Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America (2007)

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Tony Stone plays a Viking warrior in “Severed Ways,” which he wrote, directed and produced.
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: March 13, 2009

The clang of swords mixes with the sounds of the whispering wind, rustling leaves, singing birds and the occasional unsettling din of Norwegian black-metal music in “Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery of America,” which tracks two Vikings lost in the New World in 1007. Independent to the nth degree, the movie is the mad creation of a young American, Tony Stone, who not only wrote, directed and edited “Severed Ways,” but, as one of the warriors, also slaughters a chicken and defecates on screen. Standing in the forest at one point, he even begins head-banging, thrashing hair so luxurious that it’s a wonder that he isn’t scalped immediately. More