Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site druri.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!drutx!druri!dht From: dht@druri.UUCP (Davis Tucker) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Another REALLY bad SF movie - "Trog" Message-ID: <1033@druri.UUCP> Date: Mon, 21-Jan-85 17:03:33 EST Article-I.D.: druri.1033 Posted: Mon Jan 21 17:03:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:19:11 EST References: <297@topaz.ARPA> Organization: AT&T Information Systems Laboratories, Denver Lines: 33 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