Three years ago to the day, Roar Uthaug’s Norwegian Kaiju-inspired adventure film, Troll , debuted to massive viewing numbers. The film lapped previous international releases, with over 44 million equivalent completed views (CVEs) in its first week, before becoming the biggest non-English-language Netflix film of all time, a record it still holds to this day .

2022’s Troll was not only watched by a massive audience, but its critical response was largely positive as well, with an 89% Rotten Tomatoes score and a “green” mixed-positive score from Metacritic. I can understand why.

The first Troll film felt like the collision of the tone & structure of the blockbuster Legendary monster-verse films (starting with Gareth Edwards’ Godzilla in 2014) with the creature designs & mythology of No

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