
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, a mission that pulls him toward a village ruler who has made a dark pact with evil forces.... (Full plot summary below)
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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, a mission that pulls him toward a village ruler who has made a dark pact with evil forces.
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| DeadspinWill LeitchActs as if no one ever thought to make a movie about the bubonic plague before. |
| FEARnetScott WeinbergI'd bet good money that Black Death is still finding new fans five or ten years from now. |
| MovieFreak.comSara Michelle FettersBy not rushing things, by keeping things moving at their own measured pace, Smith gives Poloni's screenplay a chance to breathe and evolve in a way it might not have been able to otherwise. |
| Mania.comRob VauxIt derives horrified fascination from its audience without ever smirking or looking down on us. |
| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttHorror film buffs like to giggle as much as scream but there're no giggles here. |
| Movie DearestFr. Chris CarpenterDespite its numerous scenes of torture and mutilation, the film emerges as a more mature and thought provoking exercise than I anticipated. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyThere aren't many British horror films you could call Bergmanesque with even slim justification, but Christopher Smith's Black Death is out of the ordinary. |
| Time OutNigel FloydThis is bracing, often brutal stuff, set in a world where, as Ulric says, 'God has slipped over the horizon.' |
| ColeSmithey.comCole Smithey[VIDEO] Here is a medieval adventure movie bathed in blood and mud. Most satisfying is the film's refusal to patronize the audience with any hat-tip toward some underlying religious import. |
| Film4Ali CatterallReleased into an era of poverty, pestilence and bad religion, Christopher Smiths historical horror-thriller Black Death fits the new Dark Ages like an bloodied iron gauntlet. |