DipitySkillful an ambitious but ultimately ineffective debut endeavor.

Hadrina The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Marva-nova Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

connorbbalboa Whenever I watch a big star on his or her last legs, degrading oneself to such a dreadful film, I always feel a bit dead inside. Roger Moore finally exhausted himself as James Bond in A View To a Kill, for one thing. Here, Joan Crawford, one of the most renowned actress of Classic Hollywood, finds herself being degraded to playing an anthropologist playing "Mommy" to a caveman in a cheap-looking ape costume.The film begins with three freelance geology students exploring a new cave in the English countryside. One of them is killed by an unknown creature and another is in shock and heavily wounded. Joan Crawford's Dr. Brockton and the third student go down to the cave and find the troglodyte that is hiding there. They eventually lure him out with the press watching, and Brockton captures him with the hope to civilize him like a normal human being.Let me start off by saying that Crawford is quite bad here. Most of the time she's on screen, she almost looks like she is going to explode in a fit of hilarious anger, even when she has a pleasant expression on her face. One can just tell from looking at her on the screen that as an actress, she's washed up at this point. Even though she would make another appearance as a TV actress later, this was her last movie. What a depressing way to go out. Michael Gough also costars as a vague businessman who hates Trog for no other reason than he thinks that his presence would interfere with his business dealings, whatever they are. To set off the film's final rampage, he angers Trog and sets him free, stupidly not expecting Trog to go after him once he's set free. Gough is just half-hearted here, struggling especially to make his disgusted speech towards Trog believable.Aside from the hilariously bad performances, the film is really boring. Most of it is devoted to Crawford playing with Trog like a pet and treating him like a kid with disabilities, which is sort of what she compares him to. The film wants me to care about all of this, but I don't, mainly because her plans should have already been rendered moot with the fact that he has killed four people by the time he ends up in her lab. Does she not care about human life, despite her position? The Trog costume is so poor, that only actor Joe Cornelius's eyes allow for any kind of expression from the creature. This is especially unacceptable considering that John Chambers' Academy Award-winning make up for Planet of the Apes (1968) allowed more expression from the actors and were quite revolutionary.There are even little inaccuracies related to science and religion. When Brockton defends not killing Trog, she refers to what she thinks is the Second Amendment, "Thou shalt not kill." First off, it's a Commandment, and second, it's the sixth one. Also, when she talks about her profession, she lists gorillas and apes as related to humans. Doctor, gorillas are apes too. There is a big operation that involves putting a control grid inside of Trog's chest that will allow him to talk for some reason. It's not explained how. Part of the experiment also leads to Trog remembering dinosaur fights, which is actually footage from Irwin Allen's The Animal World (1956), and with the fights done via stop-motion by Ray Harryhausen. Sadly, it's one of his weaker efforts. After the experiment, Trog talks. I don't get it. It's incredibly obvious that the science was outdated even when the film was released. Trog is supposed to be a "missing link" according to Dr. Brockton, but Australopithecines had already been discovered at this point, and they are considered more of a missing link. Also, a troglodyte is defined as nothing more than a person living in a cave. It does not refer to a half-ape, half-human creature.Trog is probably the worst low grade monster movie from the 1970s that I've seen. Yes, even worse than Night of the Lepus, Frogs, The Swarm, or Dracula A.D. 1972. It's an embarrassing film that should never have been made, and, given how the Hollywood atmosphere was changing, can't even qualify as 70s entertainment.

marcslope And make no mistake, Joan's last feature is pretty bad, a horror cheapie that tried to pass itself off as sci-fi. But scattered about the random violence and hilariously wicked villains and Joan's stoicism are some actual issues. She plays an anthropologist who, with the help of some unappetizing young Brit scientists, discovers a troglodyte who evidently was cryogenically frozen and melted back to life millennia later. (Giggle-inducing goof: A line of dialogue theorizes Trog is several thousand years old, then, in an under-the-influence-of- sodium-pentathol scene, he "remembers" a series of Claymation dinosaur battles, which would have to have happened at least 60 million years ago.) The script's ludicrous, the direction by Hammer vet Freddie Francis undistinguished, the acting confined mostly to snarls and screams. But there is, buried somewhere within, a viable conflict: Should this gift from the past be allowed to live, or his existence too risky? The body count does pile pretty high, and valid arguments are made on both sides. But then the movie just ends, seemingly in mid-scene, with Joan trudging off into oblivion. You'd think the cameraman just ran out of film.

