The dark and cheeky historical horror in Max is a classic of modern worship star-news.press/wp

Of Jonathan Klotz | Published 1 month ago

Historical films are usually romantic costume dramas or scrubbed war times, but sometimes a film comes to the one that dares to do something different and that takes a time when studies are too afraid to embrace. This is the case of Black Death, a surprise success in Max, not only is it fixed during the height of the plague, but it is a darker and darker life in medieval life than we are used to seeing. Neither is a costume drama or a tale of Kings. Instead, it is a historical action film of action and there is nothing more similar.

Medieval men in a mission

Black death It follows a group of shakes (including Sean Bean) and a neophyte Monk (Eddie Redmayne) as they step on a remote village that the disease has not touched. Although desperate to find a care, the real mission is to demolish a necromancer with Dark Magic who has puzzled the people and could be the source of the plague. The journey to the village is not only dangerous and mortal, but also fired magnificently with all the signs of death, decay and rot that embodies the time, but are rarely represented on the screen.

Once they reach the village, the group encounters its leaders, Hob (the Tim Mcinnerny incredibly prolific) and the alleged necromancer, the beautiful lavigna (Game of Thrones The red priest, Carice Van Huten), who performs a miracle in front of the monk, trying his faith. Together, the couple has one on the soldiers and Black death It has a great turn into a popular horror with a lot of gore. In the end, the viewers will join the soldiers, as they wonder how real and if the devil is among the villagers.

Black death is the right type of launch

With very few CGI effects, Black death It seems and feels like a horror of the 70’s with the number of the body. Directed by Christopher Smith, who also helped TriangleThe film made the most of its modest budget by filming rural Germany. Although he never reached the cinemas in the United States, the film immediately found fan online, and nowadays it has 72 percent qualification of fresh tomatoes of critics, and 49 percent of fans, which may seem negative, but this is a brave movie that is not afraid to make great swings and push the envelope: it is not for everyone and does not try to be –

With the years, Black death He has quietly accumulated a worship following, partially due to the growing popularity of Eddie Redmayne, Sean Bean and Carice van Huten, but also because of his unique visual style and his disturbing story. It is now another success in streaming in Max and throwing more eye balloons than films that cost four times to produce, showing that quality can still gain -in the end. If you have never seen this unique medieval movie, and you think Saw is for children, you owe yourself to experiencing the dark world full of plague where life is brutal, short and ugly.

Black death He is now in streaming in max.