"FUNNY WITHOUT EVEN TRYING"
Daily Variety

"TROLL IS AN EXCITING DARK SURPRISE"
Catherine Rambea, Boston Globe

"MAKE-UP SPECIAL EFFECTS GENIUS JOHN BUECHLER FINALLY GETS HIS CHANCE...'TROLL' MARKS BUECHLER'S GRAND ENTRANCE TO THE FIELD OF DIRECTING AND HE HANDLES THE JOB WITH A TOUCH OF CLASS AND A HANDFUL OF COMEDY..."
Martin Weiss

"Troll"
Buechler, Noah Hathaway and friend

Credit: Director
Special Effects: Designed and created special make-up and creature effects

An enchanting fantasy featuring a delightful cast of story book charcters. Buechler's impish trolls and Faeries are cute, yet horribly dangerous little creatures hell bent on world domination. First, the apartment complex, then the world... The Fairy tale like characters include the beautiful and talented June Lockhart as Eunice Sinclair, a matron full of wit and charm, and wonderful Michael Moriarity who gives the genre performance of the year as Harry Potter Sr., a one time hippy, now older and settled into a Norman Rockwellian existence. If you like the fantasy and fun, you'll love "Troll."

Stories from the Director: Once upon a time, I wanted to direct a movie. Producer Rupert Harvey, ("The Blob," "Nightmare on Elm Street 5," and the "Critters" series) took interest in a screenplay which I conceived and wrote called "Troll." Together we began to develop the project for Roger Corman, -- But it wasn't until my association with EMPIRE PICTURES' Charles Band did I end up making the film. By the time Harvey was no longer involved, Ed Naha was brought in to turn my original treatment into a kinder gentler fantasy. For me the film is a fun little romp filled with some fine performances. It proves the old adage -- you can a lot with a little! I created a ton of creature effects for next to nothing, and shot for a total of five and a half weeks (this includes all second unit, special and creature effect sequences which I directed myself!) in Rome with a mixed language crew.