On the back of the recently released clip, a new sneak peak at Danish auteur Nicolas Winding Refn’s eerie, atmospheric Viking film “Valhalla Rising” starring go-to-guy Mads Mikkelsen has been unveiled.
The clip’s pairing of the most brutal and über-violent footage from the film with Tchaikovsky’s “The Nutcracker” is riotous and entertaining but be forewarned, it’s pretty much capsuled all the blood-thirst into the two minutes.
Described as a “horror movie as directed by Terrence Malick,” the film is actually a slow-moving, hypnotizing and mesmerizing picture centering on a Viking warrior slave who escapes his captives with the aid of a young boy and boards a Viking vessel only to sail into the heart of darkness.
It’s an amazing piece of work and along with the inspiring Tom Hardy-led “Bronson” last year saw Winding Refn exhibit his audacious versatility which will soon continue with a collaboration with Ryan Gosling on a stuntman-noir story “Drive.” The director also has his Bangkok-set neo-Western “Only God Forgives” and an unknown project titled “I Walk With The Dead” set in Miami which may or may not be his rumored Gore Verbinski-produced heist film.
“Valhalla Rising” should hit theaters sometime in the Spring.