Troll

1986 horror movie

Rating: 6/20

Plot: The generic Potter family moves into an apartment building. While retrieving a ball, the body of the generic young daughter is taken over by a troll. This sets off a chain of events that I'm not sure I fully understood, but it somehow involved Sonny Bono being turned into foliage, a barely-clad Julia Louis-Dreyfuss prancing around, a little person, and Harry Potter Jr. running around trying to figure out what's wrong with his sister. That's right. The dad's name is Harry Potter in this. There's some battle between the evil trolls and an old woman that I was really too tired to follow.

Nowhere near as entertaining as the deliriously entertaining Troll 2, but it has its moments. It doesn't take itself seriously enough, so the parts that are supposed to be scary fail to scare. Unfortunately, the parts that are supposedly included for comic effect fail to add anything. The troll puppets are pretty funny, especially in the way they barely move, and watching Sonny Bono do his thang is great, but once you've made your way through the first twenty-five minutes or so, you've really seen it all.