Let’s get one thing straight right out of the gate: There are no trolls in Troll 2 .
I have seen Eraserhead . I have seen The Holy Mountain . I have never been as confused as I was during the scene where a grandpa ghost shows up to hand Joshua a bologna sandwich as a weapon. What makes Troll 2 legendary isn’t just one flaw—it’s a perfect storm of three. troll 2
If you’ve never heard of Troll 2 , you’re probably wondering why a 35-year-old Italian B-movie (filmed in Utah with an American cast) still haunts the cultural periphery. The answer is simple: It is the Citizen Kane of bad movies. It is not merely "so bad it’s good." It is so aggressively, sincerely, and spectacularly wrong that it loops all the way back around to genius. A wholesome American family, the Waits, swaps houses with a creepy family in the rural town of Nilbog ("Goblin" spelled backwards—yes, the film has to point this out to you). Young Joshua has a vision: the town’s cheerful inhabitants are actually goblins, led by the seductive witch Creedence. Their plan? To feed the family "magic" green slop that will turn them into vegetables (celery, specifically) so the goblins can eat them. Let’s get one thing straight right out of
There are goblins. Vegan goblins, to be precise. And that absurd contradiction—a monster movie without its title monster, featuring villains who want to turn people into plants so they don’t have to eat meat—is the perfect gateway into the beautiful, baffling chaos that is Claudio Fragasso’s 1990 masterpiece of incompetence. I have never been as confused as I