Terror Firmer

1999 Comedy

Troma Team Pictures, the company that brought you such classics as The Toxic Avenger, When Nature Calls and Class Of Nuke 'Em High, takes a look inside the making of a "typical" Troma release with Terror Firmer, directed and co-written by Troma co-founder Lloyd Kaufman, who also appears as the director of the film-within-the film. Here, Kaufman (whose character is blind, which would explain a lot about Troma's product) and his crew are making a willfully sleazy horror flick, complete with monsters, gore, gratuitous nudity and loud rock 'n' roll, when a serial killer appears who doesn't happen to be in the script. Terror Firmer is based in part on Kaufman's 1998 book about his career with Troma, All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, and includes a plug for the upcoming Jane Austen's Schlock and Schlockability (possibly a follow-up to 1996's Shakespeare variant Tromeo and Juliet). more..

Director: Lloyd Kaufman

Starring: Will Keenan, Alyce LaTourelle,Lloyd Kaufman, Trent Haaga, Sheri Wenden

Reviews

  • More entrails, more bare bosoms, more R-rated sex, more flatulence, more mayhem, more brutality and more violence. But it adds up to less and less.

    Kevin Thomas - Los Angeles Times

    27 April 2013

  • Couldn't be more artless.

    A.O. Scott - The New York Times

    27 April 2013

  • Occasionally amusing, extremely gross, but mostly tedious.

    Jonathan Foreman - New York Post

    27 April 2013

  • Is there anything more irritating than an exploitation filmmaker with self-referentiality on the brain?

    Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide

    27 April 2013

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