Day of Wrath
Closed CaptioningAdrian Rudomin
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Plot Summary
Ruy De Mendoza (Christopher Lambert) is Sheriff of a provincial Spanish town during the time of the Inquisition. Prominent Noblemen and their guards are found butchered, bloody, letters carved with a knife on their chest – only for the corpses to vanish shortly afterwards and the crime scenes completely cleaned up. As Ruy investigates what is behind these heinous crimes, he finds a mystifying wall of silence, where even the widows of the murdered men deny anything might have occurred. Obsessed with uncovering the truth, Ruy finds himself in the middle of a dark and dangerous conspiracy that soon threatens not only his own life, but that of his family.
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Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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100%- Reviews Counted: 24
- Fresh: 24
- Rotten: 0
- Average Rating: 8.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: I'd be saving a spot for it near the top of my 10-best list if the movie hadn't been made 65 years ago.
Fresh: A stark, brooding treatment of adultery, incest, and murder, an elemental tragedy not so far from a James M. Cain triangle, albeit shot so as to deliberately evoke the Dutch masters.
Fresh: However bleak, Day of Wrath is a masterpiece. See it.
Fresh: Astonishing in its artistically informed period re-creation as well as its hypnotic mise en scene, it challenges the viewer by suggesting at times that witchcraft isn't so much an illusion as an activity produced by intolerance.
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