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Another REALLY bad SF movie - "Trog" [message #113125] Mon, 16 September 2013 13:57 Go to previous message
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Does anyone remember "Trog", starring Joan "Wire Coathangers!" Crawford?
Talk about baaaaad - ugh! I usually *like* bad SF movies, but I could
barely get through this one. Marvelous. Mommie Dearest plays a scientist
in England when some caveman starts to terrorize the local populace, she
tries to make everyone see reason (I love irony), the caveman finally
comes out of his cave and tears apart what must probably be the most
stupid cameraman in the world... Then they capture him and try to teach
him to talk, but some bad guys let him loose and he goes on a very tacky
tour of the local hotspots... Sigh. They just don't make 'em like
they used to.

And talk about horrible costumes! The Troglodyte was a normal person
except for this really cheap gorilla-type mask like you can buy in
any Safeway or Target during Halloween for 20 bucks, and a little 
fake hair pasted onto his arm (which came off at one point when he
was sticking his hands through the bars of his cage).

Sample dialog (which is what *really* made this movie what it is):

Joan - "What you have here is a living example of our ancestors -
        in short, this.. is... Trog!" ("Trog" pronounced "Trog-GUH")

Bad guy to other bad guy - "Sure, you're a man of science - but how
        do you feel, spending your career working for a *woman*?"

Trog - "Unnnngh!"

It's movies like this which answer the eternal question - "What did
they do with washed-up has-been ex-stars before 'Love Boat'?"

Davis Tucker
AT&T Information Systems
Denver, CO
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