# Troll (1986)

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**Runtime**: 83 min
**Genres**: Fantasy, Horror
**Directed by**: John Carl Buechler
**Written by**: Ed Naha, John Carl Buechler
**Starring**: Noah Hathaway, Jenny Beck, Phil Fondacaro, Michael Moriarty, Shelley Hack, Julia Louis-Dreyfus

> *Worlds of magic, mystery and menace.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

Fog curls around a downtown fire escape, late winter, a child’s plastic doll face-down in a puddle.  
A rent-controlled flat, a missing girl, a mother’s lipstick on a cold glass. The landlord hums an old lullaby through thin walls.  
Feels like a VHS found in a dumpster behind a 1986 Blockbuster.

**Mood tags**: 3am-cult

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