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and Photo-Ops With True Patriot, Future U.S. President and Interpretive Dancer, Lloyd Kaufman! Troma Entertainment will be celebrating 45 Years of Reel Independence at the 2019 New York Comic Con on October 3rd-6th at booth #429 at the Jacob K. Javits Center with Legendary filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team.

Troma Entertainment will be setting up shop at Booth #429 as they celebrate 45 Years of Reel Independent film-making, as well as the Lloyd Kaufman’s 50th year in the film industry, with special guests and EXCLUSIVE, BRAND NEW merchandise available ONLY at  2019 New York Comic-Con. Mr. Kaufman will also be signing FREE autographs and taking pictures with all fans in attendance!

The  2019 New York Comic-Con will be taking place from October 3rd to October 6th at the Jacob K. JavitsCenter, located at 429 11th Ave, New York, NY 10001. The international, multi -genre entertainment and comic convention will be celebrating it’s 50th year in 2019.

Troma Entertainment presents a special ONE NIGHT ONLY screening of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 1993’s Tromasterpiece Cannibal! The Musical on Friday, September 27th at The PIT in NYC at 11:00PM! From The Brilliant Creators of South Park and The Book of Mormon Comes The Best Show to Never Hit Broadway!

“…there are refreshingly ludicrous notes that even people old enough to see this movie without a guardian can appreciate.  “– Anita Gates, The New York Times

“It’s finger-licking good, a tasty 90 minutes of yummy production numbers and intense spiritual crises.”– Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner

Troma Entertainment will be presenting an exclusive, ONE NIGHT ONLY screening of Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s savagely hilarious and brilliantCannibal! The Musical on September 27th at 11:00 PM at the The PIT in NYC. Before Orgazmo and BASEketball, the genius minds that brought viewers South Park teamed with Troma Entertainment to make the goriest, most laugh inducing musical comedy to never hit broadway!

Cannibal! The Musical is the true story of the only person convicted of cannibalism in America – Alfred Packer.  The sole survivor of an ill-fated trip to the Colorado Territory, he tells his side of the harrowing tale to news reporter Polly Prye as he awaits his execution.  And his story goes like this: While searching for gold and love in the Colorado Territory, he and his companions lost their way and resorted to unthinkable horrors, including toe-tapping songs! Packer and his five wacky mining buddies sing and dance their ways into your heart…and then take a bite out of it!  Cannibal! The Musical is Oklahoma meets Bloodsucking Freaks.  Brought to you by the Troma Team and Trey Parker – the Rogers and Hammerstein of Horror!
Fans can see Cannibal! The Musical on September 27th for ONLY $12 at The PIT located at The Striker Stage 123 E 24th St (between  Park & Lex) New York, NY, 10010. Tickets can be purchased at Here.

    
Next Month, on Saturday, October 5th, Troma Entertainment will be back at The PIT for a special New York Comic-Con weekend screening of Lloyd Kaufman’s epic continuation of the “Nuke ‘Em High” franchise, Return to Nuke ‘Em High Volume 1 at 11:00 PM. Uncle Lloydie will be appearing live and in-person to present the screening and will be signing Free autographs and taking photos with all viewers in attendance. 

Troma Entertainment presents a gluten-FREE Sexy September screening of 1981’s succulent sex comedy ‘Waitress” on September 10th at Santa Salsa in Brooklyn, NYC and The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto, Canada at 9:00PM!

"Side-splitting humor and heaping portions of laughs on its menu"- New York Magazine
"A high spirited laff riot" - Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times  

If you’re looking to be served a tasty treat of a movie in the vein of “Waiting” and “Knocked Up“, it’s  Waitress! And make sure you have an appetite for a lot of laughs and lots of turn ons!!! How many times have you gotten to a restaurant and instead of a WAITRESS! you got an actress? Carol Bevar, Jim Harris and Carol Drake star in this raunchy comedy, from directors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, about a would be actress, a teen magazine reporter and a pre-pubescent prep-school girl. Picture three waitresses in a crazy restaurant where there is chaos among the customers, an exploding kitchen and a drunken chef.

Fans can see Waitress on September 9th for FREE at Santa Salsa in Brooklyn and at The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto (Donations Appreciated!), with both screenings commencing at 9:00 PM!

Troma Tuesdays has branched its weekly program that we continue to curate in New York into other countries to create a unique universal experience to be had with independent cinema around the world every Tuesday. We will be screening weekly in Toronto, Canada in partnership with The Grand Gerrard Theatre while screening at various locations around New York.

