Solomon Kane
directed by Michael J. Bassett
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Solomon Kane, it has some deep weight to it. Like something down deep pulls at you. I had never heard of it till just recently, I’m not entirely sure I ever had the chance either. But there are those lucky moments that you stumble upon something strange and interesting. That’s the way I felt about this film, I went in expecting a basic hunter film and what I got instead a a story about redempton, honor, and killing some evil creatures.
This films seems to jump out from a historical fiction that rivals the Caribbean films, but paints a pretty clear picture. Solomon Kane was a captain of the band of miscreats that would be bent on a eternal life of plundering, except that Solomon Kane is a even more greedy, black, vile man. Until he finds out that the Devil himself has claim to his soul. That where the story begins.
This film was orignially released in France, and stars James Purefoy, Rachel Hurd-wood, Jason Flemyng, and Alice Krige. Honestly this is one that requires your attention, if your looking for a grity, fantastic story that’s going to always stay the same.
nWod Inspiration…
The world around Solomon Kane points to something straight out of the World of Darkness. Demons zombies, sorcerors, mind possesing revanets and The Devil’s Reaper (oh my….).
In the center stands Solomon Kane like the eye of a storm. He walks and lives the way of a hunter and this would be his origin story.
The Devil’s Reaper (talk about a title). He lays in wait for Solomon Kane to sack a temple in north Africa that is the home of an amazing treasure. After this reaper tells Solomon that the Devil’s laid claim to his soul as payment for a deal he didn’t make and a quick awesome duel, Solomon leaps out the window to the waves below.
So he begins living in a monastary, covering himself in concealing script and has sworn never to kill again, becoming a man of peace. However when the monks at the monastary become wary they send Solomon away, urging him to go home and finally confront the life that he left behind.
He encounters a family of pilgrims traveling along a countryside that’s been ravaged by horror and death, and after they’re all but killed by raiders and the daughter (Merideth) being kidnapped, Solomon breaks his oath of not killing in favor of vowing to rescue Merideth.
From here to the climax and big reveal is a journey of despreate searching and slaughter of vile men in service to a mind controlling revanant, the near death miss of being fed to a group of zombies by an insane priest, the impending crucifixtion of Solomon Kane at the hands of the revanant, and finally Solomon’s recruitment to a restance in the underbelly of the land he left behind.
The awsome twist of all this? Turns out that when Solomon Kane was a kid he’d acceidently killed his brother, Marcus, after being banished for refusing his father’s (the ruler of the land where the above atrocities took place) wish for him to become a priest. Solomon’s father enlisted a priest named Malachai (who’s also a sorceror.) to bring his dead son back by making a deal with the devil. The price, Solomon’s soul. Malachai bring’s Marcus back, but as the Revanant, allowing Malachai rule over the countryside.
Talk about the sins of the father….
