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Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

In the years between his legendary "Night of the Living Dead" and his outbreak thriller "The Crazies", filmmaker George A. Romero was actually trying NOT to get pigeonholed as a horror director. This is one of his efforts from that era. It's not for hardcore horror fans; other than a few nightmare sequences, it barely flirts with that genre. It's more of a sometimes arty, sometimes exploitative drama about a suburban housewife named Joan Mitchell (Jan White). Rather dissatisfied with her lot in life, she begins to think about things such as extramarital sex, and the idea of dabbling in the occult.The performances are better than one might expect for such an independent, regional production. Romero uses his script as a set-up for exploring themes such as self esteem & self expression, female oppression, and the generation gap. For a while, it's likely to cause some audience members to be regularly checking their watches, as it rambles on at too deliberate a pace. It begins to maintain interest more consistently after the one hour mark. Regarding its artistic ambitions, Romero does seem to be enjoying himself coming up with those dream sequences. And in terms of exploitative elements, there is nudity both female and male, but never very much violence or gore."Hungry Wives" is fairly serious, but not totally without humor. Fans of the directors' output may want to see it for completions' sake, but it's not going to be for every taste.Six out of 10.

SEASON OF THE WITCH/JACK'S WIFE/HUNGRY WIVES/CONJURE WIFE isn't, as many seem to think, a train wreck. There are some good performances (including Ray Laine, more or less reprising his role from THERE'S ALWAYS VANILLA) and Romero's STYLE becomes more recognizable here. As with NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and THERE'S ALWAYS VANILLA (as well as the forthcoming shockers THE CRAZIES and MARTIN), SEASON OF THE WITCH concerns itself with sometimes-twisted Human Relationships: it's THE common Theme running through everything that Romero has done. Like Fritz Leiber's classic novel CONJURE WIFE, SEASON OF THE WITCH touches upon the notion of Witchcraft as a cure-all for what ails us; but, like most of what Romero has done, the Truth is Ephemeral at best: what ails us most is mostly just US...

I just re-watched Season of The Witch. I hadn't watched it in years. I found I had the time to analyze it 100%. Jan White playing Joan Mitchell (the lead), was too pretty and young for the role...but it worked. Why? Because her husband married her and put her on a shelf...as perhaps a trophy wife. Joan's friends are WAY too old for her. It seemed they bordered on being senior citizens, whereas Joan wasn't. No wonder she was bored. Her husband hardly paid attention to her and she had to fit in with women decades older.Joan has a 20-ish year old daughter, Nikki, and she makes an appearance and you never see her again. We get an all too brief glimpse of the kind of dynamic they have. Nikki's friend and TA, Gregg, takes a liking to the older Joan. Joan and Gregg have a small affair. He kept referring her to Mrs. Robinson in the Graduate. You could actually feel Joan's angst in the whole film. Being bored and frustrated, the viewer hopes that she has the affair with the younger Gregg. There is an unkind scene where Gregg teases one of Joan's friends. Jan White is such a good actress you can feel her anger toward Gregg in this scene. Again, in praise of Jan White, you can see how comfortable she is with Gregg. I felt that if she ended up with Gregg, he could fulfill her. I thought she would kill him for making her have feelings of unbridled sexuality.It takes Gregg to make Joan realize how unhappily married she is. I won't give away the ending. But, the film is a great character study. We see Joan coming apart in front of our very eyes. The witchcraft thing is secondary. The poor woman is fighting for her sanity and self esteem. Director George Romero is genius at letting the viewer FEEL. Someone said it was slow paced. YEAH...but we get to feel what Joan is feeling. That's the beauty of it. It's not a horror film!! Great movie making on the part of Jan White and George Romero. It worked for me. I think a lot of reviewers expected Night of the Living Dead results. It isn't that kind of film. More of a thinking person's study. I'm so amazed. Kudos.

Excellent! Before Romero got too famous for his Zombies, he gave us this little gem.This was a great find. Good story, great characters, good scares.You also had hippies, drugs, swinger types, and gaudy 70's decor.The best scenes were the recurring nightmares of the prowler trying to break into her house. Every time she had this nightmare it went further. Seeing the shadow go to the side of the house and cut the phone line while she was trying to call for help was CRE-EPY.And did anyone notice there was no music on the soundtrack during these scenes? All you heard was breathing and her voice when she tried to use the phone.One of the scariest scenes of the 70's, and that's going some.This deserves to be as well known as Romero's 'Dead' trilogy. Or at least 'Martin.' See this again.