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What could be lurking in the dense forest or in old shafts?

As a child you have a thriving imagination when it comes to monsters, as an adult you have often seen the real monster.

But that's not what this is about, it's about classic stuff woven into the icy mythology of the Vikings.

What initially creates an eerie, cold atmosphere later turns out to be a rather bland filmed story with sometimes strange moments.

A big problem here are the effects, often the scenes are completely ridiculously exaggerated.

Almost an embarrassing battle record.

Unfortunately, the short scary moments cannot carry a whole film.

A real shame.

This is one big pot of nonsense stew. The script doesn't have a single original idea, everything is borrowed, both from superior movies and equally stupid ones. It's like an amateurish mashup of every werewolf movie you've ever seen. Ginger Snaps in particular says hello throughout, there are echoes of When Animals Dreams, which is actually a decent Scandinavian coming of age cum werewolf movie. A chaste and sanitized ghost of American Werewolf in London is somewhere in there, too.

There's a bit of teenage family drama thrown in, there's young love, both of which don't take the story anywhere.

The dialogue is very bad, the production bland, the overall look is that of a minor TV movie. There are multiple goofs and continuity issues.

Worst of all, the movie is a bore.

A low budget but tightly done Norwegian horror movie about an ancient Werewolf that survives until the 21st Century and wrecks havoc on a small town. This is not necessarily anything new or unusual in the genre of Werewolf movies, but maybe that is part of the charm. It has all the basic tropes of the Werewolf legends. I won't list them for fear of spoilers, but this is not the movie to watch for a new take on werewolves. More likely, it is an homage to the source material on them. The cast is good. The Direction is decent. It is a solid horror movie. The special effects are the weakest part. It is foreign language with English Subtitles.

I had to create an IMDB account just to write this review.

Like a few other people the harsh reviews on this are just weird. Is it a game changer in the genre? No. Is it decent and watchable, for me, absolutely. Liv Mjönes gives another solid performance as the new to the town police officer. It clips along at a decent pace. Are there flaws, sure. It could have spent a bit more time building tension or back story. Thankfully the CGI was better than expected. Would be set up well for a second movie.

I would definitely watch it again, especially with family members who are easily scared & miss out on these type of movies.

Well it started off poorly and it was all downhill from then on. Seriously how can Netflix churn out such rubbish time and time again? I'd say 99% of their output is totally unwatchable, similar to an old Video Store in the '80s with shelves and shelves of Z List movies peppered with the (very) occasional decent film yet they're looked on as if they're the greatest thing to happen to TV since John Logie Baird. The simple solution is for them concentrate on quality over quantity, but will it happen? Don't hold your breath. As for Viking Wolf, well don't bother and go and read a good book instead.

I have to hand it to the norwegians, they always seem to have some of the best movies and this is no different. It was fun and intriging to watch. The cast were pretty good though I cant compare them to other films that they were in., but from what i can see here they were great. This movie is all about a young girl named Thale. One day after hanging out with friends by the bay, she is attacked along with others, that one bite changes her, and not for the best. What we come to is a stand off with other wolves. There is quite a bit of blood shed as a warning but I liked the mystery of it all and the atmosphere built up worked. Overall an enjoyable norwegian thriller.

As this Norwegian film opens we are told how, almost a thousand years ago, Viking raiders heading south to Normandy. In a monastery they find a fearsome wolf like 'hell hound'. They take it with them as they return... none of the Vikings survive and the creature swims ashore. In the present day teenage girl Thale, and her family, have just moved to the remote Norwegian town where her mother, Liv, has joined the local police. One evening Thale sneaks out of her house to attend a beach party. Another girl is attacked and dragged off by a creature, Thale is scratched. Liv leads the investigation and soon finds what appears to be a wolf's claw. When the body is found it appears to have been attacked by a large, savage animal. An eccentric hunter turns up claiming the creature is in fact a werewolf!

I thought this was a decent enough addition to the werewolf genre. The prologue made it clear that this was going to be a werewolf film from the opening scene. Part of me would have preferred that information to come out a bit later but it didn't matter too much as it wasn't long before we knew what had attacked the girl. Apart from explaining how werewolves originally came to be in Scandinavia it didn't try to add anything to the established lore. The plot borrows from other films; most obviously 'An American Werewolf in London' but also from less obvious sources... I'm sure the hunter was inspired by Quint from 'Jaws'. The effects are decent enough and the acting was solid. The big question about any horror film is 'Is it scary?' unfortunately for the most part it isn't. While we see a bit of the aftermath of attacks the makers seemed a bit squeamish about showing the gory attacks. Overall a decent enough addition to the genre that fans of werewolf movies are likely to enjoy. Even if they don't rate it amongst the best they are unlikely to consider it one of the worst.

