Arrives on Netflix ‘Trol’, the monster that causes furor in the networks

Deep within Dovre Mountain, something gigantic awakens after a thousand years of captivity. The creature destroys everything in its path and quickly approaches Oslo, plotting more than enough to make ‘Troll’ one of the phenomena of the year among Netflix movies.

Waiting for it to enter our list with the most terrifying creatures in the cinema, what has become clear with the expectation before ‘Trol’ has been the desire of the public to run into a huge monster.

This has been seen by Roar Uthaug, the Norwegian director responsible for the title who began to make a name for himself in the Scandinavian country with ‘Cold Prey: Fanatics of Snow’ (2006) and ‘Flukt: In the Times of the Plague’ (2012) and He caught the attention of the international market with ‘La ola (Bølgen)’ (2015). That’s when he got the call from Hollywood to take charge of turning Alicia Vikander into the new Lara Croft with the recent ‘Tomb Raider’ (2018).

Uthaug now returns to Norway to, script by Espen Aukan mediate, update one of his myths about impressive grotesque creatures with a bad temper taking as an obvious base the unattainable ‘Jurassic Park (Jurassic Park)’ (Steven Spielberg, 1993).

The Motion Blur Films film, distributed by Netflix, features contemporary Norwegian stars including Ine Marie Wilmann (‘Blood Ride: The Ultimate Sacrifice’) as renegade scientist Nora Tidemann and Mads Sjøgård Pettersen (‘The Twelfth Man’ ) as Captain Kristoffer Holm. The rest of the cast of ‘Trol’ is completed with Kim Falck (‘Cold Prey 3’), Fridtjov Såheim (‘Amundsen’), Anneke von der Lippe (‘July 22’), Dennis Storhøi (‘Warrior No. 13’ ) and Gard B. Eidsvold (‘One After Another (In Order of Disappearance)’).

Somehow, the essential ‘Troll Hunter’ (André Øvredal, 2010) is already twelve years old. In addition to being one of the best “found footage” horror movies, it made us enjoy like never before with these creatures that have been made the most of chasing adorable animated gnomes or being cajoled by a smooth-talking halfling. It was time to face these beasts again, the cold forest and we understand the strong temptation to do so with a production that took into account ‘Shin Godzilla’ (Hideaki Anno, Shinji Higuchi, 2016). This forces us to go through the streaming channel to flee from these beasts that have been present in Scandinavian folklore since time immemorial.

Will it be among the best horror movies of 2022? Taking into account the commotion caused in networks during the weekend of its premiere, what is clear is that it is already one of the most commented.