Horror

Fantasy

Witch Hunt

Defiant Studios

Kodiak Pictures

United States of America

English

Gideon Adlon

Abigail Cowen

Elizabeth Mitchell

Echo Campbell

Cameron Crovetti

Nicholas Crovetti

Lulu Antariksa

Natasha Tina Liu

Anna Grace Barlow

Ashley Bell

Christian Camargo

Sadie Stratton

Treva Etienne

Deborah May

Punkie Johnson

Regi Davis

Denise Jaxon

Riley Scott

Christian Hicks

Samiya Khan

Stephanie Hodge

Assaf Cohen

Cooper Rowe

Natalie Johnson

Roni-Sue Kiser

Bella Shepard

Noam Vaknin

Story Slaughter

Sydney Wilder

Anthony Ruff

Anthony Jan Potter

Brian Johnson

Lorenzo Young

Michael Hernandez

Nick Wright

Maurice Fadida

Eric B. Fleischman

Nico Aguilar

Tommy Oceanak

Nick Garnham Wright

Lindsey Weissmueller

Eric S. Quintana

Holly Trotta

Carrie Mercado

Maryann Yee

Kevin Matré

Jordan Little

Josh Foglio

Nicholas Ruff

Amanda Thurman

Joseph Waggoner

Josh Gannon

Itai Levin

Jason Knutzen

Katherine Anne Carey

Carli Sandweiss

Austin Millinder

Lej Talens

David Barkley

Sten Tadashi Olson

Jordan Fliehler

Alberto De Coste Calla

Jonathan Williams

Connor Lambert

Will Hecht

Jerry Sun

Bill Boehme

Enrique Espinoza Jr.

Adam Schneider

Eric M. Velasquez

Nic Vannatta

Vatche Karagozian

Garret Barnett

Matt Kendrick

Eric Miller

Michael Holcomb

Luis Molgaard

James Molina

Quinton Farina

Albert Lannutti

Simon White

Ashton Warner

Anthony Gomez

Salvatore Sciortino

Zach Zombek

Ryan Hendricks

Zac Krause

Jess Varley

Joanna David

Christine Abernathy

Aimey Beer

Léa Catania

Callie Croughwell

Chris Denison

Caitlin M Hutson

Lane Leavitt

Tree O'Toole

Paul Anthony Scott

Tim Soergel

Jason Sweat

Hawk Walts

Jon Gosier

Victor Shapiro

Raphael Swann

Zeev Krieger

Jordan Walker-Pearlman

Emily Siegel

Chris Abernathy

Bull Blumenthal

Elle Callahan

Zach Mahassine

Matthew Ray

John Fordham

Cara Seo

Hannah Schenck

Leya Oakley

Karen Stein

Abigail Bradley

Brittany White

Monica Salazar

Sammy Kline

Nick Delgado

Max Zarou

Belinda McCormick

Jeffrey Scott Nuttall

Peter Kelsey

Peter Bawiec

Reece Miller

Martin Macphail

Dean Rode

Filipe Manuel Neto

**The problem with this film is in the plot: starting from a wrong premise, the whole plot ends up going wrong.**

There are certain films that we, even with all our good will, cannot find that fulfill what is necessary to be decent. This movie is one of them, and it's almost entirely to blame for a sadly poorly written plot, which pushes all the barriers of logic to create a story without any meaning.

Normally, I save the technical aspects of a film for the end of my reviews, but this time it's precisely here that Ill start, because in fact it's in the production values and the visual effects and CGI that the film seems to me the most well-crafted. The movie doesn't have a good budget, but the effects are believable and look good enough. The settings aren't a problem either, being a story set in our time, and in an uncertain location in the American Midwest. The editing is regular, the pace is pleasant, and the music does what it needs to.

The cast is mostly female, with the best performances coming from the hands of Elizabeth Mitchell and Gideon Adlon. There are still some other actresses who try to do what they can, but the youth of the cast does not allow for great dramatic efforts, nor does the lightness of the film truly demand it.

But what really defeats this film is its plot: the film tries to recreate, in our time, the witch hunt fever that existed, occasionally, in some places in Christendom during the 15th to 17th centuries. This movement has more ancient roots: the Christian religion has always condemned the practices of witchcraft, and there are laws against witches in many ancient societies and civilizations, all the way back to the Roman Empire. The last woman to be officially executed for witchcraft in Europe was in 1782, and there are still modern countries, especially those with an Islamic religion, that formally condemn witchcraft in their penal codes.

It just so happens that it just doesn't make any sense to try to recreate the witch hunt in a country like the USA, so openly democratic and defender of the individual freedoms of citizens. Even if we assume that magic exists and witchcraft is real (and there are many people today who believe this), it is inconceivable that a democratic country could ban magic or the practice of witchcraft, even for negative purposes. It's almost like forbidding someone to swear and curse: as wrong as it may be, it's a right that no one can take away from me, if I'm not offending anyone. I find it inconceivable that the US Congress would pass a constitutional amendment banning witchcraft, and that undermines everything the film tries to do afterwards. It just doesn't make sense.
Summary: The problem with this film is in the plot: starting from a wrong premise, the whole plot ends up going wrong.

WITCH HUNT | Official Trailer

WITCH HUNT | UK Trailer | 2021 | Thriller | Starring Elizabeth Mitchell, Gideon Adlon & Ashley Bell

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