It’s July 22, and the continent is in the chokehold of one seriously punishing heatwave. In Louisville, Kentucky, fans and guests congregate for the start of the 2011 Fright Night Film Festival under a steamy blanket of humidity. Returning guest Sean Clark of HORROR’S HALLOWED GROUNDS describes a previous year in which the fest venue’s AC suffered a sudden and fatal coronary, turning a packed hall into one gigantic oven. Needless to say, grumpy and perspiring horror fans and sweltering celebrities do not a recipe for happiness make. Fortunately, this year’s location in the Fern Valley Conference Center is more than equipped to deal with both the weather and influx of enthusiastic bodies.

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Moviegoers will find that Norway’s not all about sweaty Vikings and scenic fjords in THE TROLL HUNTER, Magnolia/Magnet Releasing’s new mockdocumentary about a grizzled huntsman and a band of naive filmmakers searching for King Kong-sized mythical creatures in the wilds of Norway. In the final part of our exclusive video chat with TROLL HUNTER writer/director André Øvredal (see part one here), the filmmaker talks with Fango’s Tony Timpone about the film’s incredible FX, the popularity of the found-footage craze and his future plans.

Found footage movies get a delightful international spin with THE TROLL HUNTER, Magnolia/Magnet Releasing’s new mockdocumentary about a grizzled huntsman and a band of naive filmmakers searching for King Kong-sized mythical creatures in the wilds of Norway. Today Fangoria.com presents an exclusive video chat (shot by John Torrani and edited by Bill Hall) with writer/director André Øvredal. In part one of two, the filmmaker talks with Fango’s Tony Timpone about TROLL HUNTER’s found-footage style, the story’s inspiration, the Norwegian culture and mythology that inspired the movie and much more.