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Season of the Witch

Season of the Witch

1972
Drama, Horror
2h 10m
A bored, unhappy suburban housewife gets mixed up in witchcraft and murder. (imdb)
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Season of the Witch

1972
Drama, Horror
2h 10m
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Rated 23 Dec 2012
73
74th
For an hour and a half this was the most I've ever felt connected with a 70's housewife. The least I've ever felt connected to a 70's housewife is still a tie between every other hour I've been alive.
Rated 14 May 2009
30
5th
The film starts out shot handheld, with lots of quick cuts and a hilarious soundtrack of squawking electronic bullshit. I enjoyed that very much, and if it had stayed with that bizarre avant-garde method the score would probably be double what it is here. But no, it ends up just another bland drive-in offering.
Rated 04 Dec 2009
0
15th
A low-budget satirical take on the horrors of suburbia, often imaginatively photographed and edited, but fatally sabotaged by its rudimentary acting and frequently naive script.
Rated 20 Jul 2017
60
50th
George A. Romero's drama about the horrors of being a 70's housewife. The film starts off as a surreal satire, but quickly devolves into a slow drama about a 70's housewife's journey into the occult. Although the low-budget quality makes the movie look like a porn, this "horror" movie is really a story of 70's feminism. There are a few interesting ideas, but they quickly dissolve around some poor acting and a really weak script.
Rated 12 Nov 2018
76
64th
Romero - for the briefest of moments - may have been one of the premier commentators on the white American experience: if WASPy-ism was a knife in America's gut, he would give it just a twist to see what leaks out. This is not horror in the literal sense, nor should it be - it's a woman finding meaning in a world propped up by hostile nothingness - and that it displays to great effect. That the end is exactly the same as NOTLD is no accident.
Rated 16 Oct 2021
70
54th
Romero uses the witch genre to explore the longing boredoms of the suburban woman. How they’ve been forced into these rigid structures by idiot men and are just aching for freedom. How they’re aching for this freedom but feeling the intense guilt of your wants and desires. How no one of either sex is really happy but they’re just counting out their days. bored suburban wives were much cooler in the 70’s into witches and shit instead of being psycho Q dipshits
Rated 14 Aug 2007
20
1st
Too slowly, boring.
Rated 11 Oct 2008
10
17th
Good heavens this is terrible. I am reminded of one of those Grade-Z jobs ridiculed on MST3K which are so cheap that they barely even *have* any horror in them
Rated 17 Mar 2009
65
68th
Okay Movie
Rated 16 Apr 2018
79
61st
While flawed this flick is often surprisingly compelling.
Rated 25 May 2018
38
6th
An oddly experimental social horror flick from Romero. The scariest stuff was the feeling like a housewife was about to snap in the first third. Most of witch stuff is a bit throwaway
Rated 07 Oct 2020
5
34th
Bizarre but fascinating depiction of a housewife going through... um... something. Not as enjoyably inconclusive as "Let's Scare Jessica to Death," but you won't be able to look away. Think of it as an interesting series of semi-related scenes with some truly eye-popping 70's wallpaper (I mean that literally - you have to squint at the wallpaper in this movie).
Rated 30 Apr 2021
50
43rd
With suggestive references to ROSEMARY'S BABY and THE GRADUATE, the characterisation may be rough and the narrative left unresolved, but there is something genuine in the attempt to convey the psycho-social-sexual confusion of a certain moment in time for a certain kind of woman, and some of the scenes depict that multi-dimensional conflict quite effectively. Saw the 90-minute version, and certainly left wondering what else is contained in the 130-minute original that seems to be lost.
Rated 05 Oct 2021
50
9th
In Night of the Living Dead Romero showed himself capable of telling horror stories with keen societal observations. So this picture should ideally merge a 70's suburban housewife story with the mystical genre. But it fails to find a compelling entry point--even with the deeply psychological mother-daughter angle. Also, the characters aren't strong enough to be as detached as it is with the plot mechanics. And the ending repeats Night of the Living Dead, only in an unforgivable way. Avoid.
Rated 11 Oct 2021
4
51st
Some things never change. Women always be in a rut and joining witch cabals
Rated 02 Apr 2012
52
17th
52.000
Rated 16 Oct 2013
52
12th
52.000
Rated 02 Jan 2015
50
0th
George Romero #1
Rated 14 Nov 2020
56
21st
56.
Rated 23 Oct 2021
50
9th
Hungry Wives is the better title for this, cause it describes better what is about; a tale about a bored suburban housewife hungry for more in her dull life. Who gets interested in witchcraft, making it into a . symbol of female empowerment (which is what it really is in a large way). So the premise is there, unfortunately the execution does lack on most levels. It needs a much stronger third act to sell the ambiguity of it.
Rated 05 Oct 2022
50
27th
There's so much filler and hardly any substance. The deeper meaning is spelled out in the opening 5 minutes (in an effective visual way), and the movie doesn't have anything more to say beyond that or really much entertainment value. Some of Romero's editing, particularly in the more dreamy/experimental moments, kept me more or less engaged throughout, but the weak and poorly structured plot and terrible acting from most of the cast kept me from ever getting fully immersed or invested.

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