"We didn't know what was going on, and they didn't know what to tell us," said Lance Williams, who played one of the goblin townsfolk.

George Hardy, who played the father of the Waits family, which the townsfolk of Nilbog (goblin spelled backward) are after, said the language barrier made an already confusing script downright impossible to understand.

"I had no clue what was going on in the film," he said. "It was so discombobulated. We'd all try to read through the script and figure it out, but we couldn't do it."

Now that the kitsch film is becomingly increasing popular, Hardy said he hopes it takes its place in American pop culture alongside such movies as "The Rocky Horror Picture Show."

And while they won't hesitate to knock their product, the actors at Thursday's reunion don't apologize for it, either, unanimously agreeing that the whole experience was a blast.

Perhaps Deborah Reed, who turned in an over-the-top performance as the movie's arch-villain, Creedence Leonor Gielgud, put it best.

"If you can't be in the best movie ever made, you might as well be in the worst one," she said. "It's fun."

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