Showing posts with label Troma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Troma. Show all posts

Actium Maximus (2005)

Actium Maximus (2005)
Director: Mark Hicks
Writer: Mark Hicks
Cast: Johnathan Daniel McCuin, Mark Hicks,Jennifer Hamil
The wretched colony world of Actium is crumbling under the ego of its dictator, Grand-Automaton Polpox. Rebel Laffrodites, a religious minority, are being exterminated in a government run campaign and to distract the citizenry Polpox has put on a grand carnival, an Actium Maximus where alien dinosaurs fight to the death in a gigantic Colosseum. Space Hunter Axezun is commissioned to scout the farthest reaches of the galaxy for new combatants. He and his crew find much more than bloodthirsty monsters on their quest however, they also discover a secret which could alter life in the galaxy forever.
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(Not Yet Rated)

Ain't No Way Back (1990)

Ain't No Way Back (1990)
aka: No Way Back
Director: Michael Borden
Writer: Morgan Sloane
Cast: Campbell Scott, Virginia Lantry, Bernard White
Two men on weekend outing assist country lass in trouble but find themselves in a stew. One is killed, one severely injured who recovers at the Campbell cabin. He learns the simplicity of country living and falls in love with daughter. She explains, mysteriously, that although she cares, this cannot be; the feud is coming', as it always does. Only after his own death, during the feud, does he realize that the Campbell and McDonald clans have been 50 years dead! He has, however, broken the cycle of the ongoing feud and now all, him included, may rest in peace.
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(Not Yet Rated)

Unspeakable (2000)

Unspeakable (2000)
Director: Chad Ferrin
Writer: Chad Ferrin
Cast: Roger Garcia, Tamera Noll, Leigh Silver
Impotent and unhappy middle-aged James Fhelleps goes murderously around the bend after an automobile accident claims the life of his beloved daughter Heather and turns his nagging wife Alice into a pathetic grotesquely disfigured cripple. James embarks on a savage killing spree, brutally butchering such low-life scum as hookers and drug dealers so he can reach Heather from the other side.
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(Not Yet Rated)

Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood (1999)

Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood (1999)
aka: Drawing Blood
Director: Sergio Lapel, Onur Tukel
Writer: Onur Tukel, Noel Anderson
Cast: Amie Childers, Dawn Spinella, Kirk Wilson
A vampire artist forces her brother to bring her victims so she kill them then paint them with their own blood. The brother falls in love with a young hooker, the vampire´s next intended victim, and must choose between sacrificing the girl or killing his vampire sister.
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Poor vampire yarn following a female vampire artist who kills women then paints pictures in their blood. To help her she enlists a struggling male artist to bring her woman to use, only he falls for a down on her luck prostitute. He must kill the vampire in order to stop her feeding and killing his new found love.

The characters are one dimensional and they are poorly acted, the plots boring, the pace is pedestrian in fact the only selling point with Drawing Blood is it does contain a pretty big bewb count. I found it extremely dull to the point of wanting to turn it off.

(3½ out of 10)

Chillers (1987)

Chillers (1987)
Director: Daniel Boyd
Writer: Daniel Boyd
Cast: Jesse Emery, Marjorie Fitzsimmons, Laurie Pennington
While waiting for their bus, five passengers have just had horrible nightmares and decide to tell them to each other to help killing time. A swimmer, who has lessons in a swimming pool with a dead swimmer, tells the first one. A young boy, who goes camping with two friends and a crazy man as a leader, is the next. Then, a lonely woman, who has an infatuation with the anchor of a late night show, and finds that he is indeed a vampire. A young man, who finds he has the gift of bringing dead people back to life, brings a cold blood criminal back to life. Last, a skeptic professor of anthropology tells to his students about an evil Spanish creature from the Middle Ages called "Ixpe", and a young woman embodies it. When the bus arrives, they have a huge surprise.
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Substandard anthology horror about a set of bored passengers retelling their nightmares while waiting for a connection in a bus stop. The first tales about a woman being stalked in a swimming pool by a guy who died in a divining accident five years before. Next is a tale about a scout being stalked by a crazed camp leader during a weekend camping trip. The third follows a lonely woman who fantasizes about a TV news reader, he later turns out to be a vampire. The fourth follows a man who gains the gift of bringing people back from the dead, only he ends up bringing an axe murderer back by mistake. The final tale follows a professor who gives a college lecture about an ancient evil creature, only one student becomes possessed. The film wraps with the passengers getting on their bus, only their destination is not where they expected to be heading.

