It’s Troll-Hunting Season
Wabbit season! Wait, no, sorry. This is the trailer for The Troll Hunter, a Norwegian Blair Witch Project-esque movie about documentary-makers looking for giant trolls, and thus about a million times more awesome. I love that the trolls can actually smell religion, and that it’s an important part of the movie; I also love the incredible earnestness of the film, especially with the ridiculous troll designs. The movie comes out at the end of this month in Norway; I hope it actually makes it to U.S. theaters and not just DVD. I’d say this thing deserves to be seen on the big screen.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.