese. You'd have thought that just a tiny bit of effort to fit into the period would be worth making.

The plot is badly thought out - as you can tell by their dreadful attempts to explain the plot later on. The effects are hopeless.

It's so bad that, occasionally, it's unintentionally funny - that's all that can be said for it. The deep-seated inability of the actors to act is a standing joke. The 20th century attitudes force- fitted onto a badly imagined past has the other standing joke.

Details

Official Sites:

Official site [Netherlands]

Country:

USA

Language:

English Latin

Release Date:

7 January 2011 (USA)

Also Known As:

Season of the Witch

Filming Locations:

Budapest, Hungary

Box Office

Budget:

$40,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$10,612,375, 9 January 2011

Gross USA:

$24,827,228

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$91,627,228

Company Credits

Production Co:

Atlas Entertainment, Relativity Media

Technical Specs

Runtime:

95 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital DTS SDDS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1