Since I just watched it, gonna have to go with a bit of a comparison to The Legend of Boggy Creek but bigger scale, better budget, and Norwegian. And, quite frankly, better done, since it involves more than just one troll that’s suspiciously always backlit or at night and grainy and almost indistinguishable from its background. Suck it, Fouke Monster! You got showed up by some big-ass Scandinavian trolls!
2008, some ‘college’ kids are shooting a documentary. This is their found footage, since none of them were seen from again! Allegedly. But what starts off as I guess a bear poacher exposition? It turns into something way bigger as they confront suspect hunter Hans. What they don’t know, Hans is going after bigger game. Much bigger. Hmmmm. That synopsis doesn’t do justice to the film, this is actually a pretty decent documentary footage film that totally exposes the hidden existence of trolls, three-headed or otherwise!
Hard not to give it the Blair Witch comparison too, which was done over 10 years earlier. But Improved, some better reveals of the craziness going on, and definitely a decent CGI crew involved here to realistically show a wide range of trolls. Not as much shaky cam, but there’s inevitably a bit of that. It’s got some great shots of the region involving the landscapes of mountains and lakes and towns and waterfalls and snowy tundras, it’s all pretty damn photogenic. Sure the plot is a bit barebones but enough elements to give it a little extra drama, but what do you expect from a “found footage” film? A pretty cool modern look at the mythologies surrounding trolls and the hunting of them, for better or worse. Interesting small injection of some climate change BS, even here back in 2010, but mostly it’s about rubbing troll stank on your hairy bits and not being a Christian. Because that’s a thing here.
