Look how excited the rock stars from New Found Glory and Paramore are about tickets to go see The Toxic Avenger Musical!
June 24, 2009
Lloyd Kaufman stars in a new movie by Nathan
Fisher.
June 22, 2009
Our good friend Troma Dan has some Tromatic
paintings for sale on ebay right now. Click on the images
below to see them:
June 16, 2009
Lloyd Kaufman Here,
Last weekend I attended deadCENTER Fest in Oklahoma
City, the Gyno operated and incredibly well-organized
festival showcased a slue of brilliant films and relevant
panel discussions on the state of Independent Cinema.
I mention that deadCENTER Fest was organized by Gynos
(more politically correct term for woman) because it
was the best run film festival I’ve ever been
to! The G.O.C’s for the festival (Gyno’s
in Charge) were Melissa Scaramucci, Kim Haywood, and
Cacky Poarch. They took care of every detail, everything
at deadCENTER went on without a hitch or a glitch, they
are all perfect human specimens!!! The Film Fest was
refreshingly idealistic, untainted by the cynicism and
evils of Hollywood. This was truly a film fest for Independent
films, supported and organized by lovers of Independent
film.
A couple films I attended especially kicked ass! Specifically,
Weather Girl, Sweethearts of the Prison Rodeo, Poultrygeist:
Night of the Chicken Dead (my film of course), Saint
Misbehavin’: The Wavy Gravy Movie, and Official
Rejection, which I was in and elaborates on the BS I
have encountered at so called mainstream film festivals.
I recommend deadCENTER Festival to all filmmakers, regardless
of experience or genre. This is Uncle Lloydie’s
highest endorsement. Take it and spread the word kiddies!
Looking forward to next year’s deadCENTER Fest!
Xoxo,
Uncle Lloyd
June 15, 2009
The forthcoming Poultrygeist comic:
and check out these Tromatic paintings on
eBay. click HERE.
June 10, 2009
Troma's First Functional Art!
June 9, 2009
Found on the streets of Beijing!
June 5, 2009
NOT THE GOVERNMENT'S MIDNIGHT MUSIC VIDEO DIRECTED BY LLOYD KAUFMAN
June 4, 2009
Special Sneak Preview of Lloyd Kaufman's forthcoming title, Produce Your Own Damn Movie:
May 15, 2009
May 1, 2009
New photos!
April 27, 2009
New pictures of Lloyd Kaufman as Thomas Edison
in Thong Girl 4. Jim O'Rear is Igor.
April 19, 2009
New Pictures from Fangoria LA's Weekend of
Horrors
April 9, 2009
Below is an adfor Lloyd Kaufman's newest
book Direct Your Own Damn Movie as it appeared in the April
(NAB) issues of American Cinematographer, and the ICG magazine,
as well as Australian magazine called Inside Film, which had
bonus
distribution at Cannes.
April 7, 2009
Some New Images
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TOXIE
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March 30, 2009
Toxic Assests...(click on image below to read the pdf)
March 27, 2009
March 24, 2009
New Photos from around
the TROMA building.
March 15, 2009
Lloyd Kaufman has a cameo in world famous
phtographer, David Houncheringer's, newest series, "Do
You Want to Die?"
There is an opening for the exhibition of photography in Paris
the 19th of March, check out more by clicking HERE.
Below is a short description of the show:
*“Do You
Want to Die Today?”*
is a collision between phantasmagorical playground and
contemporary socio-psychological reality. A collaboration
with makeup artist Vanaelle
Mercanton, these controlled environments manage to transcend
their own complexity
to illuminate us to a very simple conclusion; while the act
of death is violent, the after
is rather still. This eerie calmness in Houncheringer’s
series permits us to linger on
the absurdity, the beauty, and the pure curiosity that propulses
us into an investigative
dissection of what exactly this sudden disconnection consists
of. The humor of the
images allows us to facedeath a little longer and confront
the violence that preceded it.
Hailing from a characteristically non violent country, Swiss
photographer David
Houncheringer does not attempt to show us violence or death
but rather our
position vis a vis its representation. In the global truth
of exorbitant media, it is an
opportunity to stop and digest horrors that exist, confront
them with a raised eyebrow
rather than a raised fist.
March 9, 2009
A Review of Lloyd Kaufman's new book,
Direct Your Own Damn Movie
Some years ago Troma´s Lloyd Kaufman
wrote "Make Your Own Damn Movie", a
book very helpful for young and old movie maniacs who decide
to shoot their own
movies. Now Mr Kaufman wrote another book, "Direct Your
Own Damn Movie". If
you think now it´s about directing you are wrong. Like
"Make" the new book is
more about Producing and Directing your own damn movie and
it makes sense as
in the low budget business the director very often is also
the producer (and
writer and DP).
