Fabrizio del Wrongo writes:

Hey, this is my first post here. And why not make it a movie post?

I caught up with this Norwegian tchotchke a while back. It borrows the faux documentary approach of “The Blair Witch Project,” but unlike “Witch” it has the good sense to avoid taking itself too seriously. It’s not particularly scary, and the found footage conceit allows writer-director André Øvredal to cop out on the narrative (the end feels unsatisfactory), but it’s full of droll situations, and the trolls have the goofy-grandiose charm of Harryhausen beasties. One of the movie’s chief pleasures is the way it lingers on the monsters, the camera reveling in their gross corporeality as they do things like scratch their rumps and excitedly snuffle the air (they’re forever trying to suss out Christians). In fact, the movie might play best as a parody of “extreme” nature documentaries, with the titular troll hunter, played with weary resignation by Otto Jespersen, as the Jacques Cousteau of trolldom. He’s the one guy in Norway who knows how to track trolls, and this talent is framed in Sisyphean terms — we sense he’ll be at this gig forever. When he’s tasked by TSS (that’s short for Troll Security Service) with obtaining a blood sample, he dons a rudimentary suit of armor and mutters “I hate this shit.” And when he dutifully marches after his quarry, giant hypodermic needle in hand, he attains a Quixote-like air of noble ridiculousness. I hope he returns for the sequel.

“Troll Hunter” is available on Netflix Instant. Would be interested in hearing what y’all think of it.