35 Years Ago, An Infamously Bad Horror Movie Secretly Subverted A Whole Genre
'Troll 2' is so-bad-it’s-good because it does something interesting with the creature feature.
Since its release 35 years ago, Troll 2 has probably awoken more food-based phobias than any other low-budget B-movie of its era.
The Italian-produced, Utah-shot, so-bad-it’s-good hall of famer is less about goblins and more about icky food dyed in sickly green colors.
In the film, these gross foodstuffs are the poisoned creation of a witch and her flock of vegetarian goblins to trap innocent humans and turn them into plants.
Only young Joshua Waits (Michael Stephenson) knows of its danger when his family arrives in the rural town Nilbog for a house-swap vacation.
Author's summary: A bad horror movie subverts the genre.