Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Hitchcoc Let's just keep Joan Crawford out of this for a minute. I just never cared for her as an actress anyway and Hollywood could be heartless to those that made a lot of money for them. This film is bad in nearly every respect. Beyond the obvious acting and special effects, is a messed up script, containing unnatural lines and plot malfunctions. When this was going to be on television one night, one of my college roommates said, "You've got to see this. It is such a great movie." I sat with him in silence, waiting. When I die, I am going to want that hour and a half back.

LeonLouisRicci There are a Number of Film Craftsman Attached to this Movie, aside from Joan Crawford in Her Last Feature Film. It makes the Attraction and Attention it Received Understandable and also, why it gets Eviscerated Routinely.There's Freddie Francis a Cinematographer/Director of Acclaim who Directs this as though it was 1960 and Not 1970. Even B-Movies and Genre Pictures had Undergone some Artistic Evolution after the "Times they are a Changin'" Decade. But, Francis didn't get or Ignored the Memo and made this in a Style that was Anachronistic.He did Include some Gore and Brutal Killings, but these are Overshadowed by some of the Silliest Scenes Imaginable. Unimaginative Things like Treating the Newly Discovered "Missing Link" like a Pet Dog. "Bad Trog...Come here Trog...Give the ball to me Trog...Give the Doll to Me Trog...Good Trog." Sheesh!The Movie has a Colorful Palette, the Cave Scenes are "Dr. Who-ish", and there is a Bizarre Inclusion of a Drug Tripping Trog Hallucinating Stop-Motion Dinosaurs from Harryhausen/O'Brien. That Oddity, Crawford's Professionalism, Michael Gough's Maniacal One-Note Character, Trog's Killing Rampage, and Obvious Sympathetic Handling of the Living Doll Child, All Add to the Clunking Charisma of the Misfire.There are too Many Things Here to Watch and Enjoy to Call this one of the Worst Movies Ever or even "So Bad It's Good". If it wasn't Joan Crawford's Last Movie One Doubts it would be such a Whipping Post. Although the Scene with the Pink Scarf is Unintentionally Hilarious.Yes, the Trog Makeup and Costume are Laughable, but Not Completely, and the Script's Attempt at Scientific and Social Commentary are Elementary, but in the End it is Entertaining. That is Enough to Keep it From its Legendary Infamy, Despite Joan Using this as an Excuse to Leave Movies Altogether.

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...

Coventry Joan Crawford, in her last appearance on film, is at her craziest in this legendary turkey where she fosters a "Troglodite" – half man, half ape – that was found in an undiscovered cave in the English Moors. The film is fast paced at first (with a few virulent Trog-attacks during the opening fifteen minutes) and quite dull later on (when Crawford teaches him dog tricks), but 100% senseless throughout! As soon as the beast is captured, "Trog" inexplicably turns into a Walt Disney produced family movie with Joan and her assistant training the prehistoric caveman into a cute and huggable pet. He learns how to wind up toy dolls, respond to classic music and play catch in the garden. I swear, at a certain point during the film Joan Crawford even dresses her hairy pet up with a pink neck tie, which makes the supposed missing link in Darwin's evolution theory appear quite gay. The tumultuous Sam Murdock and the local police inspector are trying to have the creature killed, but obviously nobody can tell Joan Crawford what to do, and thus she cheerfully continues to study the beast. You would expect – or at least hope – that at some point the creature breaks loose and goes on a relentless killing spree that fills up the rest of the film, but no … Instead, Trog has really overlong and pointless visions/flashback revolving on the end of the dinosaur era, with giant animals battling to the death and volcanic lava destroying the landscape. How these sequences are in any way relevant to the plot goes beyond my comprehension, but I guess the producers probably had some unused stock-footage with stop motion effects lying around. If you do wait long enough, and I assure this movie is quite difficult to sit through at times, you eventually will become rewarded with Trog's long- awaited murderous rampage. Believe it or not but the whole thing even almost turns into a nasty exploitation flick near the end, with a few nasty killings (one poor guy is impaled on a meat hook) and a hectic climax. The ending, though, is a lame re-enactment of "King Kong". "Trog" holds the reputation of being one of the biggest turkeys ever made – it even features in the documentary "The 50 Worst Movies Ever Made" – but I must admit my mates and I had a blast watching this. Sure it's pretty bad, but I have too much respect for some of the people involved to just simply condemn the whole film. Director Freddie Francis made some of the finest British horror films ever and Joan Crawford will always remain an unhinged cult siren. Besides, her other contemporary horror effort "Circus of Terror" isn't exactly a masterpiece neither. "Trog" also stars the still heavily underrated Michael Gough as the town's bastard.