Friday, June 11, 2010

Troll 2 (1990)

Years ago I watched this film at home and it was sheer torture. However recently I decided to go to a public showing of it with friends and found that it is fun to see if you're in a room full of people who are laughing at the monstrosity that is Troll 2.

The plot, such as it is, is that Joshua and his family trade houses with another family for a weeks vacation in the town of Nilbog. The ghost of Joshua's dead grandfather shows up to tell him not to eat any of the food in town and to get the family out of there! Of course no one listens to Joshua's warning - and with good reason since it's coming from his dead grandpa.

The big secret of the town is that it's full of Goblins. (Nilbog spelt backwards is Goblin, ooooo!) And they are vegetarian Goblins so they must make the family eat green food in order to turn them into vegetables.

The acting is embarrassing, the script is ridiculous, and it is the only movie in existence with a horrifyingly funny seduction using an ear of corn. Seriously, who would think it was a sexy to have a woman and a teenage boy gnaw on an ear of corn which causes combustion that turns the corn into popcorn which they get buried underneath? Take that, John Holmes!

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