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Trollhunters is an American 2026 dark fantasy film directed by Guillermo del Toro.
Plot[]
In September 1969, brothers Jack and Jim Sturges are riding their bikes in a canal on Jack's birthday. As they play with toy guns, Jim sees milk cartons with a few of the one hundred ninety missing children who vanished in San Bernardino. As the street lights come on , the brothers cross under a bridge where Jim finds his older brother's bike abandoned and Jack missing. After calling Jack's name, a large creature crawls out from under the bridge and chases Jim. The boy makes it home to find the monster gone and a medallion in his hands. Jim's parents come out and ask about Jack. Jack was never seen again and Jim passed the story on his brother's disappearance to his son, Jim Sturges Jr..
Forty-five years after Jack disappeared, his nephew Jim Sturges Jr. is woken up one October Friday morning by his father, who has become paranoid in the years since his brother vanished, to catch the bus. After his family punches in the code to open the steel barricade on the window, Jim gets out of bed and gets ready before going down stairs to have cereal for breakfast. They eat after he sees him father looking at Jack's alter, a set up adorned with various pictures and objects Jack owned. After eating cereal, they exit. As Jim is told by his father to catch the bus, he thinks of how his father was screwed over at the San Bernardino Electronics Company by his bosses, how they stole an invention of his and refused to promote him, resulting in him mowing lawns on weekends. Jim then leaves for the bus.
When he arrives at San Bernardino High school, Jim sees a sign for the one hundred second Festival of the Fallen Leaves- a week long festival commemorating a banishment. As Jim gets off the bus, a kid comes over to him and says his friend, Tobias “Tubs” Dershowitz, is being bullied in the Trophy Hall, a third floor hallway where the bullies lurk. Jim reaches the hall to find being strangled by Steve Jorgensen-Warner, the school bully and star athlete of both the basketball and football teams, for not giving him five dollars. Steve releases Toby upon seeing Jim, and Jim and Tubs are shoved into lockers. After waiting for Steve and his cronies to leave, Jim opens the locker from the inside- having learned how to do it from being shoved into lockers multiple times, and instructs Tubs how to do it. As they clean themselves up in the bathroom, they hear the bell. Tubs reveals he had a five dollar bill tucked into his armpit, a hollow victory. As they leave, Jim thinks he hears something in the pipes.
In math class, the teacher- Ms. Pinkman, is upset that the school is spending money on a Jumbotron while the school needs new equipment for science and math. Jim hides behind a textbook, as math is his worst subject, and hopes to not be called on. However as Claire Fontaine, a girl from the United Kingdom who wears military style clothing and no makeup, walked by after solving a problem, he raises his hand and is called on. Ms. Pinkman writes the equation out of Jim's reach as the other students laugh at him.
Asthe other kids are shooting hoops for gym class, Jim and Tub are struggling to make it to the halfway point as Coach Lawrence cheers the two on. Just as Jim is about to reach the halfway point, Tub gets his braces stuck in the rope and starts to lose his grip. Jim tries to help him, but ends up falling with Tubs. The couch helps them up, and a basketball hits Tub in the face. Jim and Tub clean up in the locker room as best they can as Tub laments that they pair are nothing and only have each other. Jim manages to cheer him up and leaves. However the lights go out and Jim thinks he sees a large figure in the distance. He moves to the light switch and turns on the lights to find nothing. However he sees a foot around the row of lockers and cautiously goes to investigate. He surprises Tub and sees a shower drain cover has been moved. After apologizing to his friend, Jim looks over again to find the drain cover back in place and shaking slightly.
As Jim and Tub leave school to go home, a group of girls from the drama club and Claire swarm the two to give them flyers for the play in the end of the week, Romeo and Juliet, Jim agrees to audition while Tub agrees to go for free donuts. They take flyers as the girls swarm another boy leaving the building. Jim and Tub head to the parking lot as they see Steve and duck under cars to get to the bus undetected. When they get close, Tub gets stuck and Steve almost finds them, however a car door knocks his basketball away and he goes after it. Just then, Jim sees a large hand under a manhole right by his head. He looks at Tub to find him covering his eyes. The hand vanishes as Jim and Tub pull themselves out front the cars. Tub is released that Coach Lawrence is talking to Steve, but has no idea what Jim is talking about with the manhole. As the sun sets, Jim and Tubs decide to cut through the San Bernardino History Society Museum. Carol, a college aged cashier who is nice to them, says Professor Lempke, the curator, is in a foul mood. The boys sneak in anyway and run into Lempke in a stairwell. The two evade him as he says they owe him over nine hundred dollars in entrance fees and will call their parents to collect, not knowing Tub lives with his grandmother and Jim with his single father. As they exit though a loading dock, it is near dark and a police car pulls up with sirens going.
Sergeant Ben Gulager, a man who was scarred in his temple blocking a bullet a man fired at his triplet daughters during a domestic dispute and speaks with a stutter, takes Jim and Tub home. When arriving at the Sturges house, he tells Jim Sr. about the times he called the police to find his son when he was close to home and to not do it again. Gulager gives Jim an apologetic look before leaving. Jim Sr. tells his son the dangers of staying out to late before going to his room to play a Don and Juan song. As midnight arrives, Jim searches the internet for anything like he saw at school. After a while he finds six videos of similar encounters that happened in San Bernardino in the last few years. Taking out his earbuds, he hears odd noises outside his room. Jim checks and sees the lights from the security system, however more appear and he sees them heading to his father’s bedroom. Jim rushes back to bed and thinks something is in his room. Building up his courage, he shines the light from his laptop into his room to find nothing, he checks the closet to find the same thing, only for a pair of hands to emerge from his bed and drag Jim under.
Cast[]
- Winslow Fegley as Jim Sturges, Jr., a teenager and horror geek who finds a hidden city of trolls underground and is given a medallion that grants him the power to understand the troll's language
- Sunny Sandler as Claire Fontaine, Jim's love interest who stars in their school's production of Romeo and Juliet
- Wyatt McClure as Tobias "Tobin" Dershowitz, Jim's sarcastic best friend who is loyal to him all the way through
- Mystic Inscho as Steve Warner, a jock that bullies Jim and Tobin frequently
- Guillermo del Toro as Dr. Papadopolous, Tobin's dentist
- Jack Black as Jim Sturges, Sr., Jim's father who is traumatized by his older brother going missing while they were kids
- Thomas F. Wilson as Coach Lawrence, Jim and Tobin's gym teacher
- Walker Scobell as Jack Sturges, the older brother of Jim Sturges, Sr. and the uncle of Jim Sturges, Jr.
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