Lloyd Kaufman

The Silver Emulsion Podcast: Ep. 160 – Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD

This week on the Silver Emulsion Podcast, Stephen and I talk about another of Lloyd Kaufman’s troma-sterpieces: 1990’s Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD! Turn in your badge and enjoy! 🙂

Watch Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD along with us by supporting independent film at Troma Now for streaming, and Troma Direct for physical media! You can also find the film at evil mega-corporations like iTunes or Amazon (Blu-ray or Prime Video)!

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Intro:

AC/DC – Safe in New York
- Stiff Upper Lip (iTunes, Amazon)

Outro:

Dan Skye & Paul Short – Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD Theme Song
- Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD Soundtrack (Light in the Attic)

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The Silver Emulsion Podcast: Ep. 127 – The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

This week on the Silver Emulsion Podcast, Stephen and I talk about the darkest time in the life of everyone’s favorite New Jersey superhero, 1989’s The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie! Listen and enjoy! 🙂

Watch The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie along with us on Blu-ray, DVD, iTunes, or Amazon Prime!

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Intro:

The Temptations – Papa was a Rolling Stone
- All Directions (iTunes, Amazon)
- Blaxploitation Vol. 2: The Sequel (Amazon)

Outro:

Grateful Dead – Friend of the Devil
- American Beauty (iTunes, Amazon)

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The Silver Emulsion Podcast: Ep. 73 – The Toxic Avenger Part II

The Toxic Avenger returns to Silver Emulsion with this jaw-dropping podcast you’ll have to hear to believe! Troma president Lloyd Kaufman called this episode, “A tromatizing masterwork of podcastery!” and the New York Times hailed it as “a piece of shit.” Only a listen to this podcast will allow you to take a side. Enjoy! 🙂

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Intro:

The Mops – Asamade Matenai
- Psychedelic Sounds In Japan (iTunes, Amazon)

Outro:

Nilo Espinosa Y Orquesta – En El Vacilón
- The Rough Guide To Peru Rare Groove (Amazon)

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The Silver Emulsion Podcast: Ep. 41 – The Toxic Avenger

Episode 41! This week we’re diving into the Troma-rific 1984 film The Toxic Avenger! My love for the monster hero is well-established, but will Stephen like it? Listen to find out! 🙂

Intro:

Bruce Dickinson – Soul Intruders
- Tyranny of Souls (iTunes, Amazon)

Outro:

The Blues Brothers – Closing: I Can’t Turn You Loose
- Briefcase Full Of Blues (iTunes, Amazon)

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Bleed (2002)

Starring Debbie Rochon, Danny Wolske, Allen Nabors, Orly Tepper, Ronnie Gene Blevins, Laura Nativo, Julie Strain, Brinke Stevens, Lloyd Kaufman

Directed by Devin Hamilton & Dennis Petersen

Expectations: Hopefully it doesn’t make my eyes bleed.

On the general scale:

On the B-movie scale:

I’m racking my brain for a way to best describe Bleed, but all I’m getting back is the EBS test tone, and that sure isn’t helping me think. Bleed is a poor excuse for a movie, but at the same time it’s an easy movie to get through. Not in a “so bad it’s good” way, it’s just paced well and it shows enough promise to assume it will get interesting. I didn’t like Bleed, but I definitely didn’t hate it either. I wouldn’t call it boring because I was genuinely engaged, but it’s ultimately vapid and not worth watching because it takes all that potential and blows it to oblivion in the final minutes. I’d almost rather be bored than disrespected like that!

Bleed opens with a couple of bros leaving a house party. One is dressed as a cheap streetwalker, the other a maid. They part ways, and soon after someone in all black wearing an expressionless white mask slices the hooker upwards from his balls to his collarbone. It’s surprisingly gory for a Full Moon film, with entrails spilling out of the wound, but don’t get too excited gorehounds. Besides this moment there isn’t much more, but it’s worth noting that what gore there is looks relatively good given the film’s probable very low budget.

Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. 1 (2013)

Starring Asta Paredes, Catherine Corcoran, Clay von Carlowitz, Zac Amico, Stefan Dezil, Gabriela Fuhr, Vito Trigo, Mark Quinnette, Mike Baez, Reiki Tsuno, Tara E. Miller, Jim Sheppard, Debbie Rochon, Babette Bombshell, William Dreyer, Ron Mackay, Adam P. Murphy, Brenda Rickert, Lloyd Kaufman, Lemmy, Stan Lee

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman

Expectations: Super high! It’s the new Troma film!

Lloyd Kaufman’s films are all about excess in the name of fun, with moments of grossout gore, nudity and juvenile humor all amped up to levels that would make a nun’s black habit turn white. Return to Nuke ‘Em High is no different, so Troma fans can rest assured that this new film from Uncle Lloyd is the real deal. I absolutely loved it, and while I did have a couple of issues with it overall, it’s a great film that showcases everything you either love or hate about Troma. There’s never a middle ground with a Troma film, and this commitment to a truly independent vision of cinema is what keeps the fans loyal and hungry for more tromatic thrills.

Return to Nuke ‘Em High is kind of a remake of the original Class of Nuke ‘Em High (one of my favorite Troma films), but it’s also kind of a sequel too. It also goes the Citizen Toxie route and kind of brushes off whatever happened in the previous sequels to make things easier for the writing team. This is all lovingly and wonderfully rendered during the opening sequence of the film, which recaps the first film and introduces us to the current circumstances afflicting good ol’ Tromaville High School. I should also mention that calling Return to Nuke ‘Em High a remake of Class of Nuke ‘Em High doesn’t do justice to what Troma has created here. Return to Nuke ‘Em High is very much its own thing with a wealth of fresh, hilarious creativity, while also incorporating and re-inventing elements that existed in the original film.

Father’s Day (2011)

Starring Adam Brooks, Matthew Kennedy, Conor Sweeney, Amy Groening, Garrett Hnatiuk, Brent Neale, Kevin Anderson, Meredith Sweeney, Zsuzsi, Lloyd Kaufman, Mackenzie Murdock, Billy Sadoo, Falcon Van Der Baek

Directed by Astron-6 (Adam Brooks, Jeremy Gillespie, Matthew Kennedy, Steven Kostanski, Conor Sweeney)

Expectations: High, this is supposedly nothing but awesome.

On the general scale:

On the B-movie scale:

Oh, Father’s Day, I want to love you. The hype surrounding you was so great, and I thought for sure you’d live up to it. Unfortunately, it never crossed my mind that you would fall into the trap that so many modern exploitation movies fall into: you’re more of a style reproduction than an actually good movie. Oh well. I hate to say it, but Father’s Day is not the genre revolution I expected, it’s just another in a long line of wannabes. Father’s Day does set itself apart from the generic crowd of retro-inspired films, though, by actually being low-budget and full of money-stretching ingenuity; I just wish it added up to more than what I got.

The story of Father’s Day is not one that holds up to scrutiny, and it feels almost like it was made up as shooting went along. It kind of begins as a serial killer horror film, with “The Father’s Day Killer” dismembering, eating and having necrophilic fellatio from his current victim’s severed head. If nothing else, this opening certainly sets a tone. Anyway, I say it “kind of begins” because this is more setup than anything else, as Father’s Day isn’t really a “hunt the serial killer” movie, it’s first and foremost a deranged comedy. At times it’s also a simple exploitation film, and at other times it’s a wildly imaginative fantasy. To label this as one specific genre is doing it a disservice, though, as it’s really a kitchen-sink type of film.