Lloyd KaufmanFilmography

Gamer

Actors: Gerard Butler, Amber Valletta, Michael C. Hall, Kyra Sedgwick, Logan Lerman, Alison Lohman

Synopsis: Reality and video games merge in this high-concept sci-fi action thriller from Crank creators Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor. In the not too distant future, mind-control technology allows humans to control the actions and movements of other humans, allowing reclusive billionaire Ken Castle (Michael C. Hall Read More

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Crew: Director, Executive Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham, Allyson Sereboff, Robin L. Watkins, Joshua Olatunde

Synopsis: For anyone who has ever felt genuine fear while pondering what's really in that oddly shaped chicken nugget they're about to consume, director Lloyd Kaufman offers a simultaneously horrific and hilarious parody of the zombie genre that takes on the one thing scarier than the flesh-eating legions Read More

Jacques D'Amboise in China: The Other Side of the World

Crew: Producer

Actors: Jacques D'Amboise

Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned

Synopsis: A bachelor party planner learns that nothing comes for free after gaining access to a posh Hamptons bungalow and preparing to celebrate his best buddy's marriage with a wild weekend of drugs and debauchery. Chuck is about to get married, but before that happens, Sammy is going to make sure he has Read More

Hoodoo for Voodoo

Actors: Brunilda Zekthi, Chris McDaniel, Sacha-Renee Crutchfield, Garrett Harrison, Valensky Sylvan

Synopsis: Mardi Gras is supposed to be the ultimate party, but when the employees at a local Voodoo tourist trap begin turning up dead, it's up to a group of vacationing college kids to cast off their beads and catch a killer. Who could be responsible for this bloody killing spree? As the streets of New Read More

Craig

Actors: Kim Sønderholm, Peter Ottesen

Synopsis: A lonely, socially maladjusted young man attempting to recover from the recent loss of his parents finds his already tenuous grip on reality steadily beginning to slip in director/star Kim Sønderholm's paranoid psychological thriller. His parents having recently died in a tragic fire, Craig clings Read More

Crazy Animal

Synopsis: The frat guys searching for sex, fun, and good times on the open road arrive at a mysterious party house in the middle of nowhere, only to realize too little too late that the sexy coeds who live there are looking for bloody revenge. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Bryan Loves You

Actors: Tony Todd, George Wendt, Daniel Roebuck, Tiffany Shepis

Synopsis: Tony Todd Tiffany Shepis, Daniel Roebuck, and George Wendt star in this thriller inspired by the true story of a well-known Arizona cult. Small town therapist Jonathan has recently formed a strange fixation on a local cult that worships a mythological figure who was brutally murdered. With every Read More

The Devil's Muse

Actors: Kristen Kerr, Gidget Gein, Julie Strain, Lizzie Strain, Masumi Max

Synopsis: Inspired by the bizarre Black Dahlia murder case, The Devil's Muse tells the tale of a beautiful young actress who's cast to play the tragic victim in an upcoming film, and whose nightmares gradually fuse with her desires as she delves ever deeper into the script. The moment Lisa Small (Kristen Read More

Meat Weed Madness

Crew: Presented by

Synopsis: Flesh fuses with cannabis to create the most potent pot man has ever known in the tale of a southern ganja plantation with a deadly secret. For smokers of the herb, Meatweed Manor is a heaven on earth. A remote paradise where farmers utilize human flesh in producing pot that makes Acapulco Gold Read More

Bloodspit

Crew: Presented by

Synopsis: The creators of The Killbillies are back, and this time nothing is off limits as they weave a morally reprehensible tale of vampire lust, well-endowed werewolves, and bloodsucking mutants. Count Bloodspit and his children have returned from the Vampire Mirror World, and the time has come for the Read More

Love Cracked! The Movie

Synopsis: Inspired by the stories of celebrated weird fiction author H.P. Lovecraft, LoveCracked! The Movie follows the adventures of an incompetent investigative journalist as he uncovers the story of the reclusive author and his mysterious past. Horror porn queen Joanna Angel and Troma's Lloyd Kaufman Read More

Vampira: The Movie

Actors: Maila "Vampira" Nurmi, Forrest J. Ackerman, Sid Haig, Lloyd Kaufman, Black Betty

Synopsis: This documentary travels behind the scenes of camp classics such as Plan 9 from Outer Space to visit the life and career of onetime horror star and TV horror hostess Vampira (aka Maila Nurmi). The title figure was previously portrayed by Lisa Marie in Tim Burton's picture Ed Wood. ~ Nathan Read More

Nowhere Man

Actors: Michael Rodrick, Debbie Rochon, Frank Olivier, Bob Gosse, Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Risley

