After building up plenty of buzz at festival screenings and in its native U.K., Christopher Smith’s BLACK DEATH is opening in limited U.S. theaters next weekend. If you can’t catch it on the big screen, worry not; the film will hit DVD and Blu-ray on May 10 via Magnolia Home Entertainment.
You can check out a low-resolution preview of the cover art to the right, along with the trade advertisement below. Special features on the discs include a behind the scenes making-of featurette and a digital copy of the film. Here is the synopsis:
Sean Bean stars as Ulric, a grim emissary from the Church, who leads a young monk (Eddie Redmayne) and a band of violent vigilantes and war veterans through the English countryside. Armed with blood-chilling torture devices, their mission is to stamp out suspected paganism in a village that remains untouched by the black plague, even as the rest of Europe grimly succumbs to the pestilence….
The film is directed by Christopher Smith (SEVERANCE, TRIANGLE) and written by Dario Poloni. It stars Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice Van Houten (below), David Warner, Kimberley Nixon, Tim McInnerny, John Lynch, Andy Nyman, Johnny Harris, Tygo Gernandt and Emun Elliott.
Pre-order BLACK DEATH on DVD HERE or Blu-ray HERE.
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