These comments are based on watching the film in Norwegian with English subtitles.

I swear a lot of people have poor taste or have been COMPLETELY programmed by regular, subpar, run-of-the-mill mainstream nonsense, that their minds have melted or they're in a perpetual state of discombobulation.

Put simply; this film is brilliant!! It's simple, well acted, and is not ruined by the insertion of the most-prevalent western Alphabet agenda.

This is brilliant! I don't get the hate!... simple is better, in most cases.

Nowadays we're fed big-budget nonsense, that forces an agenda or two but is unbearable, at which point it becomes a pointless watch.

This film snuck up on me; I found myself feeling so sad for the girl.

When her little sister recognised her while she was in werewolf form and said, "I can help you..." I cried uncontrollably.

Don't listen to the other reviews; listen to me; watch this: you will not be disappointed. This film is decent! Simple, but decent.

I love a good werewolf movie so was interested to see what this one was like.

My overall impression was that it paid homage to the classic "An American Werewolf In London" film, one of the best werewolf movies ever made. It's got the same love and loss theme, and I'm sure the writers intentionally did this, reinventing the film 40 years on.

Yes, I agree, the werewolf CGI was poor - a sign of a low budget - and who cares? If you focus on the story, it's hardly a major distraction. And the slight twist on the werewolf myth was clever - no lunar changes from man to beast and back again. It's a one-way trip.

It feels like the film takes place over a few days or so, making it quite believable that the investigation turned from a hunt for a wolf to a gory bloodbath once the young girl herself turned after being bitten. There's no time for police reinforcements, etc. It's a small, relatively remote, blue-collar town forced to confront the fact that werewolves are real. There's no time for them to get their head around it - they're literally at the mercy of events.

And the ending was good enough, leaving you to consider what you would do as a mother faced with that choice.

I enjoyed it - the pace was great and there was no unnecessary exposition and very little side-story padding. Just a straight out werewolf movie.

Worth watching.

This could have been so good. Several interesting plot points are begun and then lead nowhere. It feels like they had really good ideas and either scrapped them entirely or just forgot about their existence - but didn't bother re-shooting older scenes or cutting them out.

The characters behave very stupid, but not in a "putting yourself in danger" horror movie kinda way. You genuinely have to ask yourself whether they should even be cops or parents. As a viewer, it makes you just wanna yell at the screen.

And lastly, there are several inconsistencies. I can't name them without spoilers, but even if you were to watch this in the background you'd pick up on them based on how obvious they are. I can't believe they ended this before it even developed - there are more loose ends than I can count.

I felt the need to review this film because of the low number that it currently has. It was an enjoyable and entertaining film with good acting. While the plot is somewhat predictable it's still worth watching. The Norwegian actors and scenery are a refreshing change from so many of the current films online and it gets your interest quickly and turns into an exciting thriller and I never felt let down. It has supernatural elements that develop early on in the story and the female police officer is trying to come to terms with evidence that doesn't seem possible under normal circumstances. She finally is confronted with a choice that's difficult to face!

After Troll, this is the second completely brainless movie I endured. It is not a horror movie by any stretch of the imagination. More of a teenage angst film, with a thin sprinkling of ridiculous werewolf on top.

Every character in the film is totally stupid and unlikable. Plus you have the usual yawn-inducing cliches - bullying classmates, fish-out-of-water teenager, lady cop subjected to misogynist remarks by smirking men.

One teenager is brutally killed in the woods and the next day, the lead teenager goes back to the same spot casually; because what's the big deal about being mauled to death, right?

And the lead teenager turns into a werewolf on full moon night and kills her boyfriend. The next day she tries to run away by boarding a bus and again she transforms into a werewolf. Guess every night is a full moon night.

The slain werewolf is twice as big as a normal wolf; yet the animal specialist doesn't accept that it is a werewolf. He still keeps insisting that it is just a normal wolf with mange.

And in the end, the experienced werewolf hunter who hands out silver bullets to others himself tries to kill it by driving a large truck at it (he fails obviously).

The werewolf hesitates to attack its younger sister; but has no such compunctions about attacking its mother.

The acting too sucks big time. The lady cop, animal specialist, werewolf hunter, the second husband - all need to go back to acting school.

This movie is a huge embarrassment.

Moving with her parents to a new town, a town manages to survive a grisly encounter with a vicious creature that slowly starts to turn her into a similar such creature while her police officer mother investigates the crimes, and when she learns what's happened to her daughter races to save her.