Really poor offering from Troma this, they were clearly aiming for something like Creepshow but Chillers tales are as mild as those from the children television series Goosebumps.

(4 out of 10)

Parts of the Family (2003)

Parts of the Family (2003)
aka: Farts of the Pamily (on-screen gag name)
Director: Léon Paul De Bruyn, Gabriel Friedman
Writer: Léon Paul De Bruyn, Gabriel Friedman
Cast: Cecilia Bergqvist, Leo Franquet, Lloyd Kaufman (Tromatized Version)
Beyond the front door of an old, decrepit house is buried a horrible and tragic past. One horryfing and gory night a family of four is brutally hacked to pieces. The only survivor is the young and beautiful housekeeper, Ella. When she steps out of the house one day, she has no idea that she is about to be snatched by failed bank-robber Jason Goodis. Goodis, however, could not have imagined that the innocent hostage he is dragging back inside, has an unquenchable thirst for blood!
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The film was bought by Troma and comes in two versions you can watch the original Belgian film (as they bought it) or you can watch a Tromatized version where Lloyd Kaufman and his fellow Troma goons add scenes and gags (these are mostly centred on cutting back to a Troma news desk during various points of action within the main movie). Plots about an on the run bank robber taking an helpless female hostage, only turns out she's not so helpless as she's just killed an whole household of people. The robber takes the hostage back to her place, but the victims bodies rise from the dead and attack.

Very lame attempt by Troma to liven up a very dull though pretty gory movie. You get a few bewbs lots of gore and painfully unfunny gags, who knows if your stoned or drunk and want something that doesn't need much thought it may be ideal viewing. I sadly was sober and found it painful, I was praying for the ending within the first 20 minutes.

(4 out of 10)

Mommy's Epitaph (1987)

Mommy's Epitaph (1987)
aka: Epitaph
Director: Joseph Merhi
Writer: Joseph Merhi
Cast: Natasha Pavlovich, Delores Nascar, Jimmy Williams
A family must keep moving from town to town because the mother is a psychotic axe murderer who keeps flipping out and murdering people.
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Tale about the Fulton family who have to keep moving homes because alcoholic mother Martha kills most the men she meets. The daughter Amy as had enough of these moves and wants to settle down, expecially now she's met a new boyfriend Wayne. Her father does his best to sort the family out by hiring a psychiatrists to pose as Marthas friend in the hope she can help. Only things don't go to plan as Martha ends up killing both her husband and the psychiatrists then continues with her killing ways.

Released by troma but for change it isn't exactly played for crude laughs (well theres some but its not the usual lame gags about shit or bewbs). It contains one of the wildest onscreen deaths I've seen since Vincent Price played Dr Phibes. Martha puts a rat in a bucket and ties it to the psychiatrists stomach, then heats the bucket until the rat eats its way through the woman exiting her back. One of the more memorable Troma releases this purely because Joseph Merhi tries to stick to his own penned script. Recommended to fans of classic gory dramas like the kind HG Lewis used to make.

(6½ out of 10)

A Nocturne (2007)

A Nocturne (2007)
Director: Bill Mousoulis
Writer: Ali Alizadeh, Bill Mousoulis
Cast: Chris Anderson-Peters, Billy, Patrick Boyle
X and Z are a vampire couple, living in an old warehouse in inner-city Melbourne. Over the course of one night, they go about their regular business, teaming up with the poet-cannibal Seers and another vampire Vee. After a strange encounter with the mysterious Rola, the fabric of X and Z's world begins to change. A philosophical vampire film.
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Philosophical low budget vampire tale from Australia, that comes off more like Mike Leigh's Naked than any vampire movie I've seen before. A Nocturne seems to sidestep any idea of a plot, instead we see the vampires meditate on their almost junky like situation of facing their own hopeless existence just to feed. I'd recommend both Abel Ferrara's The Addiction and George A. Romero's Martin over this, both better thinking mans vampire tales, but if you're in the mood for a zero budget shoegaze vampire movie then maybe A Nocturne will suit your tastes.
(5½ out of 10)

