I recently watched a fantastic documentary celebrating the infamously bad Troll 2. The aptly named Best Worst Movie, has been directed by the former child star of the film, Michael Stephenson.
The film tells a story of an ever expanding community of loyal, purist, B-Movie fanatics, who live for the poorly acted and badly executed. Stephenson re-establishes contact with the majority of the original cast and asks them to give their own personal, and heavily varied memories of the filming process.
This documentary showed me that I’m not on my own, and that there other people in the world who take great pleasure in watching really bad films. It inspired me enough to dig out my DVD copy of Troll 2 and share its wonder and superlative visual cruelty with two horror colleagues; Sam Clayton and Stefan Pope.
Sam Clayton:
Stefan Pope:
Both Sam and Stefan really enjoyed the film for its lovability and laughable shitness. Stefan even convinced himself at one point that the film was actually a comedy not meant to be taken seriously, I’m sure director Claudio Fragasso would have something to say about that. Anyway, Sam volunteered to illustrate his own interpretation of his Troll 2 experience, so here it is:
Stefan is a fantastic writer and will be writing a review of Troll 2 within the week, so keep watching this post.
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