There is not a single troll in Troll 2. This episode dissects the 1990 independent film that earned the title of the best worst movie ever made, starting with a script Rossella Drudi wrote out of irritation that her friends had become vegetarians, and a director, Claudio Fragasso, working under the pseudonym Drake Floyd. The result is a story about vegetarian goblins in a town called Nilbog who turn people into plants, a ghost grandfather, a teenager transformed into a tree, and a climax in which a double-decker bologna sandwich defeats the forces of evil.

We explain how distributor Epic Productions slapped the Troll 2 title on an unrelated goblin movie to cash in on VHS-era brand recognition, how exploitation producer Joe D'Amato shot it for roughly $100,000 in Morgan and Porterville, Utah, in the summer of 1989, and why an Italian crew wi ...