I'm not a Troma fan, in fact I'd go as far as to say that my opinion of the average Troma film is somewhat derogative.
This early Troma title is very different from the others and yet succeeds in somehow being worse. Allegedly a horror comedy I can assure you in contains minimal horror and absolutely no comedy, looking at the cover I know that's probably hard to believe.
Rana: The Legend Of Shadow Lake otherwise known as Croaked : Frog Monster From Hell is not about a giant frog as the cover art would suggest and is more a Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) type, except despite being made in the 50's the monster looked better then.
With very little actually happening, looking terrible when things do and with little to no redeeming features Rana is actually worse than the cover would suggest and that's really quite impressive.
Nice to know Troma was awful from day one.
The Good:
Funny cover art
The Bad:
Daft concept
Weak horror, poor comedy
Dishonest cover
Oddly boring
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
An actual giant frog would have been considerably more interesting
This makes the Toxic Avenger look intellectual
This early Troma title is very different from the others and yet succeeds in somehow being worse. Allegedly a horror comedy I can assure you in contains minimal horror and absolutely no comedy, looking at the cover I know that's probably hard to believe.
Rana: The Legend Of Shadow Lake otherwise known as Croaked : Frog Monster From Hell is not about a giant frog as the cover art would suggest and is more a Creature From The Black Lagoon (1954) type, except despite being made in the 50's the monster looked better then.
With very little actually happening, looking terrible when things do and with little to no redeeming features Rana is actually worse than the cover would suggest and that's really quite impressive.
Nice to know Troma was awful from day one.
The Good:
Funny cover art
The Bad:
Daft concept
Weak horror, poor comedy
Dishonest cover
Oddly boring
Things I Learnt From This Movie:
An actual giant frog would have been considerably more interesting
This makes the Toxic Avenger look intellectual