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Troll (film)

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Troll

Directed by	John Carl Buechler
Produced by	Albert Band
Written by	Ed Naha
Starring	Noah Hathaway Michael Moriarty Shelley Hack Jenny Beck Sonny Bono June Lockhart
Music by	Richard H. Band
Cinematography	Romano Albani
Editing by	Lee Percy
Distributed by	Empire Pictures
Release date(s)	January 17, 1986
Running time	86 min.
Country	USA/Italy
Followed by	Troll 2
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Troll is a 1986 horror film. The movie was followed in 1990 by two sequels, Troll 2 and Troll 3.

1 Synopsis
2 2009 remake
3 Cast
- 3.1 Characters
4 Reception
5 References
6 External links

Synopsis

The film begins with the Potter family moving into a new apartment complex. While unpacking, their young daughter Wendy is attacked by a troll inexplicably living in the basement. Using an emerald ring, it captures Wendy in it and transforms into her. After meeting the other eccentric tenants, the family notices Wendy's unusual behavior (roaring, biting, tossing people across rooms...) but attributes her behavior to the stress of the move. The only one that notices something is terribly wrong is Harry Potter Jr. (Noah Hathaway)— not to be confused with the hero of J.K. Rowling's famous series. Frightened by his sister's sudden violent changes, he seeks solace in the company of a mysterious old lady, named Eunice St. Clair (June Lockhart), who lives upstairs. When he begins to tell her of the strange goings-on, she reveals to him her real profession: a witch. She tells him of her long history stretching back to the time of magic, when she and a man named Torok fell in love. However, the balance of the realms of magic and men where challenged by Torok in a great war and he was punished to be forever transformed into a troll. Eunice stands guard at this apartment, waiting patiently for Torok to challenge the realms again, and that is what is going on now. The troll had already began going room to room, attacking the tenants and hideously transforming them into pods and their rooms into fairy worlds full of grotesque beasts. In a final attempt to stop Torok's hostile takeover of the apartment complex, Eunice and Harry enter the troll's fairy world. Eunice is attacked by Torok and turned into a tree stump and Harry find his sister trapped in a coffin of glass a la Snow White. Suddenly Torok's great bat monster attacks, disabling Harry. When it goes after Wendy, Torok kills it, destroying his carefully constructed fairy realm. As the magic world collapses around them, Harry and his family are given a chance to escape, leaving just as the police arrive. As the police investigate the house, one of them is drawn into a remaining fragment of the fairy world, setting up for the unrelated sequel.

2009 remake

Writer/director John Carl Buechler is presently filming a remake of troll, with the lead character Harry Potter who uses magic to fight magical characters.^[1] From a Troll 2008 press release in regard to the Harry Potter magical boy character: "TROLL has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by any entity that created or produced the J.K. Rowling series of Harry Potter books or the Warner Bros. series of Harry Potter movies. Movies Plus is not affiliated with J.K. Rowling or Warner Bros., nor has this movie been endorsed or authorized by J.K. Rowling or Warner Bros... Harry Potter and his family were characters in the 1986 movie, Troll, which was independently created and distributed before J.K. Rowling’s first book."

Cast

This film features an appearance from a young Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
Jenny Beck received a Young Artist Award nomination for Exceptional Performance by a Young Actress, Supporting Role in a Feature Film - Comedy, Fantasy or Drama in 1987 for her role in Troll.
One of the residents is named Peter Dickerson (Sonny Bono), named after the author of The Flight of Dragons.