TROLL-1986-An ugly troll (Phil
Fontacaro) pretends to be a little girl and terrorizes her
dysfunctional family (Michael Moriarty and Shelly Hack) and the
idiot tenants in their apartment building. After turning Pete (Sonny
Bono) into a plant, the troll turns the apartment into a breeding
ground for other trolls. He turns a dwarf professor (also Fontacaro)
into an elf and wants to rule the world. The landlady (June Lockhart)
has a singing mushroom and knows magic. She becomes young (Junes's
real life daughter Anne) but is turned into a tree sump. A kid named
Harry Potter (Noah Hathaway from THE NEVER ENDING STORY) must fight a
giant bat creature to save his sister and everyone else.
Typical
Empire production for the time, part fantasy, part horror film.
Special effects artist John Carl Buechler also made CELLER DWELLER
and FRIDAY THE 13TH: THE NEW BLOOD soon after this. It was followed
by TROLL 2 and TROLL 3 which aren't sequels.
Because of the name of
the lead character and the fantasy elements some think this is where
JK Rowling got her idea for her Harry Potter series.
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