Day 117: "We're going to need more Holy Water."

Why do I always follow up a great night of movie viewing with such crap the next day?  Ah, well, it is what it is.  Tonight's steaming, tightly coiled, pile was Season of the Witch.  The only tHing that could have made this film less bearable would have been if it was directed by Uwe Boll.  Another generic Dark Ages, set in some unnamed eastern European alpine country, blame the Black Plague on God/Satan movie, Season of the Witch offers nothing new or interesting to the genre.  The story of two deserters of the Crusades (Americans no less!!) who are forced to escort a witch to a monastery for her "trial" and subsequent punishment, there is little action, plot or even acting as the film unfolds.   A bad film from beginning to end, but I have to admit, I've seen a lot worse; but not much. 

Nicolas Cage (surprise!) stars in this with Ron Perlman as his sidekick and confidant.  Claire Foy plays the Witch, and does a pretty good job of it, all things considered.  Christopher Lee has a fleeting, creepy role as a plague-ridden Cardinal, but the rest of the cast...meh.

This is the kind of bad movie that makers of REALLY bad movies aspire to create themselves.  I can only hope that Uwe Boll never, ever catches wind of this one.  Oh wait, it's not based on a video game franchise, so we may have dodged a bullet there.  This one's not worth the effort people, skip it. 3/10.

See you tomorrow, and GO WATCH A MOVIE!!