Oh, Troma...what would independent cinema be without you? Without Troma Studios, we would not have such independent classics as the Toxic Avenger series and Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990). And now the madcap maestros of movie mayhem have given the world yet another glorious tribute to everything gross, disgusting, and in poor taste entitled Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. The film's "hero" is Arbie, a young teenager fresh outta high school who discovers to his dismay that his sweetheart, Wendy, has become a "left-wing, lipstick lesbo liberal" who has joined in with a local protest against the opening of a fast food restaurant: the American Chicken Bunker. Why? Because the ACB was built over an ancient Indian burial ground. So, to spite Wendy, Arbie gets a job with ACB and soon discovers that working at a fast food chicken restaurant isn't all it's cracked up to be (get it?!). Oh, and of course the spirits of the dead chickens co-mingle with the ghosts of the dead Indians. So they join forces and turn all of the customers into giant chicken zombies. And then there's the stereotypes. Director Lloyd Kaufman really went all-out in his attempt to offend everyone under the sun with this film. There's a Burqa-wearing Muslim coworker who repeatedly threatens to blowup the restaurant, a gay Mexican who masturbates into the food, a redneck cook with a love of making sweet love to dead chickens, and Denny, the black power'd manager. Oh, and the owner of the restaurant is a racist Southerner with a diaper fetish. And let's not forget about the literal gallons and gallons of gore, feces, and other bodily fluids which are liberally thrown about the set. See, the secret behind Troma is that they mix graphic imagery with some of the most biting social commentary ever committed to film. So, when you watch Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, one would do well to throw out any semblance of taste or sophistication beforehand. Oh, and did I forget to mention that this film is also a musical?
6/10
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