There are countless books about making and directing movies,
some very good
ones like Truffaut´s book-interview on Alfred Hitchcock
and his movies and
Blumenberg´s excellent book on Howard Hawks and
Jerry Lewis also wrote a hilarious book about movie making.
What makes Kaufman´s book so interesting is not only
that Troma works
totally independent and so shows to young directors and producers
they acually can
make whatever they want without being part of the devil-worshipping
multimillion conglomerates, but the books of Lloyd Kaufman
are only part one: part
two
are two dvd box sets, a 5 dvd box set "Make Your Own
Damn Movie" and a 3 DVD
box set "Direct".
Both books and the DVDs show you, and I mean actually SHOW
you how to
produce and direct. The books and the DVDs are an experience
you will not have just
reading another book about movie making.
Lloyd runs around with a camera around the set of his own
movies and on the
sets he visits and he records EVERYTHING, asks the right questions
and shows
you what not to do and what to do. It´s one thing to
write about a crew who
does not know how to light a scene or record sound and another
thing to show it
to you on DVD. It´s fun to read the book, it´s
fun to watch the dvds and
it´s fun o learn!
There are interviews with succeful directors/writers like
Eli Roth, James
Gunn, Stan Lee and many others, sometimes first time low budget
directors. You
learn how to shoot a feature with a Bolex without sound and
you are taught to
develop an own system to make movies. What works for Troma
may not work for
you but what books and dvds show you must develop your own
system.
There are plenty of good advises especiall from Lloyd Kaufman
himself and
Eli Roth reflecting what idiots directors sometime can be
treating their cast
and crew wrong. Eli Roth mentions how important it is to say
thank you,
something all those wannabe-Otto Premingers should finally
understand.
There is also a great interview in the book with legend Stan
Lee who tries
to convince Lloyd that the audience would love to see him
doing more mainstream
movies. I totally agree and would love to see the actor Lloyd
Kaufman in big
budget Eli Roth movies. As director and producer Lloyd Kaufman
of course
will always be Troma. Book and DVDs have more treasures you
can name. The South
Park creators and James Gunn tell you how to go from low budget
to big budget
and on DVD you have an insight behind the scenes and festivals
with
documentaries like "All the Love you Cannes".
But most of all books and dvds are about passion. You´ll
watch Lloyd Kaufman
going mad when an audience of Zombies applauds Lloyd´s
lifetime enemy Jack
Valenti and a very heartbreaking interview with director Vincent
Sherman about
being blacklisted, nightmare of most artists. It also reminds
us that making
movies is not just fun it´s also freedom, a kind of
freedom some people do
not want to be around. So for your own sake, buy the books
and dvds and then
make your own damn movies the way you want them to be made.
Michael Huck
March 4, 2009
Some sad news, a good friend of Troma and an amazing independent artist,
Mike Pilsch has passed away.
Below is an obituary from his friend/artistic partner, Brian Myers:
Greetings Tromaville,
Brian aka Bob from the E-Z Cheez Bros here with some sad news.
My best friend/creative partner Mike aka Gym has passed away after a long battle with Cancer.
Our time making cartoons for Troma was one of the happiest times of our lives and we missed
creating adventures for Tromaboy, Kabukiman and Penis Monster and even had come up with some
new cartoon ideas while he was going through treatment. Sadly though we'll never get a
chance to work on those ideas together. Mike battled against the Cancer for almost two years
before the chemo had caused so much damage to his lungs that they just gave out and he
passed away Feb 12th. Troma was the only place that ever gave us a chance to pursue our
dream and do it on our terms and create uncompromised visions with creative control and
freedom and most of all respect. I want to thank you all for the support you gave us and
thank Lloyd and Michael for giving two shmucks from Spokane a chance to do nothing but
create cartoons for a living and even for a brief time live our dream.
R.I.P. Mike Pilsch 1977-2009
Thank You,
Brian Myers
March 3, 2009
"Six year old Johhnie Jones never leaves for his third grade classes without his
official Toxic Crusaders Board Game..."
March 3, 2009
AWESOME FAN LETTER OF THE DAY
hey there lloyd!
just wanted to send you a quick email to say hi. i wanted to let you know that my
boyfriend michael and i had a great time watching poultrygeist in boston!
im so fascinated by what you do that i have bought two of your books to learn more.
ive all-ready read make your own damn movie and im on direct your own damn movie.
hope things are going well with you and your family and such!
