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Lloyd Kaufman is coming to Albuquerque Comic Expo (ACE) next weekend! Lloyd will be meeting fans and signing merchandise for free at the Troma booth, as well as introducing screenings at the 9th annual TromaDance New Mexico. Other popular guests appearing at ACE over the weekend will include Kevin Smith, Jason Mewes and Stan Lee.

TromaDance New Mexico is a 3 day event produced by Kurly Tlapoyawa of legendary underground video store Burning Paradise, celebrating the finest in independent film from around the world. The festival, as well as all the other events of the Comic Expo will take place June 8th-10th at the Albuquerque Convention Center. The full lineup of films is available at http://abqcomicexpo.com/tromadance-new-mexico/

Watch the interview done at Monster Mania with Lloyd on phillyinfocus.com.

Troma Entertainment is pleased to announce that the limited edition blu-ray release of FATHER’S DAY in time for Father’s Day will now be a four-disc set! The set, which will contain the film on high definition blu-ray and standard definition DVD, plus a DVD of extra features, and a CD soundtrack EP with songs from the movie including “The Hunter” and “We Are the Universe” from acclaimed musician Smokey Miles, will be available June 12.

The gritty, gruesome, VHS throwback FATHER’S DAY follows that classic story we all grew up with: boy watches father raped and murdered, boy grows into a vengeful one-eyed man, man teams up with a priest and a male prostitute to take down his father’s killer. Variety calls FATHER’S DAY “a gleefully tasteless quasi-grindhouse nasty that’s funnier than most of the many such parodic cheesefests that have been created since, well, Grindhouse!” Ain’t it Cool News adds “FATHER’S DAY is over the top, tasteless, senseless, and completely hilarious.”  For more on FATHER’S DAY, including information on filmmakers Astron-6, visit www.thefathersdaymovie.com.

To celebrate the release of Troma’s very LIMITED EDIITION BIG BOX VHS of The Toxic Avenger, Toxie’s creator and President of Troma Entertainment, Lloyd Kaufman will be signing copies in person at Forbidden Planet  840 Broadway, New York 10003 this Thursday night. The VHS will be available for sale at the event, which begins at 7:30pm.

THERE’S NOTHING OUT THERE, the film that invented the meta-horror genre, inspiring Scream and The Cabin in the Woods, will have its first 35mm screening in over 20 years at New Beverley Cinema. Writer/director Rolfe Kanefsky will be present for a Q&A with horror critic Brian Collins.

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Father’s Day will screen at the Trocadero Theatre tomorrow at 8pm, introduced by Lloyd Kaufman! Paul Joyce, music composer on the film, will join Mr Kaufman at the Q&A session.

The Trocadero is at 1003 Arch Street, Philadelphia. Tickets are $10 and are available from www.thetroc.com or by calling 215-922-6888

TROMADANCE 2012 Asbury Park, NJ

Tromadance was crazy. There was this total indie DIY punk rock vibe to everything, and considering the company involved, it just worked. I really liked that it was in a converted bowling alley, actually. They had a stage set up in the middle of the lanes, with a ton of chairs just sitting in front. In the pictures below you can see rows of bowling balls, as well as lanes on either side of the stage. Read more…

As a gift to our fans, TROMA ENTERTAINMENT is pleased to announce that FATHER’S DAY will screen for FREE in Toxie’s home state of New Jersey, at The Showroom in Asbury Park at 10pm on May 3 (TONIGHT). Read more…

Former Fangoria editor Tony Timpone, Street Trash writer/producer Roy Frumkes and Queens World Film Festival co-director Katha Cato will join James Gunn and Ti West on the panel at the 13th Annual TromaDance Film Festival, the only truly independent film festival that is completely FREE! The panel will be moderated by Lloyd Kaufman.

Two feature films have been selected to screen – the first, The FP, tells the story of two gangs locked in a turf war in rural wasteland Frasier Park, in the deadly arena of competitive dance-fight video game Beat-Beat Revolution. The FP is a fury of fierce footwork, triumphant montages and neon street wear. Also screening is Manborg, in which a soldier, brought back to life as a cyborg, fights alongside a band of adventurers against demon hordes in a dystopian future. These will screen along with thirty-six films already announced.