Ultimate List of Troma Titles

Ultimate List of Troma Titles
Produced in Red
Distributed in
Green

2011
Father's Day
Mother's Day
Toxic Twins: The Toxic Avenger V


2010
Troma Digital Studios: A Lesson in BrownRay
Grim
Blood Oath
Killer Yacht Party
Blood Junkie
Sexy Workout
Obsession Letters To David Lynch
Spaceman
LA
Mr. Hollywood
Superstar
Surfin' In the USA
What is Art?


2009
Post Traumatic: An American Nightmare
Direct Your Own Damn Movie!
My Best Maniac

Purge
Heavy Mental: A Rock-n-Roll Blood Bath
Jessicka Rabid
The Chainsaw Sally Show
The Killer Bra
Dark Nature
The Ghost of Marquis de Sade
10 Things Every Golfer Should Know
Penisella


2008
Poultry in Motion: Truth Is Stranger Than Chicken
The Amnesia Party

Dead Eyes Open
Splendor and Wisdom
Bloodspit
The Seduction of Dr.Fugazzi
Tasteless
Shameless
Vanity Insanity


2007
Uchuujin from Outer Space
Dancing Into the Future

Meat Weed America
Blood, Boobs & Beast
Crazy Animal
A Nocturne: Night of the Vampire (reviewed here)
Jack to the Max


2006
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Debbie Rochon Confidential: My Years in Tromaville Exposed!

The Evolved Part 1
Special Needs
Cyxork 7
Yeti: A Love Story
Big Foot
Meat Weed Madness
The Demons Among Us
I Need to Lose Ten Pounds


2005
Virgin Beasts
Devoured: The Legend of Alfred Packer
Make Your Own Damn Movie!
976-Lars

Coons! Night of the Bandits of the Night
Eyes of the Chameleon
Pot Zombies
Rock 'n' Roll Space Patrol Action is Go!
Belcebú: Diablos Lesbos
Actium Maximus: War of the Alien Dinosaurs
Hick Trek 2: The Next Aggravation
No Substitute for Victory: From Vietnam to Iraq
Mike Jacobs' Explosive Golf


2004
Tales from the Crapper
Kung-Fu Kitties

LolliLove
Space Daze
The Thick Brown Line
Offensive Behaviour
Emily
The Incredible Torture Trio
Marijuana's Revenge


2003
Doggie Tails, Vol. 1: Lucky's First Sleep-Over
Bazaar Bizarre
Zombiegeddon
Doggie Tails
The Wounded
Coming Distractions


2002
All the Love You Cannes!
Apocalypse Soon: The Making of 'Citizen Toxie'


2001
Sidney Pink on 'Pyro'
The Making of 'Terror Firmer'

Suicide
Real Time: Siege at Lucas Street Market
Outlaw Prophet
Farts of Darkness: The Making of Terror Firmer
Rockabilly Vampire: Burnin' Love


2000
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
"Troma's Edge TV"
The Rowdy Girls
Dumpster Baby

Superstarlet A.D.
Viral Assassins
Ángel Negro
Eve's Beach Fantasy
Sour Apple Freeze Pop (presented by Troma only)


1999
"Captain Jackson"
A Midsummer Night's Dream
So Shall You Reap
Backroad Diner
Touch Me in the Morning

Fatty Drives the Bus
Shakespeare in... and Out
The Hall Monitor
Sergio Lapel's Drawing Blood
Go To Hell
Nightfall
Alien Blood


1998
Fag Hag
Terror Firmer
Decampitated
Viewer Discretion Advised

The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven
Jefftowne
Pep Squad
Sucker: The Vampire
Fag Hag
Lost in Hollywood


1997
Bugged
Sgt. Kabukiman Public Service Announcement (TV)
Hamster PSA
Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills
Teenage Catgirls in Heat
"The Tromaville Café"

Legend of the Chupacabra
Blood Sisters of Lesbian Sin
Mommy 2: Mommy's Day


1996
Tromeo and Juliet
Killer Condom
The Imitators
Macabre Pair of Shorts
Tight Spot
Vendetta


1995
Class of Nuke 'Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid
Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo

