oscaralbert Review of Trog

Trog (1970)

"Nobody wants to buy land with an ugly demon running loose . . . "

[7/10 · 17 June 2021]

. . . hero Realtor Murdock observes midway through TROG. This film is NOT about caves, dinosaurs, apes and missing links. Viewers paying close attention to the details will conclude that this flick from the always eponymous Warner Bros. Is carefully crafted to warn Americans of the very real danger that a caveman could be maneuvered into the White House as our Oval Office occupant. The prophetic prognosticators of Warner are spot on in fleshing out this horror, creating a monster with bad hair, a strange complexion, hateful facial features and misshapen limbs. When TROG speaks, he eerily foreshadows the guttural ranting of his future Capitol embodiment. Though the Warner seers limit TROG's murders to a paltry half dozen (doubtless believing that it would strain credibility to multiply that number of victims by 100,000), they nail the infantile tantrums, thoughtless selfishness and demonic destructiveness of the USA's imminent danger to a "T."