![]() It’s got a dark, oppressive atmosphere, thanks in large part to its monochromatic color-scheme. This movie is surprisingly good for a medieval horror-fest. ![]() So I guess the moral is that back in the day, everybody just sucked. The pagans aren’t exactly about to just lay back and let Sean Bean kill them all, so they decide to prove that paganism isn’t as evil as it’s made out to be–oh, no, they decide to torture and kill all the Christians. ![]() Or both.īasically, Black Death is about a monk (the main character) who guides a group of Christian knights, led by Sean Bean (not the main character, despite what the posters/trailers would have you believe), sent to kill a village full of pagans, led by a witch who has apparently been using dark magic to bring the dead back to life. It’s hard to root for anyone, since by the end of the movie everybody’s either dead or has turned out to be an evil murdering psycho. And the morality in this movie is as gray as the palette. Apparently seven hundred years ago the sky was always cloudy, and there was smoke or mist or some sort of vision-obscuring vapor-like substance EVERYWHERE. Let’s just say that there is a lot of agonized screaming in this movie.ĭespite the title, if I had to pick one color to describe this movie, I think I’d have to go with gray. These include, but are not limited to throat-slitting, slicing, stabbing, dismembering, burning, and hanging. There were a great many unpleasant ways to die during the middle ages, and this movie does its best to explore as many as it can during its 2 hour running time. This movie is both dark and full of death, in all its varieties. ![]() If ever there was a title that perfectly captured the essence of a film, this must be it. ![]()
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