Black Death

  • Horror Sub-Genre: Folk Horror
  • Release Year: 2010
  • Runtime: 1 Hour 42 Minutes
  • Rating: R
  • Star Rating: 4 Stars
    • In a plague-ridden medieval England, a fundamentalist knight (Sean Bean) and a conflicted young monk lead a band of soldiers to a remote marshland village that has miraculously escaped the pestilence. Sent to investigate rumors of a necromancer who can bring the dead back to life, they find themselves trapped in a sinister web of dark rituals, torture, and deep spiritual deception.

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What Critics Are Saying About "Black Death"

  • "Going medieval on your enemies isn't just a figure of speech in Christopher Smith's stylish spatter-horror exercise, which uses desperation-fueled religious fervor to interrogate the intersection of fear and faith." - Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
  • "A savvy, stylish horror-actioner that's more than the sum of its genre parts, Black Death manages to deliver enough suspense and bloodletting to appease gore fans... [its] willingness to explore uncomfortable moral ambiguities and a preference for special effects rather than CGI gives it a pleasingly retro feel." - Leslie Felperin, Variety
  • "For those willing to stomach harsh realism from a gloomy period in history and confronting notions on religion, Smith has delivered a rewarding film surprisingly bereft of the typical downfalls usually present when mixing horror and history." - David Harris, Spectrum Culture