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Apr 11, 2022 · “The Divine Obsession” was made outside of Troma, for your short-lived Melody Pictures distribution company. It was a decent-sized hit, too, playing for something like six months at the 59th Street Twin.
Tumblr Pics; Click an image for details. Read More; Subscribe; rss posts; rss comments; Lloyd WHO? Filmmaker for over 40 years. Creator of the Toxic Avenger, and President and Co-Founder of Troma Studios, the world's longest running Independent film company. Founder of the TromaDance Film Festival.
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Founded in 1974 by Kaufman and his business partner Michael Herz, Troma bills itself as the longest-running independent movie studio in North America. The company is known for its low-budget teenage sex comedies and arthouse horror films filled with schlocky, “splatstick” humor, but Troma movies are about much more than gore and gags. Each of the r...
One of Troma’s most popular titles from the ’90s is “Terror Firmer,” which focuses on a love triangle between members of a low-budget film crew being preyed upon by a serial killer. In 1993, Troma famously distributed “South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s first feature “Cannibal! The Musical,” which was rejected by virtually every U.S....
Despite its global fanbase and status as one of the longest-standing independent film companies in the world, all is not well in Tromaville. Long gone are the days of financially successful films like “The First Turn-On,” “Squeeze Play,” and Waitress!,” not to mention the “Avenger” franchise. Though Troma has been able to license its brand and Toxi...
Today, Troma has a 10-person staff of film enthusiasts who work from the company’s headquarters in Long Island City, where they write, direct, and produce Troma movies. In-house producer John Brennan has been a fan of the company’s films ever since he first saw “Class of Nuke ‘Em High 2” on TV when he was nine years old. “It blew my mind,” Brennan ...
Kaufman’s support for up-and-coming talent continues to this day. He recently wrote a personal check for $1,000 to help 17-year-old writer-director and longtime Troma fan Kansas Bowling edit her debut feature “B.C. Butcher,” a pre-historic slasher film. Troma later distributed the film, which stars Kato Kaelin and Kadeem Hardison (“White Men Can’t ...
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Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr., known professionally as Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor.
Lloyd Kaufman - President & Co-Founder, Troma Entertainment | American film Director, Producer, and Documentarian
