Terror Firmer (1999)
Directed by Lloyd Kaufman
Genres - Comedy, Horror |
Sub-Genres - Horror Comedy, Sex Horror |
Release Date - Oct 29, 1999 (USA) |
Run Time - 114 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - R
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Synopsis by Mark Deming
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).
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Keywords
filmmaker, movie-within-a-movie, blindness [physical], crew, director, killing-spree, monster, movie-studio, multiple-murder, serial-killer, show-business
Attributes
Cult Film, Low Budget