Flesh + Blood (1985)
Directed by Paul Verhoeven
A band of medieval mercenaries take revenge on a noble Lord who cheated them by kidnapping his son's fiancée. As the plague and warfare cut a swathe of destruction throughout the land, the mercenaries hole up in a castle and await their fate.
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The vibe of the film most closely recalls his 1985 English language debut, Flesh+Blood , an underrated entry in his filmography before Hollywood made him infamous.
…much like Paul Verhoeven’s Flesh + Blood, it presents to us these figures as close to as they were as humanly possible, indicting an entire way of life as a way of showing us how much of this endures in society some 700 years later…
Typically, Verhoeven has indulged in excesses: the gore of “RoboCop” and “Total Recall” and “Starship Troopers”; the medieval grime and muck of “Flesh+Blood”; the sex of “Basic Instinct” and “Showgirls.”