The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf (2021 US) In honor of the new season of The Witcher on Netflix I present this origin story of some of the characters in the series. Netflix has be criticized for being too linear in the storytelling of the series. I haven’t read the books (plan to) but I hear hear that timewise the story jumps around a lot. So to compensate they created stand alone stories like this one so the series could be more linear. Kuddos to Netflix. That’s clever. You don’t need to have read the books or watched the series to get this but you do need a primer on the world it lives in. So here goes. In this fantasy world all of the Slavic myths and legends exist including an abundance of monsters that roam around creating trouble. So a mercenary group called The Witchers was formed to rid the land of the monsters. For a fee of course. The Witchers are undead warriors created by a dark magic. Sometimes they are not appreciated and they can be pricks sometimes so there is that. This film explores Geralt of Riveras (Henry Cavill) mentor Vesemir. I enjoyed this and I enjoy the series. Find it on Netflix
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