Season of the Witch

Starring Nicholas Cage

Today I had the pleasure of attending Season of the Witch, with my father today at Celebration Cinema Rivertown. I really enjoyed this movie. It mixed history, religious thought, horror, and suspense. Nicholas Cage did a great job conveying his character and the other actors/actress did a great job. Also, in my opinion Robert Sheehan was gorgeous. His dark curls and beautiful eyes made me fall head over heels for him and his character.

 This movie did a great job of combining Historical Fact, such as the Crusades, The black Plaque, and the power of the church and also fantasy and religion. Naturally movies that have something to do with religion give me the creeps, but I promise this movie is different than other movies. It may be clichéd for me to say this, but I was literally on the edge of my seat the whole time, from beginning to end.

A short summary of Season of the Witch: The movie starts out with three women being hung for witchery and making pacts with the Devil. The priest or pope in this story does not get a chance to finish saying the spell that will keep the witch from ever coming back. WE then go to Nicholas Cage fighting in the Crusades (which, if you did not know. The crusades are a time when European people went to other empires to fight and kill people “for God”. They kill people of other religions because they have sinned. All in all it really is terrible, but they don’t get into this in the movie. Thank you AP world history for giving me all this background knowledge). Eventually he figures out how wrong the crusades are, and he leaves. When he returns back The Black Plague has struck. To stop the plaque, him and few other people (including Robert Sheehan) have to take ‘the witch’ to the ultimate church so they can say some sort of spell or scripture to get rid of the witch. The Witch has power over the men though. Will she drive them all mad? Will she turn them against each other?

I do not suggest this movie to people that are very sensitive, or have weak stomach. There are some extremely gruesome parts in this movie. But it is great, do not let the disturbing scenes fool you. This movie is excellent! I hope you get a chance to check it out and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

I left the movie theater with many mixed emotions about the subject matter of the movie, but none of them were negative. I would probably go see it again, if given the chance. It gave me a lot to think about, and it was a very strong, emotional, thought provoking movie. Enjoy!

Xoxox

~Baylee Jean

p.s. This is my first movie review, it isn’t very good. I’ll try to get better!