Friday, July 09, 2004
A Witch! A Witch!
Ganked from the LiveJournal of fellow Mass. resident Pete.
According to Ain't It Cool News, a spec script called Witchfinders has been sold. The script "centers on a group of 17th century witch hunters who are charged with destroying a coven of witches before they flee Europe for a new home in Salem, Mass."
Sigh. As Pete pointed out, this premise has a fuckload of problems. The Salem Witch Trials were the worst religiously-motivated disaster short of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and '80 televangelism. Nineteen people were hung as witches, one old man was pressed to death because he wouldn't say that he was a witch, and even two dogs got the noose for being crones in disguise. So, if the witches flee there after or during the trials, then the film makes no sense; however, if they flee there before the trials, then the film suggests that Salem, Mass. was, indeed, a hotbed of dark magic, and therefore Rev. Parris's shit fit was well-justified.
In short, this has got to be the worst premise for a supernatural whiz-bang action thriller I've ever seen. Well, next to Van Helsing.
According to Ain't It Cool News, a spec script called Witchfinders has been sold. The script "centers on a group of 17th century witch hunters who are charged with destroying a coven of witches before they flee Europe for a new home in Salem, Mass."
Sigh. As Pete pointed out, this premise has a fuckload of problems. The Salem Witch Trials were the worst religiously-motivated disaster short of the Crusades, the Inquisition, and '80 televangelism. Nineteen people were hung as witches, one old man was pressed to death because he wouldn't say that he was a witch, and even two dogs got the noose for being crones in disguise. So, if the witches flee there after or during the trials, then the film makes no sense; however, if they flee there before the trials, then the film suggests that Salem, Mass. was, indeed, a hotbed of dark magic, and therefore Rev. Parris's shit fit was well-justified.
In short, this has got to be the worst premise for a supernatural whiz-bang action thriller I've ever seen. Well, next to Van Helsing.
