Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

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...

jjnxn-1 The good: There is precious little but the ultra professionalism of Joan Crawford even in dreck like this is impressive indeed. She was aware what she was involved in and while many actors would have just phoned in a blank wall of a performance Miss Crawford would never allow herself to lower her standards to that level. At least by providing her own wardrobe, a budget necessity, she at least guaranteed that although matronly she was at least stylishly dressed amongst the mess that was surrounding her. A pity that this was her cinematic swan song after such a fabled career. She was offered a few more parts, albeit supporting roles in both Airport '75 and Airport '77 which are hardly masterpieces but at least more distinguished than this, but had lost her confidence and totally withdrawn from public view. Beside Joan keeping a stiff upper lip while encircled by junk there are some pretty views of an English village and the surrounding countryside and some very buff actors in the first sequence who strip down to their undies and take a dip to go exploring a cave. Those are the sum total of worthwhile elements in this clunker.The bad:everything else in this terrible movie. Only for completist fans of Joan or extremely bad movies.

wes-connors In England, three attractive young men explore a cave. Two of them strip to their undershorts and swim into a pool of water, where they accidentally discover the titular "Trog" (Trog is short for troglodyte). This encounter turns tragic. Those surviving arouse the interest of local anthropologist Joan Crawford (as Dr. Brockton). She believes Trog could be the last relic of a lost species from prehistoric history, cryogenically preserved during the glacial age. Due to his ugly appearance and all-around bad manners, some nasty men want to destroy Trog. Realizing the creature's scientific worth, Ms. Crawford wants to keep him alive for training and research. "It's my firm belief that Trog is the missing link," asserts Crawford...Missing link or not, this shoddy production fails to engage. Apart from the opening scene and sexy Kim Braden, there is no excitement. Due possibly to budget concerns, poor Joe Cornelius receives only half a monster costume. With so little to offer, extensive stock footage from an old dinosaur movie is rerun. After appearing in several films where efforts to make her appear younger became distracting, Crawford looks fine; she acts the ludicrous script with uncommon conviction. Now firmly in her 60s, Crawford was only appearing in UK features and US television; after a couple more TV roles, she retired (possibly, due to health concerns). Too bad she couldn't get a more interesting gig. Trog is just too silly.** Trog (9//11/70) Freddie Francis ~ Joan Crawford, Joe Cornelius, David Griffin, Michael Gough

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.