Season of the Witch’ is cursed Nicolas Cage flashes those pearly whites, chews some striking Austrian, Hungarian and Croatian scenery and collects another check for “Season of the Witch,” the latest in a long, almost uninterrupted run of junk movies that are beneath an actor of his Oscar-winning caliber.“Witch” has him playing a wayward knight forced to escort an accused witch to an abbey where she can be tried, sentenced and executed, thus lifting the curse of the Black Death that has descended over Europe, thanks — the priests say — to her. And the best you can say about this hooey is that at least he had the King of the Bs, Ron Perlman, along for a few sidekick laughs.
Cage and Perlman are Behmen and Felson, crusaders who have deserted.
“Ever get the feeling God has a few too many enemies?” Felson cracks, and they quit the cause.
On their way home, they’re discovered, imprisoned and then coerced into delivering the accused girl (Claire Foy) to a distant abbey. The pox-ridden cardinal (Christopher Lee, in hideous makeup) sends them on their way, with a priest (Stephen Campbell Moore), another knight (Ulrich Thomsen), a swindler who knows the way (Stephen Graham) and an altar boy who longs to be a knight (Robert Sheehan).
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