Digital Prophet

1994
House of the Rising
"Troma Theater"

Witchcraft 666: The Devil's Mistress
Flesh Eaters From Outer Space


1993
The Troma System
Cannibal! The Musical
Teenage Catgirls in Heat
Eye of the Stranger
Tuesday Never Comes
Death Dancers


1992
Vegas in Space
There's Nothing Out There
State of Mind
Fraternity Demon


1991
Dead Dudes in the House
Class of Nuke 'Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown
Wizards of the Demon Sword
"The Toxic Crusaders"
Tomcat Angels

Body Parts
Cybernator


1990
Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D.
A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell
Maniac Nurses Find Ecstasy

Def by Temptation
Getting Lucky
Luther the Geek
Strangest Dreams: Invasion of the Space Preachers
Time Barbarians
Twisted Justice
No Way Back


1989
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
Chrome Hearts
Fortress of Amerikkka
They Call Me Macho Woman
The Toxic Avenger Part II
Beware: Children at Play

Blades
Invasion for Flesh & Blood
Mr. Robbie


1988
Troma's War
Jakarta
Rabid Grannies

Evil Clutch
Dr. Hackenstein
Contra Conspiracy
Death by Dialogue
Ragin' Cajun
Bloodspell
Mirror of Death


1987
Lust for Freedom
Story of a Junkie
Surf Nazis Must Die
Student Confidential
Chillers
Deadly Daphne's Revenge

Redneck Zombies
Blood Hook
Skeleton Coast
The Newlydeads
Plutonium Baby
Mommy's Epitaph
Deadly Daphne's Revenge
Jonathan of the Night


1986
Hollywood Zap
Class of Nuke 'Em High
Combat Shock

Nightmare Weekend
Play Dead


1985
Igor and the Lunatics
When Nature Calls

Screamplay
Star Worms II: Attack of the Pleasure Pods


1984
Dreams Come True
The Toxic Avenger

Zombie Island Massacre
Ellie


1983
The First Turn-On!!
Monster in the Closet

1982
Stuck on You!
Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters

The Last Horror Film
Nightbeast
Curse of the Cannibal Confederates


1981
Waitress!
Graduation Day
Great White Death


1980
Mother's Day
The Children
Beyond Evil
Escape From Hell
Nightmare Never Ends


1970's
Squeeze Play
The Battle of Love's Return
Honey Britches

Mad Dog Morgan
Blood Sucking Freaks
Hanging Woman
Cry Uncle!
Video Vixens
Preacherman
East End Hustle
Garden of the Dead
Fore Play
Sugar Cookies
Pigs
The G.I. Executioner
Big Gus, What's the Fuss?
Croaked: Frog Monster from Hell
Hot Summer in Barefoot County
The Butchers
Crazed
Demented Death Farm Massacre
The Capture of Bigfoot
Acting Out
No Substitute for Victory



1960's
Scream, Baby, Scream
Shark!
Madigan's Millions
The Girl Who Returned
Sweet Sound of Death
Psycho A-Go Go


1950's
Albert Schweitzer
Radar Men from the Moon
D.O.A.
Three Guys Named Mike
Rage at Dawn
The Painted Hills
Jack and the Beanstalk
The Big Trees
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Suddenly
Carnival Story
Last Time I Saw Paris


1940's
The Corpse Vanishes
The Ape
Dead Men Walk
The Monster Maker
Zorro's Black Whip
Dick Tracy, Detective
Dick Tracy vs. Cueball
Dick Tracy's Dilemma
Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome
That Uncertain Feeling
Invisible Ghost
British Intelligence
Captain Kidd
In Old Cheyenne
Bowery at Midnight
King of the Cowboys
Adventure in Iraq
Nabonga
Angel on My Shoulder
Roll on Texas Moon
Africa Screams
Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe
Underground
Lady Gangster
Kid Dynamite
Hands Across the Boarder
Enemy of Women
Blood on the Sun
Helldorado
Apache Rose
The Perils of Paulie
The Time of Your Life


