An evil troll, Torok, the transformed state of the ex-husband of an old friendly witch named Eunice St. Clair, has chosen her apartment building to be the heart of the restoration of the world he once knew. To do this he uses an Emerald ring, and takes possession of a little girl named Wendy, whose brother Harry immediately suspects something wrong. Torok, often in the form of the little girl, goes into each occupant's apartment, hideously transforming people into plant pods.
Only after 20 seconds I started to feel a bit annoyed as it turns out Michael Moriarty, who I recently saw as the fucking annoying ''Mo'' in The Stuff (1985), has a lead role in this one too. The rest of cast isn't much better. The only likeable ones are the cute Jenny Beck as Wendy, whose body gets taken over by a troll, and the midget called Malcolm. Troll has a pretty weak plot which still should provide some fun though. Unfortunately that's not the case. Overall the film is pretty damn boring. It's al so soft that it could have easily been a film for childrens with a bit of a mysterious fairytale feeling. The only thing that keeps Troll from being a complete failure are the decent looking effects when a victim gets transformed into a plant (Although those scene's also get a bit boring after a while) and the troll itself who, although it's obviously a midget in a costume, looks pretty cool.
Troll is a painfully boring and uninteresting film. I have a sore neck from looking at the clock the whole time to if the movie was done yet. But no, it keeps on going with terrible, boring and slow-paced scene's.
If you do want to see a movie like Troll go and watch Leprechaun (1993) who which due to it's funny humor is ten times better than this crap.
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