By A new Nic Cage film is always worth paying attention to, even if mostly just for cheese value and total glowering intensity. Fortunately, those are two particularly abundant qualities in the latest trailer for Season of the Witch, a film which has absolutely nothing to do with Romero’s identically named 1973 film, the third Halloween sequel, the James Herlihy novel or the song by Donovan (how many seasons do these witches need?!).
This latest Season puts Cage in the role of a Crusader who returns home, only to discover the devastating effects the Black Plague has had on his land since he was away. Along with a fellow knight, played by Hellboy himself Ron Perlman, Cage is charged with transporting a captured witch to a distant abbey where she will be sacrificed in order to end the terrible pestilence. The trailer hints at plenty of unconvincing CGI battle sequences, stormy weather and treacherous mountain, a fraught relationship between Cage and his attractive-behind-the-grotty-makeup witch quarry, with a smattering of painful one-liners to finish off (“We’re gonna need more holy water”).
With this in January and
Drive Angry in 3D
in February, 2011 is looking to be a particularly glorious year…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD0Yo-yZD5k
A new Nic Cage film is always worth paying attention to, even if mostly just for cheese value and total glowering intensity. Fortunately, those are two particularly abundant qualities in the latest trailer for Season of the Witch, a film which has absolutely nothing to do with Romero's identically named 1973 film, the third Halloween sequel, the James Herlihy novel or the song by Donovan (how many seasons do these witches need?!).
This latest Season puts Cage in the role of a Crusader who returns home, only to discover the devastating effects the Black Plague has had on his land since he was away. Along with a fellow knight, played by Hellboy himself Ron Perlman, Cage is charged with transporting a captured witch to a distant abbey where she will be sacrificed in order to end the terrible pestilence. The trailer hints at plenty of unconvincing CGI battle sequences, stormy weather and treacherous mountain, a fraught relationship between Cage and his attractive-behind-the-grotty-makeup witch quarry, with a smattering of painful one-liners to finish off ("We're gonna need more holy water").
With this in January and Drive Angry in 3D in February, 2011 is looking to be a particularly glorious year for the Cage congregation. That lucky crack pipe must be working like a charm.