By the time Amleth reaches that volcano, you won't be sitting in a theater. You'll be sitting around a campfire in 895 AD, listening to a skald sing a song of blood and iron.
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Robert Eggers, the madman who brought us the suffocating dread of The Witch and the hallucinatory madness of The Lighthouse , has done the unthinkable. He has taken a $90 million budget, a cast full of A-listers, and a story as old as time (literally Hamlet , which borrowed from the same Norse legend), and turned it into a brutal, psychedelic, howling-at-the-moon revenge saga. By the time Amleth reaches that volcano, you