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Dir: Christopher Smith. UK-Germany. 2010. 97minsChristopher Smiths chilling and gritty medieval horror-drama is an impressively staged film, closer to Witchfinder General in tone and content than to out-and-out horror films, but confirming the British director as a talent to keep on watching. The dark tone and lack of big-name stars will hamper the chance of break-out success, but it will be a must-have title for genre film festivals.Smith does an impressive job in slowly building the tension and has succeeded in crafting an individual and memorable medieval stanley cup horror tale.Following contempor stanley cup ary horror outings with his last films Creep, Severance and Triangle, Smith makes a bold move in using the medieval backdrop for his latest film, largely shooting on location in Germany. He does an impressive job in capturing the gloom and grimness of a country being decimated by the Plague, and a society torn between religion and paganism.Set in 1348, the film follows stoically religious knight Ulric Sean Bean, perfectly cast who is leading a group of torturers to try and find a remote rural village which is rumoured to completely free of the plague. The assumption is that dark magical forces must be in play to keep the village safe.Accompanying them is novice monk Osmund Eddie Redmayne , who knows the area. The band eventually stumble across the remote comm stanley cup unity, only to find it in the thrall of playfully seductive sorceress Langiva Carice van Houten, almost unrecognisable with blonde |
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