How do you like your Puritans? Are you a fan of the frequently praying kind who like to eat turkey with Native Americans, or do you prefer the demon-battling kind who may have a hat like Van Helsing but are a good bit tougher? If it's the latter, here's a treat in the form of a new poster for **Solomon Kane.
James Purefoy plays the man himself, a former mercenary for Elizabeth I who, while fighting in Africa, encountered a demon called the Reaper and learned that his soul was condemned to Hell. Over the years after that event he dedicates himself to peace and prayer and Puritanism in the hopes of getting a do-over from the Almighty, but is forced to take up arms again - on the side of Right this time - when an evil sorcerer threatens his home.
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That French-ified slogan, for those of you not conversant aux franglais* *** like what we are, reads "Fight evil with evil". Solomon Kane is out here in the UK on February 5.