Really Awful Movies: Ep 4 – An interview with Lloyd Kaufman, founder of TROMA

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Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is a New York-born film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor and all around mensch.

With producer Michael Herz, “Uncle Lloyd” as he’s affectionately known, is the co-founder of the amazing Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including Terror Firmer, Class of Nuke ’em High, The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. If you haven’t checked out any of these, you owe it to yourself to do so.

Lloyd Kaufman is the author of All I Needed To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger (with James Gunn), Make Your Own Damn Movie (with Adam Jahnke and Trent Haaga) and The Toxic Avenger: The Novel (with Adam Jahnke). He was kind enough to write the excellent foreword for our book, Death by Umbrella! The 100 Weirdest Horror Movie Weapons.

On this episode Jeff K, co-host of the Really Awful Movies Podcast, got a chance to chat with Lloyd, a guy he’s known for quite a while. They cover quite a bit of bit of ground in this interview.

The Troma co-founder talks about the Sony scandal, Troma fans, the state of the movie, industry, Joey Ramone, Troma studios, tattoos, The Toxic Avenger and of course, soul-sucking devil-worshiping mega media conglomerates!!!

 

 

Really Awful Movies: Ep 3 – Land of Doom

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A groin-kicking good time! Land of Doom is basically Mad Max, but with a chick. It’s set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland and features a warrior princess who reluctantly teams up with a soldier-of-fortune type to fend off a gang of roving leather-clad dune buggy and motorbike riders.

This “Raiders” gang is dressed as WWE wrestling stalwarts Demolition and the Legion of Doom.

In the course of their travels, the intrepid duo is forced to fight off cannibals bearing crossbows and extremely unconvincing French accents as well as Turkish sand people Star Wars rip-offs.

Cheap and cheerful, Land of Doom features crackling dialogue such as “We got jumped by surprise!” (er, that’s kind of the point) and the warrior princess’ dialogue consists almost exclusively of how she doesn’t care for being touched and can take care of herself.

We’d be remiss if we didn’t mention the super-villain, with a skunk stripe hairdo who bears a slight resemblance to wrestler Ric Flair.

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Really Awful Movies: Ep 2 – From Beyond

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from-beyond-poster-1Jeff and Chris from www.ReallyAwfulMovies.com discuss the excellent 1986 HP Lovecraft adaptation, From Beyond.

From Beyond is Stuart Gordon’s follow up to the superb Re-Animator and features one Dr. Pretorius, a tribute to a character from Bride of Frankenstein (1935) running experiments in a house not unlike the one in Psycho, in which the pineal gland is stimulated by a bizarre machine called The Resonator.

Of course, because this is a mad scientist movie, things go hopelessly awry.