Season of the Witch
Hungry Wives
United States
1972
130 Min
Color
1.37:1
English
Synopsis
Joan Mitchell is an unhappy, suburban housewife pushing 40, who has an uncommunicative businessman husband, named Jack, and a distant 19-year-old daughter, named Nikki, on the verge of moving out of the house. Frustrated at her current situation, Joan seeks solance in witchcraft after visiting Marion Hamilton, a local tarot reader and leader of a secret black arts wicca set, who inspires Joan to follow her own path. After dabbling a little in witchcraft, Joan, believing herself to have become a real witch, withdraws into a fantasy world and sinks deeper and deeper into her new lifestyle until the line between fantasy and reality becomes blurred and eventually tragedy results. —IMDb
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George A. Romero
Born George Andrew Romero on February 4, 1940 in New York City. Romero was passionate about filmmaking from an early age. After attending Carnegie-Mellon University, he worked in the industrial film business making commercials and shorts. In 1968, he released his first full-length feature, a horror film called Night of the Living Dead. Shot in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, the low-budget film soon reached cult status. Romero subsequently turned it into a trilogy with 1978’s Dawn of the Living Dead and 1985’s Day of the Dead.
Known for mobilizing tiny budgets to create unforgettable scare flicks, Romero also directed Creepshow (1980), Martin (1978) and the TV show Tales From the Darkside (1984-1986). Though the success of his Dead trilogy afforded him bigger budgets and higher profile actors, Romero failed to attain the same level of success later in his career.
Romero is married to actress Christine Forrest. They have three children. —bio.
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Daniel S.
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***1/2 If I have to remember only one scene of SEASON OF THE WITCH, it will be the initial dream scene. Strange, unnerving, this scene is pure Romero's and if you saw NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, you'll undoubtedly recognize the style of the director. One can be less enthusiast about the rest of the film that may come down to the story of a frustrated woman who imagines she's a witch. The film allows George Romero to give his critical opinion about the American middle-class. Recommended.
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SEASON OF THE WITCH: So Bad It's Good? (Review)
By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
Some movies are ‘so bad they’re good’ — and then there are the lumbering, ungainly monstrosities that are the films of Dominic Sena. Like a near-sighted brontosaurus whose legs have been broken, SEASON
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By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
Nick Cage starrer Season of the Witch opens tomorrow and is the subject of my current column over at Showcase. The short version? So very, very bad. If you’d like to see a good horrific action film set
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