“There’s Something In The Barn“ on Netflix…
Yes, there’s something in the barn, and it’s not a moo-cow but rather a Norwegian barn elf in this black horror comedy that plays like the movie Gremlins run through National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation…
It seems that a rather annoying American millennial-type family has inherited a Norwegian farm estate where their distant relative died trying to expel or exterminate the barn elf, succeeding only in dying a fiery death. Oblivious to Norwegian traditions and mythology, the Griswold-type family tries to impose gaudy American holiday traditions on the estate in the process of converting it to a bed-and-breakfast type inn…
This serves to make the barn elf angry, as they are creatures that despise change, bright lights, noise, and modernism in general. Only the family’s pre-teen son Lucas understands this, solely believing in the entity, and forging an alliance with the being by giving it cookies. If you are nice to such an elf, they will do service to you such as remove snow and split and stack firewood. Offend an elf, however, and open warfare results, with the mythical beings being able to call in reinforcements of their fellows…
You wouldn’t like such elves when they are truly angry. They are tribal, not adverse to killing, and will use primitive and environmental weaponry. When they stumble into your liquor cabinet, they’ll indulge themselves, and throw raucous parties…
The Americans are guided in their struggles by an expert in Norwegian folklore, who chides them with such admonitions as “This isn’t America. We don’t go about shooting each other in the faces!” A sensible people, Norwegians prefer negotiation.
Cookies are also powerful negotiation chips, if used in a timely fashion. Proper respect for folkloric beings is always in order, too. So be nice to your barn elf, should you have one… 🦊
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FOXSYLVANIA 
March 25, 2024 at 7:18 pm
Sounds a lot like those homicidal garden gnomes from the two R. L. Stine movies featuring Jack Black. As for Norwegians being more peaceful (or, at least, less trigger-happy) than us Americans?
I remember Ian Bannen telling this story at Sean Connery’s televised pre-retirement testimonial. They were doing a thriller called “The Terrorists” (about a KGB-sponsored leftwing terrorist group taking over a Norwegian jetliner). And some of the prop munitions had not yet cleared customs for the on-location shooting. So, the two movie stars and the director when to their military technical advisor…who had a trunkful of automatic weapons in his own household!
Bannen quoted the advisor as saying, in reference to the Nazi occupation of Norway (and Sir Connery nodded in affirmation of this): ”They caught us unprepared, once, Mr. Bannen. Never again! Never again!” ;-)
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March 25, 2024 at 7:40 pm
Sorry, dude. :-(
That should’ve read “Ian McShane.”
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March 25, 2024 at 8:03 pm
One more correction: the original movie title was “Ransom.” The syndicated-for-telecast title is how its listed at IMDB.
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March 31, 2024 at 2:24 pm
And, once again, Happy Easter. :-)
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March 31, 2024 at 8:02 pm
Same to you! 🙂
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April 6, 2024 at 5:43 pm
P.S.—I hope you weathered the recent New Jersey quake, alright.
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April 6, 2024 at 5:55 pm
Didn’t even feel it. It was felt as far east of me as Philadelphia, and I’m well west of that.
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April 8, 2024 at 2:23 pm
Will you be following the Great American Eclipse on FOX Network Weather?
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April 8, 2024 at 2:29 pm
Or will you be joining your lupine cousins, Skoll and Hati, in actually chasing the Moon?
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April 8, 2024 at 8:13 pm
Nah…silly wolves! We foxes know better than that…
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