Year: 2010
Director and Screenplay: André Øvredal
Country: Norway
Three students from the University of Volda is put in the footsteps of Hans, a poacher suspected of killing bears without the required permit. Despite the repeated waste of the hunter to be interviewed, young people do not give up and followed Hans during a hunt at night in a forest. What they discover is beyond all imagination: the Hans are not prey to bears. Trolls are gigantic. Yes: the trolls really do exist and the Norwegian Government keeps them locked up inside nature reserves scattered throughout the country. But now, following an outbreak of rabies, the trolls have begun to spill, causing many problems and many embarrassments to the unsuspecting population TSS (Troll Security Service), desperately trying to disguise the serious damage in the guise of natural disasters or particularly troublesome incursions by bears and hungry. The only way to stop the trolls and kill them. The only way to kill them or blow them up and petrified. The only way to petrify or blow them up is to exploit their only weakness: the extreme sensitivity to sunlight. Armed with powerful ultraviolet lamps, Hans and his makeshift crew start to hunt trolls crazy ...
As you may have guessed, the secret to appreciate Trolljegeren is not taking it too seriously: do not expect shocking scenes from heart attacks, severed limbs or disembowelment with a great abundance of bodily fluids.
The spirit of this strange Norwegian mockumentary sauce is another: even with a setting underlying serious, which mocks the most renowned exponents of the genre, the hunt for trolls in direct contact with Hans and the three young students do not save almost comical aspects. Tragicomic? Half-seriously? I honestly would not know how to pigeonhole a movie like this. Let's do this: incaselliamolo not at all. Let's take it for what it is. Here, if faced with this spirit Trolljegeren will give you 90 minutes of honest entertainment that, while relying on his own screenplay, sound and unassailable, it can also count on a few tricks up its sleeve.
The technical achievement, first and foremost. For a film with a "low" budget (if I remember talking to a couple of million dollars or so) special effects are amazing. And we are not talking to show / not show semitenebre or perennial, something quite different: the trolls are almost always framed in the foreground and the whole figure, even in bright sunlight. Of course, do not plan to face the armies of Mordor, but I assure you that, given the resources available, we are faced with a small technical miracle.
Also worthy of some scenarios, but I guess it is not particularly difficult to find beautiful landscapes along the fjords or in the cold and wild inland Norway.
Di contro, oltre ad alcune palesi ingenuità nella sceneggiatura, la recitazione degli attori è ai minimi termini, peccato tutto sommato veniale in un film che scimmiotta un documentario amatoriale.
E insomma, ripeto, prendete Trolljegeren per quello che è: intrattenimento non sofisticato ma nemmeno banale, leggero ma non per forza scontato. Accompagnatelo con birra e pop corn e saprà ricompensarvi con una piacevole serata di caccia grossa. Molto grossa.
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