Review of Troll (1986) by Wes M — 03 Sep 2010

You know how some movies are so bad their good, well the classic campy horror movie Troll definitely falls into that category. I love how according to Flixster 30% of users like it and 33% of critics like it. Who are these critics? Everything about this movie screams classic. It featured Sonny Bono as swinging bachelor who gets attacked by a troll and pretty much blows up. It also featured a young Julia Louis-Dreyfus. The family in the movie has the last name Potter and the father and son are both named Harry. That's right their both named Harry Potter. Granted this movie came out in 1986 a full eleven years before the first Harry Potter book came out. The film has horrible cheesy special effects, even for the '80s. It has stars Phil Fonacaro, who you might recognize as the little person whose been in everything. Just one look at his imdb page and you see what I mean, he played an ewok in Return of the Jedi, he was in an episode of Star Trek: Next Gen, he was in Willow, he played a carnie in the horribly campy '80s horror flick Ghoulies II, Roland in Sabrina The Teenage Witch, and an elf in The Polar Express. Apparently he was also in some movie called Evil Bong, that sounds like it just might be so bad I'd need to see it.

For some reason this movie had a sequel and Troll 2 was even more awesomely bad than this one. There has been a documentary made about Troll 2 entitled Best Worst Movie. I think that says it all.

According to the internets, Troll is planning a remake of the movie now. Any remake of it won't have of the redeeming qualities and it'll be just bad.