10 Essential Trash Films You Need To Watch
4. Troll 2
Lensed in Utah under the title Goblins, Troll 2 is your typical movie about vegetarian dwarves in rubber masks and burlap sacks that lure unsuspecting families to the town of “Nilbog” and devour them once they’ve been turned into vegetable matter by consuming green gloop.
The only people that can save the Waits family are young Josh (Michael Paul Stephenson) and his dead Grandpa (Robert Ormsby), who can freeze time, cause objects to move and appear as a disembodied head but can’t manifest himself in the correct room.
In the most memorable sequence, Josh has to devise a split-second plan for preventing his family from eating the contaminated food, which he does by urinating on the table to the understandable surprise of his father, who delivers the immortal line: “You can’t piss on hospitality – I won’t allow it!”
The popularity of this bizarre trainwreck owes a great deal to the efforts of NY comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, whose screenings made it a smash on the midnight movie circuit. Not bad for a picture sneaked out on VHS three years after being shot, whose cast claimed not to understand the script or, due to a post-production title change, even know of its release.