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  Review by Jacob Skaaning ★★★★ 2

  A very disturbing documentary on one of nature's most fierce and unbelievable creatures.

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  Review by Naughty aka Juli Norwood ★★★★★ 9

  Director André Øvredal convincingly turned the fairy tale troll into a reality via one of the best found footage films to date! By methodically creating a more modern day treatment of the Troll legend! He successfully bridged the gap between fantasy and reality!

  The devil is in the details, in this department Øvredal left no stone unturned! From the mythology to the orchestrated government conspiracy to keep the trolls existence underwraps! To the storyline that would make it nigh on impossible for the secret to be maintained! To the conflicted, disgruntled Troll Hunter Hans played by Otto Jespersen whom truly deserves recognition for his stellar performance! His character so serious, so matter-of-fact, so genuine that it sold audiences on the…

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  Review by Travis Lytle ★★★★ 3

  Bettering films like "The Blair Witch Project" by adding deeper mythology, richer themes, and more effective filmmaking, Norway's "Troll Hunter" is a neatly assembled, highly exciting found-footage horror film. Andre Øvreda's film combines monster-movie adventure, hunted-humans horror, and documentary-style urgency for a film that is swift, good-looking, and fully entertaining.

  Purported to be the footage of an amateur documentary crew whose investigation into bear-killings turns into something else entirely, "Troll Hunter" uses the found footage format to create a film that is gripping, slyly amusing, and almost political. Finding themselves following a government endorsed troll hunter, the crew members capture the hunter in action as he works to make the countryside safe from the legendary beasts.

  "Troll Hunter" could have…

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  Review by Marianna Neal ★★★★ 3

  This is a found footage film that has good quality footage, humor, an interesting story, and trolls. Is this movie even real?!

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  Review by FoundOnYouTube ★★★½ 4

  7/10

  My dumb ass didn't realize that this was a comedy until halfway through the movie. For a while, I thought that Troll Hunter was playing it straight, when it's actually a spoof of found footage horror films. I should probably give this a re-watch someday to give it a more accurate score.

  I'm not a huge fan of how the trolls look. Too much CGI. They look like they would be from a Harry Potter film. Then again, this is a comedy (horror-comedy), so the director probably didn't want the trolls to look too scary.

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  Review by JBird ★★★★ 1

  When going to Hunt for Trolls,
  Make sure to check bridges and holes.
  Or if on the fence,
  Read YouTube comments,
  Where there is even less control.

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  Review by Ian West ★★½ 1

  “TROOOOLLLLLLLLLLL!”

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  Review by Rafael "Parker!!" Jovine ★★★½ 6

  So after hearing large part of the past decade about this movie and having grown to like its director’s work, I finally get to hop (with a little push of Mark) into this found-footage movie – and immediately I get why this get so much love. The way how it uses the popular subgenre to its favor by pulling out an interesting premise that, even when the title clearly “spoils,” it adds so much great lore and rules that makes the whole hunting much entertaining, at times intriguing.

  Other technical elements that deserves some highlight would probably have to be, surprisingly enough, the camera work cause even when there are some of the shaky, poorly handled work (something that seems…

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  Review by russman ★★½

  You gotta pay the troll toll

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  Review by DirkH ★★★½ 1

  Because this film takes itself too seriously it turns into a wonderful horror-comedy. The problem I had, however, was with the characters. I loved Hans, well crafted and sympathetic. But the three film-makers were a bit too generic for me which made me not really care for what would happen to them.
  What struck me most were the special effects in this film. They were absolutely incredible!
  All in all a very enjoyable film.

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  Review by Héctor ★★★½

  SPOOKTOBER 2022
  Category: Found Footage Horror

  I love how the cartoony appearance of the trolls makes the contrast between the absurdity of the situation and the seriousness of the film.

  8/31

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  Review by DBC ★★★★½ 2

  Hooptober Fest 5.0
  Film 22/46
  Six Countries (3/6) -- Norway
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  I love that Norway saw Blair Witch and was like "let's do that shit but in color and with really good digital cameras and in our mild-mannered good-natured style but then have it all be about very real very giant trolls out in the snow?"

  So Trollhunter feels like Blair Witch by way of a Norwegian Christopher Guest mockumentary. A crew of student filmmakers go out into the country to shoot a documentary about a suspected bear poacher, Hans (Otto Jespersen). Things take a turn for the weird when there's increasing evidence of damage by something much bigger than a bear, until Hans finally admits that he is, in…