Kaufman manages to surprise with the extremes he takes his customary combination of low budget and high camp to in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
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07/18/08
Poultrygeist (2008)
68 %
Reviews Counted: 22 Fresh: 15 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 6.4/10
Consensus:
Poultrygeist may be relentlessly tasteless and juvenile, but it's also a lively slice of schlocky fun.
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: Nov 30, 1999 Limited
Synopsis: What if NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD and FAST FOOD NATION were ground together in the bowels of a meat grinder? Find out in this awesomely disgusting--and disgustingly awesome--satire from director Lloyd Kaufman (THE TOXIC AVENGER). When a fast food chain builds a restaurant on an Indian burial... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Jason Yachanin, Joshua Olatunde, Kate Graham, Caleb Emerson, Allyson Sereboff
Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Screenwriter: Gabriel Friedman, Dan Bova, Lloyd Kaufman
Producer: Andy Deemer, Kiel Walker
Composer: Duggie Banas, Jason "Shack" Kozun
Screenwriter: Gabriel Friedman, Dan Bova, Lloyd Kaufman
Producer: Andy Deemer, Kiel Walker
Composer: Duggie Banas, Jason "Shack" Kozun
Reviews
Crosses big gross-out shock scenes with more in-the-know jokes about terrorists and nutrition, without ever realizing or acknowledging this chasm. I wish it had been a little smarter -- or dumber.
07/17/08
It's not pretty, and the humor is sometimes embarrassingly puerile, but for those with a passion for subversive trash, Troma Entertainment is still serving it on a bile-covered platter.
07/17/08
A heaping helping of political incorrectness gleefully spiced to offend just about every sentient being.
06/13/08
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Kaufman runs a vaguely clever premise right into the toilet, both literally and metaphorically.
05/09/08
A landmark achievement in the field of cursed-chicken-franchise horror musicals.
05/09/08
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be.
05/09/08
Top Critic
Horror fans might enjoy the overall trashiness (and one truly unsettling kill with a meat slicer); everyone else should skip it.
05/08/08
A jaw-dropping combination of silly, sexy and sadistic skits not to be missed!
05/07/08
Open[s] with the best trying-to-unfasten-a-bra and zombie-finger-as-buttplug gags in movie history, which are closely followed by the most tasteless fisting scene since William Freidkin's Cruising.
05/07/08
Quite possibly the world's first horror-musical-sex-comedy, the strangely impressive originality of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead doesn't come even close to compensating for its everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink midnight-movie awfulness.
05/06/08
This zany, high-kickin', forever clucking, fecal-matter-spattered fun fest is Troma at its best. This is a Sweeney Todd for low-lifes. A must-see for vegans.
04/12/08
Reviewing Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is like critiquing a belch.
10/05/07
Kaufman spews a biting satire of the fast-food industry and the evils of saturated fat and marketing saturation.
09/20/07
(Poultrygeist is) bloodier, ballsier, and bluerer than anything the company has ever done...the kind of crackpot genre gem that gets its kicks out of wallowing in feces,...exploiting same sexiness, and undermining standard cinematic expectations.
09/19/07
Every variation on "disgusting" you can think of -- and many you can't -- is here. It's a veritable "Cluckwork Orange," but without the sentimentality.
09/08/07
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Just saw the premiere at the B movie celebration in franklin, indiana
by: RobotHank 8/20/07
by: RobotHank 8/20/07
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