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From the land next to the land of Ikea comes a delightfully odd and enjoyable found footage film about three college students who stumble upon a troll hunter.  For those of you who don’t know (I didn’t) a found footage film tells the viewer that what they’re about to watch is real footage someone found, hence the name found footage.  Think The Blair Witch Project or Paranormal Activity. 

Trollhunter begins with three college students following an apparent bear poacher named Hans through rural Norway.  In an attempt to catch the enigmatic Hans poaching, the three students follow him deep into the woods one night where they discover that he is actually a member of the government's secretive Troll Security Service.  His job is to kill any trolls who wander into areas occupied by humans.  Years of thankless service and constant secrecy have made Hans jaded and so he allows the students to film him as he tries and figure out why so many trolls have wandered into human-occupied areas.  The skeptical college students then spend the rest of the film with Hans as he hunts rogue trolls with various amusing techniques including using the blood of a Christian man as bait and shooting an ultraviolet rocket launcher at the light-sensitive beasts.  

Apparently the people of Norway aren't very observant...

Even though Trollhunter couldn't seem to decide on whether to be funny, satirical, or scary, I still had a great time with it.  The action sequences were low-budget but competent and the troll folklore kept my attention.  One warning though: it has subtitles.  If you're not a fan of subtitles wait two or three year because the film is getting an American remake that will probably cost twenty times more than the Norwegian version.




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