Troll

Troll was surprisingly not a bad movie. It was made in the mid-1980s and suffered from what looks like a low budget. What made it OK was the story -- a pretty good fantasy story. In a small apartment building, a troll, Torok, is slowly taking over the different units by transforming their owners into trolls and their units into parts of the troll kingdom. He only has three days to complete his deed, and if successful, the troll kingdom will burst forth from the building and take over the world.

Torok starts by kidnapping young Wendy, from the family that had just moved into the building, and taking her place. Jenny Beck gave a great performance as Wendy -- especially when she acted as Wendy-Torok. That kid can growl. As Torok transforms the apartments and people in them -- one of which was Sonny Bono (which was fun to watch) and the other, Julia Louis-Dreyfus (who was turned into some kind of forest sprite?) -- Jenny's brother, Harry Potter Jr. (yup), is the only one who seems to know something strange is going on. Harry eventually gets help from Eunice St. Clair, a witch, who lives in one of the apartments, to fight off the trolls and save his sister.

Even though the effects were primitive -- and costumes bad -- the acting was pretty good, and delivered the story. I wish I can say Troll II was just as good -- but it was crap. There was no story; the effects were worse than the first movie; the acting was shit; and I just wished all the characters would be killed off so the movie would end early.