If you’re looking for a film in which its heroes end up knee-high in cleaved-open heads and lopped-off limbs, Ironclad will provide the perfect evening’s entertainment.

There have been some shocking films, and I have been in some of them, but by and large it is so hard to get a film made here that people have to really love what they are doing.

When you're faced by a group of ghouls or the walking undead? I don't think a pithy one-liner is the first thing to come to mind!

To James Purefoy's credit, he shouts and growls his way through the script like a West Country Batman