There are three big new starts on Netflix today and all of them focus on youthful characters: the Indian “Élite” remake “Class”, the werewolf horror “Viking Wolf” and the adventure “True Spirit” based on true events.
For a while now, Netflix has been increasingly relying on successful formats like “Stranger Things” or “The Witcher”, which are being expanded into real franchises with spin-offs and the like. And recently there has been a new tool in the arsenal: remakes of hit series in another language. For example, the Spanish heist series “House of Money” has already been remade as “House of Money: Korea” – and now an Indian remake of “Élite” follows.
The remake is titled “Class” and revolves around three teenagers from a poor neighbourhood in the Indian metropolis of Delhi who come to the exclusive Hampton International school and are thus thrown into the “Élite”-typical cocktail of secrets, intrigue and murder. You can get a first impression of the series revival in the trailer embedded above.
EXCEPT NEW: WEREWOLF HORROR & SURVIVAL ADVENTURE
You never watched “Élite” and you’re not interested in the remake either? No problem. Because Netflix has – as it usually does on Fridays – other big new releases up its sleeve:
First, there is the Norwegian werewolf horror film “Viking Wolf”, in which 17-year-old Thale (Elli Rhiannon Müller Osborne) moves to a new town with her parents and witnesses a gruesome murder. Soon she too is haunted by ghastly visions and becomes involved in strange incidents as police and hunters search for a dangerous wolf…
The werewolf as a puberty parable once again, an almost classic horror film motif that has also been used in series like “Buffy”. Let’s see what director Stig Svendsen does with it in “Viking Wolf”. Incidentally, the third Netflix new release of the day also tells a classic puberty story, even if it is less fantastic and instead based on an autobiographical book:
In “True Spirit”, 16-year-old Jessica Watson (Teagan Croft) wants to sail around the world all by herself and trains for it with her mentor Ben Bryant (Cliff Curtis) and with the support of her parents Roger (Josh Lawson) and Julie (Anna Paquin). She finally sets off on 18 October 2009. It is the beginning of a 210-day journey that takes her through some of the most dangerous waters and, time and again, to her limits…
