Troll Hunter (2010)

Recommended

Norway

Feature Film

Original Title: Trolljegeren

Writer/Director: André Øvredal

Cinematographer: Hallvard Bræin

Cast: Otto Jespersen, Glenn Erland Tosterud, Johanna Mørck, Tomas Alf Larsen, Hans Morten Hansen

Three student film-makers, out in the Norwegian countryside investigating bear poaching, happen upon a world-weary hunter, the titular character, who (fed-up with his unglamorous [secret] lifestyle) introduces them to a world of trolls, government cover-ups, and grimy caravan parks, in Øvredal’s very well crafted if slightly undernourished (character-wise) and vaguely hackneyed (form-wise) though never less than thoroughly entertaining monster movie, which makes good use of the its locale's oft spectacular scenery. Iain.Stott

For a slightly longer piece, see 1000 Nights in the Dark.