Troma,Troma,Troma

[malbowski13]

Alright, who else loves Troma?

[tsmooth31]

some of there movies are good in a cheesy way.. but im no huge fan

[malbowski13]

On many of their DVD's the special features are far better than the films themselves.

[vincentprice]

I like'em. Not all their movies are good but they are usually entertaining.

And I absolutely love Terror Firmer.

[piggsy]

I've never seen a Troma film, which is really strange considering I'm a huge B-movie fan. I've really been wanting to see the Toxic Avenger series.

[malbowski13]

Toxie Part 1 and 4 are dy-no-mite! My favorite Troma is "Tromeo and Juliet". I also suggest Troma's War,Class of Nuke'Em High,Teenage Catgirls in Heat,Parts of the Family, and Tales From The Crapper(Julie Strain,need I say more!)

[piggsy]

malbowski13 said:

Toxie Part 1 and 4 are dy-no-mite! My favorite Troma is "Tromeo and Juliet". I also suggest Troma's War,Class of Nuke'Em High,Teenage Catgirls in Heat,Parts of the Family, and Tales From The Crapper(Julie Strain,need I say more!)

I believe I saw the trailer of "Tromeo and Juliet". Wasn't there something about a mutant, killer penis?

[tsmooth31]

i have wanted to see alot of those movies you suggested mal..i just never got around to seeing them

although i have seen toxic avenger and liked it alot

[malbowski13]

There is a dream-sequence involving a killer penis.Also features an up-and-coming Tiffany Shepis in a minor role and Lemmy from Motorhead!

[Evil Dave]

Troma's cool with me. I found a few of their movies to be entertaining, but I've got to be in a certain mood to watch one. I'm definitely more of a passive fan in this area than a Troma-holic. But what I'll always be a big fan of when it comes to Troma, is what they represent: A giant middle finger in the air to big budget Hollywood studios and all of the trouser-stains that run it. Keep fighting the good fight Troma. Shlok On!

[malbowski13]

Some of their DVD's have an Easter Egg containing Lloyd Kaufman trying to do business with some producers from Hollywood. He ends up getting bent over!Couldn't agree more Dave! What they stand for is a big reason why I'm a fan. No movie should cost $100,000,000,000,000! Just like politicians,athletes,etc. , the entertainment industry is highly overpaid.

[lazario]

Well, the thing about Troma is they are about half a studio that makes their own movies. And half a studio that releases movies that other people have made.

I hate almost all the movies I've seen that they made themselves. Except the Class of Nuke 'Em High movies. Especially the first one. That actually scared the crap out of me. Unlike The Toxic Avenger, which is just cheesy / campy. But then, I haven't seen it in years and I was a kid when I saw it for the first time.

As for the movies they release that other filmmakers / directors have made, they usually have a little more luck there in terms of quality. They distributed one of my favorite horror movies of all-time, Dead Dudes in the House. They just have a good track record with movies they didn't make. Especially those in the 1980's.

The first one they seemed to have big-time critical acclaim with was Monster in the Closet (1983). I have that one and it's a sci-fi monster horror-comedy, and it's a lot of fun. But they also get a lot of attention for Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, which is out of print now and I really wanted to check out. Guess I was too late on that one. And then, they released Def by Temptation, with Samuel L. Jackson and Kadeem Hardison (from Bill Cosby's A Different World) and Leonard Maltin raved. Then it got a lot of attention after Wes Craven's Vampire in Brooklyn. It was sort of re-discovered by The Hollywood Reporter and Variety, and they're majors.

After that, it's basically a story of cult, VHS, and the internet. Except a few historical footnotes:

1. Lloyd Kaufman got a cameo in Rocky V (I believe it was part V)
2. Cinemax used to run a marathon of their films ever June from the early 1990's up to 1999/2000 (when I last had their channel)
3. A character from the Nicole Ritchie film, Kids in America (2005), had a big / very noticeable Troma logo on his wall
4. Stephanie Miller, host of Oxygen's 2000 update of the classic game show, I Got a Secret, did an investigative story about Troma for Oxygen, before it was a well-known channel

[vincentprice]

I didn't know Cinemax did marathons of their movies.

I guess I should have though, I've had Cinemax since '97 or '98 and have seen Mother's Day (which is fucking awesome by the way) and Terror Firmer on that channel.

[malbowski13]

Lloyd's cameo was in Rocky 1. The movies they pick up are probably of a higher quality but still don't have that Troma flavour, which is pretty much anything goes. Parts of the Family was picked up by them and is a kick-ass zombie-type film with an extremely beautiful woman as the main character who also is naked for most of the film and is nutty in her own way. I don't own any stocks in Troma but am most willing to point people in the right direction. I was lucky enough to pick up Chopper Chicks a few years ago and still say that it is Billy Bob Thornton's finest hour.

[lazario]

vincentprice said:

I didn't know Cinemax did marathons of their movies.

I guess I should have though, I've had Cinemax since '97 or '98 and have seen Mother's Day (which is fucking awesome by the way) and Terror Firmer on that channel.

Well, I remember seeing on Cinemax:

Dead Dudes in the House, Cannibal! The Musical (which I forgot to mention by the way, a sheer masterpiece), Evil Clutch, Vegas in Space, Class of Nuke 'Em High 1-3, Toxic Avenger parts 1 & 2, Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo, part of The First Turn-On, the end of Terror Firmer, the beginning of A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, one scene from Def by Temptation, and I clearly remember ads that advertised Kevin Costner's movies with Troma. I also remember ads for, but missed, Blood Hook.

If my computer had a scanner, I would scan-in pictures of my HBO-Cinemax guides from 1994/95/96 because I kept them and they had mentions of them. But usually, they showed 5 movies each June. They used to have what they called Thursday: Horror, each weeknight was a theme movie (Monday: Comedy, Tuesday: Suspense: Wednesday: Vanguard, Friday: Premiere, Saturday: Action, and Sunday afternoons they showed Classics, old movies), and every June was reserved for Troma's horror movies. Except that I think one June, one of the nights showed There's Nothing Out There which is how I saw and fell in love with that movie (not a Troma movie).

[malbowski13]

For what they made with what they had to work with, can't beat it.I always said that one of these big directors should be given a shoe-string budget and see what they can come up with.(I'm guessing not much) I also own the "Make Your Own Damn Movie" and "Everything I Learned From Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger" books which are both by Lloyd Kaufman and are probably the most funny,entertaining books I have ever read.

[shunty]

Tromeo & Juliet! The dad walking with the TV on his head! Priceless..