Synopsis: A man learns the hard way just how bad he's been to his girlfriend in this independent drama laced with dark humor. Conrad (Michael Rodrick) is a high-strung, impulsive man who shares a home with his fiancée, Jennifer (Debbie Rochon). While their relationship has not always been cordial, Conrad Read More

Horror Business

Synopsis: Aspiring genre filmmakers and horror fans alike will want to check out director Christopher P. Garetano documentary exploring the colorful world of independent fright cinema. With subjects including Wisconsin-based auteur Mark Borchardt, Las Vegas-based "method director" Ron Atkins, and New York Read More

Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus

Actors: Hany Abu-Assad, Pedro Almodóvar, Vicente Aranda, Bruno Barde, Xavier Beauvois

Punk Rock Holocaust

Actors: Kevin Lyman, Heather Vantress, Lloyd Kaufman

Synopsis: A series of brutal murders leaves the future of the Vans Warped Tour in question in this punk rock-fueled horror comedy from director Doug Sakmann. As the bands on the tour fall prey to the murderous menace one by one, Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman tries in vain to keep the tour rolling Read More

Tales From the Crapper

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: For those who find Lars von Trier's film movement Dogma 95 too highbrow, the folks at Troma films created Dogpile 95. Tales from the Crapper, the first production to wear the Dogpile label, stars softcore queen Julie Strain in a frenetic omnibus of gore and nudity. Allegedly shot over three years Read More

LolliLove

Actors: James Gunn, Jenna Fischer, Linda Cardellini, Jason Segel, Judy Greer

Synopsis: A wealthy couple attempts to give back to their community by handing out giant lollipops to the local homeless population in the mockumentary-style directorial debut of The Office star Jenna Fischer. On the surface, James and Jenna (real-life husband and wife team James Gunn and Jenna Fischer) Read More

Prison-A-Go-Go!

Actors: Rhonda Shear, Mary Woronov

Synopsis: Prison A-Go-Go!, Barak Epstein's gonzo homage to/parody of women's prison films stars Laurie Walton as a woman who must infiltrate a women's prison in order to find out what happened to her missing sister. She soon discovers that the warden (Mary Woronov) is conducting hideous experiments on the Read More

All the Love You Cannes

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: With the possible exception of John Waters, no one in contemporary American cinema has built a more remarkable career out of the concept of creative bad taste than the folks at Troma Team Pictures. Troma founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz have been offering up a dizzying blend of sex Read More

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: David Mattey, Heidi S. Jursen, Clyde Lewis, Debbie Rochon, Ron Jeremy

Synopsis: New Jersey's leading mutant superhero (unless Jon Bon Jovi counts) rises from the sludge to defend truth, justice, and radioactive waste once again in the third sequel to the 1985 cult sensation The Toxic Avenger. There's trouble brewing in the sleepy town of Tromaville when the Diaper Mafia, a Read More

Waiting

Actors: Ron Jeremy, Lloyd Kaufman, Kerri Kenney, Hannah Dalton, Kurt Knobelsdorf, Harry Philabosian, Will Keenan

Go to Hell

Crew: Presented by

Actors: Ray Whalen, Renee Werbowski, Chaz Truog, Paul Economon, Edwin Strout, John F. Regan, Carl Besasie, Rich Kronfeld

Synopsis: A tabloid reporter teams with a Vatican secret agent to rip the lid off of an assassination conspiracy birthed in the very bowles of hell in slaphappy action effort from first-time filmmaker Michael J. Heagle. Dario Dare is a yellow journalist assigned to cover the arrival of Roman Catholic Read More

Terror Firmer

Crew: Book Author, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Will Keenan, Alyce LaTourelle, Trent Haaga, Debbie Rochon, Sheri Wenden

Synopsis: 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 Read More

Tromeo and Juliet

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Debbie Rochon, Valentine Miele, Sean Gunn

Synopsis: Notorious schlock and psychotronic production company Troma (known for such classics as Toxic Avenger and Class of Nuke 'Em High) hails Tromeo and Juliet, its contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's love tragedy, a "thrill-a-minute, body-piercing, computer sex, sapphic, car-crashing Read More

Wizards of the Demon Sword

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lyle Waggoner, Russ Tamblyn, Blake Bahner, Heidi Paine, Jay Richardson

Synopsis: This low-budget Troma film makes fun of low-budget sword and sorcery movies. The story centers on the battle for the mythical Sword of Aktar and its kidnapped keeper Ulric. But for a few stop-motion prehistoric creatures, the special effects are less than stellar. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Sgt. Kabukiman, N.Y.P.D.

