Season of the Witch (1972 film)

Season of the Witch is a 1973 American film directed by George A. Romero. The film is about a housewife Jan White who discovers with her friends that a local woman, Marion Virginia Greenwald, practices witchcraft. The friends visit Marion and White finds herself interested enough in witchcraft to experiment with it for herself.

Joan Mitchell Jan White is the 39yearold wife of a businessman, Jack Mitchell Bill Thunhurst. They live in suburban Pittsburgh with their 19yearold daughter Nikki Joedda McClain, a student. Joan is unhappy and bored with her housewife role. Jack is busy, domineering, and sometimes violent, embarking on long business trips every week. Joan has been seeing a psychotherapist because of her recurring dreams about her husband controlling her. He makes repeated references to needing to kick some assa colleagues, his own childs, his wifes. Eventually, he strikes Joan in the face.Joan and her friends learn about a new woman in the neighborhood named Marion Hamilton Virginia Greenwald who practices witchcraft. Prompted by curiosity, Joan and one of her friends, Shirley Anne Muffley, drive over to Marions house one night for a Tarot reading. Marion is the leader of a secret witches coven. ........

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