If your a filmmaker or a cinema buff, then you best know who Orson Welles is. If you don’t know who he is then you best stop reading this review and go do some heavy research on the man, and then go to your local movie rental place and rent CITIZEN KANE. In the...
We come to expect a narrative, with each successive sequel, to get progressively worse, the acting more decrepit, and the directing to be less and less existent. However, as paradoxical as it might be, with intentional B-movie fare this rule of thumb works to a...
When directors Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman set out to make a sequel for The Toxic Avenger, they wound up with over four hours of footage. Knowing that even the most die-hard Toxie fan might not survive the barrage of B-movie insanity, they decided to split the film...
Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman return with the follow-up to their dauntingly successful cult classic, The Toxic Avenger. Unfortunately, the satire isn’t as potent, the plot nearly as engaging, or the film nearly as satisfying as its forerunner. Aside from a handful of...
Troma Studios, a.k.a. the House that Toxie Built, is the renegade brainchild of Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman, the latter being the face of the company and, in appearance (as well as spirit), the lost brother of Mel Brooks (whilst housing serious strands of Cormian...
Here’s a pleasant surprise continuing the run of stand-out British horror films of the past few years (it’s OK, SPIRIT TRAP, we haven’t forgotten how shit you were). It’s a brisk, funny, riotously mean-spirited British taken on 80’s American supernatural slasher...
