Season of the Witch [Blu-ray]

Director: George Romero

Overview

This thriller follows a bored, frustrated housewife as she becomes interested in her neighbor's Satanic cult. Soon, she too is practicing the black arts, but after sleeping with her daughter's teen-age boyfriend, it all becomes more than just a harmless pastime.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/13/2018
UPC:	0760137109884
Original Release:	1972
Region Code:	A
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	2,631

Special Features

Brand new 4k restoration of the original theatrical version from the camera negative [90 mins]; Alternate extended version [104 mins] ; High Definition (1080p) presentation; Original uncompressed PCM mono audio; English Subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing; Brand new Audio Commentary by Travis Crawford; When Romero Met Del Toro - filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro in conversation with George Romero; The Secret Life of Jack's Wife - archive interview with actress Jan White; Alternate Opening Titles; Location Gallery with Audio Commentary by Romero historian Lawrence DeVincentz; Memorabilia Gallery; Trailers; Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Gilles Vranckx

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Jan White	Joan Mitchell
Ann Muffly	Shirley Randolph,Shirley
Bill Thunhurst	Jack Mitchell
Joedda McClain	Nikki Mitchell
Neil Fisher	Dr. Miller
Esther Lapidus	Sylvia
Dan Mallinger	Sergeant Frazer
Virginia Greenwald	Marion Hamilton
Bill Hinzman	The Intruder
Robert Trow	Det. Mills
Paul McCollough	Actor
Raymond Laine	Gregg
John Parker	Composer
Steve Gorn	Composer

Technical Credits

George Romero

George Romero	Screenwriter
Regis Survinski	Special Effects

Editorial Reviews

A film that could only have come from the early '70s, George Romero's Season of the Witch has an Ice Storm-like quality to it, exploring the at once liberating and tragic implications of the '60s counterculture as its impact spilled belatedly into the suburbs. Explicitly and uncompromisingly feminist, it takes Jan White's bored housewife as the locus of its culture clash. Her dreams are troubled by the unhappiness she can't address in the daytime. Neglected, patronized, sexually dissatisfied, she discovers in witchcraft a seat of feminine power otherwise denied to her by society. One of Romero's least-veiled bits of cultural commentary, Witch occasionally becomes burdened both by its directness and its talkiness. On the whole, however, this is as effective a film as the director has made, in many respects years ahead of its time, assuming a position more extreme than The Stepford Wives or even, for the most part, Thelma and Louise. With its wildly uneven acting and seams-showing production values, it will never be mistaken for an unqualified success, but its shoestring surrealism and unwavering tone of ensuing tragedy helps make it a startlingly powerful film.