The people of a small town live in fear of underground trolls, which they do not realise are actually harmless. A boy raised by the creatures must convince the townsfolk there is nothing to fear when a team of pest exterminators is hired to wipe out the friendly monsters. Stop-motion animated fantasy, with the voices of Isaac Hempstead Wright, Elle Fanning and Ben Kingsley.

An orphaned boy raised by underground creatures called Boxtrolls comes up from the sewers and out of his box to save his family and the town from the evil exterminator, Archibald Snatcher.