The director said in an interview that "Black Death" is the darkest movie since its inception. If you have ever experienced the torture of the cycle of time and the kind of despair that cannot be turned back in "Triangle", then in this film I'm afraid to endure the director's greater spiritual "destruction". In fact, this is a film with a serious theme. He tried to substituting the modern audience into the psychological state of the medieval people of fundamentalism , to face up to the barbaric side of ordinary people's character. As a cleverly conceived and stylized action horror movie, it is not only a collection of various horror elements. On the one hand, it satisfies the visual appreciation requirements of horror fans with enough suspense and plasma. In this regard, it does not use too much Multi-CG technology, but to give the audience a special experience in a unique way of presentation. On the other hand, this film also hopes to explore a disturbing moral dilemma. In that era of fear, are they punished by God or abandoned by God? Should we stick to our beliefs, or should we abandon God the other way around? In a plagued scene, Christopher, with his black horror movie, hopes that people can follow the people in the film to experience a journey of faith and redemption in addition to the experience of horror.
In Christopher Smith's past films, he played the dual roles of director and screenwriter. "Black Death" was the first work he did not write the screenplay personally. At the same time, this medieval movie is also Christopher's first film with a background outside the contemporary era.
The film was originally intended to be directed by the British director Jeffrey Sachs, starring Rupert Friend and Lena Headey , but after changing the director, obviously the whole team has been adjusted a lot.
Although the background of the film took place in England, the shooting started in Germany in the first half of 2009.