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rick Gianasi, Susan Byun, Bill Weeden, Thomas Crnkovich, Larry Robinson

Synopsis: This comical sci-fi cop adventure is set in the future and follows the exploits of a New York detective who is given superhuman powers from a mysterious Kabuki. Suddenly he turns into a colorfully dressed, but still somewhat bungling crime fighter. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Class of Nuke 'Em High 2: Subhumanoid Meltdown

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Brick Bronsky, Lisa Gaye, Leesa Rowland, Michael Kurtz, Scott Resnick

Synopsis: The feverishly deranged minds at Troma Films endeavor to top their original cinematic stink-bomb Class of Nuke 'Em High with this excruciatingly awful mess -- which takes place at the newly-built Tromaville Institute of Technology (TIT), built after the nuclear disaster that mutated and destroyed Read More

Rocky V

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Sage Stallone, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Touted upon its release as the finale of the Rocky saga, this fifth entry in the long-running series of sports dramas reunites star Sylvester Stallone with John G. Avildsen, director of the Oscar-winning original. Stallone is Rocky Balboa, suffering from career-ending brain damage as a result of Read More

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

Crew: Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Lisa Gaye

Synopsis: Upon temptation from Satan himself, Melvin Junko (aka the Toxic Avenger) has visions of yuppiedom dancing in his head when he begins working for an evil Japanese conglomerate which plans to destroy the world (including Melvin's hometown) with toxic waste. When he realizes what he is doing, he Read More

The Toxic Avenger, Part II

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Phoebe Legere, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka

Synopsis: Ron Fazio returns as The Toxic Avenger, "the first hideously deformed monster hero of superhuman size and strength ever to come from New Jersey," in Troma's mercenary sequel to its hit film The Toxic Avenger. Since Toxie cleaned up Tromaville, New Jersey in the first film, he now has no one to Read More

Troma's War

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: When a plane filled with residents from Tromaville crash on a desert island, the pilot literally goes all to pieces, and only one crew member survives along with a diverse array of passengers. Among them are insufferable yuppies, car salesmen, little old ladies, and housewives. The group must band Read More

Walking on Water

Crew: Co-producer, Screenwriter

Lust for Freedom

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Melanie Coll, William Kulzer, Deanna Booher, Howard Knight

Synopsis: After watching her partner get murdered, a policewoman packs it in and hits the road. She ends up near the Mexican border, where she is unjustly picked up with several other women and charged with white slavery. She must fight to protect herself from physical and sexual assault behind bars. ~ All Read More

Class of Nuke 'Em High

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Janelle Brady, Gilbert Brenton, Robert Prichard, R.L. Ryan, James Nugent Vernon

Synopsis: Trash-movie moguls Lloyd Kauffman and Michael Herz -- the creative team (so to speak) behind distributor Troma Films and makers of The Toxic Avenger -- foist yet another epic of bad taste upon the viewing public with this melding of teenage sex-comedy and slime-oozing monster mayhem, described by Read More

Combat Shock

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mitch Maglio, Aspah Livni, Nick Nasta, Mike Tierno

Synopsis: This violent film follows the miserable life of a miserable Vietnam vet as it goes from awful, to disgusting, to almost ludicrous (the life and the film). First the vet helps slaughter the inhabitants of a village during the war and then he is captured and tortured for two years. After that Read More

Blood Hook

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mark Jacobs, Lisa Todd, Patrick Danz, Sara Hauser, Paul Drake

Synopsis: In the aptly titled, Blood Hook, a mentally ill war veteran becomes a crazed killer hunting teenagers and killing them in a variety of inventive and very bloody ways during a local annual fishing tournament. This routine, very bloody teenage slasher thriller, directed by Jim Mallon, attempts to Read More

The Toxic Avenger

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Andree Maranda, Mitchell Cohen, Jennifer Babtist, Cindy Manion, Robert Prichard

Synopsis: In a crazy spoof of heroic monster movies that spawned two sequels, The Toxic Avenger is about the transformation of a mild-mannered, scrawny janitor into a thundering, muscular hero out for justice, morality, and in one case, a bit of sex. Melvin (Mark Torgl) has a job as a custodian at a Read More

Splatter University

Crew: Consultant/advisor

Actors: Francine Forbes, Cathy Lacommaro, Ric Randig, Joanna Mihalakis

Synopsis: A maniac escapes from a mental institution and disguises himself as a member of the faculty at St. Trinian's, a small Catholic college. He murders a young female professor, but the crime remains unsolved. Julie Parker (Francine Forbes) fills the vacant position after several other applicants Read More

The First Turn-On!

