40 YEARS OF THE TOXIC AVENGER (1984)!!!

THE TOXIC AVENGER (1984) d. Lloyd Kaufman/Michael Herz (USA)
THE TOXIC AVENGER PART II (1989) d. Lloyd Kaufman/Michael Herz (USA)
THE TOXIC AVENGER III: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE (1989) d. Lloyd Kaufman/Michael Herz (USA)
CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER IV (2001) d. Lloyd Kaufman (USA)

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There are Hollywood big-budget blockbusters. There are edgy exploitation flicks. There are scrappy independent films.

And then there are TROMA movies.

Neither celebrated for their subtle nuance nor held in high regard by the critical cognoscenti, Troma managed to carve out an indelible place in cinema history, with its 1984 flagship production featuring the “first superhero from New Jersey,” The Toxic Avenger, co-directed by the Troma Team of Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz and scripted by Joe Ritter and about a dozen other people.

BEWARE! CHILDREN AT PLAY (1989) Blu-ray Review

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Beware! Children at Play (1989) d. Mik Cribben (USA) (94 min) (2nd viewing)

While enjoying a little father-and-son bonding time in the woods, a college literature professor named Randall accidentally steps into a bear trap and is, well, trapped, with no means of getting back to safety and civilization. His son, Glenn, waits helplessly and tearfully by his side until he expires… and then promptly drives a large Bowie Knife into his dead dad’s belly and pulls out his liver to admire by the campfire.

Wait, what?

RETURN TO NUKE 'EM HIGH, VOL. 1 (2013) Blu-ray Review

Return to Nuke 'Em High, Vol. 1 (2013) d. Lloyd Kaufman (USA)

Troma movies, almost by their very definition and heritage, seem defiantly designed to be critic-proof. The ramshackle production elements, the purposefully offensive subject matter and humor, the overt liberalism, the in-your-face attitude and self-referentialism, the splattery special effects that manage to be gross without ever approaching realism, and the gratuitous nudity (mustn’t forget the nudity), these have all become recognizable staples in the Troma formula that seemingly caters to the lowest common denominator while delivering its winking subversive message.

SPLATTER UNIVERSITY (1984) movie review

Splatter University (1984) d. Haines, Richard D. (USA)

When a maniac escapes from an insane asylum (you’d think these folks would learn the value of added security one day), he infiltrates a nearby university’s faculty, posing as one of the staff and bumping off random students and professors alike. Plucky Francine Forbes, with her bright smile and Breck girl hair, makes for a likeable heroine, newly hired to replace one of the last semester’s recently demised.