"Nilbog! It's 'goblin' spelled backwards!"
If you don't know where Nilbog is, you have somehow managed to miss out on what even its cast members call "the best worst movie" ever made: "Troll 2."
Come June, the movie and the town of Nilbog are returning to from whence they came: Morgan, Utah.
Nilbog Invasion, a three-day celebration of "Troll 2," is set to take place June 27-29 in Morgan, where the 1990 movie was shot.
The Alamo Rolling Roadshow, the touring division of Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, is organizing the event, which will include screenings of the now-cult favorite and other related movies, including the original "Troll" (which has nothing to do, plot-wise with "Troll 2" - and in fact isn't that bad, and has such recognizable faces in it as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack, Michael Moriarty and June Lockhart).
The event also includes a ton of other events, including panel discussions, feasts of goblin food, a popcorn-eating contest (it makes sense if you see the movie), and other stuff.
The Cricket has a fondness for "Troll 2," not because he's seen it (which he has, and it is awful), but because one of his Tribune co-workers, online producer Darren Ewing (pictured at left in the movie, and at right more recently), has a featured role in the film. He plays Arnold, who is credited (or blamed, take your pick) with the strangest utterance of the words "Oh, my Gaaaawwwwd!" in cinema history. Watch it for yourself:
Darren, according to the press release, will referee the javelin toss.
Passes - priced at $40, $100 or $170 - go on sale Sunday.
Come June, the movie and the town of Nilbog are returning to from whence they came: Morgan, Utah.
Nilbog Invasion, a three-day celebration of "Troll 2," is set to take place June 27-29 in Morgan, where the 1990 movie was shot.
The Alamo Rolling Roadshow, the touring division of Austin's Alamo Drafthouse Cinema, is organizing the event, which will include screenings of the now-cult favorite and other related movies, including the original "Troll" (which has nothing to do, plot-wise with "Troll 2" - and in fact isn't that bad, and has such recognizable faces in it as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Sonny Bono, Shelley Hack, Michael Moriarty and June Lockhart).
The event also includes a ton of other events, including panel discussions, feasts of goblin food, a popcorn-eating contest (it makes sense if you see the movie), and other stuff.
The Cricket has a fondness for "Troll 2," not because he's seen it (which he has, and it is awful), but because one of his Tribune co-workers, online producer Darren Ewing (pictured at left in the movie, and at right more recently), has a featured role in the film. He plays Arnold, who is credited (or blamed, take your pick) with the strangest utterance of the words "Oh, my Gaaaawwwwd!" in cinema history. Watch it for yourself:Darren, according to the press release, will referee the javelin toss.
Passes - priced at $40, $100 or $170 - go on sale Sunday.
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