

Valhalla Rising
Scandinavia, 1,000 AD. For years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $5.7M
- Box office
- $31K
- Language
- English
- escape
- hell
- mythology
- surreal
- gore
- vikings (norsemen)
- mute
- brutality
- slave
- one eyed man
- new world
- chieftain
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Denmark, United Kingdom
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- Theatrical (limited)NR16 Jul 2010
United KingdomGB
- PremiereBFI London Film Festival20 Oct 2009
- Theatrical (limited)1530 Apr 2010
AustraliaAU
- PhysicalMA15+DVD release16 May 2010
CanadaCA
- PremiereToronto International Film Festival15 Sept 2009
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1531 Mar 2010
FinlandFI
- TheatricalK-1630 Apr 2010
FranceFR
- Theatrical1210 Mar 2010
GermanyDE
- Theatrical165 Nov 2010
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1524 Feb 2010
ItalyIT
- PremiereVenice Film Festival4 Sept 2009
NorwayNO
- Theatrical1519 Mar 2010
PolandPL
- Theatrical15 Jun 2012
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Valhalla Rising was released on 10 March 2010.
Audience reviews
4- J3/10
John Chard
6/3/2014
It never manages to rise above its one trick. Nicolas Winding Refn directs and Mads Mikkelsen stars in this ponderous exercise in arty veneers. Refn boldly strips back the dialogue and plot to reveal a picture big on ideas but poor in execution. As the story plods along, stopping only briefly for some guttural violence now and then, it becomes evident that the makers have made a painfully boring movie. At first th…
- W7/10
Wuchak
5/6/2018
Twilight of the grim, grey… um… RELEASED IN 2009 and directed by Nicolas Winding Refn, "Valhalla Rising” takes place in the 11th century where a one-eyed mute thrall (Mads Mikkelsen) obtains his freedom in the Scottish Highlands and joins a band of Viking Christians on a voyage to the Holy Land to fight in the Crusades, but the expedition doesn’t go as planned. The movie definitely LOOKS and SOUNDS awesome wi…
- R4/10
r96sk
10/8/2023
Rubbish! A true waste of 90 minutes... and of Mads Mikkelsen! It evidently attempts similar as to what we would later see in 2022 with (the excellent) <em>'<a href="https://letterboxd.com/film/the-northman/" rel="nofollow">The Northman</a>'</em>, though simply falls flat in every department for me. The whole production just looks so cheap and low-budget (which it wasn't), without even noting the (admittedly intend…
- D7/10
Dr Nostromo
2/10/2026
67/100 As viewers, we ride along and observe an ex-slave / barbarian, a young boy, and a bunch of crusaders, as they travel from the Northern Highlands of Great Britain to North America sometime around 1100 AD. That's about the entire story in a nut shell. However, it's extremely authentic and exquisitely photographed. We get to know and understand the characters explicitly with little dialogue. As slow and somewh…
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