The answer of course is no. Unless by real you mean a really a well done hoax meant to increase excitement about a video game for XBox titled Too Human. The Goblin-Man of Norway is said to have been made in 1999 and is somehow connected to the Norwegian Film Committee. Suspiciously Goblin-Man of Norway is the only thing on the site. Even more suspiciously a whois search of norwegianfilmcommittee.org reveals that the domain was created on Feb 14, 2008 and is set to expire in only one year. What makes this suspicious is that the site claims the film is from 1999.
But the biggest goof is that there is a Toyota Prius in the driveway of “Rob Niosi” the “self-proclaimed ‘Goblin Man enthusiast’” which is exceptional considering the model of Prius hadn’t been introduced until 2004. Even more damning is the location of the server— Canada, where the game developer, Silicon Knights, is located. Taking all the above into consideration along with the fact that the film’s director “Howard Byrackk” has no bio or credits on IMDB or Wikipedia.
The “film” is trying to build a mythology around the game. The developers are claiming it is the opposite of course (saying the game is built around the film) to make things interesting. An interesting marketing campaign, but that is all it is.
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omg i cant believe so many ppl bought this, first of all, no norwegians apparantly is in the movie, seems a little strange since the discovery was made in north norway xD and the guy who owns the Norsk film komite (wich is a typo btw) is a marketing guy ;) research first, speculate later.
It was directed by Jay Cheel of filmjunk.com apparently, its quite good. Howard Byrackk is a reference to the movie “Prince of Darkness”
but it was pretty godd id hav to addmit
the bit that made me prisent this as a hoax was the miniature at the end of the 3rd short thou, as ive been working with alot of film and gaming titles