poe426 TROG scared the bejeezus out of me when I was a kid. It featured what had to be one of the most horrifying creatures to ever come creeping hideously across the Big Screen. I'm talking about Joan Crawford, of course. (And, yes, that WAS a joke.) I recently revisited this one for the first time since my childhood and, while a lot of it just doesn't hold up to close scrutiny, it's still a fun movie. (I KNEW it! According to the IMDb, the mask worn by Joe Cornelius as TROG was originally one of the ape-men from 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. I would've bet money on that even before reading the IMDb trivia.) The scene that shook me up most as a kid (aside from the creepy cavern scenes early on) was the scene where Trog surprises Michael Gough as he's about to flee the scene of the crime. I also found the scenes where our hero lopes about the countryside at night in search of the entrance to his underground home pretty scary. Sigh. They just don't make 'em like this any more...

Paul Andrews Trog is set in England where three potholers Malcolm (David Griffin), Cliff (John Namil) & Bill (Geoffrey Case) discover a new cave entrance in some marsh land, they enter the cave & explore where Bill is killed by an ape like creature. Malcolm & Cliff rush to the nearby Brockton Research Clinic for help where the renowned anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) hears about the incident, she becomes convinced that this ape like creature may be the missing link & organises another trip into the cave to capture it. Having done so Dr. Brockton is sure that the creature is a Troglodyte & as such names it Trog (Joe Cornelius), she believes that Trog can reveal to mankind our origins but there are other's who see Trog as a monster that should be destroyed...This infamous British production was directed by the usually reliable horror genre regular Freddie Fancis but even he can't save Trog from being a total disaster on all counts, Trog is the sort of film that the Golden Turkey awards were invented for. The script is a silly mess only made worse by the production values, basically every aspect of Trog goes towards making it a jumbo sized Turkey on all counts. The script never really addresses the obvious question of how this Troglodyte managed to survive into the present but some vague theory about it being frozen in ice & then thawed out is just plain ridiculous, Trog takes itself very seriously & the idea behind the film is just plain silly & certainly doesn't work on any dramatic level. Then there are the character's who are all badly written especially Dr. Brockton herself who treats Trog like some sort of pet & with camp scenes of her yelling at him, playing ball with him & giving him plastic dolls I was left wondering how any of the cast members managed to keep a straight face as I am sure the majority of the audience couldn't. There's one scene where Brockton claims Trog is not a carnivore yet in the same scene proceeds to feed him fish & lizards which, the last time I checked, were meat. The pace is fair & the next unintentional laugh isn't too far away but then the film switches gear at the end & tries to be scary with Trog going on a rampage through a village (all one street of it) & kidnaps a young girl for no apparent reason. There's a boring sub-plot about a local man trying to get Trog destroyed as he thinks it's dangerous but it goes nowhere & we never find out the court's decision anyway & despite Trog killing a man all that is mentioned is him killing that stupid dog, I mean wouldn't the fact Trog killed a man have more weight & be of a much more serious nature than killing a dog? All in all Trog is a really bad film with the occasional unintentional laugh but overall it's rubbish.Trog himself looks pretty bad, it's obviously just an actor in a face mask which is a different shade of colour to the rest of his body & Trog isn't scary at all & in fact he's a little bit as likes to play with girls dolls & wear pink scarfs. There's a bit of gore including a butcher getting impaled on his own meat-hook. There's a sequence in which Trog remembers various Dinosaur's fighting, these scenes were taken from the Irwin Allen film The Animal World (1956) & are tinted annoying colours for some reason. At one point Trog flips a car over on it's side & then it explodes for no reason whatsoever, strange. According to the IMDb the Trog ape suit was a left over prop from Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) while Joan Crawford joked that if she wasn't a Christian she might have committed suicide from the embarrassment of being in Trog.Filmed here in England this looks pretty cheap with plastic cave sets, bad effects & a drab low budget look about it. Trog was the last feature film Joan Crawford ever made while Michael Gough deserves better than this.Trog is a terrible film on all counts, the script is awful & lazy & it just looks cheap & ugly too with a tatty Troglodyte suit. This is a bad one & I find it hard to believe anyone normal will enjoy it.