Flicks: Gingerdead Man vs Evil Bong (2013)

Two underground horror baddies find out that cookies and weed are a diabolical combination!

Two latter day movie monsters clash in film that is completely filmed in Troma-vision but is in fact a Charles Band Full Moon Entertainment picture... complete with Asian rastas.

Monster #1: The Gingerdead Man - a Child's Play type of villain with serial killer Millard Findlemeyer's soul - originally played by Gary "Frickin" Busey. He first appeared in a short called The Baker's Dozen by Jethro Rothe-Kushel. This was made into a feature in 2005 by Full Moon.

Millard Findlemeyer, still a tasty but homicidal graham cracker, goes about looking for more victims in the next two sequels to follow including: Gingerdead Man 2: Passion of the Crust (2008) and Gingerdead Man 3: Saturday Night Cleaver (2011).


Bro-o-o-h, this cookie is like... totally killer!

Evil Bong (2006), Monster #2, began in life as a Tommy Chong vehicle. This production happened just after his time in Taft Federal Prison from 2003 and a fine of $103,000 for selling bongs and paraphernalia in US vs Chong. The description for this films is: "a old giant bong proves to have strange magical powers. When smoked, said bong sends a person to a bizarre drugged-out alternate realm from which there is no easy escape."

In Chong's case that "alternate realm" was a nine month sentence bunking with the "Wolf Of Wall Street" Jordan Belfort.

The Evil Bong, a wise-cracking water bong that kind of sounds like Frankie Lymon, starred in two sequels after the original: Evil Bong II: King Bong (2009) and Evil Bong 3-D: The Wrath of Bong (2011).

This film, combining the two absurd "monsters" is much more watchable that the truly terrible Puppetmaster vs Demonic Toys (2004) or the other six films from the individual franchise. A great watch for Troma fans.

References:
Official Site, Full Moon Entertainment
IMDb, Gingerdead Man Vs. Evil Bong (2013)
IMDb, Gingerdead Man (2005)
IMDb, Evil Bong (2006)

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Flicks: Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD (1990)

The world's worst film studio brings you the world's worst super-hero. Make that second worst.

Troma has been a leader in entertainment since Mr. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Hertz opened the doors in 1974 however it wasn't until Kaufman directed the original Toxic Avenger in 1984 did the studio become well-known and successful. The Toxic Avenger series broke Troma into the big-time of home entertainment and spawning three sequels, a comic book series, a a red-hot series of toys for kids and even an animated show on the FOX TV network.

Ready to re-apply his formula for success in the same way that Toxie became an unlikely hero, Kaufman wrote Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD (1990). The picture's unlikely premise is that a hard-nosed NYPD cop by day is a mystical crime-fighting Japanese clown by night. Er - uhhhm, what exactly could go wrong with that kind of concept?

Despite being the perfect soundtrack vehicle for The Vapors "I Think I'm Turning Japanese" yet appropriately enough, this film was never widely released into the market and 6 years later Tromeo and Juliet (1996) signaled that Troma's golden age, largely surrounding Toxic Avenger sequels, was nearly over.

On April 7th 2010, Kaufman confirmed that a PG-13 remake of The Toxic Avenger was in development but nothing more has been made available. Another 1980's Troma classic, Mother's Day was remade and was directed by Darren Lynn Bousman and produced by Brett Ratner (Cinco De Mayo). Kaufman also said that he is also negotiating a deal for remakes of Poultrygeist and Class of Nuke 'Em High.

Lastly, please note that Troma holds the annual Tromadance Festival in Park City, Utah in January at the same time as the Sundance Festival to accentuate their true independence from the mainstream.

References:
Troma Studios, Official Site
Wikipedia, Troma Entertainment
IMDb, Sgt. Kabukiman (1990)
IMDb, Lloyd Kaufman

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Flicks: Tucker & Dale Versus Evil (2010)

Accident-prone teenie-boppers encounter some rather misunderstood miscreants. Video courtesy of Magnet Releasing.

Tucker and Dale (Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine) are two best friends on vacation at their dilapidated mountain house. The duo are mistaken for murderous backwoods hillbillies by a group of obnoxious, preppy college kids. When one of the students gets separated from her friends, the boys try to lend a hand, but as the misunderstanding grows, so does the body count.

The movie's director Eli Craig (Carrie 2) takes the archetypes set-up by survival horror movies like Wrong Turn, Texas Chainsaw Massacre and The Hills Have Eyes to deliver a mortified cast of hapless yuppoids who inadvertently frag themselves for 90 minutes while Tucker and Dale look on horrified. Think Shaun of the Dead meets Deliverance as the survival horror genre is turned comically on it's skull.

Tyler Labine^[0] stars as Dale, a dead-on Robert Kirkland (Walking Dead creator) look-a-like. In fact, The Walking Dead's original illustrator, Tony Moore^[1], has created movie posters and promotional art for this horror spoof that is every bit as good as the work he did on the first 6 issues of the hit comic series from Image.

Notes:
[0] = Tyler Labine's career is taking off after starring in the failed Fox sitcom Sons Of Tuscon in 2010 he appeared in the new Rise of the Planet of the Apes and is slated for three 2012 feature films.
[1] = Tony Moore and Robert Kirkland actually met as middle school kids in 7th grade history class.

References:
IMDB, Tucker and Dale vs Evil (2010)
IMDB, Tyler Labine
Magnet Releasing, Tucker & Dale VS Evil (Official Site)
Tony Moore.com, Tucker & Dale Versus Evil
Walking Dead Wiki, Tony Moore

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Flicks: Italian Spiderman (2007)

Let's just see American Spiderman control the minds of penguins. Try that, Spidey.

Publicized as a lost Italian action film from the late 1960s, Italian Spiderman began as a student film by an Australian film-making collective formed by Dario Russo, Tait Wilson, David Ashby, Will Spartalis and Boris Repasky at Flinders University.

When the short was uploaded to YouTube in late 2007 it has gained a massive cult following with over 3 million views as of August 2010.


References:
Wikipedia, Italian Spiderman (film)
Facebook Group, Italian Spiderman
Myspace, Itlain Spiderman
Youtube, Episode #01

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