We recently told you that, beyond the audience data of films such as Electric status o Back to actionwe can say that this 2025 was not yet a memorable Netflix movie. That changed with the arrival of Havoc (damage), pure action film with Tom Hardy that made us think of disasters such as Red alert, the invisible agent, the mother, lift: a high robbery, interception, The ugly… and in successes like Hand luggage, Tyler Rake 1 y 2, The old guard, Rebel Ridge o Triple frontera.
But, no matter how much its own production that has Netflix, a catalog is also created based on third -party purchases, works movements that pass from one place to another. And in that Netflix also stands out but it is difficult to value it and follow it because the titles come and go without just warning. And it is not that they follow a very determined or identifiable line. However, there are third -party titles that have become Netflix synonyms, such as Pedro Almodóvar’s cinema or Studio Ghibli catalog. Another of those films that was for many years a recurring recommendation, from mouth to mouth, in Netflix, was The witch. The growing success of this modern horror cinema classic helped launch to fame and was, for many years, the title that accompanied the presentation of both its director, Robert Eggers, as of its protagonist, Anya Taylor-Joy. Let’s say that, without being from Netflix, director and actress were somewhat linked to the imaginary of the platform.
We would still like to know the story that made the recent Nosfer of Eggers did not star Anya Taylor-Joy but Lily-Rose Depp, but with the new success of the author of The lighthouse We would like to talk about another of his films. Although Eggers has always been a particular director, quite far from what we understand by gender director, it is evident that he focuses the attention of horror cinema fans. After all, we talk about the author of the remake of Nosfer and of the debutante signed The witch. Perhaps that is why, for deviating more from the account of what was expected of him, The northern man It was an unfair failure.
With a budget of almost 90 million dollars and a collection that did not reach 70, the epic, dark and violent Viking epic of Eggers is a box office failure. One, however, as unfair as impressive. That is why we are glad that the film starring Alexander Skarsgård, Nicole Kidman, Anya Jaylor-Joy, Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe has sneaked directly on Netflix top. And perhaps the platform was the perfect place that the film expected to take off the failure label.
Visually overwhelming, the film tells the classic story of a Nordic prince (Alexander Skarsgård) betrayed by his uncle, and his life dedicated to the search for revenge. A violent path in which he will run into his mysterious and sensual mother (Nicole Kidman), and also with a love as burning as dangerous (Anya Taylor-Joy). Perhaps this arrival on platforms becomes a new example of how they can positively modify the history of cinema. And is that The northern man It should be the first and most prominent work of the fashionable latest world of the Vikings.
