On paper, at least, Season of the Witch sounds like a delightful medieval romp; Nic Cage and Ron Perlman as world-weary crusaders escorting a suspected sorceress across plague-stricken Blighty? Why, throw in some Eric Clapton and a dash of Joe Pesci and it’s practically Lethal Weapon 2. Sadly, however, such promise is quickly scuppered by the unnerving realisation that the film is a plodding exercise in inanity for which you paid £7, mainly to see Cage look like a homeless Chad Kroeger.

So, we follow Nic and Ron’s disillusioned 13th Century knights, who return to England from slaughtering a conglomerate of infidels only to find it subsumed by the Black Death, which the clergy identify as the work of a suspected young witch (Claire Foy).