New Sean Bean film Black Death -- church vs. necromancer
http://www.heyuguys.co.uk/2010/06/01/black-death-review/
Sean Bean stars in the new film Black Death, about a knight and a monk who investigate reports of people rising from the dead. UK film blog Hey U Guys review.
With very heavy shades of The Wicker Man (the original), Black Death pitches a devout Christian against a pagan group and its leader who desperately want him to renounce his god and succumb to more base instincts. What could be a simple retread of a wonderful film becomes something more; Christopher Smith handles the subject matter brilliantly, bringing depth and multi-layered subtext. The film is very overtly about faith, religion and superstition but very cleverly constructs a narrative in which both sides represented in the film are held up to scrutiny and I felt there was a clear anti-superstition message running throughout.
From the blurbs on IMDB and the review, it looks like a mix between Wicker Man, Name of the Rose, and Hour of the Pig.
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