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Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (Three-Disc Collector's Edition)

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1 star:		(5)

 

 

For those of you not familiar with Troma,
don't be fooled by my 5 star rating.
This movie is horrible.
Horrible in the sleaziest, bloodiest, cheesiest way!
My wife left after 10 minutes (Wahoo!;)
Classic Kaufman.

Here's the plot if you need one--
A fast food chicken joint is constructed on an Native American burial ground. I guess, although I'm not really positive, that these native's spirits possessed the dead chickens and arose from the grave, seeking double revenge. Chicken zombies from hell!!! Bwaaaaahahahaa.....

Poultrygeist has the basic Troma stuff:
-more gratuitous nudity than a porno (almost)
-revolting projectile vomiting
-extremely disgusting turd spraying
-absurdily bloody decapitations
-outrageous satirical episodes slamming pop culture
-macaroni and cheesy acting
-excessive damage to the crotchal region
-ignoramus heroes that you gotta love
-tactless social commentary
-insane gore stuffed down your throat

Recommended to rednecks, retards, idiots, and people from Boise, Idaho.

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. ***

This is by far the best Troma film to date. Say what you will in argument, but only a select few can truly compare to this finger-licking masterpiece (of chicken). Not only is it a slapstick gore/comedy, but it also makes a tongue-in-cheek-yet-honest poke at the fast food industry. Vegans and PETA fans rejoice! Or at least appreciate. However, this is NOT for those who are easily offended (and really, why are you watching a Troma film if you are?!). A-pluses all around, and a big pat on the back to all of those who slept on basement floors, church floors, and ate cheese sandwiches.

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!!!

I like Chicken. I like movies. I like movies about chicken. This is the most anticipated movie of the season for me. Classic Troma Films presentation. Buy it today, but hide it from your girlfriend.

OK, yes it rates low in the overall scheme of things but for Troma this could be the best they've ever done. Buckets of gore and bodily fluids, loads of half naked chicks (no pun intended), terrible acting, hilarious musical numbers. As with most Tromas you get a feature length making of that makes you wonder how they ever get a movie made. I laughed from start to finish.

I might be completely biased (okay, I am!), but I'm pretty sure Poultrygeist is the best film Troma's made since THE TOXIC AVENGER (and, although it might be blasphemous to say, it might be even BETTER than the Toxic Avenger!) A true grindhouse flick, with as much gore as Peter Jackson's BRAIN DEAD / DEAD ALIVE, and as much singing and dancing as THE SOUND OF MUSIC. Hilarious, stupid, fun, outrageous, offensive, and completely gleeful in it's utter disregard for community standards or moral standing. I'm super-excited about owning my own copy of this!

The acting is cheesy, the jokes are corny and there are multiple choreographed songs, but let me tell you that the absurd amount of blood, gore, vomit, diarrhea and decapitations make this one of the most entertaining movies I have seen this year! This is an instant cult classic and Mr. Kaufman has ascended to a new level, your throne is waiting sir! This tornado of insanity runs full throttle from beginning to end without a single dull moment and should have you rolling in hysterics ( Be warned, an extremely sick sense of humor is definitely required! ). This little gem will surely have you asking yourself, Did I just see that? Well...uh...the answer is yes...oh good lord yes! If over-the-top special effects, gratuitous nudity, vulgar language and some of the most eye-wincing, teeth-grinding death scenes ever put on film are your type of thing, pick up this film without any further delay, it will surely not disappoint! Wow....I'm still in amazement, I think I might frame this DVD!!!

Troma Film Studios has assembled a great stellar cast including Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham, Robin Watkins, Allyson Sereboff, Joshua Olatunde, Rose Ghavami, Caleb Emerson, Khalid Rivera, Lloyd Kaufman (also the writer/director), Brian Cheverie, Michael Herz as the Subway guy; Jared, Faith Sheenan Gallivan, Ron Jeremy, Tessa Lew and John Karyus as the main cast members for the best Troma movie. This movie is funny but not for all audiences, unless you enjoy gore combined with more gore. But, it's Lloyd Kaufman, what else to say? The main plot is about an idiotic high school graduate (Jason Yachanin) being hired by the American Chicken Bunker; Tromaville's new fast food restaurant. The restaurant was built on Indian Burial Grounds. After a bunch of deaths and possessions take place; the high school graduate (now a cashier), his lesbian turned girlfriend (Kate Graham), a greedy fast food mogul (Robin Watkins), a fellow protestor (Allyson Sereboff), an oddly familiar old man (Lloyd Kaufman), a goofy priest (Brian Cheverie) and a Muslim immigrant (Rose Ghavami) are the only ones to stop the zombie chickens before they take over America. This is also a very loose parody on POLTERGEIST and NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD, you can see why too. A few of my favorite scenes are when Arbie questions Carl Jr. about how to kill these zombies, Denny's monologue about a chicken attack on the Indianapolis delivery truck (spoofs Quint's monologue in JAWS about the Indianapolis shark attacck) and Michael Herz making fun of Jared (the man who lost a lot of weight from fast food sandwiches) 5 out of 5 star rating.

I was never big into these types of movies, horror films yes, extreme films yes but this is something else totally. At first it seems like a typical gorefest but soon turns into a laugh out load, gut wrenching, barf bag of gore, stupid dialogue, cheesey lines, insane musical numbers and disgusting effects. The effects and kills in this movie are great and make the film worth watching, I did laugh and cringe a fair bit which is new because I seen most of what I thought could be done until I saw this film. This is not a film to be taken seriously by any means just a fun movie to watch with a few friends having a few beers. Also do not try to follow the story because there isn't much of one, just sit back and prepare to be sick.