When Game of Thrones' producers need an episode to be an action movie on steroids, they call director Neil Marshall, the British genre master who’s best known on the big screen as the genius behind the 2005 modern-day horror classic The Descent. Stars: Michael Fassbender, Olga Kurylenko, Dominic West, Liam Cunningham, David Morrissey, Noel Clarke, Riz Ahmed, Imogen Poots Without spoiling anything, just know that Bean's team's mission goes horribly awry as Smith challenges faith, higher powers, and the potentially lose-lose nature of religion-with images like a man’s body being ripped in half to convey his cynicism.īlack Death is currently streaming on Netflix. Structured a bit like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Black Death certainly lives up to Conrad’s story's title.
GoT’s "Red Woman") is supposedly bringing folks back from the dead.īean and van Houten's characters echo their Thrones roles almost exactly, especially the latter's now-typecasting as enigmatic women who can resurrect the deceased. GoT's late Ned, as a knight who leads a group of fellow sword-carriers and a young monk (future Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne) into a mysterious village where a necromancer (Carice van Houten, a.k.a.
Set in 1348, at the height of the widespread "Black Death" plague, this heavy-as-sin film stars Sean Bean, a.k.a. Melisandre, and, not unlike Game of Thrones, it’s bleak as all hell.įive years before premiering the crime-noir thriller Detour at Tribeca 2016, British genre filmmaker Christopher Smith brought hell down upon art-house cinemas with the religiously grim Black Death, led by a couple of Game of Thrones actors. Stars: Sean Bean, Eddie Redmayne, Carice van Houten, John Lynch, Tim McInnerney,Andy Nyman, Kimberley Nixon The struggle is definitely real, but at least it's now also manageable. To help occupy those six long days in between new Game of Thrones episode, we’ve put together the following list of indie movies that are available to stream online and that capture the hit HBO drama’s vibes in distinctly awesome ways. That’s why we're here to be your own personal Brienne of Tarth. So the thirst to find out what's on deck for Jon Snow, Arya "No One" Stark, Daenerys, Tyrion, and their dozens of other cohorts is heavier than ever before. Especially since this current season has been on fire while also doing something its previous five seasons couldn't: It's giving Thrones lovers stories and character arcs that can’t be spoiled by online Wiki searches, since it's the first year in which the show has officially lapped Martin's ongoing book series.
Martin's expansive, fantasy-by-way-of-medieval universe are forced to wait another week before returning to Winterfell, Westeros, and every other one of the show's fictional kingdoms, which can be hell. When the latest Game of Thrones episode concludes on HBO, fans of George R.R. For the millions of people who are all about #DemThrones, the six-day struggle is real once it's 10 p.m.
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