Best Worst Movie

Really fun movie

If you are a movie lover who watches movies over and over again. Or if you love documentaries. Or if you love B movies. Or if you love horror movies.You need this DVD!It will be the best $10 you ever spend! It's one of those addictive movies that you watch everyday like "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" or "In the Mouth of Madness" or "The Ninth Gate".Such an improbability what is presented at the beginning of the movie and where the movie goes after that! A Southern dentist, very handsome and charming, has a nice car, nice house, beautiful ex-wife and daughter. The whole town loves him. Just a picture perfect setting.And then it turns out he starred in this horrible movie, Troll 2. I know! I know! Lots of people love that movie. But, I did watch Troll 2 on Netflix instant play and it was too realistic for me! I'm always worried about poisoned food. And the food in Troll 2 is unbelievably gross looking. And I'm a pescoterian, so that Italian writer would hate me! The whole reason she wrote Troll 2 was she thought her vegetarian friends were hypocrites. ??? lol. I don't understand why...I think it's a great lifestyle. I've been this way for at least eight years...Anywho! This Southern dentist and the director of Best Worst Movie, the child star of Troll 2, make the documentary worth watching! The real horror in Troll 2 is the actors' coming to terms with making that movie 21 years ago! Which makes Best Worst Movie awesome! Their reactions, and of course the cult fans it has finally gained after all this time, their completely opposite reaction to the movie, undying love and praise, is such a dichotomy. Which is awesome! And I totally appreciate that guy getting the Troll 2 tattoo. I've gotten tattoos of things I love (different aspects of my music and cats). I feel you bro!The funny part is you don't have to really even see Troll 2, since Best Worst Movie has all the best clips of Troll 2 in the documentary. But, yeah, watch Best Worst Movie, then Troll 2, then watch Best Worst Movie again. And you will understand the "horror": the horror that a movie such as Troll 2 was ever made!I love Italian horror movies, especially Dario Argento. And I agree that the filmmakers of Troll 2 knew how to make a good movie, you can tell with how the film is paced and written. It's just that Troll 2, is not a good movie. But, I can totally understand fan obsession with movies and their want/need/joy in watching them over and over. I do that myself. So, I really connected with the Troll 2 fans. They're all awesome. I just watched Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf last night for the 25th time!!!Also: anyone notice Shandi from America's Next Top Model Season 2 getting her shirt signed at the New York Troll 2 premiere? That has got to be her! Tall and skinny with glasses and still looking fabulous, just now with lots of cool tattoos!Hail Michael Stephenson! My new favorite director!!! I love this movie!!! Best Worst Movie is part of my all time top five, for sure.

As a fan notes in "Best Worst Movie", the worst movies are never madethat way on purpose but inherit their serious badness from thesincerity with which they were made. Thus was the case with Troll 2,which the director Claudio Fragasso inconceivably insists was anearnest work of art. This documentary, put together by the actor whoplayed the son in the 1990 film, catches up with Fragasso as well asthe writer (Fragasso's wife) and cast of Troll 2.Many terrible films have acquired cult followings--most notably ofrecent times Tommy Wiseau's The Room--but to my knowledge, Troll 2 isthe only one which is itself a subject of a documentary. MichaelStephenson does an excellent job in conveying not only Troll 2's infamybut also the general "it's all in fun" attitude of fans who love trulybad movies. Even if you haven't seen Troll 2 (although I highlyrecommend you do!), I think you'll find this documentary interesting,hilarious, and even touching. Even my 14 year old son, who's as yet tooyoung to appreciate epic badness in movie making, wandered into theroom while I was viewing this and ended up sitting and watching it withme.Much of the documentary centers around George Hardy, who played the dadin Troll 2, and his attending of conventions and Troll 2 screenings aswell as his efforts in trying to get the other actors to participate ina Troll 2 reunion. The jovial Hardy is impossible to dislike andwithout his cooperation "Best Worst Movie" wouldn't have worked nearlyas well. His upbeat attitude lends a balance to the proceedings as wediscover that many of the other actors involved in Troll 2 are thesedays embarrassed, bitter, depressed, or in at least two casesclinically insane.Fragasso, by turns astounded and angry that so many people laugh at hisfilm, is a dour presence throughout, but in the end offers the mostrelevant wisdom. Movies, he says, are about moving the audience, andTroll 2 is by those standards a great success. Fortunately, the samecan be said about "Best Worst Movie", which is well worth a look.

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I can say, as someone who was interviewed for this movie... I'm the guy who wrote the unofficial sequel screenplay that George Hardy, who played Michael Waits, and Michael Stephenson, who played Joshua Waits, marveled at.The other fans interviewed have a lotta heart and soul but the best moments on this documentary about the best worst movie ever made, that is TROLL 2, are shots of the actual film with the actors commenting and telling stories about their involvement in the wonderfully horrible horror film.Sure there could have been more cast members interviewed, like Deborah Reed, who played the Troll Queen... and some of the participants, like the actress who played the mother and the actor who played the grandfather, seem a bit exploited, but this is really all about George Hardy.An Alabama dentist living in Utah at the time, George plays the TROLL 2 father with beautifully hammy delight, and in this documentary we follow George going from fan-saturated screenings to tedious autograph shows to his life at in a small town full of adoring family and friends.And some great scenes include TROLL 2's Italian director Claudio Fragasso, who doesn't realize he made a bad movie, much less the best worst one, thus providing a sort of antagonist as he argues with cast members and holds on that his film was actually good.Well perhaps he's right: not many other bad cult films have this big a following and/or this good a documentary about how it touched so many fans, myself included.