First Hit: At first it seemed like the film might keep a suspenseful believable air about it, but as it went on it became a more unbelievable.
If I were to select a film that this film emulated in some way, it would be Blair Witch Project.
Here, we have a reporter Thomas (played by Glenn Erland Tosterud), his sound woman Johanna (played by Johanna Morck) and his cameraman Kalle (played by Tomas Alf Larsen) attempting do a story on some mysterious farm animal deaths.
However, they find themselves following a quiet strange man named Trolljegeren (played by Otto Jespersen) who lives in a beat-up trailer, which he pulls with a beat-up Range Rover. While following him one night in the darkness of the forest, they see flashing lights over a hill. Then out of the darkness, Trolljegeren dashes by them insisting that they turn and run.
They gather behind his Range Rover, he peels back the tarp covering the equipment on the roof of the car, and exposes lights mounted on the top. As the three headed troll approaches he turns on the high intensity lights and the troll turns to stone. Then grabbing a big sledge hammer he hits the trolls frozen rock like leg and the troll crumbles to the ground.
Now the young reporters are hooked by this newsworthy event. But, Trolljegeren is a member of a secretive part of the government and the existence of trolls cannot be shared with the public. The last adventure they have together is when the attempt to find and corral a super troll in the far north.
Jespersen is better in the first part of the film when he is more illusive. Tosterud is OK as the lead reporter. Morck is good as the female crewmember with the right amount of bravado and fear expressions. Larsen is off camera most of the time, but displays a fair amount of fear. Andre Ovredal wrote and directed this film and made this unbelievable story almost work.
Overall: This film started better than it ended but it was fun to watch and I was very curious as to how trolls would be expressed on film.