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AIBU to be surprised there is no proper film about the plague?

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AliceNotInChains · 28/05/2026 21:13

Would love to see a proper well done movie about the plague - AIBU to be suprised that it hasn’t been done?? Titanic style

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CaragianettE · 28/05/2026 21:37

AliceNotInChains · 28/05/2026 21:13

Would love to see a proper well done movie about the plague - AIBU to be suprised that it hasn’t been done?? Titanic style

I’m not sure how you would do a big sweeping romantic drama about the plague? Titanic really lent itself to spectacle, all the glamour and luxury then the spectacle and drama of the iceberg collision. Wasn’t the plague mostly people having to stay barricaded in their houses so they wouldn’t die in extremely horrible ways? I can see a horror movie being made about it, I’m not really seeing ‘Titanic’? Where would the romance come in?

EmeraldShamrock000 · 28/05/2026 21:33

Those bird masks scare me.
There has been a lot of films around this time.

Thiswasanescapeplan · 28/05/2026 21:33

faithfultoGeorgeMichael · 28/05/2026 21:20

It would be pretty miserable wouldn't it? What genre are you hoping for? Rom Com would be a novel idea, maybe Richard Curtis could have a bash 😂

Plague, Actually 😷

Ponoka7 · 28/05/2026 21:31

BBC Ghosts should do a plague pit special.

Griselinia · 28/05/2026 21:25

For a series there was the decameron on Netflix

FastFood · 28/05/2026 21:23

There's an adaptation of La Peste by Camus, no idea how good it is, but the book isn't really about the plague.

outerspacepotato · 28/05/2026 21:23

Masque of the Red Death, the great Roger Corman, Vincent Price, were you under a rock?

FastFood · 28/05/2026 21:22

I think it'd be better as a series than a film, covering a different aspect in each episode, with different characters (that all end up dying anyway ¯ \ ( ツ ) / ¯)

It has such a massive impact on every single aspect of life, impact that we still feel to this day, it'd be a shame to treat it as Plague Rose and Plague Jack on a Plague Boat.

BeardySchnauzer · 28/05/2026 21:21

Its part of some films - Monty Python and the Holy Grail for example

think it would be quite hard to do a movie - maybe we could have the great fire of London instead

ApocalypseNowt · 28/05/2026 21:21

I went to see a musical called 'Plague!' a couple of years ago. It was fab!

GooseCreekandtheRiver · 28/05/2026 21:20

Assuming your meaning Bubonic Plague, Black Death with Sean Bean? (Weird film, but strangely watchable.). To be fair it’s more about witchcraft and cults, but it’s certainly also about its subject matter.

faithfultoGeorgeMichael · 28/05/2026 21:20

It would be pretty miserable wouldn't it? What genre are you hoping for? Rom Com would be a novel idea, maybe Richard Curtis could have a bash 😂

5128gap · 28/05/2026 21:20

No thank you. The plague is the stuff of my nightmares. Rats, big ugly boils, locked in your house with the corpses of your loved ones and those sinister long nose mask things. I learned about it an impressionable age in junior school and have found it deeply disturbing ever since. I saw a plague mask the other day in a museum and it made me shudder.