2014 · adventure · fantasy
Seventh Son
Directed by Sergei Bodrov1h 42m2014
John Gregory, who is a seventh son of a seventh son and also the local spook, has protected the country from witches, boggarts, ghouls and all manner of things that go bump in the night. However John is not young anymore, and has been seeking an apprentice to carry on his trade. Most have failed to survive. The last hope is a young farmer's son named Thomas Ward. Will he survive the training to become the spook that so many others couldn't?
Our read: Seventh Son (2014) reads as a neutral, kinetic, inventive adventure · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, kinetic, measured adventure / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
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- inventive
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