PREVIEW: Troll (12A)

WHO’S IN IT?

Ine Marie Wilmann (I Travel Alone), Kim Falck (Just Bea), Mads Sjøgård Pettersen (The 12th Man), Gard B. Eidsvold (In Order of Disappearance), Pål Richard Lunderby (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Roar Uthaug (Tomb Raider), director; Espen Aukan (Vikingulven), writer; Espen Horn (Long Flat Balls) and Kristian Strand Sinkerud (Cadaver), producers; Johannes Ringen (The Wendy Effect), composer; Jallo Faber (False Trail), cinematographer; Christoffer Heie (Doctor Proctor’s Fart Powder), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

An explosion deep in the Norwegian mountains unknowingly wakes up an ancient, giant troll which begins to wreak havoc on nearby civilisation. To combat the threat, fearless palaeontologist Nora (Wilmann) is recruited to uncover more secrets about the not-quite extinct troll race, before it’s too late…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

Norway delivers its own big, bombastic monster movie with giant fairy tale creatures causing destruction left and right, from the mind of Tomb Raider director Roar Uthaug.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

THURSDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

STREAMING EXCLUSIVELY ON NETFLIX

 

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