I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

And make no mistake, Joan's last feature is pretty bad, a horror cheapie that tried to pass itself off as sci-fi. But scattered about the random violence and hilariously wicked villains and Joan's stoicism are some actual issues. She plays an anthropologist who, with the help of some unappetizing young Brit scientists, discovers a troglodyte who evidently was cryogenically frozen and melted back to life millennia later. (Giggle-inducing goof: A line of dialogue theorizes Trog is several thousand years old, then, in an under-the-influence-of- sodium-pentathol scene, he "remembers" a series of Claymation dinosaur battles, which would have to have happened at least 60 million years ago.) The script's ludicrous, the direction by Hammer vet Freddie Francis undistinguished, the acting confined mostly to snarls and screams. But there is, buried somewhere within, a viable conflict: Should this gift from the past be allowed to live, or his existence too risky? The body count does pile pretty high, and valid arguments are made on both sides. But then the movie just ends, seemingly in mid-scene, with Joan trudging off into oblivion. You'd think the cameraman just ran out of film.

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...

Trog, for those who don't know, is short for troglodyte. Trog is also a guy wearing a monkey mask who eats rubber lizards and dreams about dinosaur stock footage. Notorious for being Joan Crawford's final film, as well as for being one of the all-time great "so bad it's good" movies. Every scene with Trog will have you in stitches.Joan takes her role seriously, which must have been hard. For all of her character's talk about how Trog is more human than animal, she treats him like a dog ("Good boy, Trog"). Michael Gough plays to the rafters as the guy with a hard-on for killing poor Trog. It's an obsession with him. When we first meet him, he's yelling Trog is a hoax. When Trog's existence is proved, he immediately starts yelling to kill it. I can't remember the last time I saw such a cardboard antagonist as this. He exists solely to be a thorn in the side of Crawford and Trog. Surprisingly, this was directed by Freddie Francis, a director who made a lot of movies for Hammer and Amicus. Most of them pretty good. He also won two Oscars as a cinematographer.It's a bad movie on technical and artistic levels, to be sure. But it is also entertaining, which should be the ultimate goal of any movie of this type. I've seen far, far worse movies than this. If you enjoy cheesy Z-grade flicks you'll get a kick out of Trog.

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.