| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2012

The film is shot with handheld cameras in the standard mockumentary style, but the content is often hilarious, especially when the trolls show up.

| Dec 13, 2011

vredal's movie has wittier ideas up its sleeve than the average "mock-doc" shocker, a genre it transcends through sheer originality.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2011

Jespersen is a veteran comedian and he uses all his gravitas and dry wit to make us care about a lonely man on the verge of a crisis of faith.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 9, 2011

The film begins strongly, but once past the half-hour mark loses energy and direction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2011

The scenes involving the trolls themselves are spectacular, but somehow not scary exactly: they look too absurd for that.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 8, 2011

It's a marvellous, sly film which, had it managed to be a little more frightening, would have been a masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 8, 2011

Given that the cast improvised all the scenes live on set, the dialogue has a surprising ring of truth, and is shot through with an unexpected, often unsettling, humour.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 7, 2011

You might need to take a Norwegian guide along to explain various local references and identify the specific trolls, but Troll Hunter's proud cultural identity - tremble, a US remake is in the works - is its strongest suit. It's wry, spectacular fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 5, 2011

hardly the first film to lend authenticity to the utterly implausible by mimicking the modalities of reportage (see The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield), but it is distinguished by both a deep seam of deadpan humour and a strong sense of place.

Full Review | Aug 30, 2011

It's so steeped in troll and paranoia lore, it risks boring you with the details at times. But it also makes you more inclined to believe it, and the frights are real enough.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2011

Those fog-draped fjords provide a distractingly pretty backdrop to this tale of mysterious, massive creatures who roam the forest by night, searching for Christians on whom to munch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 7, 2011

It can't seem to make up its mind about whether it wants to frighten us or make us laugh. It does a little bit of both, to be sure, but not nearly enough of either to make much of a lasting impression.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 1, 2011

"Trollhunter" has a lot of down time as the crew treks to the fjords, but it's also got dryly subversive humor and, eventually, some impressive special effects.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2011

Andr vredal's enjoyably goofy scare-pic purports to offer real footage of real horror - in this case, a variety of forest and mountain trolls...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2011

Once again, material for a great short film has been expanded to feature length at its peril and ours. Still, this is clever stuff and surprisingly engrossing on its own terms.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2011

A monster movie with a love for mountainous, tree-lined Scandinavian scenery and an even greater love for setting memorably ugly, hulking and destructive mythological creatures against it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 24, 2011

They spend a great deal of time roaring, bleating, squealing and snorting at a very high volume, which is, after a point, too much of a muchness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2011

For a small indie film from Norway, Trollhunter rocks it gargantuan style and then some.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2011

Successful on multiple levels, with a brisk pace, excellent location work and a strong lead performance by Norwegian comedian Otto Jespersen.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2011