An interesting parallel film, which works in much the same way and interestingly was released in the same year, is Thale (2012). In this film, trolls serve as what Kaja Franck has called ‘ecoGothic warriors’-creatures that represent what we wrongly fear in Nature, which should be left alone and protected. Like the sasquatch, trolls have tended to inspire predominantly camp horror titles, but one key exception is André Øvredal’s Trollhunter (2012). These creatures often interestingly visually merge with their surroundings, seemingly taking the forms of rocks or trees. Another, particularly integral to Scandinavian folklore, is the woodland troll. The popularity of this legendary creature has reached such a degree that there are now numerous ‘scientific’ organisations devoted to finding and proving the existence of this monster. One of these is the sasquatch or Bigfoot, a mythical wildman figure commonly reported to be seen in the forests of North America to this day. There are of course a multitude of monsters that could be discussed in this chapter, but have been elided due to constraints of space (indeed, the subject of ecoGothic forest creatures would be a worthy study in itself).
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