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Lloyd Kaufman

New York City, New York, USA

Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr. (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. Alongside producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, such as The Toxic... Read full bio →

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Vampire Zombies... From Space!

Vampire Zombies... From Space!

Michael Stasko 2026 1h 38m 4.0

In 1957, the small town of Marlow is under attack by Vampire Zombies - From Space.

Poultrygeist 2: Dawn of the Chicken Dead

Poultrygeist 2: Dawn of the Chicken Dead

Mercedes 2026

A global poultry pandemic sets the stage for a wealthy tech tycoon to attempt to relaunch a failed fast-food empire using lab-grown synthetic chicken. Things go horribly wrong when these artificial food supplies unleash a wave of mutant chicken zombies.

Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story

Video Dreams: A VHS Massacre Story

Thomas Edward Seymour 2025 1h 22m

From Blockbuster Dreams to streaming screens, a filmmakers journey through a vanishing world. Follow a director's thirty year odyssey to get on the shelf of Blockbuster Video and beyond. A tale of struggle, perseverance and what to do when your dreams no longer makes sense. Featuring Lloyd Kaufman, Debbie Rochon, Joe Bob Briggs and many others.

Superman

Superman

James Gunn 2025 2h 10m 6.0

Superman, a journalist in Metropolis, embarks on a journey to reconcile his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing as Clark Kent.

Silent Night, Bloody Night 3: Descent

Silent Night, Bloody Night 3: Descent

Will Collazo Jr., Julie Anne Prescott 2024 1h 40m

When Angelica wakes from a coma in an asylum, she must rediscover who she is by confronting who she was. These walls hold numerous horrors she must battle, including a visitor who wants to see her home for the holidays...in a body bag.

The Toxic Avenger

The Toxic Avenger

Macon Blair 2023 1h 42m 6.0

When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze, is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

James Gunn 2023 2h 30m 6.7

Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.

In Search of Darkness Part III: The Final Journey Into '80s Horror

In Search of Darkness Part III: The Final Journey Into '80s Horror

David A. Weiner 2022 5h 42m 8.0

The conclusion to the ‘In Search of Darkness’ '80s trilogy. In this epic final chapter, our focus turns to the straight-to-video horror classics that populated the bottom shelves at the video rental store. Imaginative, gory, experimental—but always entertaining—these hidden gems are ripe for rediscovery.

The Suicide Squad

The Suicide Squad

James Gunn 2021 2h 12m 6.5

Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they are dropped off at the remote, enemy-infused island of Corto Maltese.

VHS Massacre 2

VHS Massacre 2

Thomas Edward Seymour 2020 1h 17m

Struggling to keep independent films alive, indie filmmakers travel from the last Blockbuster to Troma Studios, encountering threats like media consolidation and censorship that jeopardize indie cinema's survival from VHS to streaming.

The Last Blockbuster

The Last Blockbuster

Taylor Morden 2020 1h 26m 6.0

Sandi Hardingm, the manager of the world's last remaining Blockbuster - located in Bend, OR, reflects on the store's vibrant past and navigates the difficult task of keeping a video rental store open in the era of streaming.

In Search of Darkness Part II: The Journey Into '80s Horror Continues

In Search of Darkness Part II: The Journey Into '80s Horror Continues

David A. Weiner 2020 4h 23m 7.0

The ultimate ‘80s Horror retrospective just got BIGGER. In Search of Darkness: Part II is a four-hour-plus sequel to the Rondo Hatton-nominated In Search of Darkness, adding 15 new interviewees and 40+ returning favorites for the biggest and most comprehensive ‘80s Horror documentary cast ever assembled.

Iron Sky: The Coming Race

Iron Sky: The Coming Race

Timo Vuorensola 2019 1h 33m 5.0

A follow-up to the film Iron Sky (2012) in which Nazis plan to take over the world after lying dormant in a secret military base on the moon.

