The Last Witch Hunter (2015) on Netflix
PG-1320151h 46mActionAdventureFantasy
Cursed with eternal life by the Witch Queen, Kaulder hunts rogue witches for the Axe and Cross. When the priest Dolan 36th dies, Kaulder finds traces of dark magic in the apartment.
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Plot summary
The Witch Queen unleashed the Black Plague on humanity eight hundred years ago, and a band of knights stormed her lair. Kaulder impaled her, and as she died she cursed him with eternal life. In the present day he is a witch hunter for the Axe and Cross, which keeps the truce between witches and humans, and he stops a teenager from bringing down an airplane with weather runes. His liaison is a priest called Dolan, the thirty-sixth to hold the name. When Dolan 36th announces his retirement and is then found dead in his apartment, Kaulder and the new Dolan 37th conclude that a witch killed him. Tracking her, Kaulder turns up traces of a dark magic unseen since the Queen's time. Chloe, who owns a witch bar, agrees to cast a memory spell for him.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Last Witch Hunter (2015)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The Last Witch Hunter is an adaptation of Vin Diesel's own Dungeons & Dragons campaigns as "Melkor the Witch-Hunter", an original character of his; Diesel was put in touch with screenwriter and fellow Dungeons & Dragons player Cory Goodman after mentioning those campaigns in the foreword to the game's 30th anniversary collection.
- Principal photography was initially delayed by the death of actor Paul Walker, because his death also delayed the shooting of Furious 7.
- Released in the United States on October 23, 2015 by Summit Entertainment, The Last Witch Hunter was the last film the company distributed before it was absorbed into Lionsgate.
