mark.waltz Don't pity Bian Crawford for the silliness of her last film. Hers is a performance not to pity or laugh at. The screenplay, however, is another matter. Think of Joan as the female Bela Lugosi, and if she didn't exactly die with a script in her hand, she did end her career with a bang. Of course, the film doors end with a bomb and a boom and a bang, and some critics do label it as a bomb, but there are some sweet intentions, even though the final results are outrageously absurd.Joan is a scientist at an institute specializing in the search for the missing link, the proof that mankind has gone through many stages since their days as cavemen and does indeed, but not without a price. Others surrounding her fight the efforts she makes to educate the captured missing link, most of all the evil Michael Gough. Trog is interested in learning, reacting positively to the colors blue and green, as well as classical music, but turns violent over the color red and annoying rock music. A friendly dog isn't quite so friendly with Trog, while he has a soft spot for the female of the species, particularly blonds.In a sense, this is a variation of the Frankstein monster and Rdward Scissorhands even, so fresh it is not. There is also more than a passing resemblance to Pmanet of the Apes. Trog's rampage thanks to the evil Gough ends up gruesomely violent.Totally enjoyable in spite of its obvious ineptness, this is saved by Crawford's sincerity and the well- meaning themes. As for Trog, he wouldn't be so silly looking a creature had the monster like features in his face but the body building physique of a muscular little person into body shaving.

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...

kapelusznik18 ***SPOILERS*** The grad-Z movie "Trog" got far more coverage and attention then it deserved just by film legend Crawford staring in it. In fact it was to be Mrs. Crawford's last movie appearance. In it Joan plays British anthropologist Dr. Brockton who takes a shine to this unearthed, from a local cave, half man half ape Trogodyte whom she christened or named "Trog" played by Joe Cornelius. With Trog getting all the attention by the scientific community one of the town elders Sam Murdock, Michael Gough, tries to frame the ape-man in a staged break-out of Dr, Brockton laboratory that resulted in a number of killings in town that unwittingly included Sam Murdock himself. The monkey man got loose due to Murdock and ended up killing the very man who made that possible! A case of poetic justice if there ever was one.With what seem like the rehabilitated , by Dr. Brockton, monkey man "Trog" on on a killing spree it's up to Dr. Brockton to talk him, in monkey talk, into giving himself up before he's gunned down by the police and units of the British Army. With his fate sealed in not bothering to give himself up voluntarily and on top of everything else kidnapping a little girl, Chole Franks, out of a local school playground Trog has no where to go but into the cold and slimy caves where he first came from.****SPOILERS*** And it's there where he'll meet his end with an icicle ending up rammed through his heart, much like a stake in the case of a vampire, and a barrage of bullets courtesy of the British military. You have to say that Joan Crawford gave one of her best performance acting wise as the kindly and feeling British anthropologist Dr. Brockton who found a way into Trog's heart when no one else could. Her feelings for the ape-man seems as genuine and convincing acting wise as her Academy Award performance towards her spoiled rotten daughter in the 1945 classic "Mildered Pierce". Still "Trog" turned out to be the low point in Mrs. Crawford's film career which couldn't go any lower in that she never made another film that could have eclipsed it in the final seven years of her life after the film "Trog" was released.

Paul Andrews Trog is set in England where three potholers Malcolm (David Griffin), Cliff (John Namil) & Bill (Geoffrey Case) discover a new cave entrance in some marsh land, they enter the cave & explore where Bill is killed by an ape like creature. Malcolm & Cliff rush to the nearby Brockton Research Clinic for help where the renowned anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) hears about the incident, she becomes convinced that this ape like creature may be the missing link & organises another trip into the cave to capture it. Having done so Dr. Brockton is sure that the creature is a Troglodyte & as such names it Trog (Joe Cornelius), she believes that Trog can reveal to mankind our origins but there are other's who see Trog as a monster that should be destroyed...This infamous British production was directed by the usually reliable horror genre regular Freddie Fancis but even he can't save Trog from being a total disaster on all counts, Trog is the sort of film that the Golden Turkey awards were invented for. The script is a silly mess only made worse by the production values, basically every aspect of Trog goes towards making it a jumbo sized Turkey on all counts. The script never really addresses the obvious question of how this Troglodyte managed to survive into the present but some vague theory about it being frozen in ice & then thawed out is just plain ridiculous, Trog takes itself very seriously & the idea behind the film is just plain silly & certainly doesn't work on any dramatic level. Then there are the character's who are all badly written especially Dr. Brockton herself who treats Trog like some sort of pet & with camp scenes of her yelling at him, playing ball with him & giving him plastic dolls I was left wondering how any of the cast members managed to keep a straight face as I am sure the majority of the audience couldn't. There's one scene where Brockton claims Trog is not a carnivore yet in the same scene proceeds to feed him fish & lizards which, the last time I checked, were meat. The pace is fair & the next unintentional laugh isn't too far away but then the film switches gear at the end & tries to be scary with Trog going on a rampage through a village (all one street of it) & kidnaps a young girl for no apparent reason. There's a boring sub-plot about a local man trying to get Trog destroyed as he thinks it's dangerous but it goes nowhere & we never find out the court's decision anyway & despite Trog killing a man all that is mentioned is him killing that stupid dog, I mean wouldn't the fact Trog killed a man have more weight & be of a much more serious nature than killing a dog? All in all Trog is a really bad film with the occasional unintentional laugh but overall it's rubbish.Trog himself looks pretty bad, it's obviously just an actor in a face mask which is a different shade of colour to the rest of his body & Trog isn't scary at all & in fact he's a little bit as likes to play with girls dolls & wear pink scarfs. There's a bit of gore including a butcher getting impaled on his own meat-hook. There's a sequence in which Trog remembers various Dinosaur's fighting, these scenes were taken from the Irwin Allen film The Animal World (1956) & are tinted annoying colours for some reason. At one point Trog flips a car over on it's side & then it explodes for no reason whatsoever, strange. According to the IMDb the Trog ape suit was a left over prop from Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) while Joan Crawford joked that if she wasn't a Christian she might have committed suicide from the embarrassment of being in Trog.Filmed here in England this looks pretty cheap with plastic cave sets, bad effects & a drab low budget look about it. Trog was the last feature film Joan Crawford ever made while Michael Gough deserves better than this.Trog is a terrible film on all counts, the script is awful & lazy & it just looks cheap & ugly too with a tatty Troglodyte suit. This is a bad one & I find it hard to believe anyone normal will enjoy it.