OK, I admit if: I am a huge sucker for the “found footage” genre even when it dated back to it’s early beginnings with “The Blair Witch Project.” This little production, “Troll Hunter,” made in the cold areas of Norway is a great example of fantastic film making.
The story: A team of young film-makers trail an older man who they suspect may have killed a wild bear (which is against the law). However, after he takes them reluctantly into his confidence, he is revealed to be a special agent known as a “Troll Hunter.” So, yes, children, all the stories you have heard about these monsters are true except something (later to be discovered as rabies) is driving the trolls out into public view
The team continues to follow him into the frozen regions of the country where they find a large angry troll. The hunter attempts to kill him but at the same time a group of “black vans” congregate around the film crew and they and their footage ends there. But to what end?
There are some interesting points to this film as they stick to the legends about trolls. One of the filming party is discovered to be a Christian because a troll chasing them can smell his blood. Trolls can indeed be turned into stone by daylight or by ultra-violet light displayed by the hunter’s car. One of the filming crew was bitten by a troll and starts to display troll-like symptoms.
A very interesting film, even for the photography of a landscape that you may never see in your lifetime and whose plot will set your mind to thinking.
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