#troll 1986

[mushroom-madness]

🍄 Round 1: Match 4 🍄

🍄 Vote for your Favorite Fungi! 🍄

Descriptions Below ⬇️

Gary

“He’s the last of his kind just trying to possess people I love him so much” - Submission 106

““Behold! My true beautiful self. You see, I am a rare species of mushroom able to control the mind of its host. And soon all of Amphibia will be under my command!”” - Amphibia Wiki

Gary Propaganda

Amanita

“Amanita is an alien super-hero known as Green Lantern and a member of the Green Lantern Corps. The Guardians of the Universe gave him a power ring fueled by willpower to protect Space Sector 3100. He is a sentient fungus lifeform from the swamp planet Muscaria, said to be older than the Guardians themselves.” - DC Database Wiki

Galwyn

Honestly, I haven’t a clue. No description on the submission, and I don’t know what they do in the movie. Troll (1986) is a fantasy horror movie.

[b3ebuzz]

I weirdly love Troll 1986. Like its not great or anything but I didn't hate it. The sequel however is a whole other can of worms that I'm not gonna get into-

[hum-tittle]

Whenever I'm naming anything, I make sure to look up the name because I'm so scared I'm going to accidentally plagiarize.

obviously people steal things from other people it's one of the oldest tricks in the book but it still always surprises me to learn that people plagiarise because my introduction to the concept was basically being told that if i ever plagiarised anything i would be executed by firing squad and my head would be removed and displayed on a spike outside the walls of the hallowed academic institution i was attending as a warning to others

[flying-machine07]

[fitsofgloom]

"You worry too much, Harry."

[collectorspose]

1986 treasure trolls

[succubussally]

god I want one

didn't even know he had a tongue till he did that

[cinematitlecards]

"Troll" (1986) Directed by John Carl Buechler (Comedy/Fantasy/Horror)

[epicallyepiceponym]

Watching this right now. And all I have to say is Holy Fuck

January 17, 1986 - Troll is released theatrically in the US.

The horror comedy was directed by John Carl Buechler and produced by Charles Band. It starred Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Sonny Bono, Gary Sandy, June Lockhart, Anne Lockhart, Noah Hathaway and Jenny Beck.

It was filmed at the Stabilimenti Cinematografici Pontini Studios near Rome, Italy. The budget was estimated to cost between $700,000 to $1.1 million and it ended up grossing $5.5 million at the US box office.

[mushroom-madness]

🍄 Preliminaries: Match 4 🍄

🍄 Winner will be in the bracket! 🍄

Amanita

“Amanita is an alien super-hero known as Green Lantern and a member of the Green Lantern Corps. The Guardians of the Universe gave him a power ring fueled by willpower to protect Space Sector 3100. He is a sentient fungus lifeform from the swamp planet Muscaria, said to be older than the Guardians themselves.” - DC Database Wiki

Galwyn

Honestly, I haven’t a clue. No description on the submission, and I don’t know what they do in the movie. Troll (1986) is a fantasy horror movie.

[yetihideout]

Troll, 1986

[canticleofcanticlesforleibowitz]

Any witch worth her Celtic sea salt has an enchanted singing mushroom who will alert her when the evil warlock is up to no good. ...That was my take on this movie when I was 9.

[moviesludge]

I don't want any chefs throwing you in a soup, little buddy

[itslayspodcast]

Ratburgers!

The squad embraces the chaos of APRIL GHOULS and ends the month with a BIGGGG pick—TROLL (1986)! Is this non-ironically the best Harry Potter movie? How is the cast this stacked? And what about THAT musical number?!

Tune in to find out if we gave this film a NAY, OKAY, YAY, or SLAY!

Available NOW on your favourite podcast app!

[jasonsutekh]

Troll (1986) and Troll 2 (1990)

Supernatural beings seek to invade the human world for power or food.

The first one has its moments. The basic plot is certainly enjoyable enough and even the child actors are amusing enough to pull the drama through. It explores some unusual supernatural lore which mixes up some traditional stories into a low-budget adventure and even comes up with a way to vary the setting despite technically all being in an apartment block.

As sequels go this one went out of the way to turn downhill. Not only is is entirely unconnected but they use the title “troll 2” then call all the antagonists goblins. The acting is appalling almost to the point of surrealism and the narrative is loose but even what there is of it makes little sense; the antagonists hate meat but turn people into vegetables as though regular vegetables don’t exist.

Most of the effects hold up pretty well, even the tacky CGI parts in the first one have a kind of charm, as though fairy magic would look a little odd anyway. The acting in the second one makes the child acting look rather competent, mainly because at least the young kid has a reason to speak like a child.

For some reason everyone in the sequel is given a really red complexion which seems like it’s going to be relevant to the plot but it’s just another bizarrely unplanned element. Neither plot really touch on cultural troll lores so it basically ends up as a rough semi-fairytale, cheap horror flick that almost has a conclusion each time.

Troll: 3/10 -This one’s bad but it’s got some good in it, just there-

Troll 2: 2/10 -It’s not THE worst, that’s something else. But…-

-The fish ghoulie from Ghoulies (1984) can briefly be seen in Eunice’s portrait in the first film.

-The witch’s home in the second film was in fact a church which later burned down.

-The lead character in the original is named Harry Potter, a young boy suddenly finding himself in a world of witches, trolls, and magic. The film was released 11 years before the novels featuring the popular character name would be released.

[anotherleftturn]

October 03, 2023

Troll (1986) A family moves into an apartment building where a troll is hell bent on making his world inside of the apartment building.

This movie was okay? It's not so bad it's funny, so Troll 2 fans probably won't like this. This was directed by John Carl Buechler who did the special effects for movies like Ghoulies, Ghoulies 2 and Troll itself.