Sunday 30 October 2011

Troll

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Year:1986
Country of origin:USA / Canada
Director:John Carl Buechler
Genre:Woeful creature feature
Starring:Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Jenny Beck, Noah Hathaway
Rating:1/5
IMDB link:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092115/
Tagline:Come closer...
Favourite line:None worth mentioning

There are bad films.
There are dreadful films.
And then there's Troll.

An evil - yep, you guessed it - Troll appears from nowhere in an apartment building.
A young girl, played by Jenny Beck, also seen as Elizabeth The Star Child from V, has the misfortune to encounter the despicable fiend first, and the Troll (seriously, I can barely bring myself to type that word. TROLLS ARE NOT FRIGHTENING) transforms into her likeness and sets about gaining control of the entire building by, and you'll like this, turning people into vegetation that spawns ickle-biddy Trolls.
He wants to recreate his own world, right there in San Francisco.

And that's about it.
Coming across as a combination of Gremlins, released some two years earlier, and an acid laced interpretation of the already druggy Narnia, though without the interesting visuals and atmospherics that may seem to imply, this is just plain old dull.
It's almost as if someone started off making a kids film, then decided to spice things up a bit with the odd spot of gore and creature mayhem.
I am always ready to forgive poor production values, poor acting and so forth, but a storyline as limp as this is beyond the pale.
Dreaful.
Avoid.

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