Movie Reviews for Terror Firmer

Terror Firmer

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Movie Reviews of Terror Firmer

Movie Review: Why would anyone like this piece of garbage?
Summary: 4 Stars

I'll tell you why.

Troma, the undisputed champs of Gonzo Exploitation Trash, have come up with a doozy. Packed to the gills with Tromatic mayhem, "Terror Firmer" is something of a celebration. It treats its core audience to massive amounts of violence, nudity, vomit, and vaguely rubbery gore. In fact, Director Lloyd Kaufman takes things to such an extreme that "TF" actually becomes something of a self-parody (a point made abundantly clear during the open credits, in which the killer treats a pregnant woman to an unsolicited abortion. The book the hapless victim is reading? Kaufman's "All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned From the Toxic Avenger"). Plus it has uniformly good, spirited performances from a cast that really looks into it, and the DVD is loaded with extras, including a somewhat disturbing making-of documentary (more on that later).

So why 4 stars instead of 5? Maybe because "TF" comes on the heels of the majestic "Tromeo & Juliet," a modern classic that has such a great script that it brings a certain innocence to the work. "TF" has no such innocence. It is corrupt to the core (check out the reappearance of Ron Jeremy after we discover the killer's identity). And that's fine - Troma has certainly earned the right to be corrupt - but the best Troma flicks, like "The Toxic Avenger" and "Tromeo," have a heart of sweetness buried within the dismemberments and goo. And there's an awful lot of self-congratulation going on, which gets pretty damn irritating at times ("What's that web address again? [...]?"). The Troma fan knows what makes Troma so great, and they don't need to be reminded of it in such a smug fashion.

But on the whole, "TF" is a rollicking good time for those who can stomach it. Be sure to check out the DVD extras, including the feature-length documentary that reveals the seemingly cuddly Lloyd Kaufman as a true tyrant (but it's to his credit that he allows himself to be seen this way). There's some Tromatic music videos as well, and some satisfyingly disturbing trailers for other Troma releases. All in all, it's quite a package, even if it makes you recall a classic line from the film:

"I've just been pissed on by a blind independent film director!"

Movie Review: One of the better Troma movies
Summary: 4 Stars

A low budget studio is working on the newest installment of "The Toxic Avenger", blind director Larry Benjamin (Lloyd Kaufman) is readying the project. Unfortunately a homicidal maniac is on the loose in the city slaughtering innocent people and collecting their parts, the unknown killer hides out in the studio to kill off the actors during the filming of the movie and one of the workers must try to stop this cretin.

Exciting, ultraviolent, funny and sleazy horror comedy satire from cult movie company Troma is inspired by Lloyd Kaufman's book "How i learned about filmmaking i learned from The Toxic Avenger". It has a movie-within-a-movie-about-a-movie feel like "New Nightmare" and a good dark self-referential sense of humor to go along with it, the film is quite gory as hell even if it is cartoonish and has memorable moments like Michael Hertz (notable Troma actor and producer) getting mutilated by an escalator in Tex Avery fashion. This movie offers tasteless gags, nudity, sex, rock music and appearences by The Toxic Avenger and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD as it's one of the better and more bloodier Troma movies yet.

The 2-Disc DVD set is phenomenal! It has great extras like three audio commentaries, Deleted scenes with optional commentary, hidden easter eggs, a full length documentary on the making of the movie, trailers to this and other Troma movies, outtakes, interactive Terror Firmer video game, Intro to the TromaDance film festival, music videos, gyno talk with Terror Firmer actress Alyce LaTourelle, chat with Charolette Kaufman, Lloyd Kaufman book intro, comic book to film comparisions, auditions, alternate scenes and endings that were filmed for the Cannes film festival and an option to watch the movie with the deleted scenes in.

Movie Review: Lloyd's best movie
Summary: 4 Stars

I like some of Lloyd Kaufman's movies and despise others. This is, by far, my favorite. Unlike Troma's War or Class of Nuk'em High, this movie is actually funny. The writing is excellent, the story is absurd, the acting ranges from inspired to perfectly adequate, the effects are silly, the characters are engaging (I absolutely dug the Toddster and his death by bong scene is fantastic. "Brain go Bye Bye,") and there are a lot of fun cameos to look out for.

I have a feeling that Douglas Buck had a lot to do with the success of Terror Firmer. I only say this because I have seen his short film, Cutting Moments, and it is absolutely amazing. So I suspect that he might have elevated this effort from the level of the usual Troma production. Just a guess.

It's not perfect; some of the stuff with Ron Jeremy towards the end gets a little hokey for me. But hey, what the hell, this is a seriously fun movie.

The short at the end with Trey Parker and Matt Stone is hilarious.

Movie Review: just amazing. about as good, if not better than citizen toxie!
Summary: 4 Stars

while terror firmer is nowhere near the excellence of the classic tromeo and juliet, it is very entertaining and gripping. also cheesy and hilarious. i recommened you dont show this film to sensitive viewers until you have built them up to this level of troma. to get someone into a troma junkie, i must say start with the first toxie and cannibal! the musical. then you can move up to tromeo and juliet and finally this monster! i really dig this new age troma crew with the likes of will keenan, ron jeremy,lemmy and the guy who plays jerry(i forget his name) and such. this is one of the three essential troma films of the new troma era. the other two being citizen toxie and tromeo and juliet.

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