1930's
White Zombie
The Gorilla
Billy the Kid Returns
Days of Jesse James
The New Adventures of Tarzan
Tarzan's Revenge
Zorro Rides Again
Zorro's Fighting Legion
The Broken Melody
His Private Secretary
Dixiana
The Milky Way
Rawhide Terror
Sins of the Children
The Legion of Missing Men
Light of Western Stars
Silver Horde
Millie
Behind Office Doors
The Lady Refuses
Kept Husbands
Illegal
The Last Frontier
Bird of Paradise
Kennell Murder Case
Tarzan the Fearless
Of Human Bondage
Blue Steel
The Mysterious Mr.Wong
The Lucky Texan
West of the Divide
Paradise Canyon
The Fighting Westerner
Hell Town
Undersea Kingdom
Something To Sing About
Where Trails Divide
The Secret of Dr.Kildare
Way Down South
They Made Me a Criminal
Fisherman's Warf
Nancy Drew, Reporter


1920's
The Vagabond Lover

"Troma's Edge TV: Tromathon" (unknown date)

Bigfoot (2006)

Bigfoot (2006)
Director: Bob Gray
Writer: Bob Gray
Cast: Todd Cox, Liza Foster, Bob Gray
In a place, where man and nature have co-existed for years. Man has finally overstepped his bounds and nature is fighting back.
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(Not Yet Rated)







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The Newlydeads (1987)

The Newlydeads (1987)
Director: Joseph Merhi
Writers: Sean Dash
Cast: Rebecca Barrington, Michele Burger, Dick Crawford, Charla Driver, Doug Jones
The owner of a lakeside resort murders a transvestite. Fifteen years later, the drag queen's spirit comes back and starts killing honeymoon couples.
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(Not Yet Rated)







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Screamplay (1985)

Screamplay (1985)
Director: Rufus Butler Seder
Writers: Ed Greenberg, Rufus Butler Seder
Executed in the manner of a 1940's low-budget programmer, this comedy-thriller chronicles the misadventures of screenwriter Edgar Allen (Rufus Butler Seder), aspiring to move along in the literary footsteps of another, 19th-century Edgar Allen. Edgar is trying to come up with good horror script in order to impress an agent. If the script is good, the agent will take on the scenarist. Needing digs, but having little dough, Edgar agrees to work for room and board as a janitor of the ramshackle Welcome Apartments, owned by an odd experimental filmmaker. Edgar finds that every resident is more than a little eccentric and uses them in his new script.
'Wow amazing and sad that Rufus Butler Seder only ever got to make one movie, he also stars as Edger Allen a young dreamer who's hopes of making it as a big time screenwriter are set back when people are dying like the characters in his script. The films a wonderful blend of b-movie exploitation, golden era hollywood and even some thrown in German expressionism. The use of projected backgrounds in alot of the scenes works so well even though its clearly used due to lack of budget. Film also stars lofi arthouse legend George Kuchar as a sleazy hotel manager who befriends Edgar after killing a roller skating transexual mugger in one of the films many humorous death sequences. As well as great visuals there's so many priceless snippets of dialog like the old has been actresses "I've f'cked Barrymore, I've f'cked Karlof ... (you've f'cked Karlof ?) ... I've f'cked them all" in the manner of Sunset Blvd style Norma Desmond. How can you not love this movie, Oscar Wilde said "We are all sitting in the gutters but some of us are staring at the stars" like that this gutter film dares to stare into the stars. Gotta fit a mention in for Katy Bolger who plays wannabie actress Holy like Rufus Butler Seder its a shame she never went on to make more films. Highly Recommended Cult Gem'
(8½ out of 10)

Bugged (1997)

Bugged (1997)
Director: Ronald K. Armstrong
Writer: Ronald K. Armstrong
A defenseless housewife whose home is under siege by flesh-eating insects calls on some unfortunately ill-prepared exterminators. Another juicy horror-comedy from the twisted auteurs at Troma Team.
'I'm sure this started out as an honest attempt to do an all black independent science fiction movie, but like so many lowbudget films before specially troma efforts it fails. Its not a total lost cause though as a few of the actors really try and the bugs are so cheesy looking and the way they move they're sure to raise the odd giggle.'
(4 out of 10)