‘Season of the Witch’ Gets a Trailer
by Britt Hayes
Season of the Witch, starring Nicolas Cage as a Medieval knight tasked with transporting a witch through dangerous territory to…somewhere (the lake where they see if she floats, I guess?), has just gotten a trailer.
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The trailer is very short, and doesn’t show much about the plot or characters. For all the layman knows, this could be a film about Nic Cage’s hair piece becoming possessed. In fact, that might be an interesting movie. The trailer is littered with jump scares and choppy editing, but I find myself doubting that the film will use these cheap gimmicks so much. There’s just something about the editing in this short trailer that rings false – that this was all clever editing to make for an intense trailer. I hope I’m right. There’s nothing scary about a movie with sloppy, fast editing and shit jumping out at you every two seconds. Reminds me of walking through a cheap haunted house, and there’s that one asshole that jumps out from behind you, gets up in your face, and won’t let you move along – only he does it every 30 seconds, the entire time you’re there.
Season of the Witch also stars Ron Perlman – if there were any reason for me to watch this film, I think this is it. I’m not counting on any Leaving Las Vegas turns from Nic Cage here; I think those genius days for him are over. But Perlman gets me excited. Season of the Witch is directed by Dominic Sena, who has a hit or miss track record with films like Kalifornia, Gone in 60 Seconds (there it is), a hand full of Janet Jackson videos (???), Swordfish, and the latest film in which Kate Beckinsale wastes her talent: Whiteout.
Season of the Witch releases in Spring, 2010.
