Trog

Trog

From a million years back...Horror explodes into today!

1970 · 91 min · ★ 4.5 · Horror, Science Fiction

Anthropologist Dr Brockton unearths a primitive troglodyte — an Ice Age 'missing link': half-caveman, half-ape — in a local cave. Through experimentation, she manages to communicate with and domesticate him before he's released by an irate land developer and goes on a rampage, terrorising the local citizenry.

Directed by Freddie Francis · Written by Aben Kandel

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