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Georgia Harrell, Michael Sanville, Googy Gress, Heidi Miller, John Flood

Synopsis: In this standard story of sex at summer camp, four campers are trapped for awhile in a cave and begin to fabricate supposedly true tales of their past sexual exploits -- giving rise to several flashbacks as their imaginary adventures unfold one by one. Even the nature-studies counselor who is Read More

Stuck on You

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Irwin Corey, Virginia Penta, Mark Mikulski

Synopsis: A fallen angel is sent to Earth to win back his heavenly status by bringing a feuding couple together again, but only divine intervention could turn this script around. The angel is Gabriel (Irwin Corey), a judge with a variety of digestive problems who scratches where it itches, when it itches Read More

My Dinner With Andre

Crew: Production Manager

Actors: Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory

Synopsis: A extended conversation between two old friends over dinner proves an unexpectedly fascinating subject for a film in the critically acclaimed My Dinner with André. The talkers in question are André Gregory, a renowned experimental theater director, and playwright and actor Wallace Shawn, both of Read More

Waitress!

Crew: Cinematographer, Producer

Actors: Carol Drake, Jim Harris, Carol Bevar, Renata Majer, David Hunt

Synopsis: Three lovely waitresses contend with a drunken, slovenly chef and mutinous patrons. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Squeeze Play

Crew: Cinematographer, Director, Producer

Actors: Jim Harris, Jennifer Hetrick, Rick Gitlin, Helen Campitelli, Rick Kahn

Synopsis: The estimable New Jersey-based Troma Films, the same firm that brought you such imperishable classics as Toxic Avenger and Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, was responsible for the raunchy baseball farce Squeeze Play. Rather than offer a litany of its highlights (such as they are), we feel that the Read More

The Children

Crew: Producer

Actors: Martin Shakar, Gil Rogers, Gale Garnett, Jesse Abrams, Tracy Griswold

Synopsis: In The Children, an above-average horror film, the children in a bus on the way to school become murderous, black-fingernailed zombies after being exposed to poison gas during a nuclear-plant leak. Sheriff Billy Hart (Gil Rogers) must battle the children in order to save his town. This horror Read More

The Final Countdown

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Martin Sheen, Katharine Ross, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal

Synopsis: The USS Nimitz, a modern-day nuclear-powered aircraft carrier captained by Kirk Douglas, passes through a time warp and finds itself at Pearl Harbor on December 6, 1941. Douglas is all for preventing the infamous Japanese attack by unleashing the 1980s technology at his disposal. But wait--if Read More

Mother's Day

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Nancy Hendrickson, Deborah Luce, Tiana Pierce, Holden McGuire, Billy Ray McQuade

Synopsis: Three women find their worst nightmares have become a reality in this horror film that combines extreme violence with dark, absurdist comedy. Abbey (Nancy Hendrickson), Jackie (Deborah Luce), and Trina (Tiana Pierce) have been close friends since their college days, and they decide to celebrate Read More

Rocky

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young, Carl Weathers, Burgess Meredith

Synopsis: Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone), a Philadelphia boxer, is but one step removed from total bum-hood. A once-promising pugilist, Rocky is now taking nickel-and-dime bouts and running strongarm errands for local loan sharks to survive. Even his supportive trainer, Mickey (Burgess Meredith), has Read More

The Battle of Love's Return

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director, Editor, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Lynn Lowry, Lloyd Kaufman, Stanley Kaufman

Synopsis: Long before organizing Troma Pictures with Michael Herz, filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman ground out the 16-millimeter comedy Battle of Love's Return. In contrast to the later raunchy output of Troma, this highly personal piece is an innocuous tale of a born schlemiel. Kaufman himself plays the leading Read More

Cry Uncle

Synopsis: A private detective is hired to study an alleged blackmailing scheme, but discovers that he is involved himself in the plot. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Scarlet Moon

Crew: Presented by

Synopsis: The Troma Team - responsible for such camp legends as The Toxic Avenger series and Killer Condom - return with Scarlet Moon, a low-budget gothfest executive-produced by studio founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz and directed by Warren F. Disbrow (Invasion for Flesh and Blood). This outrageous Read More

Zombie Geddon

Crew: Presented by

Synopsis: The minions of the devil come up from their grave to feast on the flesh of all God's creatures in a low-budget zombie epic directed by Chris Watson and featuring a long list of cameos that reads like a who's who of genre film history. With appearances by Tom Savini, Edwin Neal, Linnea Quigly Read More

Crazed

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A hedonistic recluse seeking to control the lives of the few who faithfully serve her is plunged into a sea of madness as her paranoid suspicions tighten their grip on her sanity in this sensual drama starring Leslie Caron and The Dukes of Hazard's Catherine Bach. A voluptuous but reclusive widow Read More