George A. Romero’s Season of the Witch is a slow-burn feminist occult drama

George A. Romero is evidently champion known arsenic the begetter of the modern zombie movie. But betwixt inventing the genre with Night of the Living Dead and his outbreak horror, The Crazies, Romero made 2 overmuch lesser-known films: There's Always Vanilla, which I'll admit I've ne'er seen, and Season of the Witch, or, arsenic it was primitively titled, Hungry Wives.

Hungry Wives was expected to beryllium an exploitation film. The workplace marketed it arsenic a softcore porn, but it failed to find an assemblage - astir apt due to the fact that the movie features minimal nudity, conscionable 1 enactment scene, and tons of talking. It was an undeniable flop upon its merchandise successful 1973. It was eventual …

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