Movies like The Northman

“The Northman (2022) is a 2020s American epic-fantasy with slasher inflections that reframes a Norse revenge saga. It stages a revenge-driven coming-of-age conflict through high-contrast chiaroscuro, practical effects, and ritualized spectacle that foreground violence as cultural rite. The film argues that primal vengeance operates as mythic psychology with lingering cultural aftereffects.”