Michael J. Bassett directs James Purefoy, Rachel Hurd-Wood and Pete Postlethwaite in this horror fantasy about a hellbound pilgrim who kicks ass and takes names.

As an action piece this lacks thrill, as a horror it never lets its very well designed grotesques doing anything memorably shocking. Shame really, as the iconography is potent and Purefoy (who rocked as a virile, no nonsense Mark Anthony in HBO’s brilliant Rome) deserved a breakthrough cinematic vehicle. He seems overly subdued by this penitent, reluctant ass-kicker role leaving Rachel Hurd-Wood to do all the eye catching as the sexy in sackcloth, pure as a glass of milk, damsel in distress.

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