Sean Bean plays a religious knight in Christopher Smith’s brutal slice of Dark Ages pulp. Amid desperation, religious fervour and the shadow of the plague, fear and faith become dangerously entangled. Gory battles and cringeworthy punishments drive a medieval thriller where conviction can prove as deadly as any weapon.

Rialto Recommends Christopher Smith goes medieval in every sense with this grim, muscular collision of religious horror and Dark Ages pulp. Sean Bean brings battered conviction to a merciless world where fear feeds fanaticism and faith offers no protection from brutality. Bloody, atmospheric and morally unsettling, Black Death finds its real horror in what desperate people are prepared to believe and do