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'''''Troll''''' is a 1986 [[B Movie|B-Movie]] about [[All Trolls Are Different|Torok]], the [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|Troll]] (no relation to [[Turok (Comic Bookcomics)|Turok]]). Directed by [[John Carl Buechler]], this was misbranded as a horror movie, but it shares far more aspects with the [[Urban Fantasy]] genre, and in fact it works better when viewed as such.

The movie focuses on the Potter family. In case you are wondering, yes, there is a [[Harry Potter]], two in fact (father and son), and this was ''way'' before the books. Wendy Potter, the obnoxious little girl of the family, is abducted by the troll, who then takes her form and infiltrates into the family. The rest of the movie he basically turns the neighbours into plant pods to generate more trolls to take over the world. Why didn't he do that before nobody knows. Anyway, Harry Potter Junior, played by a teenager [[Noah Hathaway]], realises his sister was replaced...after watching two sci-fi movies. [[What an Idiot!|And even so he thinks she's an alien]]. It takes him to meet Eunice St. Clair to realise what its really happening, and then he solves everything.

Its worth to note that this movie '''has no sequels'''. The [[So Bad ItsIt's Good]] ''[[Troll 2]]'' is actually an Italian movie with no relation whatsoverwhatsoever to it, and has goblins instead of trolls. The ''Troll 3'' movies (original names being ''[[The Creepers]]'' and ''[[Quest For The Mighty Sword]]'') are even less related; the first has no humanoid creatures or magic whatsoever, instead featuring radioactive plants, while the later does feature a few trolls/goblins/whatever but it was meant to be part of the [[Ator]] series.

** The only actual troll is Torok. The other creatures he spawns from the tenants are assorted fey folk. Damned UGLY''ugly'' fey folk, but fey folk nonetheless.

* [[Brainless Beauty]]: Harry Potter Junior (played by Noah Hathaway, who at the time aged quite nicely since his role as [[The Neverending Story (Filmfilm)|Atreyu]]) is fairly nice looking, but comes across as rather stupid.

* [[Dolled -Up Installment]]: The so called "sequels" were all original movies renamed in order to look like sequels to this movie. Considering [[Needs More Love|how famous this movie is]], one has to wonder ''why''.

* [[EverythingsEverything's Better Withwith Princesses]]: Somewhat subverted; Eunice was a princess, but she decided to become a witch.

* [[Green Thumb]]: One of the few times not only a villain has it, it also doesn't fall into [[Good Powers, Bad People]] because of the way it is used.

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