In Search of Darkness

In Search of Darkness

David A. Weiner 2019 4h 24m 7.0

An exploration of '80s horror movies through the perspective of the actors, directors, producers and SFX craftspeople who made them, and their impact on contemporary cinema.

Another Cinema Snob Movie

Another Cinema Snob Movie

Ryan Mitchelle 2019 1h 49m 6.0

After portraying the original YouTube character Cinema Snob for many years, Craig Golightly will be releasing an original film for theaters.

Survival of the Film Freaks

Survival of the Film Freaks

Kyle Kuchta, Bill Fulkerson 2018 1h 26m 6.0

"Survival of the Film Freaks is a documentary exploring the phenomenon of cult film in America and how it survives in the 21st Century. Through interviews and fan events, the documentary will trace decades of film fanaticism up to the present, where the 'digital age' has transformed the way we experience movies."

VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary

VHS Lives: A Schlockumentary

Tony Newton 2017 2h 24m

VHS Collecting, SOV filmmaking and all things VHS.

Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Vol. 2

Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Vol. 2

Lloyd Kaufman 2017 1h 25m

Following the events of Volume 1, the mutated glee club continue their violent rampage in Tromaville. Chrissy and Lauren, two innocent lesbian lovers, must fight not only the Cretins, mutants, and monsters but also the evil Tromorganic Foodstuffs Conglomerate. Can they, and Kevin the Wonder Duck, save Tromaville High School and the world?

VHS Massacre

VHS Massacre

Thomas Edward Seymour, Kenneth Powell 2016 1h 12m 5.0

This lively documentary explores the rise and fall of physical media and its effect on Independent and cult films. Ranging from the origin of home movies through the video store era, it's sure to entertain.

The Transfiguration

The Transfiguration

Michael O'Shea 2016 1h 37m 5.0

A New York tale about love, loss… and vampires.

Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens

Anthony C. Ferrante 2016 1h 30m 6.0

The new installment of the Sharknado franchise takes place 5 years after Sharknado 3: Oh Hell No! There have been no Sharknados in the intervening years, but now they’re appearing again in unexpected ways.

Cell

Cell

Tod Williams 2016 1h 38m 4.7

When a strange signal pulsates through all cell phone networks worldwide, it starts a murderous epidemic of epic proportions when users become bloodthirsty creatures, and a group of people in New England are among the survivors to deal with the ensuing chaos after.

Ned Rifle

Ned Rifle

Hal Hartley 2015 1h 25m

Henry’s and Fay's son Ned sets out to find and kill his father for destroying his mother's life. But his aims are frustrated by the troublesome Susan, whose connection to Henry predates even his arrival in the lives of the Grim family.

Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four

Doomed: The Untold Story of Roger Corman's the Fantastic Four

Marty Langford 2015 1h 25m

A history of the ill-fated 1994 production of “The Fantastic Four” that was executive produced by Roger Corman.

VHS Forever? Psychotronic People

VHS Forever? Psychotronic People

Darren J. Perry, Mark Williams 2014 1h 31m 7.0

A feature length documentary taking a look at the explosion of movies that became available on VHS in the U.K. Taken from the perspective of those who tried to unearth that elusive movie at all costs known as psychotronic cinema.

Guardians of the Galaxy

Guardians of the Galaxy

James Gunn 2014 2h 1m 7.2

A futuristic team of superheroes protect the galaxy from danger. A jet pilot gets stranded in space, and must unite a diverse team of aliens to form a squad capable of defeating cosmic threats.

Digging Up the Marrow

Digging Up the Marrow

Adam Green 2014 1h 28m

A documentary exploring genre based monster art takes an odd turn when the filmmakers are contacted by a man who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real.

Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie

Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie

Kevin Finn, James D. Rolfe 2014 1h 55m 7.0

Based on the hit web series of the same name, the science fiction/adventure/comedy, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, follows a disgruntled gamer who must overcome his fear of the worst video game of all time in order to save his fans. Hilarity ensues as a simple road trip becomes an extravagant pursuit of the unexpected.

