In 500 A.D, Hrothgar is a king of Denmark - a group of warruois chase a large and burly man. And the father instructs his son - Grendel - to hide from the attacker’s view. Grendel’s father is shot. Grendel finds his father’sbody and cuts the head off to take it home. Many years later, Grendel becomes as large and powerful as his father, he makes plan to revenge.
24 August 1964, Iceland
30 January 1951, UK
13 June 1951, Gothenburg, Västra Götalands län, Sweden
22 November 1963, Reykjavik, Iceland
8 January 1979, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
23 April 1961
15 December 1973
5 September 1999
2 July 1969, Reykjavík, Iceland
24 February 1926
10 July 1958
9 June 1968, Stepney, London, England, UK
13 December 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
April 19, 1976 in Selfoss, Iceland
13 March 1973, Connecticut, USA
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24 April 1969, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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October 14, 2006
The thrilling beauty of this reading of Beowulf is that it makes [the characters] feel modern... These people live in the real world, not in a fable and not in a history book.July 14, 2006
A semi-mythic period piece, Beowulf & Grendel offers sublime scenery that's breathtaking and bone-chilling.July 13, 2006
This gristle-intensive R-rated version of Beowulf travels a predictable revisionist route.August 12, 2006
Trying to give us the true story behind the epic, the movie only reminds us of why humans write epics in the first place.July 12, 2006
A muscular, ardently naturalistic retelling of the ninth-century Anglo-Saxon saga.August 12, 2006
A fascinating trip to the dark ages and a good story well toldAugust 09, 2006
If you're game for a strange and beautiful-looking new version of the (very) old legend, you can safely give this one a rental.August 24, 2006
Gunnarsson has made a film that would make the real Beowulf and Grendel, if they ever really existed, quite proud.October 07, 2006
ridiculousJuly 28, 2006
Beowulf's reality-driven approach suffers for lack of scope and questionable poetic license.July 27, 2006
[You can] feel the filmmakers yearning to have Beowulf and Grendel go all Rambo on each other. Instead, they keep pulling back for more Old English angst, as if they're torn between commerce and winning the approval of their high school English teacher.July 12, 2006
Andrew Rai Berzins' script spruces up long stretches of Old English with unexpected bursts of cussing and gleeful vulgarity that feel as misguided as everything else in the film.