Season of the Witch Movie 2011

Movie Information

Directed by:Dominic Sena

Produced by:Alex Gartner,Charles Roven

Screenplay by:Bragi F. Schut

Cast: Nicolas Cage as Behman of Bleibruck,Ron Perlman as Felson,Claire Foy as Anna / The Girl,Stephen Campbell Moore as Debelzaq,Robert Sheehan as Kay von Wollenbarth,Ulrich Thomsen as Johann Eckhardt,Stephen Graham as Hagamar,Christopher Lee as Cardinal D'Ambroise.

Music by:Atli Örvarsson

Cinematography:Amir Mokri

Editing by:Mark Helfrich,Dan Zimmerman

Studio: Relativity Media,Atlas Entertainment

Distributed by:Relativity Media

Release date:7 January 2011 (2011-01-07)

Running time:98 minutes

Country:United States

Language:English

Budget:US$40 million

Box office:$89.7 million

Plot: Set in the 14th century, three women accused of witchcraft are hanged by a priest. The priest performs a ritual to prevent the bodies from coming back to life. While successfully completing the ritual for the first two of the bodies from left to right, the third takes on a demonic appearance and kills the priest. Meanwhile, Teutonic Knights Behmen of Bleibruck (Cage) and Felson (Perlman) are engaged in a (fictional) crusade, taking part in several different battles throughout the 1330s, eventually taking part in the Smyrniote crusades. After witnessing the massacre of civilians during the 1344 capture of Smyrna, the two knights choose to desert the Order and the crusade and return to Germany. Arriving at the monastery, the men find all of the monks have been killed by the plague but locate the Key of Solomon, an ancient book filled with holy rituals used to defeat evil. The men confront Anna, with Debelzeq beginning to perform a ritual used on witches. However, as Anna begins precisely recanting stories from Behmen's past, Debelzeq comes to the realization that she is not a witch, and begins frantically performing an exorcism. However, the demon that is possessing Anna reveals itself and melts the metal. The demon effortlessly fights off the knights, but when Debelzeq throws a vial of holy water on it, it flies away out of sight. As the men search for the demon, they come to the realization that it isn't trying to escape, but is trying to destroy the book so that nothing can stop it. When they find a room where the monks were writing copies of the book, the demon appears, destroys the copies and possesses the dead monks' bodies to use as weapons. The three men fight the possessed monks while Debelzeq continues the exorcism ritual. During the fight, the demon kills Debelzeq, then proceeds to kill Felson. Kay picks up the book and continues the ritual, while Behmen continues fighting the demon. Behmen is mortally wounded during the fight, but Kay is able to finish the ritual and the demon is obliterated, freeing Anna. Behmen asks Kay to keep Anna safe, then dies of his wounds.