By the way it ended (girl still alive at end), there could very well be a sequel to this. The girl (OOPS! forgot her name!) could very well grow up into the same psychopath that Glen Randall (Grendal) was. She could one by one take out The Brownies that killed her cronies, take their kids, train them to be her new "goblins", and take out The Brownie leader at the end.
Any thoughts?
Not a bad idea, I thought when I saw the ending and seeing that one kid that survived the massacre at the end, in my opinion, looked like a hint that there was gonna be a sequal, but if a sequal hasn't happened yet then more than likely theres never gonna be one, but then again a sequal could happen or possibly even a remake.
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I confess that I never actually WATCHED the movie but I did see "Cinema Snob" review. As cheesy as the execution was, it was relentlessly grim. It's not just the kid-killing, it's the stuff around it. All the heroes die, they accomplish nothing. The kids were killed even after the whole Grendel thing was resolved....by then, they're somewhat sympathetic because they're just brainwashed but no longer under the control of Grendel. The massacre was basically unnecessary & meaningless.
It wouldn't been so bad if the kids were still super threatening.
I guess the real point was that the townspeople were the REAL villains. True, the kids were bad, but they were under the control of a psycho....but the townspeople were weird inbred religious zealot hicks who slaughter the kids despite them no longer being under the spell of Grendel.
Of course, it's Troma and the main draw was "see a bunch of kids get killed in horrible ways". It's just the circumstances around it that bother me. One gets into the film expecting the kids being pure hateful evil til the end....instead, they get kids who did evil but who were killed by hillbillies once they were freed from their brainwashing and rendered less threatening.
Very dark. Very nihilistic. The townspeople were bigger villains. The heroes fail & all die and the bigger villains win.
The youngest daughter survives though, and is implied to be facing a future like Grendel. But I like to think she's an anti-Grendel who gets revenge on the hicks in the future...like some anti-heroine who, while brutal, is someone to root for.
Besides, as Joel in MST3K said to Crow & Servo, once...."You don't have to accept the ending they give you"......That's the beauty of fanfic-writing. One can undo the ending or write a sequel where the daughter becomes the anti-Grendel who wipes out the hicks who murdered her dad.
Maybe Troma was pulling a Funny Games on movie-goers. "You bastards!" indeed!
Maybe Troma was pulling a Funny Games on movie-goers. "You bastards!" indeed!