Called out sick from work this week and spent a day watching movies I figured my wife wouldn't like. Oddly, all seemed to be foreign horror/supernatural thriller types. Dead Snow (Norwegian college kids vs Nazi zombies), Nightwatch (Russian... Something. Confused storyline.) And the German made but in English "Black Death" with Sean Bean. It's about a witch hunter in the time of the bubonic plague in Europe setting out to investigate a village that is said to be free of the plague due to Satanism and witch craft.
I have to say, I was really pleasently surprised. I didn't realize it was a German flick, so I went in expecting it to be a typical militant feminist anti-religion Hollywood screed. However, it was actually a fairly complex examination of realistic characters. No "all Christians are either cynical hypocrits or mysogynistic zealots" no multi-cultural pc crap. And a couple (brief) fight scenes, that were decent and didn't cause me nausea due to whip crack jump shots.
Overall, a very pleasent surprise if you like the gritty noir feel set in the Middle Ages.
