Line #6 Trivia/Troll2


1	* AmateurCast: Most of the cast were local residents who responded to an open casting call hoping to be extras. George Hardy, who played Michael, was a dentist with no prior acting experience who showed up for fun, and Don Packard, who played the store owner, was a mental hospital patient on a day trip.
2	* AudienceParticipation:
3	** During the viewings of the movie, the audience would throw popcorn and bologna slices, as well as counting down to when Joshua "pisses on hospitality".
4	** At B-Fest 2010, the ''entire room'' joined in on the "Oh my Goooooooooooood". Quite a way to celebrate the 20th anniversary.
5	* ChannelHop: The original VHS release came from [[Creator/SonyPictures Columbia Tristar]] [[UsefulNotes/HomeVideoDistributors Home Video]]; all current releases have Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer's involvement, having bought the library of producer Epic Productions in 1998.
6	* DolledUpInstallment: The movie originally had the more appropriate title ''Goblins''. It was changed to ''Troll 2'' because U.S. distributors were skeptical about the film's chances of success as a standalone film, so they renamed it to its more infamous title to market it as a sequel to ''Troll'', despite the two films having no connection.
7	* DuelingMovies: With 1988's ''Film/{{Hobgoblins}}''.
8	* EnforcedMethodActing: The drug store owner looks genuinely insane and maniacal, because the "actor" Don Packard was a patient at a mental institution during filming and stumbled onto the set while on a day pass. Not surprisingly, he gives the best, most convincing performance.
9	* HeAlsoDid:
10	** Don Packard (who played the creepy store owner) hosted a radio talk show in Salt Lake City for many years, using "Golden Delicious" as his on-air alias. As you'd expect from his performance here, the show was very bizarre, mainly focused on Packard's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} takes on everyday life.
11	** The film's costumes were designed by Laura Gemser, best known for her work as an actress in European erotic films.
12	* ParodyRetcon: Claudio Fragasso has tried to claim that most of the film's humor was intentional, but it's very unconvincing given that [[FlipFlopOfGod he's also said the film was intended to be taken 100% seriously.]]
13	* PropRecycling: Two masks from this movie were reused in ''Quest for the Mighty Sword'', sequel to ''Film/TheBladeMaster''. For this reason, it's sometimes released as ''Troll 3''.
14	* RealLifeRelative: The young son of the Presents (the Nilbog family who were doing the house exchange with the Waits) was played by Gavin Reed, son of Deborah Reed (Creedence).
15	* ReferencedBy: In ''Literature/{{Trollhunters}}'', When asked by Tub if there are any vegetarian trolls in existence, Blinky mentions a tribe called the Nillbogians that tried to subsist entirely on plant matter. Unfortunately this only lasted nineteen days before the entire tribe dissolved into green sludge.
16	* ThrowItIn: In the original script, Joshua stops the family from eating the corrupted food by making a scene, namely, by jumping on a chair and yelling he's possessed. The day the scene was shot, Claudio Fragasso (the director) turned to the boy playing Joshua and told him, "Possessed, boring, bullshit. You piss on the table." A legend was born.
17	* TroubledProduction: Actually an efficiently-produced film, made for around $200,000 and finished in three weeks during the summer of 1989. But the cast was made up of Utah locals, many of whom had no professional acting experience (and who assumed the casting call was supposed to be for extras). To make matters worse, only one member of the all-Italian crew spoke fluent English, and the cast were only given the script a few pages at a time, and very minimal and confusing direction. And the director wouldn't allow the actors to change the awkwardly-phrased dialogue, leaving the actors even more in the dark about what was happening. It all added up to a glorious trainwreck of a film. The horror movie fans at ''WebVideo/DeadMeat'' made a documentary about the making of the film, which can be viewed [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF12HnEsLZc here]].
18	* ShowWithinAShow: The movie the guys are watching in the RV is a real Italian film called ''Grunt!''
19	* VindicatedByCable: Er, depending on your definition of "vindicated", but no one had heard of this film til it hit Creator/{{HBO}}.
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