Back in 1348 the Black Death was ravaging England and, with superstition rampant, scapegoats were being sought. A young monk has a secret lover whom he advises to retreat to her native woods, but to follow her means abandoning his monastery and betraying God. His opportunity arises with the arrival a band of men (think the Inquisition), who seek out an isolated village near the woods where
the locals have supposedly avoided death by following the practices of a necromancer. It is in this villa
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THE RECKONING (2004)
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A young disgraced priest falls in with a small travelling theatre while roaming the countryside. Arriving in a small town the group are witness to the trial of a woman accused of witchcraft and murder. Suspicious that all is not as it would like to appear the actors decide to put on a play based on the events they have observed, a decision that begins to unravel the dark collusion surrounding the woman's trial. The Reckoning is a visually rich medieval whodunit that sits comfortably in the shado
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