REVIEW | "The Troll Hunter" is a Monster of a Mock Doc

Dim-bulb documentarians hunt trolls in a Cloverfield-style creature feature from Norway. Director Andre Ovredal throws in horror, fantasy and satire, but the overstuffed film is less than the sum of its hairy parts.

Fun, though not nearly as much fun as it might have been, “TrollHunter” is a bit like a Norwegian version of “Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale,” the Finnish horror film about “the REAL (and really evil) Santa Claus.”This time, the mythical creatures are trolls, gigantic denizens of Norway’s mountains and forests, critters not totally unlike…

The trolls are coming! The trolls are coming! The Godzilla-size creatures with bulbous noses, ferocious roars and as many as three heads are roaming the...

- With this Bizarro-World trek through the fjords, fields and mountaintops of wintry Norway, Andre Ovredal joins a select group of European filmmakers who have clearly paid attention to Hollywood's lessons -- particularly in the class on creature-features old and new -- without negating their own specific cultural sensibility.

PG-13 • 1 hour 43 min • 2010

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Wayward trolls threaten human life in this delightfully bizarre Norwegian film.

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The Troll Hunter Enormously entertaining chiller embellishes the candid, caught-on-video format to thrilling effect.