The bay is called “The Bay” and the beach is “The Beach.” Her mother, Liv, is the town’s best cop thanks to a department full of Barney Fifes but has difficulty connecting with her oldest child. It’s so dull that local landmarks don’t even have names. Fast forward to 2022, and New Girl Thale (Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne) has just moved from Oslo to a sleepy little seaside town called Nybo with her family. It then ran into the woods, where it spent the next 10 centuries devouring peasants and lost asylum seekers. ![]() Vikings raided the abbey, and the first werewolf returned with them to Norway’s shores, but not before devouring every man aboard. Viking Wolf - or Vikingulven in its native Norwegian, which at least sounds cool - tells the story of an ancient curse locked away by European Christian monks over 1,000 years ago. So why is it so hard to make a compelling werewolf movie or show? Because Netflix’s Viking Wolf is only the latest to waste its shot. ![]() Your average werewolf is 200+ pounds of tooth, claw, and rage bearing down on you like a roided-out linebacker, and won’t stop for anything but a silver bullet. The first hint of sunlight makes even the most powerful vampire burst into flames faster than a ginger who forgot sunblock. The rest of the month its human half is left wallowing in guilt for their past misdeeds and dreading what’s to come. A chaotic force of nature red in tooth and claw, forced by its inhuman rage to kill and devour any animal or human unfortunate enough to cross its path during a full moon. Dietary restrictions are not frightening when pallid college students lurk in vegan, gluten-free bakeries around every corner. ![]() When ranking modern movie monsters it goes werewolves > evil children/dolls > fast zombies > vampires > Frankensteins > slow zombies. Fact: Werewolves are scarier than vampires.
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