Nilbog By Mouth
24. May, 2010 
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Best Worst Movie
For Whom The Bell Trolls
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We all have guilty pleasures in life, and for some, they come in the form of awful movies. These awful movies often transcend their own awfulness to become something bigger and often better than itself. Our list is topped by such crapsterpieces as Zardoz, Can’t Stop The Music and Ghost Dad. For others, the list starts and stops with 1990’s straight-to-video Troll 2 (which has nothing to do with Troll 1). For awhile, the ‘film’ topped the bottom of IMDb’s Bottom 100 list, but a funny thing happened on the way down for Troll 2 over the past decade: it became a cult sensation, and turned this once forgotten forgettable movie into a memorable one with its wooden acting and corny dialog being memorized the world round
Most of the (non) actors associated with Troll 2 wanted to run as far away from the low-budget disaster as possible, but with its modern resurrection, they could no longer beat it, so they decided to join it, and in on the fun, mainly at midnight screenings and conventions across America. Re-enter Michael Paul Stephenson (he played the whiny kid Joshua), who 17 years after the fact, wanted to document the phenomenon and see what happened to a lot of the players involved, and in turn, make peace with this giant stain from his past. His labor of love of his former labor of hate is aptly named Best Worst Movie, and even if you’ve never experienced Troll 2, it is a heartfelt and heartbreaking sight to be seen, and to laugh with and at. And if your child ever has dreams of acting, you parents may want to use this as a cautionary tale of how everyone’s dreams don’t necessarily come true… yet it is possible to live happily ever after
What we loved most about Best Worst Movie was its sense of family and the unbreakable bonds that’s shared between the actors and filmmakers. While they’ve been apart for many years, the reunions we witness (complete with reenactments of key/unbearable scenes!) rival the ones of people who are actually related to one another. Leading the way are George Hardy, who played Stephenson’s father, and Claudio Fragasso, the Italian director who barely spoke English when they made the movie in Utah. Hardy, a goofy, charming southern gentleman and a non-stop smiling dentist, has come to embrace the film and his new found fame more than anyone else. It’s impossible to walk away without falling in love him, or his hair. Fragasso, on the other hand, has chosen to ignore the obvious faults of his film, but is glad that the fans have reclaimed it for themselves. You’ll love him too, and not juss cause we have him to blame/thank for all of this. Best worst movie indeed!
Heart & Troll: it’s never too late to watch Troll 2, especially since you can do so at any ole time over at Hulu
Verdictgo: Breast In Show!!!!!!
Worst is currently BEST in NY & LA, and elsewhere elsewhen
and until next thyme the balcony is clothed…
