想看欧美综艺，但想避开烧脑的？这部《The King's War on Witches》绝对适合下饭。如果你是邪典电影爱好者，或者想找点“一惊一乍”的猎奇素材，这部绝对能带来意想不到的欢乐体验。整部剧用了那种仿佛真实历史纪录片一样的旁白和拍摄手法，把中世纪巫术审判的荒诞感拍得特别真实，视觉冲击力很强。如果你喜欢那种权谋较量和颠覆常规的欧美剧情片，千万别错过。历史迷绝对不能错过这部视觉冲击力极强的作品。如果你也是个爱看颠覆性题材、沉醉于邪典美学与厚重历史感的观众，这部片绝对不容错过。

　　In the late 16th century Europe was in the grip of a ferocious witch hunt, where thousands were tortured and burnt at the stake. The church was fully behind this terrifying crusade against the imaginary enemies of Christianity. In France and Germany alone up to 40,000 people may have been killed as witches. But England and Scotland were almost untouched by witch persecutions until King James himself decided to launch his own, personal war on witchcraft.
　　In 1597 King James VI of Scotland published 'Daemonology', a handbook on how to recognise and destroy, witches. The book explored the threat that 'those Detestable slaves of the Devil', posed to James himself. It fuelled waves of witch hunting throughout Britain.
　　The legacy of James' 'Daemonology' continued throughout the 17th century, and led to the torture and execution of hundreds of women in a series of infamous witch trials. No-one knows exactly how many men and women died in these trials, such as the Pendle trial of 1612, or how many others were killed in cases that never came to court. The documentary reveals the purges in many areas of Britain drew directly on King James' book. Also for the first time, remarkable new archaeological evidence from Cornwall, suggests that witchcraft was actively practiced for centuries, even during the most intense periods of witch-hunting. Experimental archaeologist Jacqui Wood has excavated strange pits lined with swan's feathers, and filled with animal skins and human remains. She believes the pits were ritual offerings inspired by witchcraft beliefs.

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