Oh hey Joshua made a good documentary about Troll 2! A well made entertaining and often hilarious experience following the actors and film makers of Troll 2 19 years on. The main star the film follows is the dad in the film played by George Hardy who is a dentist in Alabama, an immensely fascinating, joyous and funny character who starts to go to screenings of Troll 2 and finds himself being adored by tons of adoring fans. Other actors from the film are found and come along for the screenings as well as the intriguing but scary serious (deluded?) Italian director of Troll 2, Claudio Fragasso.

As well as being humorous the documentary is genuinely heartfelt, you come to…

This is a great documentary...but I'm left torn about how it made me feel overall. There were a lot of parts that were just a lot of fun to watch. All the viewing parties. George Hardy (the dad) while he's still in his Cult Hero honeymoon phase. The silly recreations of some hilarious scenes. Don Packard (the creepy general store owner) saying how much he hated Michael Stephenson (Joshua) while they were filming in such a way that seriously made me wonder if he knew he was talking to Michael Stephenson...

Then there was Margo Prey (the mother). Her interview was incredibly sad and uncomfortable. The way she compares Troll 2 to Casablanca really makes you realize that she desperately…

I get so uncomfortable with movies like this and Winnebago Man, happy that the people involved in pop culture items elevated into an ironic pantheon accept this with good humor but uncomfortable with parading them before a dubiously sincere audience for appraisal. Sure, the kid from Troll 2 is the director, and the dad is thrilled to stand before a crowd, but even those who get genuine pleasure from Troll 2 (like yours truly) can turn appreciation into exploitation. It's hard to watch the daughter, still an actor, discuss the fear and despair that fills her when a casting director looks up her name and finds the credit she won't list on a CV. Even worse to catch up with…

Have you ever seen Troll 2? Please tell me you have! Ok, if you haven't, trust me on this, stop what you're doing, get on Amazon, order it, wait, watch it, then come back and enjoy Best Worst Movie, a tie-in documentary filmed two decades after Troll 2 was made which captures the emergence of a true cult classic in every sense of the word. Michael Stephenson was a child actor when Troll 2 came out--not in cinemas, rather on wobbly VHS--with aspirations of being a superstar, only to be crushed when he realised that Troll 2 was, possibly, the worst film ever made. He devised this documentary upon realising that a legion of post-modern film fans, starved of genuinely…

Unfortunately this left so much to be desired in a retrospective on a cult classic bad film however that may just be a case of the behind the scenes not being that interesting (Low budget, cultural differences, a strange Italian director/writer team and genuine attempt to make a good movie), Decent interviews with cast members and how the film impact their lives/careers (Some unfortunately were sadder stories than others), Main focus was on the cult following and fan screenings (Similar to The Room but not on the same scale, constantly left wondering where the genuine love comes from for some fans), The dentist was a interesting person if not merely for how grounded, mostly, he was yet his experiences at…

Started off just as a pretty good documentary, but then it started to get really interesting when it shifted from just being about Troll 2 to being about the people behind it in present day. Well, it opens on George Hardy, who plays the father in that movie, and his career as a dentist and presence in his community. But this is initially just used as an introduction to the movie and its cult following.

We see that Hardy attends all the screenings of the film that he can, laughing along with the audience and running up on stage with the biggest smile on his face. His enthusiasm for the movie and his thousands of fans—that he previously had no…