TALES FROM THE CRAPPER

by Dan-e-Gory

Troma have been producing and distributing independent movies for nearly 40 years and my god they have brought us some cracking…..and erm,not so cracking films. We’ve had a good rummage through the Troma team’s back catalog and pulled out 5 corkers that everyone should check out!

Class of Nuke ‘Em High

Readin’, Ritin’ and Radiation!

Class of Nuke’em high is the first Troma film I had the pleasure to watch on good old VHS.

I will always remember looking at the cover in awe in the local video shop in the early 90s. Set in the local high school of Tromaville, New Jersey, Class of Nuke’ em high has everything; Nerds, nudity, demented bullies on motorbikes, mutants and radioactive weed.

What else could you ask for?

Classic troma from the twisted genius of Lloyd Kaufman, and definitely a staple in any gore/splatter collection

 

TERROR FIRMER

Lets make some art!

Terror Firmer is another nutty slice of blood and guts from the legendary Lloyd Kaufman.

A Troma movie about making the Troma movie, with a blind director and a serial killer on the loose. Queue a de-fetus-ing, boobs, blood, bongs, a fat man getting eaten by an escalator, a penis monster, shit, a puppet named Po-Po, sex with pickles and an Afro. That only scratches the surface of the sick depravity contained in this film.

I fucking love it! Any film the stops half way through for a Lunachicks music video is OK by me! Keep an eye out for a slow background sex change. Great punk soundtrack too!

TROMEO & JULIET

Body piercing. Kinky sex. Dismemberment. The things that made Shakespeare great!

Tromeo & Juliet is a completely fucked up retelling of the Shakespeare classic.

Narrated by Lemmy from Motorhead, it’s the age old love story; Boy meets girl, loads of people get killed, girl dreams of penis monster, girl turns into a pig/cow/girl monster, Boy and girl find out their related and have deformed children. Chuck in death by tattoo machine and a death by fire hydrant and you’ve got Tromeo and Juliet!

Oh, and there are plenty of boobs and loads of blood too!

POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD

Humans, The other white meat.

Poultrygeist is another corker directed by Lloyd Kaufman. This zombie-chicken fast food inspired musical (yes, you did read that right!) is on a serious shoestring budget.

Even though Troma films are notorious for bad special effects (see Terror Firmer) the effects in Poultrygeist are brilliant. Chicks hatching from boobs, chicken mutants, zombie anal fisting and musical numbers that shit all over high school musical.

Robin L. Watkins puts in a brilliant show as General Lee Roy with a funny and repulsive performance. Think Glee on acid… and Spanish fly…with zombie chickens.

FATHER’S DAY

Lock up your Fathers’

Father’s Day is one of the sickest most fucked up films we’ve ever seen. Imagine a grotesque rapist with a fetish for fathers and cannibalism.

Add in a strip club, chainsaw, guns, strippers, suicide, demons, drugs, a one eyed vigilante, a rent boy, priests…it gets a bit mental! Astron-6 have done an amazing job with this Father’s Day.

It’s got an obscene amount of disturbingly black comedy and all of the Troma core ingredients; Sex, drugs and violence.Father’s Day is one of the best Troma releases, and a movie that we, at the Gore Store, watch again and again!

SHOUT OUTS

We’d also like to give a shout out to a few other Troma movies that just didn’t quite make it into our Top 5 and are well worth a watch:

The Toxic Avenger 1-4

Killer Condom

Redneck Zombies

The Taint

Mr.Bricks – The Heavy Metal Murder Musical

Troma’s War

There is a huge collection of fantastic films from the Troma team, so go check out www.troma.com for the full range.

Also check out the majority of their back catalog on the Official Troma youtube channel.

Let us know what your favorites are!