Of course though, I’ve been looking forward to this one for awhile for one reason above all else, so I’m very grateful that The Big Bossman decided to send this flick to me to review – I’m a huge fan of director Christopher Smith, and anxiously await anything he has coming out even more than I look forward to my nightly glass of Scotch. But through all the conflicts and scares along the way to the evil village that has seemingly made a pact with the Big Red Horned Dude, there’s also a few other things I wasn’t counting on…things like more blood than I’d counted on for one, very dark humor for another, and one thing that surprised me more than anything else – little sparks of humanity in an extremely dark and violent time. Sure, it has many religious inflections, but it also spices things up with conflict, violence, some Spanish Inquisition (NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!) types of implements strapped all over a horse-drawn carriage, which is all cool, no doubt about that.
So for me, BLACK DEATH falls somewhere in between. I truly do think THE EXORCIST keeps getting funnier every single time I see it, but yet I’m one of the few I know who really loved END OF DAYS. Not really sure why, but I just don’t dig on most of them. More times than not, I’ve noticed that many movies out there with heavy religious overtones have sent me into a glazed-eyed funk. So he drafts Osmund to be his guide, and they set off into the haunted forest to find this village, confront the eeeeevil, have whacky adventures along the way, and most importantly – kick arse for The Lord!!
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Enter the Bishop’s envoy, who shows up telling stories of an isolated village somewhere out there that is free from The Plague, and they all think there’s an eeeeeeeevil deal with the Devil himself afoot here. He’s conflicted, and is thinking about breaking away and running off with a hot blonde…hey, no arguments here. Osmund (not Donnie OR Marie, sadly) is a young monk back in 1384 who is living through the Black Plague, but not having a very good time during that one. Starring: Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean, Carice van Houten, David Warner, Kimberly Nixon Set during the time of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England, a young monk is tasked with learning the truth about reports of people being brought back to life in a small village.