Trog (1970)
Posted: July 5th, 2007, 9:58 pm
I'm not sure if this topic belongs in the Horror or Comedy section. Either way, I was looking forward to this movie SO MUCH and I wound up being so disappointed. It was released last week in the "Cult Camp Classics" Box Set (along with "The Big Cube"--which, believe it or not, I really enjoyed!--and "Caged", which I have yet to watch).
I'm not sure if I was expecting this really high camp production that would make me laugh for hours on end, but I spent the majority of the movie feeling retroactively depressed for Joan Crawford since it was kind of slow and boring. There's something terrible about watching the great Joan Crawford playing ball with a man in a monkey mask.
A good deal of my disappointment stems from the fact that they TELL you what's going to happen on the back of the box. The last 10 minutes when Trog goes on his rampage is described in full detail (a guy gets impaled on a meat hook, Trog kidnaps a little girl and tips a car over, which then bursts into flames)! How disappointing.
The only thing really laugh worthy is Trog's "Monkey" suit. It's a guy with a really bad mask on. They didn't even bother to make up his torso so that he looked like a guy who was living in a cave for 1,000's of years. I wound up MST3K-ing the movie with my mom and imagined that Trog was really Bette Davis in disguise.
I'm not sure if I was expecting this really high camp production that would make me laugh for hours on end, but I spent the majority of the movie feeling retroactively depressed for Joan Crawford since it was kind of slow and boring. There's something terrible about watching the great Joan Crawford playing ball with a man in a monkey mask.
A good deal of my disappointment stems from the fact that they TELL you what's going to happen on the back of the box. The last 10 minutes when Trog goes on his rampage is described in full detail (a guy gets impaled on a meat hook, Trog kidnaps a little girl and tips a car over, which then bursts into flames)! How disappointing.
The only thing really laugh worthy is Trog's "Monkey" suit. It's a guy with a really bad mask on. They didn't even bother to make up his torso so that he looked like a guy who was living in a cave for 1,000's of years. I wound up MST3K-ing the movie with my mom and imagined that Trog was really Bette Davis in disguise.