A horrible battle ensues and Beowulf, by sheer willpower, rips Grendel’s arm off, delivering him a death blow. But the following night, Grendel’s hideous mother comes to the hall to avenge her ...

But it’s Gareth Hinds’s 2000 Beowulf that is the near-masterpiece, a scholarly, synesthetic freak-out: skutchlp goes Grendel’s arm as Beowulf breaks it with his elbow, and the monster’s ...

What have they done to Beowulf, everyone's least favorite Old English epic about a hero ... Beowulf rips off Grendel’s arm. The now whimpering bully limps home to his mother’s lair to die.

He repels a Grendel attack on Mead Hall, severing the beast’s arm. Grendel limps back to his lair, where his mother — she has no name, so we’ll call her Grendma — watches him die.

Big-screen Beowulf. A box-office hit rips the 1,300-year-old poem from its roots and puts the monster Grendel's mom in computergenerated high heels.

Beowulf has the arms, ... Having reached these heights, Zemeckis tops himself by bringing Beowulf into the lair of Grendel’s overprotective mother (Angelina Jolie).

The young Beowulf kills Grendel, ripping off his arm in the process, and then slays Grendel's avenging mother. Beowulf becomes King of the Geats and reigns for 50 years - until he challenges a ...

Two elements of “Beowulf & Grendel” make a mixed-up and unbalanced picture nearly worthwhile. ... As that ashen-looking arm grabs for a victim, it’s horrible -- and sort of beautiful.

The first comic based on Beowulf, called "Beowulf: Dragon Slayer," in 1975, for instance, illustrates Grendel's mother as a weak, wolf-like humanoid. She doesn't even get to battle Beowulf.