I wonder if the moderate success of Dominic Sena’s SEASON OF THE WITCH will prove beneficial for Christopher Smith’s BLACK DEATH, another 14th century-set church-and-plague piece. I know the flick’s been out on DVD in the U.K. for a few months now (buy it HERE, on Blu-ray HERE), but it still has a theatrical release slated in the states starting March 11th (on VOD Feb. 4th). For that reason, we thought we’d toss a few more stills from the flick at ya!
In the pics you’ll find Bean looking like a gruff badass, as well as Carice Van Houten’s sickly looking witch character. Ah who am I kidding, you’d hit it, right?!?
IN BLACK DEATH, Sean Bean starring 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.
Carice van Houten (below), David Warner, Kimberley Nixon, David Masterson, Andy Nyman, Tim McInnerny, John Lynch, Johnny Harris, Marianne Graffam and Emun Elliot also star.
So what’s up, SEASON OF THE WITCH or BLACK DEATH? Which do you think is a better flick, and which do you think will perform better?
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