Recently we finally decided to watch the 1990 classic "Troll 2". A cult classic that was subject to the feature length 2009 documentary "Best Worst Movie." This was definitely the type of movie that you are looking for when you want to watch a highly entertainingly bad movie. But does it live up the the hype of best worst movie?
It is about a young boy who is grieving over the death of his recently departed grandfather, a plot point introduced at the beginning as his ghost of a grandfather is reading a gruesome story of trolls...goblins actually, there are no trolls anywhere in the movie (the movie gets points for being a sequel that doesn't even acknowledge the original in any way). Turns out that goblins are real as the boy finds out when he travels with his family to the town of Nilbog. His sister has a boyfriend who follows the family there with a couple of his friends in an RV which allows for some disposable supporting characters.
The residents of Nilbog turn out to be some sort of backwoods crazy vegetarians that are into spoiled milk. They end up turning one woman into easily goblin digestible mush and one unlucky dude into a living tree. There is a witch too, just for good measure. Said witch ends up seducing a teenage boy using an ear of corn (not as dirty as you may think, but just as disturbing). This is one of the more out there (and out of place) scenes in the movie and that is saying quite a bit. You know, as my lovely assistant Amelia pointed out, corn is highly symbolic in many pagan cultures. "It is a time of the sacrificial mating of Goddess and God, where the Corn King, given life by the Goddess and tasting of Her love is sacrificed and transformed into bread and ale which feeds us." Maybe the director is onto something...then again the movie features this scene.
Occasionally a bit too bizarre and disjointed, this movie is worth watching. It is a lot of fun, there are some cartoony gross out scenes and laughably bad dialogue. Best worst movie though? I am going to disagree there, it does not quite measure up the the gold standard in my book, "The Core." I feel the more money spent on the production of a movie and worse it is the bigger the failure. "Troll 2" wasn't aiming high enough. What do you think? Is there a ratio of cost+failure : higher enjoyment of watching said failure? Is this the best worst movie ever?
The residents of Nilbog turn out to be some sort of backwoods crazy vegetarians that are into spoiled milk. They end up turning one woman into easily goblin digestible mush and one unlucky dude into a living tree. There is a witch too, just for good measure. Said witch ends up seducing a teenage boy using an ear of corn (not as dirty as you may think, but just as disturbing). This is one of the more out there (and out of place) scenes in the movie and that is saying quite a bit. You know, as my lovely assistant Amelia pointed out, corn is highly symbolic in many pagan cultures. "It is a time of the sacrificial mating of Goddess and God, where the Corn King, given life by the Goddess and tasting of Her love is sacrificed and transformed into bread and ale which feeds us." Maybe the director is onto something...then again the movie features this scene.
Occasionally a bit too bizarre and disjointed, this movie is worth watching. It is a lot of fun, there are some cartoony gross out scenes and laughably bad dialogue. Best worst movie though? I am going to disagree there, it does not quite measure up the the gold standard in my book, "The Core." I feel the more money spent on the production of a movie and worse it is the bigger the failure. "Troll 2" wasn't aiming high enough. What do you think? Is there a ratio of cost+failure : higher enjoyment of watching said failure? Is this the best worst movie ever?
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