Kraken (2026)
Kraken is a 2026 Norwegian-language horror movie directed by Pål Øie and Vilde Eide, with a running time of 1h 34m. It stars Sara Khorami, Mikkel Bratt Silset and Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes.
A marine biologist arrives at a Norwegian fish farm for routine research and finds the water behaving strangely. When two teenagers turn up dead, the evidence keeps pointing down, into the black of the fjord. This Norwegian creature feature from director Pal Oie plays the old legend of the kraken straight, letting cold coastal dread build before anything surfaces. Sara Khorami leads as the scientist piecing together what lives below. The setting does much of the work: deep water, isolated communities, and the sense that something ancient has been disturbed.
Quick answers
What is Kraken about?
A marine biologist arrives at a Norwegian fish farm for routine research and finds the water behaving strangely. When two teenagers turn up dead, the evidence keeps pointing down, into the black of the fjord. This Norwegian creature feature from director Pal Oie plays the old legend of the kraken straight, letting cold coastal dread build before anything surfaces. Sara Khorami leads as the scientist piecing together what lives below. The setting does much of the work: deep water, isolated communities, and the sense that something ancient has been disturbed.
When was Kraken released?
Kraken was released on 6 February 2026.
How long is Kraken?
Kraken runs 1h 34m.
Who made Kraken?
Kraken was directed by Pål Øie, Vilde Eide and Kjersti Helen Rasmussen.
Where can I watch Kraken?
Kraken is available on Amazon, AppleTV and Fandango at Home.
Where to watch Kraken
Rent: Amazon, AppleTV, Fandango at Home
Buy: Fandango at Home
Cast
- Sara Khorami as Johanne
- Mikkel Bratt Silset as Erik
- Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes as Henriette
- Øyvind Brandtzæg as Avaldsnes
- Jenny Evensen as Maria
- Steinar Klouman Hallert as Cato
- Filip Bargee Ramberg as Hallvard
- Jon Erik Myre as Georg
- Hans Morten Hansen as Olav
- Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson as Preben
- Jon Kennedy Dushime Niyokindi as Tommy
- Silje Breivik as Vigdis
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A few thoughts on Kraken
The horror comes from cold water and legend rather than gore, so it pairs with Junji Ito's Uzumaki, whose seaside town is slowly swallowed by something patient and ancient. For dread you can steer yourself, the game Subnautica strands you in an alien ocean where every descent tightens the chest.
Movies where the Kraken (or something just as big) gets loose
Kraken finally lets the old myth surface: a real, monstrous shape moving under a Norwegian fjord. Clash of the Titans, in both its 1981 and 2010 versions, sends heroes against the same beast by name, while Deep Rising floods a ship with tentacled horror and The Mist lets similar creatures loom out of fog instead of water.
Old local legends that turn out to be true
Kraken treats a coastal legend as plain fact, a Norwegian fjord hiding something old enough to predate the fishing village above it. Viking Wolf and Troll 2 dig into the same Nordic soil for their monsters, Subnautica and BioShock trade the fjord for open ocean and a drowned city, and Uzumaki traces a whole town consumed by a force nobody invited.
Trapped somewhere with a threat nobody can explain
Kraken strands its marine biologist in a fjord town where the thing in the water refuses to make sense. Splinter and Monstrous trap their leads against something just as unnamed and hungry, Containment locks a building down against a threat nobody can see, and Spectral sends soldiers up against an enemy that science cannot quite classify.