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We're off to the forests and fjords of Norway this week, with André Øvredal's comic-horror Trollhunter (2010). Never a fan of found footage films, Aimee slept through a lot of this week, while Annie cackled through most of it. We talk about The BFG, Tolkien and Theodor Severin Kittelsen, a Norwegian troll illustrator, who influenced The Dark Crystal and The Labyrinth. Themes of mythology, belief, environmental destruction and industrial expansion come up too, but it's mostly diversions about beans and nuts and goats this week honestly. Maybe we were the real trolls all along.
By Aimee Knight & Annie WatersWe're off to the forests and fjords of Norway this week, with André Øvredal's comic-horror Trollhunter (2010). Never a fan of found footage films, Aimee slept through a lot of this week, while Annie cackled through most of it. We talk about The BFG, Tolkien and Theodor Severin Kittelsen, a Norwegian troll illustrator, who influenced The Dark Crystal and The Labyrinth. Themes of mythology, belief, environmental destruction and industrial expansion come up too, but it's mostly diversions about beans and nuts and goats this week honestly. Maybe we were the real trolls all along.