March 1, 2009
Svetlana is a brilliant Russian filmamker living in Berlin…and she was inspired by The Troma Team’s street theatre in Berlin
and Cannes. She wants to support TromaDance.
Lloyd Kaufman's newest literary Tromasterpiece: Direct Your Own Damn Movie
Read this amazing review:
"So maybe we see in the US. when reading your new book I remember when I was a child living near Baden-Baden
we had a neighbor, a farmer. I´ve never seen doing him that but a lot of people told me he used to
drown little cats. I always loved cats and I considered him kind of a monster...actually I´ve watched him and
our butcher when they killed a pig. also horribel experience for a child. My grandma monster used to
decapitate hens. When I think about, I had a horrible childhood."
Michael
December 17, 2008
Shots from Lloyd Kaufman's Midnight video shoot:
December 15, 2008
Getting Lucky! is getting rave reviews from Mr. Skin!
"The last great All-American Teen Sex Comedy of the genre's Golden Age. " -Mr. Skin
"Thanks to Troma for resurrecting a treasure that, I must admit, I had never seen until now." -Mr. Skin
December 3, 2008
The Daily AFM Cover featuring TromaDancers and the Troma Team.
November 3, 2008
Below are two of the greatest POULTRYGEIST fan letters of all time!
#1
Thank you, thank you, thank you. Poultrygeist is a fucking masterpiece. Pure and simple. Thank you so much for giving your fans what they want. The DVD rivals the Fight club DVD. I mean seriously, you went all out. I drove forty five minutes to the outskirts of rodando beach to go to best buy to buy the DVD (The best buy near my house was all sold out). You know that quote by trufaut where he said he only wants to see movies that show either the agony or ecstasy of making a film? Well your films display both. And none moreso then poultrugeist. I mean, making a movie is not glamourous at all, it's hard work and splintered nerves, and you show this with the poultrygeist dvd. My only problem is that vidiots doesn't carry it! I'm not sure if your familiar with vidiots, but I'm pretty certain you are because they have their own troma section! If it wasn't for vidiots, I wouldn't be as familiar with the troma library as I am. And for that reason, I think you should send them over a copy. Don't do it for me (I already have my copy) do it for that cool, curious kid who lives in santa monica and would otherwise not know that films of this caliber exist. Seriously Loyd (do you mind if I call you lloyd? Mr Kaufman sounds so kiss assey) do it for that kid. You don't know the thrill of tromatizing someone. For example: I have a brother eight years my junior (I'm twenty five) one night I showed him the first toxic crusader and it completely blew his mind. Your films are alot like ichi the killer, in the sense that you could unleash it on a handful of friends and it all feels like a sick demented party. So allow me to say that vidiots are card carrying friends of troma and deserve to have poultrygeist stocked on their shelves. Thank you lloyd for making my weekend. To put how much I love poultrygeist in perspective, I went to a strip club last night and I really don't remember what any of the chicks looked like. All I remember is the fact that Jason Yachanin was fucking amazing as Arbie. Really, seriously, he delivered a top notch preformance. And the music! Don't get me started on the music. Whenever I see I musical number in a film, I get this tingling feeling in my brain. When I see a musical number followed by buckets of gore and explosive diarreah, I have an anuerism. So thank you Lloyd, you keep making them, I'll keep watching them.
#2
From the bottom of my clogged arteries...
Thank you!
This year has been a monumental bitch. First, my grandfather died. After the economy tanked, my husband-to-be lost his job, causing us to have to postpone our nuptuals again for what must be the twenty bazillionth time in our thirteen-year relationship. A medical procedure that was supposed to treat a chronic ailment went very badly, and I had to call the whole thing off halfway through because I could no longer handle the pain (haven't these people ever heard of anaesthesia?). Husband to be has been in a wheelchair most of the year (too complicated to explain). I mean, seriously. Monumental. Bitch.
But last night, hubby to be and I rented "Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead". It was, without a doubt, the funniest movie we've seen in years. All the motherfuckery of the last twelve months just seemed to wash away in the waves of laughter. Afterwards, we made sweet love all over the house. This morning, it's as if we're new people: renewed, refreshed, and ready to face the future with a hopeful vision.
As soon as we can afford it, "Poultrygeist" will become part of our collection, so we can enjoy it whenever this crappy world is getting us down. It is a masterpiece. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lloyd! If there is such a thing as God/s, may s/he/they bless you with great prosperity and long, long life.
November 3, 2008
Images taken by Troma Fan extraordinaire, Mr. Frank Keesee, of Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team at the Poultrygeist Screening, Belcourt Theater, Nashville, TN
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