2010 · horror · fantasy · found-footage
Trollhunter
Directed by André Øvredal1h 44m2010
A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.
Our read: Trollhunter (2010) reads as a neutral, breathless, inventive horror · fantasy · found-footage entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, breathless, measured horror / fantasy, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
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