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This review first appeared in a slightly different form at Film Forager. Alex Kittle’s complete coverage of the Toronto After Dark festival can be found here. DIRECTED BY: Astron-6 FEATURING: Adam Brooks, Conor Sweeney, Matt Kennedy, Mackenzie Murdock, Amy Groening, Lloyd Kaufman PLOT: A crazed cannibalistic killer goes after fathers in his rape/murder spree. One-eyed . . . → Read More: LIST CANDIDATE: FATHER’S DAY (2011) DIRECTED BY: Lloyd Kaufman FEATURING: David Mattey, voice of Clyde Lewis, Heidi Sjursen, Paul Kyrmse PLOT: An explosion inexplicably causes the Toxic Avenger to switch dimensions with his evil Bizarro-world opposite, the Noxious Offender. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: None of the other Toxic Avenger movies made the List, so the fourth . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER 4 (2000) DIRECTED BY: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman FEATURING: John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Ron Fazio PLOT: Apocalypse Inc. and their literally diabolic CEO dupe New Jersey superhero Toxie into working for them as a spokesman/executive so he can earn money for an operation to restore his fiancée’s sight. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE TOXIC AVENGER PART III: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE (1989) DIRECTED BY: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman FEATURING: John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Ron Fazio PLOT: Evil corporation Apocalypse, Inc., wanting to turn Tromaville into a toxic waste dump, lures the mutant superhero Toxie away to Japan to search for his father. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: Films churned out by Troma Studios . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE TOXIC AVENGER, PART II (1989) DIRECTED BY: Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz FEATURING: Mitchell Cohen PLOT: A nerdy teen janitor is tormented by his serial killer peers until he accidentally falls into a vat of toxic waste and emerges as a mop-wielding, avenging mutant superhero. WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: When a movie about a mutant janitor who . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: THE TOXIC AVENGER (1984) “Body piercing. Kinky sex. Dismemberment. The things that made Shakespeare great.” –Tagline for Tromeo and Juliet DIRECTED BY: Lloyd Kaufman FEATURING: Will Keenan, Jane Jensen, Lemmy, Debbie Rochon PLOT: Alcoholic Monty Que and unscrupulous Cappy Capulet have a long running feud dating back to their days as partners in a low-budget sleaze movie studio, and they have . . . → Read More: 12. TROMEO AND JULIET (1996) |
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CAPSULE: TRAILERS FROM HELL!, VOL. 2 (2011) (WITH THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS)
DIRECTED BY: None credited
FEATURING: Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Guillermo del Toro, Ernest Dickerson, Mick Garris, Jack Hill, Larry Karaszewski, Lloyd Kaufman, Mary Lambert, John Landis, Josh Olson, Michael Peyser, Brian Trenchard Smith
PLOT: Industry professionals deliver commentaries on twenty movies as their trailers play.
WHY IT WON’T MAKE THE LIST: In itself it’s . . . → Read More: CAPSULE: TRAILERS FROM HELL!, VOL. 2 (2011) (WITH THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS)