The Troll Hunter

Tabnabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vy2nAOdBUlw

Not you're wimpy internet trolls either. This looks excellent.

Hank Scorpio

your man is the spit of Dec, or is it Ant

looks like a good cheesefest

Goldstein

Haha, that looked progressively more fun to see as it went on.

Upon reading the title, for a minute there I was thinking:
Man goes on rampage hunting down 12 year old who dared call his band $hit on the youtube comments.

Phony Scott

1...2...3...REMAKE!

In an article over at the LA Times they reveal that universal Pictures now hold the remake rights to Andre Ovredal's The Troll Hunter, described as The Blair Witch Project meets Men in Black meets The Host. Shot in a vérité style, the Norwegian original is the story of a group of Norwegian film students that set out to capture real-life trolls on camera after learning their existence has been covered up for years by a government conspiracy. Magnet Releasing holds the domestic distribution rights for the original. Plans are to release it theatrically in 2011.

Well that didn't take long.

Goldstein

Phony Scott wrote: »

1...2...3...REMAKE!



Well that didn't take long.

Let me guess, it'll be called "Ogre Hunters" because after Shrek, Americans at least know what an Ogre is :rolleyes:

Looks like another idiot's doppelgänger.


Edit: Are Magnet actually remaking it (booooo) or just distributing it worldwide (yaayyyy)?

MarcusFenix

Nice, looks like an interesting film, something new and surreal!

Has it actually been released yet? If not, wow the yanks were quick off the gun!

duckysauce

saw it last night very good the Americans will made muck of it, it should be left as is.

Kess73

Had totally forgotten about this film. Is it in cinemas in Ireland now or has it gotten a dvd/blu ray release?

Phony Scott

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGCHYw9n02s

When the hell is this coming out on Bluray already?

Mickeroo

Did this get a cinema release at all here or whats going on?

Fysh

Apologies for the necrothreage, but I only got to see this the other day at my local cinema. I loved it, it was great fun and like The Tunnel it was also a great demonstration that "found footage" doesn't have to mean "crap film".

Mickeroo

Thought this was really good too. Would like to see more of the main guy, found the film crew characters to be a bit annoying. It's actually really funny in places too and the effects were pretty well done.

roganjosh

Just watched this film and thought it was very good. It's sounds like it would be a strange film but actually turns out to be very good. Good story, good acting, decent CGI. Could do without the American remake though

Mickeroo

roganjosh wrote: »

Could do without the American remake though

They're not are they??

don ramo

Mickeroo wrote: »

They're not are they??

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1961627/
unfortunately yes, they snatched up the rights i think before it was released:o,

also on the IMDB boards the americans are tearing this one to pieces:rolleyes:, the shaky cam was used to much:rolleyes:,

thought this was a great film, very well done and fairly original,

fisgon

don ramo wrote: »

thought this was a great film, very well done and fairly original,

Agreed, like nothing else you will see this year. Liked the references to the fairy tales - the blood of a Christian man, the three billy goats, the troll under the bridge etc. Funny stuff

Kess73

Mickeroo wrote: »

Did this get a cinema release at all here or whats going on?

It is already out on Blu ray and dvd in the US and in Germany.

Tabnabs

fisgon wrote: »

Agreed, like nothing else you will see this year. Liked the references to the fairy tales - the blood of a Christian man, the three billy goats, the troll under the bridge etc. Funny stuff

It's a nod to the domestic (i.e. Norwegian) folklore and culture, these fairy tales are Norwegian in origin so it works on an even deeper level for them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trold,_der_vejrer_kristenblod

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Billy_Goats_Gruff

Johnny Bitte

Really liked this, Effects were great but yeah the cmaera man character pissed me right off!
Definitly worth a watch before the Yanks gets here!

expectationlost

one of the better films I've seen recently, very dry but i really liked it.

Mark Kermode gave this a glowing review and also made it his movie of the week. It really is quite brilliant - especially since everyone's reaction after they first see it is to shout "Trrrroooooolll!"

Hootanany

Watched very good film indeed .

Goldstein

Deleted User wrote: »

Mark Kermode gave this a glowing review and also made it his movie of the week. It really is quite brilliant - especially since everyone's reaction after they first see it is to shout "Trrrroooooolll!"

Now THERE'S an internet meme if ever there was one. Funny it never caught on.

senordingdong

In an article over at the LA Times they reveal that universal Pictures now hold the remake rights to Andre Ovredal's The Troll Hunter, described as The Blair Witch Project meets Men in Black meets The Host. Shot in a vérité style, the Norwegian original is the story of a group of Norwegian film students that set out to capture real-life trolls on camera after learning their existence has been covered up for years by a government conspiracy. Magnet Releasing holds the domestic distribution rights for the original. Plans are to release it theatrically in 2011.

That's alot of meets.
Can films just stop meeting and go back to being original.

briany

This is definitely one of the best "found footage" type films out today and tries to do something with what this limited but effective horror sub genre. I could, as many others here will agree, do without an American remake. Commercially, it would make sense for the studios but artistically I don't see how it would work. Would it be set in America? Would it still be about trolls? I see the remake being a garish and unnecessary mess.

don ramo

senordingdong wrote: »

That's alot of meets.
Can films just stop meeting and go back to being original.

yeah but its not like any of them, well i havent seen the host so i dunno, blair witch wasnt the first found fottage film, and how is it like MIB, stupid americans, reading one of the forums before they complained about shaky cam :rolleyes:

johnny_ultimate

Watched this last night and thought it was good but not great. Really liked the folklore references and the little details

(was particularly fond of the shift in camerastyle when the more professional camerawoman showed up - 'I'm Muslim!')

. Shots of the Fjordland were a beautiful setting too. Outside the welcome flourishes I did think it was somewhat lacking in originality - basically your standard found footage structure but with a few (admittedly very welcome) moments of individuality. Maybe it was watching it without an audience but bar a few chuckles didn't find it all that funny - although I did laugh when

the camera guy finally admitting he was Christian

.

Certainly a unique spin on an oversaturated genre, and a good time, although one that IMO falls just short of being a great time.

pixelburp

Snap; I picked up this movie myself recently and also gave it a go; personally I loved it. I'm not that familiar with the 'found footage' sub-genre - truthfully, I'm generally apathetic towards what seems like a very lazy format of filmmaking - so don't really have any context for Troll-Hunter against other films in the stable. As a film in its own right though, I found it highly enjoyable.

The trolls themselves were quite sparsely used, and whether this was a creative or budgetary decision, it made things feel all the more mysterious and atmospheric. I found myself scanning the treelines and background for 'signs' of troll activity and taking in the fairytale-like landscape: I doubt a movie like this would have worked anywhere else except the desolate & beautiful wilderness of Norway. The climax in the mountains was haunting for its misty vistas alone, before any trolls turned up.

johnny_ultimate wrote: »

Maybe it was watching it without an audience but bar a few chuckles didn't find it all that funny - although I did laugh when Spoiler: the camera guy finally admitting he was Christian.

Was it meant to be a comedy though? My own understanding prior to watching it was that the film had its tongue firmly in its cheek, but nothing in the script suggested I was meant to find it all amusing - bar the slightly silly nature of the scenario in the first instance. If anything, the movie seemed to try and make Trolls seem like another part of nature & took quite a scientific view of things.

Mickeroo

pixelburp wrote: »

Was it meant to be a comedy though? My own understanding prior to watching it was that the film had its tongue firmly in its cheek, but nothing in the script suggested I was meant to find it all amusing - bar the slightly silly nature of the scenario in the first instance. If anything, the movie seemed to try and make Trolls seem like another part of nature & took quite a scientific view of things.

Considering the amount of humour in it I would call it a comedy albeit a comedy horror. Its a comedy in the same way shaun of the dead or an american werewolf in london are comedies.

johnny_ultimate

pixelburp wrote: »

Was it meant to be a comedy though? My own understanding prior to watching it was that the film had its tongue firmly in its cheek, but nothing in the script suggested I was meant to find it all amusing - bar the slightly silly nature of the scenario in the first instance. If anything, the movie seemed to try and make Trolls seem like another part of nature & took quite a scientific view of things.

Just a reaction to some of the comments before - in fact, it's a pet peeve of mine when people dismiss what are clearly not wholly comedies for not being very funny! It definitely was the kind of 'comic' horror where they played everything straight, but as you say the whole thing was quite knowingly absurdist underneath the 'genre' conventions. I'd actually say the tone was one of the more unusual and likable things about the film.

pixelburp

Mickeroo wrote: »

Considering the amount of humour in it I would call it a comedy albeit a comedy horror. Its a comedy in the same way shaun of the dead or an american werewolf in london are comedies.

But that's kind of my point - I don't recall anything in the film that made me think they were intentionally playing it all for laughs. In fairness, Shaun of the Dead had very obviously comic characters, and a script peppered with lines, zingers & sight-gags. Ditto 'An American Werewolf...' (though it relied more on a very snarky script). But outside the absurdest context of the film, Troll-Hunter didn't seem to have anything innately comedic in its script, bar little winks such as the goats on the bridge, or the Christians' blood as cat-nip moments.

Mickeroo

pixelburp wrote: »

But that's kind of my point - I don't recall anything in the film that made me think they were intentionally playing it all for laughs. In fairness, Shaun of the Dead had very obviously comic characters, and a script peppered with lines, zingers & sight-gags. Ditto 'An American Werewolf...' (though it relied more on a very snarky script). But outside the absurdest context of the film, Troll-Hunter didn't seem to have anything innately comedic in its script, bar little winks such as the goats on the bridge, or the Christians' blood as cat-nip moments.

Oh Shaun of the Dead was a bad example now you mention it, but I would view this about as comedic as American Werewolf in London though, most of the comedy in that came from the undead victims following him around. there was some very intentionally funny stuff in this. The biggest example I can think of is the eastern europeans(cant remember where they were from now) who dropped off the bear carcass.

johnny_ultimate

A significant portion of the cast are well known local comedians apparently. Not that it means anything.

I'd imagine a certain percentage of the humour is lost in translation in any case. Overall it's certainly more subtle and understated in its comic elements than most satires or mockumentaries like this.