One Movie to See and Another to Skip (No. 82)

Movie to See: Black Death

This isn't a horror movie, despite the classification. Honestly, it's also not much of an action movie either, so I guess it's an action drama? An odd 'historically inspired' piece, although there is no true 'historical' thread that it pulls from -- well, nothing other than the fact that the black plague and the hunting of witches did occur in the dark ages.

 

Bean is always compelling to watch, even though his character was kind of one dimensional. And it's a simple story, but decently executed. It could have had more action (or a LOT more 'horror') to flesh things out, as the movie was just a little thin. Not terrible, but mostly just "ok."

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Movie to Skip: Sheitan

This is one of those horror movies where there really aren't many 'good' people - either the monsters or the victims - thus, you really don't care if anyone lives or dies. In fact, there are some that you hope kick the bucket pretty early, and it can get a little annoying when some of them continue to stick around.

 

Ultimately this is just a gore fest, and pretty creepy overall. It's not a great movie, and probably would have been better if I could have liked the characters.