I watched the Sci-Fi Pictures film (Low Quality Productions right there) "Grendel", 3 years ago. It's a film based extremely loosely on Beowulf (an awesome story). The film would have it that the Geets came to Hrothgarland and found that Hrothgar had been sacrificing children to appease Grendel's Mother (completely different than the original), and because people were now hiding their children, Grendel was rampaging (Originally, Grendel attacked because he heard singing (to God)(from his home beneath the bloody lake), and hated it). Beowulf then went and killed Grendel with a crossbow that fired bombs (Instead of using his superhuman-strength to rip Grendel's arm off after Grendel tried to attack the "wakeful sleeper", sending crying back to his mommy to die). In fact, it didn't even display the fact that Beowulf had superhuman-strength. After, it tried to make it look like Grendel's mother was a Pterodactyl-like creature. A horrible film not recommended for anyone.
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