Earlier this month, I wrote about the TROLL 2 documentary BEST WORST MOVIE, which was picked up by distributor Area23A and scheduled for an undetermined spring release. Well, you can get off the edge of your seat, because now the first bunch of cities and dates have been revealed.
* April 23 – Austin, Alamo Drafthouse
* May 14 – New York City, Village East Cinema
* May 21 – Los Angeles, Landmark Nuart
* June 4 – San Francisco, Landmark Lumiere
* June 4 – Berkeley, Landmark Shattuck
* July 2 – Washington D.C., Landmark E Street Cinema
* July 16 – St. Louis, Landmark Tivoli
* July 23 – Atlanta, Landmark Midtown Art Cinema
What’s cool is that there are “special events” planned at each opening, meaning potentially seeing the cast and crew (of both the doc and TROLL 2) do a Q+A, which would be a blast.
More theaters are scheduled to be announced, so stay tuned to see if your city will be getting BEST WORST MOVIE this summer! (For more info, check out the official site.)
In the summer of 1989, Italian director Claudio Fragrasso cast small-town dentist Dr. George Hardy and a group of unwitting Utah actors in an ultra-low budget horror film, which eventually became the undisputed Worst Movie in History. Soon after Troll 2’s initial release, Dr. Hardy decided he was better suited battling tooth decay than goblins. He retired from acting and returned to dentistry in his hometown of Alabama unaware of the legions of fans that would one day recognize him as a cult movie luminary.
Nearly 20 years later, Troll 2 has suddenly become “awfully” popular. A corn-on-the-cob sex scene, pudgy-potato-sack clad midgets, and a peculiar plot about evil vegetarian goblins attempting to transform a young boy’s family into edible plants is unintentionally hilarious, yet strangely captivating and highly entertaining.
Dr. Hardy finds his days of drilling cavities are met by nights of signing hundreds of autographs at record-setting revival screenings throughout the world. Unlikely byproducts celebrating the BEST WORST MOVIE include fan sites, music videos, dress-up dinner parties and even homage in one of the most successful video games, Sony PlayStation’s Guitar Hero 2.
But what does the director of Troll 2, Claudio Fragasso, think about his film becoming “awfully” popular? Meet cast & crew and learn how it feels to fail miserably and years later be applauded for it. Best Worst Movie is story of one of cinema’s greatest tragedies… or triumph’s –Troll 2. The result is a hilarious and tender off-beat journey and a genuine homage to lovers of bad movies and the people that create them.
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