Episode 167: Trollhunter w/ special guest Caitlin Starling

Watch If You Dare

Film Reviews, Tv & Film, Film History

5.0 • 548 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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On this episode, acclaimed author Caitlin Starling (The Luminous Dead, The Starving Saints, The Death of Jane Lawrence, etc.) joins Aaron and Derek to discuss 2010's Norwegian dark fantasy mockumentary "Trollhunter" written and directed by André Øvredal. They talk about Caitlin's bibliography, inspirations, writing process and experiences with professional publishing. They also get into Trollhunter's blending of Norwegian culture and folktale with grounded reality, the movie's exploration of bureaucracy and lack of oversight, the effective use of found footage in the revelation of trolls and plot progression, and many other aspects of the movie. Derek and Aaron are in troll territory now. Caitlin once saw a troll try to eat its own tail. Please follow Caitlin on Instagram @authorcstarling and on Bluesky @caitlinstarling.comCheck out her works at her website: www.caitlinstarling.comWe are on PodBean, Apple Podcasts, Podchaser, Goodpods, Amazon Music, Spotify, iHeartRadio and CastBox. Please rate, review, subscribe, and share our show. Also, check out our Spotify Music playlist, links on our Twitter and Podbean page. Our socials are on Bluesky and Facebook and Twitter @WatchIfYouDare

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1:22.2	Thank you. official member of the Spooop Troop today. What's up everybody? Welcome to another episode of Watch If You Dare, a horror movie podcast, hosted by me, your movie Monster Boy, Troll Boy? Troll, yes, that's what we're going to go with. You look the most like a troll, although I'm not far behind you.
1:28.7	Two Trolla boys for this episode. My hair is thinning and my hair is growing on my back for some reasons.
1:30.2	Yay, late 30s.
1:35.7	Yes, we are both getting dry skin and craggy and both hunched over when we walk because everything is turning to stone little by little.
1:38.0	But yeah, based on that intro, we are going to be talking troll-yegeren,
1:47.4	a.k.a. Troll Hunter from 2010,
1:50.1	directed and written by André Overdahl.
1:53.9	This is not the Del Toro Children's animated show.
1:56.2	This is the found footage,
1:59.8	dark fantasy horror movie about trolls.
2:03.5	So to join us... I had to triple check. I'm sorry, I keep, jumping in, but I had to triple check on the troll hunters tales of Arcadia that it wasn't a
2:08.5	spinoff that Del Toro decided to do when he saw this movie as like, I'm going to make this a
2:14.2	children's cartoon now. Children's cartoon about bureaucracy.
2:17.9	Yeah.
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