The Northman may appeal to audiences drawn to intense, stylized historical films in the vein of Valhalla Rising or The 13th Warrior. Robert Eggers' visceral and mystical approach, already acclaimed in ...

Then came The Northman, his most intense role yet. Skarsgård transformed into Prince Amleth, a Viking on a bloody path of revenge. The film, directed by Robert Eggers, was brutal – both on ...

Eggers first broke out with the original horror movies The Witch and The Lighthouse, later branching out with his adaptation of the Scandinavian legend of Amleth in The Northman. With Nosferatu ...

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Robert Eggers' historical epic The Northman, based on the ancient Norse legend Amleth, is a rousing revenge thriller that follows Viking prince Amleth (Alexander Skarsgård) who swears vengeance ...

Olga of the Birch Forest: Show the shepherd you aren't a sheep. Amleth: I will show the shepherd his death. Amleth: The all-father Odin will vanquish your god of erections. Fear him.

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Other stories are also adaptations of the Amleth legend. Even Africa has its own version of this, the story of Sechele. Sechele was the son of a Botswanan chief, and when he was ten, the chief was ...

Fiennes was put on this earth to interpret classical fiction, so take his directing-himself effort Coriolanus and cross it with the period authenticity of The Northman (not quite to Robert Eggers ...