There was quite a lot to like with this one. One of the strongest features here is the exceptionally well-crafted storyline that offers a fantastic, localized viewpoint and immersion point. That mainly comes from the vantage point of the werewolves who are brought about here with the prologue offering a fine retelling of a legend involving how the werewolf arrived in Norway and how they became a part of the local folklore that goes along nicely with the family drama that takes place in the first half. Going through the mother/daughter rebellion angle gives this a great way to connect on an international angle alongside the usual investigation that goes on is a great way to go about this with all three storylines coming together frequently to provide a fun setup to this one. On top of that, the film's featured werewolf scenes come together quite well. Foregoing attacks to instead feature the investigation into the first attack which happens only in the film, this one instead builds quite an effective subplot involving her gradual change into a werewolf through the newfound extra sensibilities and visions which carries quite a lot of weight here to tide this over due to the investigation finding the cause of the deaths taking place. The attacks here are short but quite fun and brutal, from the opening assault that clues them onto its presence, the encounter with the hunters in the woods, or the attack on the bus passengers which sets the stage for a high-energy finale in the town square that's quite effective and enjoyable. Overall, these factors manage to hold this one up even though the film does have some issues here. One of the biggest drawbacks to this one is the rather sluggish pacing that overlooks the creature's action for a large part of the film. There are two or three attack scenes as the rest of the running time is spent on either the investigation into the culprit of the attacks or the mother/daughter relationship which keeps this moving along but also causes a lack of action during the first part of the film. It also highlights an issue during the investigation analysis reveals the lupine characteristics so late in the film in understanding how the daughter has fallen victim to the curse as they're investigating the first attack that didn't involve her so that's a big leap of logic. Otherwise, there's not much to hold this one down.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.

I watched the film carefully and i didn't understand why on earth there were so awful reviews for such a low - budget film.

For God's sake its only a low - budget Norvigian film and not a one made in hollywood.

Among others the movie offers awesome picture and great acting effort by the cast.

In the end, the film, as a drama, makes you think and challenges you to reconsider some points of view that basically have to do with the lost bond between parent and child.

If you are familiar with this kind of horor movies and for all the above reasons, I would undoubtedly recommend it. Give it a chance!!!!

If u were a werewolf fan, I honestly tell u that it's a far cry from the Underworld franchise with Kate Beckinsale (Selene) nor Teen Wolf with O'Brien. Its Nordic style gave me an exotic impression, which was the only thing that kept me on my seat.

It has severely limited SFX, and a fairy thin n straight forward plot. Each character is not fully developed and none of their role is compelling. For the whole movie time I totally didn't understand why Liv gotta work almost alone as a police officer. I couldn't feel any love in the movie, regardless the family one not the fancy one. The university lecturer/ vet seemed more like a junior lab tech. Expert, seriously? The director should have chosen a more seriously-looking actor (e.g. Imagine Tom Cruise). And then the old man werewolf hunter looked like an amateur. Get someone looks like Sean Connery please! And how boredom was his advices!!!! Just silver bullets n habitats. Any movie fan can tell her more! Twist? None at all. Ending? What a vague ending. I surmise the director also got fell flat and didn't wanna have a sequel. Thus forget about any cliffhanger.

Lastly but not the least, the werewolf looked plastic to me. It's fake, lame, absurd, and def not a scary one.

After all it's Ok as an entertainment, B-class, for 1-1/2 hr. Don't expect anything else.

After reading the movietitle I first though about a girl which get's biten by a viking, so she can become a mighty ancient scandinavian warrior at night called Vikingulven (the original title) ;-) That would have been a fresh horror movie. But after watching the first minutes, I realized this nearly as an 1:1-copy of 'Ginger snaps' (alas 10 mins schorter). I'm the guy who doesn't like remakes, because they are most of the time a poor impression of the original movie. So there have to be some extraordinary special effects or surprising turns to make that movie worth it's money. Yeah, there are some good CGIs and ambitioned actors, thats why I gave two stars. But using the same plot and only giving the main character (which also looks the same as Ginger) two eye colors doesn't qualify as an independent movie. The money making it would be better spent on Doctors Without Borders or Greenpeace or...

This movie was so bad. It makes OK movies like The Grudge look like masterpieces. First, the one and only good thing about this movie was it built decent suspense in some parts. That being said, the payoff was horrible. We would always get some bad CGI, a copy off of something that was in another movie, or an average death that is filmed horribly just so that the movie won't be R. The character development is THE WORST I have seen in any movie, and that's including all the very low budget horror movies. The detective doesn't have a personality, he's just kind of a machine that spits out dialog. The main character is so stupid, its unbelievable. There have been unintentionally stupid characters throughout time, but none have been so stupid that I had to shake my head at them. The side characters are worse. You just remember them as hot Latin chick, guy friend, and the other friend. Of course, that means you don't care for their deaths. The plot was pretty stupid, they just shove some random crap in their so they could have an ending. When the film ends, it made me mad because they took too long to show credits.