DRIVE IN SATURDAY
Ten years ago, Ed Naha, a puckishly perverse writer who grew up watching monster movies in New Jersey, published Horrors From Screen To Scream, a neatly compiled encyclopedia of horror, fantasy and supernatural films, that, along with Michael Weldon’s indispensable Psychotronic Encyclopedia Of Film, has come to be fingertip reading for lost souls like myself, afflicted with an insatiable hunger for the weird, the unearthly, and the downright awful.
DRIVE IN SATURDAY
TROLL ME NOW
Edouard Dauphin
Ten years ago, Ed Naha, a puckishly perverse writer who grew up watching monster movies in New Jersey, published Horrors From Screen To Scream, a neatly compiled encyclopedia of horror, fantasy and supernatural films, that, along with Michael Weldon’s indispensable Psychotronic Encyclopedia Of Film, has come to be fingertip reading for lost souls like myself, afflicted with an insatiable hunger for the weird, the unearthly, and the downright awful.
Now it’s the mid:80s— I’m not certain of the exact year—and Ed Naha’s name turns up on a firsttime screenwriting credit for a movie called Troll. Needless to say, upon seeing the credit in a New York Times ad, The Dauph packed a jar of absinthe, strapped on a 8mm short-trigger Pelmann and Rosenthal Mark IV, and hurried out into the New York streets in search of a theater near me. Naha’s film was playing at the first cinema I came to and the marquee said it all: “Troll starring Sonny Bono.” Sonny Bono in a horror movie? Sonny Bono is a horror movie.