‘Here comes Trog. You’ll laugh at yourself for being so scared… but don’t laugh at Trog.’
Trog is a 1970 British science fiction horror film directed by Freddie Francis (The Skull; Tales from the Crypt; Craze) from a screenplay written by Peter Bryan, John Gilling (The Plague of the Zombies) and Aben Kandel.
The project was originally developed by Tony Tenser at Tigon Films and then sold to Herman Cohen (I Was a Teenage Werewolf; Horrors of the Black Museum).
The movie stars Joan Crawford (Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?; Strait-Jacket), Michael Gough (Satan’s Slave; Horror Hospital; Berserk; Konga), Bernard Kay, Kim Braden, David Griffin,
John Hamill, Thorley Walters, Jack May, Geoffrey Case, Simon Lack and David Warbeck (Panic; The Black Cat; The Beyond; Twins of Evil).
The film is listed in Golden Raspberry Award founder John Wilson’s book The Official Razzie Movie Guide as one of ‘The 100 Most Enjoyably Bad Movies Ever Made’.
Plot:
Doctor Brockton (Joan Crawford) discovers that a troglodyte is alive in the caves of the British countryside. She gets the creature to the surface and attempts to train him, but runs into trouble as a few people oppose this, especially a local businessman afraid of negative commercial consequences, Sam Murdock (Michael Gough). Murdock frees the creature, leading to a rampage…
Reviews:
“There is, however, a rudimentary virtue in Trog… in that it proves that Joan Crawford is grimly working at her craft. Unfortunately, the determined lady, who is fetching in a variety of chic pants suits and dresses, has little else going for her.” The New York Times
“Trog is truly ungodly. The performances are rotten, the Trog makeup is so bad it looks, at times, like it will slide right off the actor’s face, and everything proceeds at a snail’s pace to idiotic situations. It’s really sad to see such a huge star [Crawford] be consigned to the Z-grade abyss of films like this. But, hey, a girl’s gotta eat.” Bad Movie Night
“Since she is now best remembered as the subject of both the book and movie versions of Mommie Dearest, the maternal instincts Crawford displays toward Trog have an even more laughable quality today than when the film was made.” John Wilson, The Official Razzie Movie Guide
“The worst horror movies are those that don’t understand their own absurdity. Trog!, on the other hand, understands it all too well.” RogerEbert.com
The dinosaur sequence was stock footage from the movie The Animal World (1956)
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