NILBOG Is Spelt Somthing Backwards! - Finally Saw Troll 2

You may have heard about it. Its legend is known throughout the entire world by Internet geeks and movie lovers. It is regarded by hundreds as the most famous worst-movie ever. And with a claim to that, it spawned a huge cult following, adored by many fans for all the wrong reasons. In fact, this is the one suckiest film I would personally recommend to any movie buff to check out. It is something I would call "hilariously bad". I have seen so many bad movies and this is by far the worst, but most funniest. Unlike that one movie that is so bad and failed to be funny *ahem* Disaster Movie. You will cringe and you will laugh till your stomach hurts.

This is TROLL 2!

Let the horror begin!

Designed to be another early 90s monster flick, Troll 2 wasn't really intended to be the sequel to the film, Troll from 1986 as it was really supposed to be about goblins. But even the slap on the name "Troll", you really won't find any of them and you'll just find goblins. It was directed by Italian director, Claudio Fragasso under a very low budget and a handful of local townspeople. With a setup like that, it becomes a possibility that this film may not be an actual good one. And I'll give them some slack that the film suffered because of the budget and cheapness of the film.

What is Troll 2 about anyway? It follows a simple family on a vacation trip to the country town of Nilbog (Its Goblin spelled backwards, very witty isn't it) and are hunted by monstrous goblins that are planning to turn them into vegetables and eat them. Sounds very simple enough, yet it all becomes a circus of insanity, showered with many unintentional hilarity and mind-boggling moments. The premise is basic, but from the start you will notice its huge cheapness and cheeziness within it storytelling. Goblins turning people into vegetables and eating them doesn't sound like a bad idea and is in fact kinda scary, but you'll soon find out its just total ridiculous due to the performances and setup of the film.

Speaking of that, the characters and their performances are the big reasons the film suffer yet brings the laugh to its audiences. The Waits family are bland and annoying. Yet their obliviousness to their dangers in the town of Nilbog are so unconvincing, its just unpredictable. The main protagonist of the film is the young son of the family, Joshua (Michael Stephenson) who knows about the evil behind the goblin-ridden town through the help of his dead grandpa. Somehow he is only set to one mood throughout the entire film and that is "constant whiny bitch". There is only a few moments where he is just normal, but you'll have to be tolerent of his very high pitch voice and overuse crying.

You gotta believe me!!

The film uses the same "cry wolf" formula where the boy yelps his warnings about the dangers to his family and they are reluctant to believe, yet that connection is lost when you have a boy whose whininess is so unbelievable and the family's performance to reluctantly believable is also unbelievable and it unintentionally becomes a comedy of errors.

The grand highlight of the film is the Troll leader, Creedence (Deborah Reed) who really takes the word "witch" a tad too seriously. From the very moment she appears, you really felt the need to shout out "WTF"

Tell me this doesn't make you laugh

I don't know if she thinks this role will be her biggest break and she's acting her ass off in a pseudo-Shakespearean method or its the combination of sleeping pills and alcohol that got her through her role. Whatever it is, it sure made her presence very funny to watch. She really does look like a Gothic librarian, role-playing as a Shakespearean World-of-Warcraft sorceress. Its both cringe-worthy and hilarious to watch.

Even though you won't see any trolls, you have goblins to look at. And boy, they sure are interesting. Playing these guys are midgets wearing potato sacks and Halloween masks. How cheap can you get? The look alone is funny to enough to look at, but its even more funnier when the goblins are disguised as humans. One thing to got right is that they act like they are not human.. in a retarded way. They are supposed to blend in like any other community, but their performances are so unconvincing and so out of place, its drives me crazy that the real humans are dumb enough to figure they are trolls! I mean goblins!

Costume Design by a porn-star... no seriously its true..

I say this if Disaster Movie was Troll 2, this could have a great comedy. Wishful thinking. It really amazed me that for a movie that was predicted to be at the very bottom of the bargain bin is destined to be a cult classic and win millions of fans. A status up there with the likes of The Evil Dead and Manos: Hands of Fate. Because it achieved in making me laugh, it is to me not the worst movie ever, but certainly a god-awful one.

A rating of 1 out of 5 stars

That said a year ago that kid who played the main protagonist, Joseph, grew up and hates the movie for it played a ridiculing life from his childhood to his teen years. He then went on to make a documentary about Troll 2 called Best Worst Movie, chronicling the making of the film and its cult status of today, reuniting most of the cast members from the film. So thats one way of bearing your haunted past. But there is a rumor of a sequel to Troll 2 called Troll 2: Part 2. So be afraid... be very afraid...

And now I leave you with a very famous line from the film