Rewind This!

Rewind This!

Josh Johnson 2013 1h 34m 6.5

Home video changed the world. The cultural and historical impact of the VHS tape was enormous. This film traces the ripples of that impact by examining the myriad aspects of society that were altered by the creation of videotape.

Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1

Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1

Lloyd Kaufman 2013 1h 25m

Return to the Class of Nuke 'Em High follows a young couple that are up against the school glee club. Unfortunately, the glee club has mutated into a gang called The Cretins. When the other students begin to undergo mutations, our couple must solve the mystery and save Tromaville High School

Legend of the Red Reaper

Legend of the Red Reaper

Tara Cardinal 2013 1h 39m 2.0

For a thousand years, the Reapers guarded mankind from the demons that wait in the dark. Now, at the beginning of a new age, the Reapers are betrayed and slaughtered. Only one Reaper remains - Red, and she's out to exact revenge.

Big Ass Spider!

Big Ass Spider!

Mike Mendez 2013 1h 21m 8.0

When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

Adjust Your Tracking: The Untold Story of the VHS Collector

Dan M. Kinem, Levi Peretic 2013 1h 24m 7.0

A documentary capturing the modern day VHS culture and VHS collectors.

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

A Liar's Autobiography: The Untrue Story of Monty Python's Graham Chapman

Jeff Simpson, Ben Timlett 2012 1h 25m 6.0

John Cleese, Michael Palin, Terry Jones and Terry Gilliam pay tribute to their late Monty Python colleague Graham Chapman in this hilarious, 3-D animated adaptation of Chapman's brazenly fictionalized life story. (TIFF)

Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical

Mr. Bricks: A Heavy Metal Murder Musical

Travis Campbell 2011 1h 16m 2.0

As Mr. Bricks, an ex-con left for dead in an empty New York City warehouse, deals with headaches caused by the bullet stuck in his brain, he pieces together memories and eventually faces the dirty cop who pulled the trigger!

Father's Day

Father's Day

Steven Kostanski, Jeremy Gillespie 2011 1h 39m 3.0

Ahab, a man obsessed with exacting a brutal, violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins John, an eager priest, and Twink, a hot-headed street hustler, on an epic quest to find and defeat this mythical monster known as Chris Fuchman AKA The Father's Day Killer.

Super

Super

James Gunn 2010 1h 36m 7.1

After his wife falls under the influence of a drug dealer, an everyday guy transforms himself into Crimson Bolt, a superhero with the best intentions, though he lacks for heroic skills.

Slime City Massacre

Slime City Massacre

Greg Lamberson 2010 1h 30m

Slime creatures emerging from contaminated food attack NYC homeless seeking refuge while mercenaries hired by a greedy developer aim to eliminate them, resulting in a violent clash between mutants, slime heads, and mercenaries.

Klown Kamp Massacre

Klown Kamp Massacre

Philip Gunn, David Valdez 2010 1h 24m

Fifteen years ago, Edwin went to clown camp to fulfill his lifelong dream of bringing laughter to the world... but nobody laughed. Humiliated on graduation night, Edwin viciously murdered the entire camp before vanishing into legend.

Hatchet II

Hatchet II

Adam Green 2010 1h 25m 6.0

Picking up right where the original ended, Marybeth escapes the clutches of the swamp-dwelling killer Victor Crowley.

Gamer

Gamer

Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor 2009 1h 35m 5.9

Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon (Lerman) controls Kable (Butler), the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate challenge becomes regaining his identity and independence by defeating the game's mastermind (Hall).

Crank: High Voltage

Crank: High Voltage

Mark Neveldine, Brian Taylor 2009 1h 36m 6.7

Chelios faces a Chinese mobster who has stolen his nearly indestructible heart and replaced it with a battery-powered ticker that requires regular jolts of electricity to keep working.

Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned

Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned

Brian Thomson 2008 1h 16m 2.0

Sammy holds a wild anything-goes bachelor party for his best friend Chuck at a bungalow in the Hamptons. Things go horribly awry when the three exotic dancers hired to provide entertainment for said bash turn out to be ferocious demonic succubus vampires with an insatiable taste for male flesh.

Slither

Slither

James Gunn 2006 1h 36m 6.6

A small town is taken over by an alien plague, turning residents into zombies and all forms of mutant monsters.

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Lloyd Kaufman 2006 1h 43m 7.8

Humans... the other white meat... Unless you're black, then it's dark meat... Or if you are Asian, then it's yellow meat... Or if you are Native American, it's red meat...

LovecraCked! The Movie

LovecraCked! The Movie

Tomas Almgren, Elias Argentiere 2006 1h 24m 2.0

The ultimate H.P. Lovecraft horror comedy!

Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove

Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove

William Winckler 2005 1h 30m 4.0

Mad scientists have resurrected Frankenstein's monster and also created a half-man, half-fish creature.

Nikos the Impaler

Nikos the Impaler

Andreas Schnaas 2003 1h 41m 3.0

Due to a botched robbery attempt, a ruthless Romanian barbarian is somehow resurrected in modern day New York and begins wreaking havoc on a small Manhattan art-house. Chaos ensues as the patrons of the establishment band together to fight for their lives.

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV

Lloyd Kaufman 2000 1h 49m 8.5

When the notorious Diaper Mafia take hostage the Tromaville School for the Very Special, only the Toxic Avenger and his morbidly obese sidekick Lardass can save Tromaville.

Terror Firmer

Terror Firmer

Lloyd Kaufman 1999 1h 54m 7.0

TROMA crew are the only folks capable of stopping a crazed hermaphrodite from continuing it's violent rampage!

Orgazmo

Orgazmo

Trey Parker 1997 1h 34m 7.0

Naive young Mormon Joe Young is recruited to act in porn movies.

Tromeo and Juliet

Tromeo and Juliet

Lloyd Kaufman 1996 1h 47m 7.7

Tromeo, a filmmaker, falls in love with Juliet, the daughter of a former partner who tried to steal his business from him.

Rocky V

Rocky V

John G. Avildsen 1990 1h 44m 5.5

Reluctantly retired from boxing and back from riches to rags, Rocky takes on a new protege who betrays him; As the champ's son must adjust to his family's new life after bankruptcy.

The Toxic Avenger Part II

The Toxic Avenger Part II

Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz 1989 1h 35m 5.3

The Toxic Avenger is lured to Tokyo, Japan by the evil corporation Apocalypse Inc. So while the Toxic Avenger is fighting crime in Tokyo, Apocalypse Inc. spread evil in Tromaville.

The Final Countdown

The Final Countdown

Don Taylor 1980 1h 43m 6.4

A modern aircraft carrier is thrown back in time to 1941 near Hawaii, just hours before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Squeeze Play

Squeeze Play

Lloyd Kaufman 1979 1h 34m

The girlfriends of softball players decide to form their own team as a way of avenging their neglect.

Rocky

Rocky

John G. Avildsen 1976 2h 7.7

A small time boxer gets a once in a lifetime chance to fight the heavyweight champ in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.

Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies

Theodore Gershuny 1973 1h 29m

A film producer murders his star actress during an erotic "game" and makes it look like suicide. The dead girl's lesbian lover discovers what happened, and plots her revenge.

The Battle of Love's Return

The Battle of Love's Return

Lloyd Kaufman 1971 1h 22m

After a series of mishaps, a young man is fired from his job for failing to deliver a package. He goes on a journey to find himself, encountering various characters including a priest and the owner of a pornographic bookstore, who are seen in black and white interview segments.

Werewolf Bitches from Outer Space

Werewolf Bitches from Outer Space

Reverend Jen Miller, Courtney Fathom Sell 0000 1h 13m

Three werewolf women from Uranus are sent to Earth

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