Season of the Witch

• Adventure
• Fantasy
• Action

Amidst the grim backdrop of a 14th-century Europe ravaged by the Black Death, "Season of the Witch" presents a distinctly cynical take on the medieval quest narrative. Rather than seeking holy relics or righteous victory, two battle-weary knights are tasked with a brutal escort – delivering a suspected witch to an isolated abbey, not to save souls, but to potentially sacrifice one to halt the plague’s relentless spread. The film distinguishes itself through a pervasive atmosphere of unsettling desperation, devoid of chivalric idealism, and the creeping realization that the true monsters may not be supernatural, but born of religious zeal and societal collapse. As the journey descends into a psychologically taxing struggle against both earthly and potentially demonic forces, the knights confront not a glorious battle against evil, but the moral compromises demanded by sheer survival in a world consumed by fear.