5 Great Viking Movies To Watch Before The Northman
When the director of such remarkable and atmospheric period pieces as The Witch and The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers, sets out to make a Viking revenge thriller, one can expect a historical, emotionally-intense drama of epic proportions. And that is precisely what the Northman's released trailer promises to deliver.
Based on an ancient Norse saga that famously inspired Shakespeare's Hamlet, The Northman follows the Viking prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) on a blood-soaked mission to avenge his family and re-claim what's his by killing his treacherous uncle, Fjolnir. «I will avenge you, father. I will save you, mother. I will kill you, Fjolnir» — the message echoes as a mantra through the trailer and the protagonist's life, setting the scene for this long-awaited Viking epic.
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Featuring a stellar cast that also includes Anya Taylor-Joy, Willem Dafoe, Ethan Hawke, Björk, and Nicole Kidman, The Northman will likely deliver a gruesome, emotional, mystical, and visually stunning experience — perhaps, reminiscent of Vikings, only on a cinematic scale — with the distinct flavor of Eggers' unorthodox style. While the fans wait for the movie to hit the theatres on April 22, these excellent Viking films should quench the thirst for gory Norse tales.
Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, this dark English-language Danish Viking drama stars magnetic Mads Mikkelsen as One-Eye, a Norse warrior, enslaved by a Norwegian chieftain. After One-Eye finally breaks free and takes his revenge, with blood-soaked interest, he encounters a Viking boy. They travel together and run into a group of Crusaders, who invite them on the voyage to the Holy Land. The journey proves to be perilous, filled with
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