Synopsis

Black Death will be available via On-Demand, Xbox, Playstation, Vudu, Amazon.com and iTunes February 4 and in theaters starting March 11. Set in an apocalyptic medieval world, "Death" details the story of a band of brothers whose quest is to hunt down a necromancer against the backdrop of the first outbreak of bubonic plague in England.

Medieval England has fallen under the shadow of The Black Death. In this apocalyptic world, filled with fear and superstition, a young monk called Osmund is charged with leading a fearsome knight, Ulric (Sean Bean) and his group of mercenaries to a remote marsh. Their quest is to hunt down a necromancer - someone able to bring the dead back to life. Torn between his love of God and the love of a young woman, Osmund discovers the necromancer, a mysterious beauty called Langiva. After Langiva reveals her Satanic identity and offers Osmund his heart's desire, the horror of his real journey begins....

Official Review

I can hardly think of another horror director out there at the moment, whose body of work is as diversified as that of England’s Christopher Smith. While his debut CREEP is a claustrophobic underworld shocker in the style of THE DESCENT and THE MIDNIGHT MEAT TRAIN (though it’s gotta be mentioned that CREEP pre-dated both of these films), his second work SEVERANCE is one of the finest and most hilarious horror comedies of the new millennium and his third flick TRIANGLE is a supernatural thriller that might as well be the most mean-spirited and macabre take on the old GROUNDHOG DAY-formula I’ve ever seen. With his new movie BLACK DEATH, which is playing the festival circuit in Europe at the moment, he stayed true to the afore-mentioned tradition of never repeating himself and delivered a film that couldn’t be any more different from his older works. …Read More