"Troll Hunter" Movie Review + The 'Found Footage' Genre Retrospective

Troll Hunter (2010)

I had to make a special effort to find a cinema that was showing this one, but it was well worth it. "Troll Hunter" is Norwegian movie from the "found footage" genre. A group of students decide to make a documentary about the rise in bear deaths blamed on poachers. They follow a mysterious man who appears to be setting traps around the Norwegian valleys, trying to discover whether he is the poacher.

It doesn't take a genius to work out what he's really setting traps for, what with having to pay for a ticket before seeing the movie. However, there are other aspects to this. How come no one believes in trolls? How do you go about hunting trolls in the first place? And are the trolls responsible for the bear deaths?

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Other movies in the "found footage" genre.

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