Not too often do they make a movie about the plague as it swept across Europe in the 14th century. The last I recall is 1985's Flesh and Blood. This film takes a different approach to the battle against pestilence and I really enjoyed it.
Sean Bean plays a knight (typecast much?) on a holy mission to subdue the necromancer of a Pagan village who has avoided the God inflicted plague upon Christians. Stories grow of the village practicing witchcraft and raising the dead. Due to their lack of compliance to Christianity they are deemed heretics and a band of executioners sent by the church are to take upon the village.
This movie reminded me of The Wicker Man, the 1973 version not the 2006 abortion Nicolas Cage was in. The films share the story of authorities sent to a remote town where reports of suspicious acts take place. Arrival to the village reveals a town of unsuspecting and overly friendly townsfolk but excessive prying into the understandings of how the town runs reveals the true underlying evil of the people. Now the evil is merely perspective since the townsfolk believe what they are doing is right and the meddling of the outsiders is only to harm them.
The ending of this film took a turn that to me would make a decent movie on it's own.
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