YMMV / Season of the Witch

• Complete Monster: The demon known as Baal possesses the young woman Anna, as it has done many young women before to spread fear and death. In the opening of the film, Baal murders a priest before taking Anna as a host, spreading The Black Death to wipe out entire villages. Seeking to gain access to the final copy of the Book of Solomon, the only thing capable of banishing him, Baal murders the entire abbey of monks, and arranges the deaths of any who would seek to stop the supposed captors from taking Anna there. Upon being revealed, Baal tries to slaughter everyone present, burning the heroic knight Felson alive to take his dark reign, and the Black Plague, global.
• Critical Backlash: The film was panned by critics, but general casual consensus from those how have seen it is that it's a mildly entertaining swords-and-sorcery flick.
• Nausea Fuel: The makeup effects of the Plague victims are quite disgusting.
• One-Scene Wonder: Sir Christopher Lee as Cardinal D'Ambroise.
• Retroactive Recognition: Since her role as Anna in this film, Claire Foy gained a lot of attention from the large public for playing the young Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown during the show's first two seasons (covering The '50s and The '60s).
• Spiritual Adaptation: Being a story about how demons are seeking a magical text to rule the world and engineer the Black Death to ease their task, including knights, possessions, reanimated corpses, a massacred monastery and mysterious women accused of being witches, this might be the nearest thing to a film adaptation of Patrick Graham's The Gospel of Evil.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Several reviews noted the film severly underutilized the chance of having Cage and Perlman as a title duo, relegating them to bad dialogue and little development.

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