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Best Worst Movie Review

Release Date: May 14 Director: Michael Paul Stephenson Starring: Stephenson, George Hardy, Claudio Fragrasso, Darren Ewing Cinematographers: Katie Graham, Carl Indriago Studio/Run Time: AREA23A, 91 min. A bad thing gets better The 1990 horror flick Troll 2 features listless acting, klutzy special effects and not a single troll. It stars a whiny 10-year-old named Michael Paul Stephenson—who, two decades after the movie’s release and titanic flop, is still grappling with that disastrous first brush with stardom. Only a few years ago did Stephenson—by then an aspiring filmmaker—realize how oddly popular the movie had become, winning the strange hearts of...  read more

Best Worst Movie Documentary Gets Theatrical Release

Last year, we told you about Michael Paul Stephenson’s documentary Best Worst Movie about his experience as a child actor in Troll 2, the notoriously horrible B-movie with a cult following....  read more

Thank God, Troll 2 is Finally on Hulu!

In recent years, almost anyone who's seen the movie Troll 2 has probably done so via battered VHS or DVD copies loaned to them by friends eager to share the festering green trainwreck of a cinematic masterpiece with everyone they know. This has made for a huge, decades-late upswell of enthusiasm for the film, documented by its former-child-star Michael Stephenson in Best Worst Movie, which we've told you about before. That's all well and good, but there's a darker side to the Troll 2 phenomenon that no one seems to want to talk about....  read more

Troll 2 doc Best Worst Movie to premiere at SXSW

We’re hardly immune to Troll 2, the cult epic that makes a persuasive case to be the worst movie ever made. Some just think it’s a good B movie, though perhaps "Z movie" is a more appropriate description. Others have found it, for better or worse, to be an unlikely fixture of our relationships. ...  read more