A nice perk of being a film critic is gaining admittance to film festivals which show movies months, sometimes a full year, before they hit theaters.
That certainly was the case with “Best Worst Movie,” a joyous documentary featured late last year at the Starz Denver Film Festival.
The movie charts the unlikely rise of “Troll 2,” a horrible quasi-sequel from forgotten relic to cult status.
It’s so gosh-darn awful it’s great.
But the film, a can’t miss event for horror fans, may soon be playing at a theater near you. And some of the cast and crew will be making appearances at some screenings:
• April 23 – Austin, TX: Alamo Drafthouse
• May 14 – New York, NY: Village East Cinema
• May 21 – Los Angeles, CA: Landmark Nuart
• June 4 – San Francisco, CA: Landmark Lumiere
• June 4 – Berkeley, CA: Landmark Shattuck
• July 2 – Washington, D.C.: Landmark E Street Cinema
• July 16 – St. Louis, MO: Landmark Tivoli
• July 23 – Atlanta, GA: Landmark Midtown Art Cinema
So run, don’t walk, to the theater if the film is playing at one of the aforementioend theaters. (I always wanted to use that silly line … and it’s actually appropriate for this film).
And note the shout out WWTW offers at the tail end of the trailer …
(Photo: The documentary “Best Worst Movie” will be playing in select theaters over the coming months.)
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Hope is renewed by these outside-the-mainstream efforts. Keep the spotlight on them!
D.
Troll 2 is the Holy Grail of bad movies. A movie long rumored to be so bad it’s good that actually delivers. Manos, Plan 9, these films don’t measure up. They are bad, boring, even painful to watch. But they do not entertain, not me anyway. Troll 2 is the real deal.
It takes a special magic to make a movie so bad it’s great …