I’ve never seen Troll 2, but after reading these reviews I feel like it’s a must to experience what’s considered a “beyond awful” movie. In fact, regardless of the bizarre vegetarian themes present in the film, this one could possibly rank as the worst film period. It’s that bad that it’s become a cult classic. It’s even worse because it’s also the the subject of a new documentary called “Best Worst Movie” that chronicles the lives of those involved in making it. Netflix, here I come!

Released in 1992, the plot to Troll 2, according to the UK Independent, goes a little something like this: A perfect family who set off on holiday to the country idyll of Nilbog (read it backwards). There they find themselves at the mercy of a village full of paradoxically blood-thirsty vegetarian goblins who plan to turn them into plants and then feed, orgiastically, on their sap.

“Suffice it to say that, if you set any cast member on fire, I would lay down even money that he or she would have a hard time convincing onlookers that it hurt,” wrote one critic. “There are movies that are bad. There are movies that are so-bad-they’re-good. And then there’s Troll 2 — a movie that’s so bad that it defies comprehension,” wrote another.

Vegetarian goblins? Horrible acting? A sex scene inexplicably involving a corn on the cob and a character called Creedence Leonore Gielgud? Sounds like tomorrow night’s feature movie has been decided.

Happy Halloween everyone!

Categories: Film/TV.

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