Bad news on the doorstep:
It's not very classically dramatic and you don't get silly romantic subplots or heroic climaxes, if that's your idea of a good monster movie.
Perennial wonderment:
Why can't they come up with somethin new in the monster movies genre like how this film has done? The great thing about Troll Hunter is what a delightfully technical
horror movie it is. Adequately underpinned by a biological context on
how these trolls can exist and subsist, its persuasive style is further
helped by some useful dry Scandinavian horror (“Hey what about Muslims?
Can they sniff out Muslim blood just like Christian blood? I don’t know,
let’s find out") and keeps us glued in-universe throughout. The
suspenseful narrative here never takes a backseat and the CGI decisions
cleverly avoids overdoin things to the point of losin the audience.
The monsters (they come in different subspecies even) are woolly
creations that start getting iffy in scenes where they appear in their
entirety – but fortunately the backstory and also the traditional FX
work (boiled fur soup resin, used for applyin troll scent) is diligent
and solid.
Reminds me of:
Cloverfield (2008), Blair Witch Project (1999), The Mist (2007) and [REC] (2007).
Most memorable line:
"Do you think Michael Moore gave up after the first try?"
Amacam joker, berapa bintang lu mau kasi?
The day this film opened in the U.S. a horror movie website announced
that American director Chris Columbus and his company 1492, along with
CJ Entertainment & Media, had acquired remake rights. Watch this now
in its native Norwegian (or English-dubbed, in some territories) before
Hollywood messes it up.
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