Rotten Tomatoes
Cancel Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes

Season of the Witch

Play trailer 2:07 Poster for Season of the Witch PG-13 Released Jan 7, 2011 1h 35m Action Adventure Fantasy Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
11% Tomatometer 122 Reviews 30% Popcornmeter 50,000+ Ratings
His faith broken by many years fighting in the Crusades, a knight named Behman (Nicolas Cage) returns to Europe and finds it ravaged by the Black Plague. A dying cardinal orders Behman and his friend, Felson (Ron Perlman), to take an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will destroy her powers and end the pestilence. As Behman and five comrades undertake the dangerous journey, they come to realize that the prisoner is no ordinary girl, and evil forces await at the destination.
Watch on Fandango at Home Stream Now

Where to Watch

Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

What to Know

Critics Consensus

Slow, cheap-looking, and dull, Season of the Witch fails even as unintentional comedy.

Read Critics Reviews

Critics Reviews

View More (122)
Wesley Morris Boston Globe After a while, the movie tires of the witch business and trots out a plot twist that permits the effects department to spend money. Rated: 1/4 Nov 24, 2011 Full Review Leah Rozen TheWrap Another forgettable trifle from Cage. Oct 7, 2011 Full Review Rafer Guzman Newsday Director Dominic Sena sets a quick pace; the dull moments are brightened by the unexpectedly likable team of Cage and Perlman. Rated: 2.5/4 Apr 4, 2011 Full Review Brian Eggert Deep Focus Review It’s an insulting piece of genre fluff that feels conceived by Dungeons and Dragons aficionados and executed with the sophistication of a hack-and-slash video game. Rated: 1/4 Aug 3, 2023 Full Review Mike Massie Gone With The Twins Doesn't aim very high, which at least allows it to accomplish what it sets out to do. Rated: 4/10 Nov 30, 2020 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com The best thing that can be said about Season of the Witch is that this season ends in 98 minutes and I never have to live through it again. Rated: 1.0/4.0 Sep 22, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View More (1000+)
Oaklee D Your typical late 2000s early 2010s fantasy horror flick with all of the poorly aged cgi to boot. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/30/25 Full Review Renee P A great ride. Great suspense. Great ending. Moral gray areas. Don't believe the hate. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/30/25 Full Review Tim M Almost excellent. Doesn't reach the heights of Drive Angry. Well worth a watch. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 09/22/25 Full Review Cork B Perfectly serviceable sword and sorcerer's tale. They even mixed up the ending from the formula. A bunch of stuff doesn't make a lot of sense in terms of motivations, but I don't think it is supposed to be rocket science. Not Cage's best flick, but by no means his worst either. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 08/03/25 Full Review Lucion V I truly have to wonder how a movie such as this with Ron Perlman and Nicholas Cage could fail so poorly. These rolls look as though they were tailor-made specifically for these two actors but somehow the story itself was flat some have called it slow paced but my God snails move faster. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/20/25 Full Review Brian G everything was great up until the story revealed itself. Then it became hokum. great actors, director, realism, until it became pure fantasy and plunged south with a much too fanciful and poorly thought out idea. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/08/25 Full Review Read all reviews
Season of the Witch

My Rating

Read More Read Less POST RATING WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 13% 30% The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Watchlist TRAILER for The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 32% 54% Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Watchlist Wonder Woman 93% 83% Wonder Woman Watchlist TRAILER for Wonder Woman Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time 37% 58% Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Watchlist TRAILER for Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time Warcraft 29% 76% Warcraft Watchlist TRAILER for Warcraft Discover more movies and TV shows. View More

Movie Info

Synopsis His faith broken by many years fighting in the Crusades, a knight named Behman (Nicolas Cage) returns to Europe and finds it ravaged by the Black Plague. A dying cardinal orders Behman and his friend, Felson (Ron Perlman), to take an accused witch to a remote abbey, where monks will destroy her powers and end the pestilence. As Behman and five comrades undertake the dangerous journey, they come to realize that the prisoner is no ordinary girl, and evil forces await at the destination.
Director
Dominic Sena
Producer
Charles Roven, Alex Gartner
Screenwriter
Bragi F. Schut
Distributor
Relativity Media
Production Co
Atlas Entertainment, Relativity
Rating
PG-13 (Thematic Elements|Disturbing Content|Violence)
Genre
Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jan 7, 2011, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Jun 23, 2011
Box Office (Gross USA)
$24.8M
Runtime
1h 35m
Sound Mix
Dolby, SDDS
Most Popular at Home Now