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Summary: Hot Chicks, Killer Chickens.............
Comment: Been a big Troma fan since the first Toxie. Every new film they release gets more graphic. Which is way a love Troma. Poultrygeist is the one movie that deliver the goods. Hot nude scenes, sick, and twisted violence. Will make you proud to be a Troma fan. Troma keep'em coming.
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Summary: Tromaville forever
Comment: I loved the Toxic Avenger, but never really liked the rest of the series.
When Poultrygeist came out, I was eager for more Troma Gooiness and I was not let down. The musical parts of it were bad, but overall, I still enjoyed to movie and recommend it to anyone who loves guts, gore, comedy, and hot girls in the Troma style of film.
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Summary: ONE OF TROMA'S BEST!!
Comment: POULTRYGEIST is one of Troma's best films to date!! I love the gore and the pure un-PC-ness of everything! This fits nicely next to The Toxic Avenger, Citizen Toxie, Class OF Nuke'EM High and Mother's Day, these are all CLASSICKS in my opinion and POULTRYGEIST fits right in. The songs are AMAZING!! I highly recommend the soundtrack too, which I picked up right away as well!! Lloyd Kaufman really outdid himself on this masterPIECE!!
PICK THIS SUCKA UP!!!
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Summary: The surprise of the year.
Comment: Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (Lloyd Kaufman, 2006)
I'm not a big Troma fan. In fact, the last Troma film I remember actually liking was the original The Toxic Avenger. It's gotten to the point where even the Troma name on a movie will cause me to avoid it (even if they're just distributing--I've seen my share of Troma-distributed flicks, and to a one, they're hideous). But the concept behind Poultrygeist was just too plain old stupid for me to pass up, and I have to say, now that I've watched it, I can't remember the last time I was this surprised by a movie. I can't honestly say that I enjoyed it, but it's certainly the funniest movie I've seen this week.
We open with Arbie and Wendy (are you getting the joke yet?), a typical high school couple, making out in the local Indian burial ground, and Wendy promising that going off to college won't change her feelings for Arbie. Yeah, right. Fast-forward a semester, and Arbie has gone back to relive some memories, only to find that the burial ground has been bulldozed to make way for an American Chicken Bunker, a mega-fast-food-mart. It's on the verge of opening, but is under protest by a number of fringe groups, one of which happens to contain Wendy--who, much to Arbie's musical dismay, has become a lesbian and a vegan. To spite her, he decides to get a job at ACB, where he joins co-workers Denny, Paco Bell, Carl Jr. (okay, are you getting the joke now?), and Hummus. Problem is, interpersonal drama is not the only thing going on here, for those Indian spirits aren't too happy about being bulldozed, and have every intention of getting their revenge by possessing everything in sight. From there, the movie becomes a massive gorefest, but in such an over-the-top way that it seems even less like a gore film than, say, Dead Alive does. It's all just stupid fun. (And has a Ron Jeremy cameo!)
The pop culture references come thick and fast in this one, and there's very little that doesn't get skewered here. As well, if you have any aspirations to political correctness at all, you'll probably want to avoid this flick, which takes potshots at every race, creed, color, sexual preference, body type, etc. No matter who you are, there's something in this movie that's liable to offend you. If you like this sort of thing, however, it's great. I've seen more than one review that calls it Troma's best film ever; I'm inclined to agree. ***
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Summary: Only Troma, Only Troma
Comment: Yup, that Lloyd Kaufman is at it again. And like most of the recent Troma films, Kaufman is upping the ante on what gross out, bad taste, low brow shenanigans he can put on screen and get away with.
Poultrygeist is about a corporate fast food chicken joint that sets up camp right on top of an ancient Native American burial ground. This makes for some nasty, veiny, green oozing eggs that infect folks and give them a serious case of The Trots. Not only that but the green infected chicken also turns folks into chicken beaked zombies. Arby is a dorky college student on his first day of the job when all of this goes down. He must rekindle his relationship with his girlfriend(who turned lesbian on him while he was away), provide great customer service and deal with the chicken zombies and ultimately save the day.
It's typical Troma fare, though a bit more ambitious in the gross out department. Low grade FX are common for Troma, and while they're still cheap and schlocky here, they're probably some of the best we've seen in a Troma film. It looks like a lot of time was spent on them. The latter half of the film, where the chicken zombies run amok, pulls out all the stops. Kaufman's really going for the throat here. It almost seems as though he were trying to compete with Peter Jackson's Dead Alive, but Jackson's film is nearly impossible to top in sheer quantity of gore, blood and prosthetics. Being Troma, a lot more sexual violence is thrown in such as a guy getting his testicles tore off and thrown into the deep fryer, or a man growing breasts which burst open to reveal baby chicken heads. Of course the childish sex humor is in full swing too. We instinctively know that being a Troma film about fast food that some bodily fluids will end up in the food preparation....and they do! One character has sex with a partially thawed chicken(a hillbilly of course), a few lesbian and bizarre fetish scenes are thrown in as well. No minority group is safe from ribbing either.
I did like the film. I'm not a hardcore Troma fan though I've seen most of their films. For me, the mood has to be right in order for me to enjoy them. I feel that sometimes they just try way too hard to be zany and silly and some of the films tend to run out of steam really fast. This film was kinda fun though. It was gory and off the wall enough to be fascinating. My only real complaint was the leading man, who I feel is one of the most annoying and unlikable "heroes" I've ever seen in a movie, Troma or otherwise. It's sad to see a fast food employee that's actually more annoying than Spongebob Squarepants.
Yes, it's tasteless and disgusting and will have the average moviegoer running for the door(I can't imagine how my wife is gonna respond! He he he.). Troma fans simply can't go wrong. Cult and horror fans might be split down the middle coz even fans of those genres can feel that Troma is just a bit too goofy. But whether you like it or not, I don't think anyone will be able to say it wasn't unique.
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