Santa Salsa
234 Starr St., Brooklyn, NY 11237

The Grand Gerrard Theatre
1035 Gerrard St. E, Toronto, ONM4M 1Z6 Canada

Troma Entertainment presents a Sexy September screening of 1979’s hilarious softball-sex comedy ‘Squeeze Play” on September 3rd – 9:00 PM at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn, NYC and The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto, Canada at 9:00 PM!

”SQUEEZE PLAY” is a zesty movie of its kind… This is a low-budget bawdy comedy, full of dopey routines and live-wire characters.”

“There’s a friendliness to all this, and it’s the movie’s best quality.”

– Janet Maslin, The New York Times

SQUEEZE PLAY is the first and most seminal of the sexy comedies of the late 1970’s.  Before there was Porky’s, there was Squeeze Play, a hilarious, raunchy comedy about a women’s softball team where anything goes. It’s a wild battle of the sexes as the “World Series of Laughs” heats up on and off the softball field. Directed by Lloyd Kaufman, SQUEEZE PLAY stars Jennifer Hetrick (L.A. Law), Jim Metzler (Four Friends) and Al Corley (Dynasty)!

Fans can see Squeeze Play on September 3rd for ONLY $5 at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn and at The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto (Donations Appreciated), with both screenings commencing at 9:00 PM.

Troma Tuesdays has branched its weekly program that we continue to curate in New York into other countries to create a unique universal experience to be had with independent cinema around the world every Tuesday. We will be screening weekly in Toronto, Canada in partnership with The Grand Gerrard Theatre while screening at various locations around New York.

The Extraterrestrial Undead take on the United States Army to decide the fate of the planet in ‘Space Zombie Bingo’ this Troma Tuesday in Brooklyn, NYC and Toronto, CAN!

Troma Entertainment proudly presents an Earth Zapping screening of the 1993 sci-fi zombie extravaganza ‘Space Zombie Bingo‘ on August 13th at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn, NYC and The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto, Canada at 9:00PM!

The earth is in grave danger when a gang of flesh-eating zombies from outer space take on menacing military macho men. The future of the world rests solely on the shoulders of the Zombie Defense Corps and their incredulous leader, Major Kent Bendover. Will Major Bendover and his moronic kitchen utensil-bearing troops have what it takes to battle these horrifying space invaders, or will the entire universe crumble to become a SPACE ZOMBIE BINGO!?!? Directed by George Ormrod and starring William Darkow, Romana Provost and Hugh Crawford.

Fans can see Space Zombie Bingo on August 13th for FREE at Lucky 13 Saloon in Brooklyn and at The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto (Pay What You Can), with both screenings commencing at 9:00 PM.

Troma Tuesdays has branched its weekly program that we continue to curate in New York into other countries to create a unique universal experience to be had with independent cinema around the world every Tuesday. We will be screening weekly in Toronto, Canada in partnership with The Grand Gerrard Theatre while screening at various locations around New York.

Lucky 13 Saloon
644 Sackett St
 Brooklyn, NY 11217 

The Grand Gerrard Theatre
1035 Gerrard St. E
Toronto, ONM4M 1Z6 Canada

Troma Entertainment proudly presents an OUT OF THIS WORLD screening of the 1990 sci-fi comedy Strangest Dreams: Invasion Of The Space Preacherson August 6th at Santa Salsa in Brooklyn, NYC and The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto (with a special appearance by Director Daniel Boyd), Canada at 9:00PM!

Finally! A heartwarming science-fiction adventure movie that pits a delirious dentist, a pencil-weilding accountant and a shapely space woman against an egotistical intergalactic evangelist! Something strange is going on in the backwoods and hills of West Virginia. The once cheerful townsfolk are becoming mindless, moronic automatons. Is it an alien invasion? No, it’s much worse than creatures from space… it’s PREACHERS from space!!! And they’ve arrived under the leadership of the evil Reverend Lash, who is using his faithful following to control the minds of the hapless Earthlings! They’re from out of town, she’s from outer space and together, they’re all going out of their minds!!!

Fans can see Invasion Of The Space Preachers on August 6th for FREE at Santa Salsa in Brooklyn at 8:00 PM and at The Grand Gerrard Theatre in Toronto at 9:00 PM with a special appearance by Director Daniel Boyd (Pay What You Can!)    Troma Tuesdays has branched its weekly program that we continue to curate in New York into other countries to create a unique universal experience to be had with independent cinema around the world every Tuesday. We will be screening weekly in Toronto, Canada in partnership with The Grand Gerrard Theatre while screening at various locations around New York.

GIVE ART BACK TO THE PEOPLE!

Santa Salsa 234 Starr St, Brooklyn, NY 11237
The Grand Gerrard Theatre1035 Gerrard St. E, Toronto, ONM4M 1Z6 Canada

Emil Johannson Levin‘s SIN-tillatingly Surrealistic ‘Unplanned Parenthood’ makes it’s TROMATIC debut on Troma Now as one of many exciting new August additions!

