10 Scariest Movie Monsters, Ranked

8. The Trolls, Trollhunter
There are all kinds of fantastic creatures in myths and legends, though we don’t ever put much stock in them, writing them off as relics of a bygone era, at best spooky stories we tell kids around a campfire. When the come to life on the big screen, however, they can be scary as all hell. This is the case with the titular trolls in the 2010, Norwegian, faux-footage horror flick Trollhunter. Falling somewhere between Blair Witch and Cloverfield, Andre Ovredal’s film shadows a group of students investigating a series of bear killings, but what they find is that the trolls they heard stories about as children are very real, and they follow the last troll hunter as he tracks and traps the rogue beasts. The creature effects are surprisingly natural, and the film is, by turns, funny, adventurous, and frightening as all get out.