For more than 50 years, the independent film company Troma Studios has produced low-budget, underground horror movies like “The Toxic Avenger” that served as a playground for some of today’s biggest ...

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Cannibalism is a longtime cornerstone of the food industry as far as horror is concerned. Think about it—Sweeny Todd first emerged in the penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls back in the late ...

Released in 2000, the fourth 'Toxic Avenger' movie riffs on 'Citizen Kane,' 'The Wizard of Oz,' and 'Star Wars' in a gleeful puddle of bodily fluids and bad taste. Reading time 4 minutes Troma boss ...

Peaches Christ is directing a feature adaptation of 'Who Does That Bitch Think She Is?, based on the making of 'Vegas in Space' (1991). Tara Ziemba/Getty Images/Troma Entertainment/Courtesy Everett ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. I want you, for a moment, to picture the protagonist of an indie movie. Do they, by chance, happen to be a near 7 ...

Though the word auteur gets tossed around in the film industry like a salad (Vincent Gallo?!), many seem to overlook the real progenitors of filmmaking. Lloyd Kaufman not only defines the label, but ...

To think, Orlando is the site of two film festivals this weekend! While the Florida Film Festival continues strong at Enzian and Winter Park Village, the denizens of Tromaville descend on the Aloma ...

Two weeks ago, while director Roman Polanski was getting a standing ovation at the Oscars, Lloyd Kaufman sat planted firmly in his seat 2,000 miles away, deeply offended. One wonders what could ...

As a proud New Jersian, you know I just gotta love The Toxic Avenger, who was once labeled as “The first superhuman-hero…from New Jersey!” Because honestly, I'm on board for any superhero from my home ...