Most Startling Films Ever Made

Valhalla Rising

A Viking, nicknamed One-Eye is a ruthless fighter who travels with Christian Crusade fighters to eradicate North American indigenous folk who were, at the time, plagued by dark and violent visions. Tons of guts and decapitations in this flick, if you’re into that sort of thing.

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The More You Know

  • King Charles II drank alcohol mixed with pulverized human skulls.
  • “Teratoma” or “monstrous tumors” are “evil twins” that can grow on your brain.
  • Muscovite palaces and courts had professional foot-ticklers.
  • In classic Hitchcock movie North by Northwest, Cary Grant was actually older than his on-screen mother, Jessie Royce Landis.
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