Review of Trog (1970) by Allan C — 11 Aug 2015

Okay, first off, this is really a zero star film. It's truly an embarrassment and just awful, but on a camp level, this film is wildly entertaining for all of the wrong reasons. In her final film appearance, Joan Crawford plays a scientist who discovers an unfrozen caveman (which is actually a man wearing a leftover mask from Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey.

" The caveman, named Trog, escapes and then wreaks havoc and scares everyone around him. Star Crawford was also on the board of Pepsi at this time and as she did in all of her films of that period, she insisted on Pepsi being prominently featured in the film, so you get some awkward Pepsi product placement during some of Trog's rampages.

My personal favorite Trog moment was when he was soothed by classical music, but then became very angry when Crawford plays "rock and roll" music. Directed by Freddie Francis, who did some decent low budget horror pictures for Hammer reached a real low for this film in terms of quality, though I think it may have been more a result of the maker budget than a lack of talent.

Francis actually spend most of his later career as a director of photography on some real classics like "Glory," "Blue Velvet" and "Cape Fear." And you also get Michael Gough (who was Alfred in the Tim Burton Batman films) as Joan's anti-missing link antagonist in the film.