March 03, 2008

"A Fearsome Half-Man Half-Ape With The Strength Of Twenty Demons!"

I was sitting alone at lunch, and as often happens, a random thought floated to the surface and caused me to snicker aloud to myself. Today, the catalyst for this laughter was the fossilized memory of the last 15 minutes of the 1970 film Trog. What a coup it must have been for the producers to land Joan Crawford for this film! You get a sense of their bewildering good fortune in this excellent trailer-- they mention that she's in it with big, bold letters TWICE! "Holy shit! Are you serious?! She said yes?! She fell for that line about it being just like Planet of the Apes, but better? Seriously?!" I like that whoever edited the trailer was thoughtful enough to include two completely pointless shots of a guy busting up a laboratory. And, man, that crazy narration really deserves to be extracted and juxtaposed over a video of something genuinely startling, like John Hagee, for example, doesn't it?

3 comments:

stexe said...

Hey, this looks pretty good. I especially like the shot of the little kid screaming while she descends a playground slide, presumably towards trog himself. That's the dumbest thing I've seen in weeks.
No surprise that Crawford is in it, though. She'd been doing low-budget television work for years before this. I just queued it up on Netflix. Oboy!

Lance Ehlers said...

"I especially like the shot of the little kid screaming while she descends a playground slide, presumably towards trog himself."

Actually, she's screaming like that because she is quickly approaching Joan's eyebrows.

Lance Ehlers said...

I finally figured it out: Trog looks kind of like David "Buster Poindexter" Johanson!