I wasn't terribly interested in Wildling at first glance. A teenage girl’s coming of age comes with a terrifying twist in this spellbinding take on the werewolf legend. I actually wish the movie had been longer. Wildling is Fritz Böhm’s first feature film, and it’s such an assured debut, darkly mystical and elegant.This nighttime fairy tale tells the story of Anna (Bel Powley), a young woman who’s spent much of her life locked in a room like Rapunzel, with only “Daddy” (Lord of the Rings’ Brad Dourif, in an equally untrustworthy role) as company. After a small-town sheriff Ellen Cooper (Liv Tyler) frees Anna and helps her start a new life, her childhood nightmares of the Wildling return, disrupting the possibility of a normal life.” I wish they had made the movie just a tad bit longer and fully played out some of the ideas that died towards the end. I'd definitely be interested in a sequel or prequel. I would have loved more of the film. Overall the movie was good, nothing award winning. Fritz Bohm’s debut stars Bel Powley and Liv Tyler in a contemporary creature feature. He keeps her locked in an attic making her fear the Wildling, a child-eating monster that roams the outside. Anna spends her entire childhood under the care of a mysterious man she only knows as Daddy. Brandon Long . ‘Wildling’ (2018): A Coming-of-Age Creature Feature with Heart. When it comes to the creature feature, director Fritz Böhm has a few thoughts of his own. Wildling 2018 R 1h 32m Fantasy Movies Confined to an attic for years by a man claiming to be her protector, teenage Anna is liberated and begins learning the rest of her terrifying story. Wildling (2018) [Drama/Mystery/Creature] Movie Review. At age 16, Anna is freed by small-town sheriff Ellen Cooper who helps her start a new life as a normal teenager. Anna is scared to death of a creature he calls the Wildling, a child-eating monster that roams outside. Modern creature features in the horror genre typically revolve around a deformed, vicious beast that pummels and shreds its way to the end credits. I really liked the idea of the Wildling creatures even though we don’t know too much about the creature. Acting, production and effects were very good. Wildling is a solid horror/suspense film. Watch it, enjoy, don’t overthink this. It is far from the first film to do this monstrous allegory for coming of age thing, nor do I expect it to be the last. An Inside Out Creature Flick and The Wildling Explained. It was cool to see Liv Tyler. And while it does put a few unique spins on it, … In “Wildling,” Anna (played at high school age by Bel Powley), can be excused for not recognizing that her life is a checklist of horror movie tropes. Truly, this is a reinvention of what the werewolf is capable of, or maybe just a brand-new creature we’ll see again one day. At least the creature looked good. A reader by the name of Moxie recently brought The Wildling to my attention via my movie recommendation page.Which, is a great way to bring movies to our collective consciousness (the hive mind and what have you… or something.) ... Wildling starts out strongly but every thing that comes after the first 20 minutes drains away. Few films of today take the misunderstood Frankenstein’s monster approach to … Fritz Bohm’s debut, 'Wildling,' is a contemporary creature feature starring Bel Powley and Liv Tyler. She and other main characters just needed more screen time.