"America isn't ready to accept a gay, mexican, sandwich."

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Ah, good ol’ reliable Troma. Supplying the finest in exploitative trash since 1974.

Being a purely independant low-budget company, they cut to the chase and give people what they want to see: limitless sex, sadism, racism, mutations and signature penis monsters. Oh, and how they deliver!

They’re a staple of western cinema with a well-deserved cult following. They helped Billy Bob Thorton (Chopper Chicks In Zombietown), Samuel L Jackson (Def by Tempation) and Trey Parker and Matt Stone in their first film ‘Cannibal! The Musical’. Along with creating some classics of their own: ‘The Toxic Avenger’, ‘Class of Nuke’em High’, ‘Combat Shock’ and ‘Tromeo & Juliet’.

Their most recent classic, 'Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead', was even slightly critically applauded and considered one of the more successful Troma releases.

Undeniably creative, this leviathan of pure ...uh, brilliance, shat on anything to stew out of Hollywood the last few years. Such gratitous sleaze yet so fresh and inspired it becomes merely light-hearted fun as you feel the  joyous soul playing right out on the screen.

The story follows Arbie who enlists at American Chicken Bunker, as a statement to his ex-girlfriend Wendy, who has dumped him for a left-wing feminist lesbian, who along with others are protesting American Chicken Bunker’s demolition of an indian burial ground.

Needless to say, the chicken becomes cursed, and we are then blessed to some of the most perverse, childish, bloody and toilet based slapstick put to film; along with some offensive satire for good measure - Allowing some great quotes too.

Yet, as lowest common denominater it seems I can’t see Poultrygeist appealing to neanderthal ignoramuses - who would sooner see the latest Epic Movie style nonsense. The film has an art to it, an art difficult to describe; but what I can say is they simply dont make movies like this anymore.

Considered one of Troma’s best, even pulling Troma out of bankruptcy, there is no doubt im my 

mind this is one of the best independant films ever made.

Alternative Reccomendations: Black Sheep (2006) and Braindead aka Dead Alive (1992). Highly recommend both.