Horror
Lena Headey + Bubonic Plague + Necromancer = “Black Death”
Yesterday, the Hollywood Reporter announced Geoff Sax’s (White Noise) next project: Black Death, a gothic horror set in medieval England. Not that exciting, I hear you saying. Okay, well, add to that Lena Headey (300), fresh from her current role on Fox’s The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Sean Bean (The Hitcher, Silent Hill, LOTR, Equilibrium), and Rupert Friend (Young Victoria, The Libertine). A little better, right?
Okay, now here’s the plot: a monk and a renegade priest attempt to hunt down a necromancer who’s made a pact with a local village in the midst of the bubonic plague outbreak, aka The Black Death. It may sound like the subject of a Frank Frazetta painting (not a bad thing), but your movie hipster eyebrow is raised half-ironically in interest now, yes? Between this and Neil Marshall’s Doomsday, you should be getting your fill of ruined european landscapes very soon. You’ve heard about Doomsday, right?
See, Neil Marshall is amazing. First he gave you Dog Soldiers, one of the few quality werewolf movies of the last decade. Then he gave you The Descent, with more authentically frightening cave action than you thought possible. If you haven’t seen these, consider watching them your homework. And now he’s coming out with Doomsday. I’ll just let you watch the trailer:
I can pretty much guarantee it’s the most fantastically ridiculous thing you’ll see all day. Mad Max fans, take heart.
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