gridoon2018 "Trog" might have been a camp classic (there are certainly scenes intentionally played for laughs, like the one which demonstrates that Trog vastly prefers classical music to rock) if the pacing weren't so tedious. The butcher's dispatching is a gory highlight. Notable as Joan Crawford's final theatrical film, but Joe Cornelious, as the eponymous cave dweller, actually gives the best performance (it's not surprising to find out that he was a pro-wrestler in real life). ** out of 4.

tvsgael2-2 long and cheesy animated dinosaur battle which makes Gumby look like 'Jurassic Park. This was a quote from one of the reviewers, who I am assuming, saw in the trivia section of this title, read that the dinosaur sequence was made by Willis O'brien and Ray Harryhausen together for an Irwin Allen movie. If that reviewer knows this fact, then I can honor his 'cheezy' description, but I gotta tell ya, it's a sad state of affairs when someone can't appreciate the fun of a movie like this. There are two reasons why I absolutely deride the word 'cheeze'. One, it is the name of a bootlegging company that puts out trash. Two, the name connotes a person under 30 who hasn't lived enough life to comment on it, who still lives in their parent's basement, and who can't look beyond their noses to the real 'so bad it's good' beauty of cinema past. I come from a background of loving them, since I was a loyal customer of BACKTRACK Video and Records in Seattle Wa, which specialized in Psychotronic movies, classic sci fi and horror from the '50s and '60s.

utgard14 Trog, for those who don't know, is short for troglodyte. Trog is also a guy wearing a monkey mask who eats rubber lizards and dreams about dinosaur stock footage. Notorious for being Joan Crawford's final film, as well as for being one of the all-time great "so bad it's good" movies. Every scene with Trog will have you in stitches.Joan takes her role seriously, which must have been hard. For all of her character's talk about how Trog is more human than animal, she treats him like a dog ("Good boy, Trog"). Michael Gough plays to the rafters as the guy with a hard-on for killing poor Trog. It's an obsession with him. When we first meet him, he's yelling Trog is a hoax. When Trog's existence is proved, he immediately starts yelling to kill it. I can't remember the last time I saw such a cardboard antagonist as this. He exists solely to be a thorn in the side of Crawford and Trog. Surprisingly, this was directed by Freddie Francis, a director who made a lot of movies for Hammer and Amicus. Most of them pretty good. He also won two Oscars as a cinematographer.It's a bad movie on technical and artistic levels, to be sure. But it is also entertaining, which should be the ultimate goal of any movie of this type. I've seen far, far worse movies than this. If you enjoy cheesy Z-grade flicks you'll get a kick out of Trog.

ags123 So this is what it all came down to. "Trog" is anything but an elegant grace note to an illustrious career. As usual, Joan gives it her all, as if she were tackling Shakespeare. Surprisingly, she doesn't look bad for 65, despite the heavy eyelids. Unlike Bette Davis, who transcended her horror years with a few gentle performances at the end, Joan could not halt the downward spiral. Her latter films, like "Straight Jacket" and "Berserk" are campy fun, but this silly nonsense is just moronic and cheesy. For viewers, "Trog" is neither scary, as intended, nor is it mildly amusing for all the wrong reasons. It's simply embarrassing. We'll forgive her and pretend it never happened.