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Rooftop Films presents: Troll 2 (Special Event) (Event Over)
- When:Thu 7/30 (8PM)
- Where: Automotive High School
- Address: 50 Bedford Avenue Brooklyn , NY Map
- Cost: $9-25
Tickets for this Event
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Combination Ticket - Troll 2 & Best Worst Movie - $11.00
No refunds. In the event of rain, show goes on indoors at the same location. Actual chairs are limited. You are welcome to bring a blanket and sit picnic style. This is a general admission combination ticket for both the 7/30 Troll 2 screening & the 7/31 Best Worst Movie screening. Troll 2 is not available as a single ticket.
THURSDAY JULY 30
ROOFTOP FILMS AND VERIZON FIOS PRESENT
TROLL 2
BUY YOUR TICKET ON THIS PAGE AND GET A FREE TICKET TO BEST WORST
MOVIE THE FOLLOWING NIGHT
One $11 ticket gets you admission to see the legendary
Troll 2 (the worst movie ever made) on Thursday AND admission to see the
documentary
Best Worst Movie on Friday night.
Filmmakers and stars in attendance for both screenings.
OPEN BAR AFTER PARTY FOLLOWING BOTH SCREENINGS FOR ALL IN
ATTENDANCE
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BEST WORST MOVIE WEBSITE |
TROLL 2 MONTAGE |
TROLL 2 WIKIPEDIA ENTRY
No refunds. In the event of rain, the show will be indoors at
the same locations. Seating is first come, first served. Physical
seats are limited. This means you may not get a chair. You are
welcome to bring a blanket and picnic.
BUY A TICKET TO TROLL 2 AND YOU ALSO GAIN ADMISSION FOR
BEST WORST MOVIE ON FRIDAY
TROLL 2 (Claudio Fragasso | Italy/U.S. | 95 min)
Most movies are not particularly good, and there are a lot of bad
movies. Each year, there are a few films made that are simply
dreadfully bad, and a couple of those movies are so bad that
it’s amusing to watch them, to marvel at the depths of
ineptitude to which the filmmakers have sunk. But there is
something truly special about a movie that is so outrageously,
inexplicably, incompetent and awful that it defies
explanation—a movie that is so horribly unlike even remotely
passable films that it is hard to imagine what the filmmakers were
thinking as they made one outrageously bad decision after another.
Troll 2 is all that and more.
In 1989, Claudio Fragasso (under the pseudonym Drake Floyd) set out
to make a simple horror film about the Waits, a typical American
family relocating to the little village of Nilbog. It was a typical
tale about a troubled clan adjusting to life in a new town and
dealing with a horde of local vegetarian goblins who magically turn
people into plants so that they can eat them. After watching the
final cut of the film, the film’s distributors decided that
the commercial prospects for the film were bleak at best. They
decided not to release Goblins in theaters at all, and when they
released it straight to video they renamed the film Troll 2, hoping
that inattentive consumers might fail to notice that the film was
in no way a sequel to the original Troll (and also that
weren’t even any trolls in the movie).
But even this cynical ploy could not save Troll 2 from sinking into
video store oblivion. The plot was absurdly rife with holes, the
acting was terrible, the editing sloppy and confused, the basic
premise of the film preposterous even compared to that of other
films featuring midgets dressed up to look like mischievous
diminutive medieval critters. But 20 years later, Troll 2 is a
runaway cult hit with fans all over the world flocking by the
hundreds to screenings at comedy clubs and alternative theaters.
College kids dress up as goblins, wear Nilbog shirts, cover
themselves with green syrup, and throw weekly Troll 2 parties in
their dorms. Why so much love for such a terrible film?
Well if you give Troll 2 a close look, you realize that what makes
it so special is that it is far from a typical failure. The film
is, in its own strange way, a singularly unique vision. Perhaps the
best way to describe the awfulness of Troll 2 is to say that it
seems like it was made by an alien with only a very loose and
confused concept of the basic fundamentals of human communication,
much less the language of cinema. As one online fan puts it, Troll
2 is “a movie that by all physical laws of the universe,
should simply not exist.” No twisted genius on earth could
ever intentionally make a film this deliriously, hypnotically,
awful. It is so odd it is a mystery; it is so bad it is
unintentionally great. So grab your Nilbog shirt and your latex
goblin masks and join us on the lawn at Automotive High School to
celebrate the majestic disaster that is Troll 2.
Rooftop Films is a non-profit organization whose mission is to
engage and inspire the diverse communities of New York City by
showcasing the work of emerging filmmakers and musicians. In
addition to our Summer Series – which takes place in unique
outdoor venues every weekend throughout the summer – Rooftop
provides grants to filmmakers, teaches media literacy and
filmmaking to young people, rents low-cost equipment to artists and
non-profits, and produces new independent films. At Rooftop Films,
we bring the underground outdoors. For more information and updates
please visit our website at
www.rooftopfilms.com.
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