In terms of overall quality, the end results are strikingly similar. This is the third in a worrying series of witch hunting movies to hit in January over the past few years, following 2012’s Season of the Witch and 2014’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters.
That was pushed back six months, then another six months, and then a full year…īefore being dumped in January 2015. Production on Seventh Son began nearly three years ago the film was originally scheduled for release in February, 2013. In that sense, this film is much like Bridges’ previous bomb, the much-maligned R.I.P.D., though it’s not nearly as fun.įans of the source material beware: rather than “based on”, the film is credited as “inspired by” the novel The Spook’s Apprentice, the first in Joseph Delaney’s series of popular young adult novels, currently at number 13. Jeff Bridges is a grizzled 1890s prospector hunting witches in a medieval fantasyland in Seventh Son, a derivative film in which the actor’s bizarre performance is the only item of interest during the proceedings.