In Unplanned Parenthood, a soon to be mother goes to a Planned Parenthood clinic for her last check up, but everything takes a dark turn for the worse. Directed by Emil Johannson (as Emil Levin) and starring Patrik Brander, Jesper Danielsson, Petar Gagic.

Fans can see Unplanned Parenthood, along with many other Fantoxic August additions, at Troma Now! Exclusive World Premieres, Troma Classics and Exclusive Behind the Scenes Content are just some of the many features of Troma Now that celebrate Reel Independent Filmmaking!

Troma is proud to present films that we found to be exceptional in bringing Reel Independence to the big screen! Troma Entertainment presents a special Troma Tuesday screening of The Best of Short Films selections from The 19th Annual TromaDance Film Festivalon July 30th at Film Noir Cinema in Brooklyn, NYC at 9PM.

Selected Titles

Kinky’s Treat – Dir. Etienne Cipriani (USA)
Brutal Realty, Inc. – Dir. Erik Boccio (USA)
Whiskers & The Terrible Hole – Dir. Dan Bringhurst (USA)
The Nautilus – Dir. Dan Bringhurst (USA)
Tigger! – Dir. Iban del Campo (Spain)

-Intermission-

Meat is Murder! – Dir. James Boylan
Psycho Kino – Dir. Guillem Dols (Spain)
The Jerry Show – Stephen Stull (USA)
Lunch Ladies – Dir. J. M. Logan/ Prod. Clarissa Jacobson (USA)

Fans can see The Best of TromaDance Short Films on July 30th at Film Noir Cinema, located at 122 Meserole Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11222, at 9:00 PM! Admission is ONLY $5!

Troma Panel dedicated to The United States Women’s National Team World Cup Championship in Support of Equal Rights and Pay for All Genders and Races With Special Guests Dolph Ziggler, Chuck Tingle and More!

San Diego Comic-Con Is About to Get a Lot More Toxic!

Troma Entertainment will have a special ‘Happy 45th Birthday, Troma” Panel at the 2019 San Diego Comic-Con at 9:00PM on Saturday, July 20th at booth #4017 in Room 25 ABC at the San Diego Convention Center with Legendary filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman and a Fantoxic lineup of surprise guest speakers.

The “Happy 45th Birthday Troma” panel will take place from 9:00 Pm – 10:00PM and will feature Tromazing guests such as Kaufman himself, Dolph Ziggler (World Famous WWE Superstar), Producer Pat Kaufman (Producer of #ShakespearesShitstorm and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead), Frazer Brown (#ShakespearesShitstorm, Producer of The Toxic Avenger: The Musical), James Rolfe (The Angry Video Game Nerd) and illustrious author Chuck Tingle (Appearing in the Troma Booth on Friday July 19th and Saturday July 20th for signings and photo-ops along with Kaufman).

Troma will have a meet and greet including FREE signings and Photo-Ops with Tingle and Kaufman and will be selling NEW & EXCLUSIVE merchandise including hats, shirts, Blu-rays, DVD’s, posters and more!

The 2019 San Diego Comic-Con will be taking place on July 18th to July 21st at the San Diego Convention Center, located at 111 W Harbor Dr, San Diego, CA 92101. The international, multi -genre entertainment and comic convention will be celebrating it’s 50th year in 2019.

Troma‘s toxic, lesbian love story Return to Return to Nuke ‘Em High AKA Vol. 2 will be making it’s Colorado Theatrical Premiere at the prestigious Oriental Theatre in Denver on Saturday, July 13th at 8:00 PM with a special pre-show presentation by Lloyd Kaufman and a Q&A session following the screening.

On Saturday, July 13th, Kaufman’s highly acclaimed Tromasterpiece will be shown the way it was always meant to be seen – UNCENSORED and on the big screen! The legendary director himself will be in attendance for the ONE NIGHT ONLY screening and Q&A, as well as selling exclusive merchandise, signing autographs and taking pictures with fans! Doors open at 7:00 PM, show starts at 8:00 PM with Q&A to follow! Tickets sales are LIMITED and start at ONLY $20!

“Its outrageous imagery brings to light the absurdity we’re currently up against as a society dealing with all sorts of turmoil.”– LA Weekly

“The fluorescent fluids fly fast and furiously… it gets only wilder from there.”– LA Times

“This might be Kaufman’s angriest polemic yet… bless him and Troma for making a movie that’s so aggressively unclean.”– Simon Abrams, Rogerebert.com

“Return to Return to Nuke Em High AKA Vol. 2, is Troma’s most manic magnum opus yet… It’s right and righteous.”– Film Threat