'Troll' is a fun story about an evil magical creature who impersonates a little girl in order to infiltrate a San Francisco apartment building and convert it, room by room, into its own horrid realm. A great cast (including Michael Moriarity, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack, Julia Louise Dreyfus, June Lockhart & Anne Lockhart) make the zany characters and broad humor work in creating an entertaining film. The 'sequel' has nothing to do with the original; it does not even involve the same creature. The 'sequel' is about city folk who vacation in a countryside of goblins who want to turn them into plants so they can eat them. (huh?) The sequel is quite bad, but the DVD is worth buying just for 'Troll'.
Troll2 should stay in nilbog
Troll is a great fantasy romp that had me pleased. Featuring for its time great special effects for a B movie. The acting quality isnt great but top notch none the less. I rate that movie a 4/5. Now there is Troll2. This is one of those movies I wanted to turn off. I know of its cult status among fans so i thought i would give it a shot. Bad idea. That movie has such bad acting, plot holes, stupid story, and some of the worst dialouge ive ever heard outside of a high school drama class. So basically Toll is great while Troll2 is its younger brother that sucks. I give Troll2 a 2/5. So basicaly this combo deserves a 3/5 because while troll is great and by itself could have gotten a 4/5 its broght down to a 3 due to the fact that troll2 was so remarakbly bad.
Come Closer... !
In Troll (**), a family headed up by Michael Moriarty and Shelley Hack move into their new apartment. Unfortunately the young daughter is kidnapped and impersonated by a troll, who goes about turning the other residents into greenery or fairy creatures. Among those suffering this fate are Sonny Bono and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss, who can't have been too happy to have this hunk of cheese lurking on their CVs. Mediocre as Troll is, it does at least have fairly high ambitions with regards to its fantasy FX, rough as they are. Troll 2 (1/2*), on the other hand, defies belief with its cataclysmic awfulness. It has nothing to do with the first film (and should more correctly have been called Goblin, given that that is what the menace is). Here another young family hits a small town where the residents are goblins in disguise. The FX are lamentable, the make-up is immobile, the acting is shrill, and the dialogue is the worst of all. If ever a film needed the Mystery Science Theater 3000 treatment to make it watchable, Troll 2 is that film. It richly deserves its cult reputation as prime so- bad-it's-good material.
The menus are basic, and the only extra is the theatrical trailer for each film.
The films themselves are either mediocre or unspeakable (though in a mesmerizing way). Still, a tip of the hat to MGM for giving even the worst bottom-scraper a widescreen transfer.
MGM has done an admirable job for this new Double Feature DVD. It contains both Ghoulies and Ghoulies 2, both presented in Animorphic Widescreen with their original theatrical trailers. The picture and sound are as good as we're ever going to see these two films on DVD. A great value, even if you only wish to buy it for one of the movies.
GHOULIES was an early release from Charles Band and Empire Pictures, predating the later Full Moon Pictures. The budget was fairly low for the mid-1980's, but it is still an enjoyable late-night film.
GHOULIES 2 was the sequel and probably had a little larger budget. It featured more talented actors (Royal Dano, Phil Fondacaro, Starr Andreeff, Sasha Jenson) and the Ghoulies are a little more animate than in the original movie. On a whole it is better... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Peter Liapis - Lisa Pelikan Director(s): Luca Bercovici DVD Release Date: Released the 26 August 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
List Price: $14.95 Your Price: $13.46YOU SAVE $1.49!
Buy it
Without a doubt this is one of those fluke hits in the 80's. I mean you have hair ball monsters that can eat just about anything, rolling around, and man-handling a farm. Its stupid beyond anything yes, but it also maintained a horror element. Something that diffenly would get lost on the rest of the movies in the series. Few people will tell you the sequel was better than the first, but personally i liked the 2nd one better. This though is still dang good, but nothing like the epic fight that would be in the next movie. So get the dvd and enjoy a movie that was made when movies were good. They could tell a story, entertain....without the overblown and sometimes embarassing effects of CGI now. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dee Wallace-Stone - M. Emmet Walsh Director(s): Stephen Herek DVD Release Date: Released the 05 August 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $14.97 Your Price: $6.97YOU SAVE $8!
Buy it
I can't believe that guy figured out I'm not the real M. Night Shyamalan. I did, however, direct "The Sixth Sence" a movie about a couple of college students who travel about Japan looking for the perfect Japanese "Sence" Disco house. When they arrive at the sixth one that night, they all flip out upon realizing that it's filled with clones of Martin Short. IN the end, there's a bloodbath when Rip Taylor arrives in Nagasaka witha barrel of hydrochloric acid and douses the clones. Give it a try, you won't regret it! More Info about this DVD Director(s): Bettina Hirsch DVD Release Date: Released the 23 March 2004 Usually ships within 24 hours
List Price: $9.98 Your Price: $9.98YOU SAVE $0!
Buy it
AWFUL 1:33 aspect ratio, grainy picture, shaddy and tons of compression blocks.
Extras: trailer (ok) and a cheap still gallery. Very poor, I know it's too much asking for a 'Making Of' for a movie like this, but....
Sound: English Stereo. No Subtitles in ANY language. VERY POOR.
The best thing of this DVD is the cover. Nothing else.
Conclusion: If you are and horror fanatic, and you like this movie, search for a german edition under a collection called 'Extreme'. It has a remastered picture, original Widescreen ratio and dolby english sound 2.0 track. Pretty good edition, it only lacks of extras and subtitles.
There Back. Move over Stripe the Critters have returned. The critter in this one do not grow to be as big in this one. Charlie has now become a bounty hunter. Return from a mission the are informed by the space king that and early mission is not accomplised. He inform them that the have detected signs of krite life on Earth.
Refusing to pay them until the Krites are total anilimated Charle Ug and Lee Return to Earth. A now older bradly Brown returns to Grovers Bend to stay with his grandmother for easter. The misleading thing about the movie is there is a lot more krites on earth than I expected.
Instead only four there are hundreds of them. The owner of the Newspaper formides on of his employes to wqrite a story on Brad Browm. Apparently the incident at his farm caused some bad... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Scott Grimes - Liane Alexandra Curtis Director(s): Mick Garris DVD Release Date: Released the 05 August 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
List Price: $19.98 Your Price: $17.98YOU SAVE $2!
Buy it
