... never got over A Clockwork Orange—goes left-field with Valhalla Rising, ... ironically ending up martyred as an alternate … The vast landscapes in either hemisphere are beautiful and dreadful at once, dwarfing the handful of actors trudging through them. Our goal is to save you time and money by sharing our thoughts and recommendations on which movies to race to theaters for, which to watch at home and those to actively avoid. Valhalla Rising is stark stuff, its violence all the stronger (despite some poor CGI blood spurts) for being done on the scale of single combat rather than mass battle. Horror movies where the villain wins or where the ending does not end happily. The historical drama or period drama is a film genre in which stories are based upon historical events and famous people. This is full-on portentous allegory, with One-Eye ironically ending up martyred as an alternate pagan Christ, while hypocritical Christians proselytize, then get picked off by unseen hillside savages. Wait we're categorizing Valhalla Rising as a horror movie? He chose Valhalla Rising, because he had already seen Refn's previous film, Bronson, and he had really liked it, claiming to have had a "spiritual orgasm" after first watching it. According to the Old Norse poem Grímnismál (“The Song of the Hooded One”), the roof of the “gold-bright” Valhalla is made of shields, and has spears … Continue reading Valhalla → Mads Mikkelsen did not receive an Oscar nomination for portraying One-Eye in Valhalla Rising. An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works Alternate Ending was formed when three friends realized they all shared a passion for movies. Valhalla (pronounced “val-HALL-uh”; Old Norse Valhöll, “the hall of the fallen”[1]) is the hall where the god Odin houses the dead whom he deems worthy of dwelling with him. Valhalla Rising, Where the One-Eyed Man Is King. While at a film festival in Paris, L'Etrange Festival, Jodorowsky was asked to introduce a film he liked. Great list though, I think Nightcrawler works as the villain winning if we consider it a horror movie which makes more sense to me than Valhalla Rising.