The only purpose of this film is to show (in graphic detail) all the different ways someone could die violently in the Middle Ages. That’s what they are referring to when they describe the film as “historically rooted.” They pretty much have one example of every kind of violent death imaginable: one guy gets his head whacked off, one guy gets his arms whacked off, one guy gets his head smashed by a mace, and on and on and on. What’s more, I did not notice any repeats, which is a dead giveaway as to the priorities of the filmmakers.

The beginning of the movie is not too bad – they even make an attempt at a set-up, with some dialog between characters as they make their trip to the mysterious village that has avoided the plague. But once they get to the village it becomes a comic-book exploration of religion and morality. I think the filmmakers thought they were making a deep and thought-provoking movie, but in the end it’s all rather silly and excessively violent, and not all of it is historically rooted (one of the characters yells “I’m gonna fucking kill you bitch!”)

Avoid, unless you want to spend 90 minutes watching people die a wide range of horrible and ignominious deaths.