Details

Release year: 2011

Storyline

14th-century knights transport a suspected witch to a monastery, where monks deduce that her powers could be the source of the Black Plague.

Top credits

Directors

Dominic Sena

Writers

Bragi F. Schut

Cast

Nicolas Cage — Behmen
Ron Perlman — Felson
Claire Foy — The Girl
Stephen Campbell Moore — Debelzaq

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Did you know

• For the role, Nicolas Cage learned horseback riding from Camilla Naprous and her team of horse trainers in England. Cage also worked with a fight choreographer to learn sword fighting.

• Nicolas Cage was attracted to the project because he saw it as a tribute to the movies of Roger Corman from the 1960s, which invariably starred the likes of Sir Christopher Lee and Vincent Price. It was a real bonus for him to discover that Lee was to appear in this movie too.

• Filming took place in Austria, Hungary and Croatia. Most of the principal photography took place in practical locations, with several days committed to filming on green screen. Principal photography was completed by April 2009, but the cast and crew re-gathered a few months later to film additional battle sequences, filming on green screen to save on travel. The re-shoots were directed by Brett Ratner.