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[[Season of the Witch]] is a 2011 supernatural-themed action adventure period film starring [[Nicolas Cage]] and [[Ron Perlman]] as former Crusade Knights who must transport a witch to a monastery. Naturally things do not go well.

 

 

* [[A House Divided]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|It looks like the witch is trying to turn the group against each other, but she's only removing anyone who'll stop her from getting to the abbey.}}

* [[Anachronism Stew]]

* {{spoiler|[[Anyone Can Die]]}}

* [[Body Count Competition]]: Loser buys the drinks. You take the 300 on the left, I'll take the 300 on the right. However they note, that will just leave the score at 300:300.

* [[Boisterous Bruiser]]: Felson, greatly enjoys his fights and is quite a fun guy overall.

* [[Burn the Witch]]: Averted in the prologue where three accused witches are shown being hanged, then drowned in case they're [[Not Quite Dead]]. {{spoiler|Unfortunately for the priest carrying out the ritual, one of them ''definitely'' isn't.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Cardboard Prison]]: It turns out the girl could have escaped from her cage at any time.}}

* [[Church Militant]]: A pretty solid description for the church served by Felson and Behman

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: While the {{spoiler|demon}} isn't too badly animated, the [[Game Face|digital demon wolf faces]] are not quite on the same level.

* {{spoiler|[[Demonic Possession]]}}

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: The date stamp at the beginning of the movie (at least at the beginning of the opening battle) is 1332. Some of the warriors in the battle are wearing white mantles/robes with red crosses. While historians argue (because that's what historians do) about what kind of cross they used, they are generally unanimous in the acceptance of the fact that a white mantle with a red cross was a particular emblem of knights of the Order of the Temple (the actual Knights Templar). The problem is that the Order of the Temple was dissolved officially by the Catholic Church in 1314, 18 years prior to the opening of the film. No knight would be wearing the emblem of the Templars after they had been dissolved by papal decree.

* [[Evil Plan]]: The villain {{spoiler|is a demon that seeks the only book with the knowledge to banish it back to hell in order to destroy it}} and the entire movie is the heroes helping them find it.

** Also a case of [[Using You All Along]].

* [[Game Face]]: Both witches and wolves have these.

* [[Heel Realization]]: At the start of the film when Behman and Felson find themselves killing innocent women and children, they realize what they've been doing and decide to desert the crusades.

* [[Knight in Sour Armor]]: Behman.

* [[MacGuffin]]: The Key of Solomon, which is the whole reason for the journey.

* [[Neck Lift]]: {{spoiler|The Demon does this to Behman. For priests it prefers the [[Neck Snap]].}}

** Given as it seems to be Central Europe, likely Germany from the place names, English accents make no more sense.

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|After the [[Cute Witch]] turns into [[One-Winged Angel]] with [[Super Strength]] who can melt its way out of its cage.}}

* [[Offhand Backhand]]: Done on a charging wolf, no less.

* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]]

* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: {{spoiler|They're people who have died of plague who have become possessed by minor demons. Cutting off their head works just as well though.}}

* [[The Plague]]: [[Department of Redundancy Department|The plague]].

* [[Retirony]]: {{spoiler|both Behman and Felson were so close to retiring from the crusading life.}}

* [[Rope Bridge]]: The predictably rickety bridge over the gaping chasm.

** {{spoiler|It also gives away the fact that the inhabitants of the monastery have been turned into zombies.}}

* [[Use Your Head]]: Felson is quite fond of this. {{spoiler|Unfortunately it doesn't work on Demons.}}

* [[You Said You Would Let Them Go|You Said You Would Let Me Go]]: In the prologue, one of the accused witches confesses thinking her life will be spared.

'''Priest:''' "Your soul, child. But your body must be consigned to God for absolution." }}