Troll/Troll 2 (1986)

TROLL TROLL 2

TROLL 2 THE WORST OF THE WORST OF THE WORST

saw troll 2 on hbo back in 1992 or 1993.this movie is painfully boring.painful to watch.couldnt watch this with a migraine.people avoid this one.if u like a troll movie go with the first one.not the second.bad acting,bad scenes.too bad period.this is only for people who adore bad flicks.i just cannot do this one.also the opening credits music scared me half to death.i thought for a minute those goblins were right there beside me.this is a bad movie i dont care for. September 15, 2008

Spin on fantasy

I have to say that I did not like troll 2 as much as I did the first one. The first troll I saw when I was a kid and was completely fraked out. As an adult it's still kinda freaky but good. I really like the first one the second one not so much. August 11, 2008

This is the one. The Holy Grail.

Once upon a time, I fancied that I knew a little something about bad movies.

Well, in fact I was getting rather vain about it. I turned up my nose at people who think "Showgirls" or "Gigli" are great anti-movies, when in fact they are only about 15 percent worse than the usual Hollywood dreck. Almost as bad were those who took the well-trod path of "Plan 9" or "Hitler's Brain", which, while quite deliciously bad in spots, are, in the final analysis, little more than amateurish relics of a bygone era.

No, while those flicks are, in their own way, modestly amusing, they were not for me: my palate was more refined; my bad taste was just a bit better than that of the common herd. I was quite the anti-connoisseur (or so I thought). My preference was for the finely aged Italian imitation cheese of the seventies and eighties. Movies such as "The New Barbarians" and "Star Crash" topped my list, although I could also dip my beak with pleasure into such anti-musical masterpieces as "The Apple" or "Can't Stop the Music" on occasion, or enjoy the modern anti-comedy stylings of a Tom Green in "Freddy Got Fingered", or even the classic anti-blockbuster "Battlefield Earth".

I was a fool. I stand before you naked today to confess that until I saw "Troll 2", I knew nothing at all about what a bad movie could truly be.

All my former preconceptions: gone. All of what I took to be my knowledge: vanished without a trace.

I know that my view of film has changed forever. And I still don't know how to deal with it. For now, I have walled off "Troll 2" in a special part of my mind. This movie simply does not seem possible; it just does not compute. I place it as an anamoly, as a "special case", so that I can continue to live in my own little world, continue to have my own little list of favorites, my own little pet theories about what makes a great anti-movie.

But some day, I will have to look this green-blooded, rubbery goblin mask square in its face, and deal with what "Troll 2" has done to me, has done to us all.

And so will you.

Troll 2 is the holy grail of bad movies. It will never be topped. At least once in your life, you must stand in the light that it casts upon human consciousness. And you, too, will never be the same again. June 19, 2008

Entertaining!!!

I always loved this movie when I little, so I was extra happy to find it and now finally own it...very awesome movie!!! May 17, 2008

Stay away!

Just GOD AWFUL! I'm a big fan of goofy horror, but come on! Gimme some violence, some gore, something! Michael Moriarty if a favorite of mine, but he has nothing to work with in Troll. He's wasted! April 10, 2008

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