This Netflix Monster Movie With 90% On Rotten Tomatoes Is A Must-Watch For Godzilla Fans

Fans of kaiju movies are always on the lookout for new giant monster movies to make their day, and fortunately, this is a great time to follow this genre. Apart from Japan's steady output of amazing films like Takashi Yamazaki's sublime "Godzilla Minus One," other countries have been upping their game considerably in the last decades. Hollywood has long since recovered from Roland Emmerich's 1998 "Godzilla," which was so awful that Toho's "Godzilla: Final Wars" gave its hated monster a humiliating second death in a fight against the real Godzilla. Between Matt Reeves' "Cloverfield," Guillermo del Toro's "Pacific Rim," and Legendary Pictures' ongoing MonsterVerse franchise, Tinseltown has been establishing itself as a reliable hotspot of kaiju entertainment, and in 2006, Korean director luminary Bong Joon Ho of "Parasite" and "Snowpiercer" fame put his own spin on the theme with one of the greatest monster movies ever made, "The Host."

There's still always room in the market for another truly great monster movie, though, especially one with a truly unique premise. Fortunately, Netflix has precisely that on offer. Fans of Godzilla should absolutely check out Roar Uthaug's 2022 Norwegian monster movie "Troll," which dives deep into ancient Norwegian mythology about massive trolls living deep within the country's mountains ... and brings it to modern age when a 150-foot mountain troll wakes up and heads toward the country's capital, Oslo. The movie boasts an impressive 90% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes, and with "Troll 2" slated to arrive on December 1, 2025, this is the perfect time to hop in on this smart, Nordic take on the kaiju genre.

Trolls are, of course, heavily associated with the fantasy genre, but they have made the occasional appearance in movies that aren't exclusively about swords and sorcery. Arguably, the most prominent "serious" troll movie in recent years is 2018's "Border," Ali Abbasi's Swedish film about Tina (Eva Melander), a very strange customs officer who discovers an unexpected soulmate in the equally peculiar Vore (Eero Milonoff) and learns some extremely surprising things about herself. On the giant monster movie front, however, trolls have been comparatively underused. One example that springs to mind is another Norwegian offering. 2011's comparatively crude but charming found footage-style film "Troll Hunter" (by "The Last Voyage of Demeter" director André Øvredal) features numerous troll threats of all shapes and sizes, including a very massive mountain troll.

Netflix's "Troll," on the other hand, focuses exclusively on the big guy, and as such is a better watch for a full-on kaiju fan. It goes through all the familiar monster movie beats, but the hefty infusion of Norway's very real fixation with troll mythology keeps things fresh. The impending arrival of "Troll 2" is proof enough that the formula is a success ... and while I wouldn't necessarily put the first film's impressive mountain troll up against the King of Monsters, the primal, "walking mountainside" threat it poses to humans makes it a very worthy giant monster.