Dead Hot: Season of the Witch

Dead Hot: Season of the Witch

Dead Hot: Season of the Witch

The movie is called "Dead Hot..." Only there is NOTHING hot about it. NOTHING. It's 90 minutes of boring talking with two goth women both pushing 40 and acting like they are 12. Vanessa Hudgens has way too much facial work to make you want to look at her. She has cheek implants and her face is pulled so far back, she now looks Asian. I didnt even know it was she until I saw the credits. I guess she made enough money as a child actress that she can now indulge in these sort of completely self-absorbed shenanigans with a straight face. The movie has not redeeming qualities about it whatsoever. It's a borefest.

It unveils the stigma of being a witch and shows the viewers that Witchcraft is not Devil worship as pop culture portrays it to be. As a woman coming into her witchy and divine self, I appreciate this so much because there are so many misconceptions of what Witchcraft is and how Christianity has defamed being a witch with the Salem Witch Trials and sadly many more witch hunts. Vanessa and GG did an amazing job at trying to seek answers within this nuanced endeavor. I find myself gravitating towards this documentary as a way to be informed and understand a huge part of who I have discovered myself to be. Highly recommend this for any Baby Witch.

What did I watch? Women who are hitting middle age acting like high school girls as they discover witchcraft. So where do they go for training and ghost hunting? Why, the biggest tourist attraction in the world! Salem, MA! And they spend an entire week training! Any pagan went through the baby witch phase, but most a good bit younger than Vanessa and GG. But they seem to not be more evolved than teenagers. Ladies, if you can't follow the directions to bake Toll House cookies, your would be really amusing to watch trying to cast spells. Learn to follow a recipe first. Yes, this is a disaster. The viewer gets no information about paganism, or even about ghost hunting. There is no rational side offered either. Oh, voices in the basement of a liquor store? Is there a basement of another building adjacent to the store, with voices carrying through the pipes? Hearing people on the street, or upstairs? Nah, it has to be ghosts. It is amusing to watch these two scare themselves, so they should have just gone with that angle. Instead, we get style over any modicum of substance.

It's more about looking cute in goth attire than showing respect to spirits of any kind. High school slumber party where they hold fake seances and light as a feather stiff as a board comes to mind. The young women are lovely and engaging, but perhaps they watched The Craft one too many times. The history of the place and tours of the old buildings were informative and interesting, and the viewer is introduced to people genuinely involved in the study of spiritual matters like communication with the dead and witchcraft. And, as has become the norm in paranormal shows, they forget that those who died as a result of the Salem trials were not practicing witches.

Why does a movie like this exist? It has no director and no writer, i.e. There literally is no script, meaning they just randomly chose what to film and then edited it together. Any other persons appearing are not even credited, they seem to be either locals or personal acquaintances of the two actresses, who literally play themselves for crying out loud. Apart from absolutely nothing significant happening, there's neither a dramatic arch or character development. And of course there isn't - there is no script! The base message of "be yourself" is so forced in through overlay monologues that it loses all meaning. Any franchise tie-in with the sole purpose of keeping up the license has more substance and, most of all, reason to be made in the first place. It just feels like Hudgens and Magree were bored, so they made a movie, expenses paid by the producers. This feels like some random, very subpar Youtube documentary about two teens with the paranormal as a hobby, it's full of either bland or forcefully polemic babble and all in all has nothing redeeming whatsoever.

I didn't expect a scholarly exploration of The Salem Witch Trials, but I expected what little bit that was referenced to be accurate. It was not even close. They didn't even mention that there were men who were also victims in Salem. I didn't expect a deep dive into the various paths of witchcraft, but I thought there might be some information that some might find useful. This giggly, inebriated, over-accessorized attempt by two vapid fluffy-bunnies to find ... something ... was painful to watch, disrespectful to the victims of the Salem Witch Trials, had more in common with GHOSTBUSTERS than anything to do with real witchcraft, and I found myself hoping some evil spirits would scare some sense into these two.

Absolute total stupidity...nearly unspeakably stupid. This is what 2 obnoxious attention seeking adolescents become when no one sufficiently shuts them the FU or puts them away for treatment resistant borderline personally disorder. This entire "film" is just...I mean it would be comedic if they weren't actually taking themselves seriously. The interjection of catch "spiritual " language ups the viewers nausea as the "girls" then attempt to identify as both victims and spiritual trailblazers. The Wiccan/Craft/Pagan communities are terribly reflected here, leaving the viewer with the sense that these traditions are accurately represented by these giggling morons.