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Black Death
The film begins with the bubonic plague in England in the 14th century. Things were going wrong at that moment, as the young monk Osmond was assigned to tell the truth about more young people who had caused great controversy. This monk is charged with knowing the truth about reports of people who have been brought back to life in a small village spontaneously.
5 September 1976, Leiderdorp, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
1967
31 May 1989, Valencia, California, USA
16 August 1984, Rostock, Germany
11 November 1985, Hamburg, Germany
4 March 1986, Bochum, Germany
24 September 1985, Bristol, England, UK
1965
December 18, 2011
A film without the ideas or guts to bring hell to life onscreen.
March 10, 2011
Early on "Black Death" falls victim to its own sluggish sickness, its narrative drive proving no match for the aggressively rotted pallor, dour acting and tiresomely handheld you-are-there aesthetics.
March 12, 2011
"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.
June 22, 2013
Acts as if no one ever thought to make a movie about the bubonic plague before.
March 11, 2011
Slams Christians against pagans with little love for either.
February 02, 2012
It shows the worst things that people do to each other in the name of religion. This could have been more of a thought-provoking film, but it turns into a gore porn display.
March 10, 2011
Smith effectively recreates the chaos of the medieval era, where the educated and ignorant alike make life-and-death decisions based on superstition.
January 27, 2012
Bean owns this movie.
March 11, 2011
Though deadly serious, Christopher Smith's European-made bubonic- plague melodrama provides good value with lots of blood and guts, as well as a solid cast.
January 02, 2012
An entertaining, if by-the-numbers, entry to the sword-and-shield genre, Black Death features lots of blood, disease, and the seemingly requisite Sean Bean.
July 24, 2013
In Black Death, Christopher Smith effectively creates a creepy and unsettling atmosphere with great production values. He shows lots of potential as a director and I'm looking forward to seeing what he does next.
March 11, 2011
There's something here for just about everyone, or at least for everyone who looks back fondly on the similarly themed Wicker Man from 1973.
