TROLL HUNTER is one of the better films that I’ve seen this year, and easily falls under the banner – ‘see this film…before Hollywood remakes it!’ We will have a full review coming up on the site for the movie in time for its release next week, but to give you a rough idea, the review will be very positive.
Across the remotest mountains, deepest fjords and treacherous arctic tundra of Norway, the most dangerous and secretive of occupations has gone unnoticed for hundreds of years. By the dark of the night, one brave, mysterious man protects the innocent from an ancient and deadly threat without reward or glory. He is the legendary TROLL HUNTER.
Investigating a spate of bear shootings, a group of students soon become suspicious of a mysterious loner in a beaten up Land Rover who has been spotted at every incident. When they decide to follow him across the country, they soon realise dead bears aren’t the worst of their problems, they’ve stumbled upon the last remaining TROLL HUNTER and he’s their only hope.
We have just received some pretty cool concept art for the movie by artist Håvard S. Johansen, which depict all manner of trolls devised from Norwegian mythology, and from these concepts were borne the four trolls of TROLL HUNTER:
· The Jotnar (or Larde Jutne in Norwegian), though gigantic, is hunched, like an old man.
· The ferocious Ringlefinch is missing an arm, apparently the result of some long-ago battle with another troll.
· The three-headed Tosserlad’s heads are disturbingly grotesque – for the sole reason that the faces are based on those of truly deformed humans.
· The Mountain Kings (or Dovre Gubbe in Norwegian) are based on the troll characters in Henrik Ibsen’s classic Norwegian play, “Peer Gynt”.
Check out the art below. Click on any one of the pics to see it in full.
