Black Death

For a lot of this film I was caught up in it as the story took some interesting and unexpected turns. The theme of religion and mass hysteria in the face of an inescapable plague was promising, especially when set in a time of superstition and witch burning. But then, it just never amounted to anything. Ideas lied splayed and disconnected like the limbs of the fallen in Black Death. I'm sure it will find a cult following as a sort of 70's horror throwback (Deliverance in the 1700's), although for me, it was a disappointing culmination of promising ideas.