Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead |
| Original title | Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 100 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK kJ (shortened) |
| Rod | |
| Director |
Lloyd Kaufman Gabriel Friedman |
| script | Gabriel Friedman Daniel Bova Lloyd Kaufman |
| production |
Lloyd Kaufman Michael Herz Pat Swinney Kaufman Andy Deemer Kiel Walker |
| music | Duggie Banas |
| camera | Brendan C. Flynt |
| cut | Gabriel Friedman |
| occupation | |
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Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is a comedy directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Gabriel Friedman. The film with numerous splatter effects and musical interludes was released by Troma Entertainment in 2006 and parodies the films Poltergeist and The Night of the Living Dead .
action
Arbie is a loser as he is in the book. When he returns to his hometown of Tromaville after graduating from college , he finds that his girlfriend, Wendy, has mutated into an eco- lesbian . Together with their friend Micki, they demonstrate in front of a new store belonging to the American Chicken Bunker fast food chain . The shop was built on an old Indian cemetery.
Disappointed and hurt, Arbie enters the shop and takes a job there. He is named "Kassen-Girl" and works there with the burqa- wearing Humus, a sodomite redneck named Carl Jr. and the illegal immigrant Paco Bell. Her boss, Black Denny, drives the crude team to top performance in order to protect the money his grandmother has invested there.
Already on the first day, mysterious green and pulsating eggs find their way into the store, from which strange chickens hatch. The first victim becomes Paco, who gets into a meat grinder . Although Denny first accuses the alleged Islamist Humus, he tries to cover up the events and keeps the business going. When Carl Jr. is finally killed, Denny is on the verge of desperation. The owner and ex- KKK member General Lee Roy suddenly appears out of the blue and calms the situation down. He hands out free chicken wings and the suddenly not so dogged demonstrators storm the store to satisfy their hunger. As it turns out, Micki was just an agent of the mighty corporation and just lied to Wendy. Wendy catches her and the manager playing baby games .
Finally she turns back to Arbie. In the meantime, however, the guests turn into zombies with chicken beaks and begin to bread, fry and eat the normal guests. Arbie's older self shows up and saves a few people from the massacre, but he also falls victim to the zombies. The meanwhile zombie-infected Carl Jr. and Burger Paco finally give the survivors the saving tip: the zombies can only be destroyed with the only weakness of the native Americans: alcohol. After the survivors Humus, Wendy and Arbie have barricaded themselves in the burger joint, they look for a way out. In the underground vault of the booth they meet the leader of the chicken zombies. With Paco's help, they can turn him off, but Humus is killed in a suicide attack . Arbie and Wendy escape with a little girl and steal a car. However, when the girl lays an egg, Wendy loses control of the car and rams another car. Everyone is killed in a huge explosion.
background
The film contains numerous allusions to various fast food chains. The design of the American Chicken Bunker is reminiscent of a military version of Kentucky Fried Chicken , the names of the main characters are corruptions of other chains: Taco Bell (Paco Bell), McDonald’s (Micki), Carl’s Jr. (Carl Jr.), Arby’s (Arbie) , Wendy's (Wendy) and Subway ( Jared ). There are further allusions to the Friday of the 13th film series ( Ron Jeremy plays a character based on the first two parts), Night of the Living Dead and Poltergeist.
Emergence
Lloyd Kaufman and assistant Gabriel Friedman shot Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead over a period of two years. The two came up with the idea when she bestseller Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser had read. Kaufman and the producer Kiel Walker are convinced vegetarians and were enthusiastic about the idea of making a fast-food critical film with the usual Troma elements. The musical passages were inspired by Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris .
With a total budget of $ 450,000 , the film is the largest troma production to date. In some cases, Lloyd Kaufman and his wife Pat Swinney Kaufman had to make their private assets available. In particular, the expensive special effects posed a bigger problem for producers. Most of the scenes were therefore shot with Troma fans working for free, all of which were also mentioned in the credits. The location was a closed McDonald's in Buffalo , New York . An abandoned church was rented to accommodate the fans who wanted to take part in the film and who had traveled from all over the world. The score for the musical scenes was made available free of charge by the Canadian songwriter Duggie Banas. The texts are from Kaufman's pen. The punk rock bands The Dwarves , The Nihilistics and Purple Pam contributed to the soundtrack .
publication
The first pictures were published in the British Hotdog Magazine in 2005. Another British magazine, the horror magazine Fangoria , premiered a four-page article in 2007.
The premiere of Poultrygeist finally took place on April 14, 2007 at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival . The film was also shown at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and various smaller festivals. It was difficult to find a DVD release partner for Germany, so that a DVD release was only released through Cult-Movies in 2009. This version had to be shortened by 6 minutes due to editing requirements of the FSK . An uncut version was released in Austria on the Shock Entertainment label.
In 2012 Troma published the English language version of the film along with 150 other productions on the Internet video portal YouTube .
criticism
The film is considered one of the best works from the Troma Entertainment program, but requires a high degree of tolerance towards black humor . The film makes fun of a number of minorities. In the USA it was rated favorably by both the Gene Republicum and in the US press. The New York Times and Variety, among others, praised the work.
"Needless to say," Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead "is not for every taste. But within the context of its genre - the satirical sexploitation zombie chicken gross-out musical extravaganza - it is just about as perfect as a film predicated on the joys of projectile vomiting and explosive diarrhea can be. Directed with finger-licking gusto by Lloyd Kaufman, the irrepressible co-founder of Troma Entertainment, “Poultrygeist” plays like a grindhouse analogue to the sloppy, psychosexual provocations of the performance artist Paul McCarthy and is, in its lowbrow way, every bit as liberating. "
“Crazy, gory, cheesy, satirical and indescribable. Lloyd Kaufman has not lost his troma touch even after all these years and is once again delivering successful genre food somewhere between Toxie and Brain Dead in this reference-dense, caustic, black-humored and outrageously trashy Splatterfest. "
"Degoutante, outdated horror comedy from the trash forge Troma, which unsuccessfully tries to piss off fast food and multi-use ideology."
Remake
Troma Entertainment announced in October 2011 that it will be releasing a remake of the film in 2012.
Web links
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead in the online movie database
- Official website (English)
- Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead on Youtube
- Comparison of the cut versions No youth release - US DVD by Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview with Lloyd Kaufman on Bloody-Disgusting.com
- Jump up ↑ Fangoria # 263. May 2007. Issue 283. pp. 42–45.
- ↑ Excerpt ( memento of the original dated February 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the article on the Poultrygeist official website: Night of the Chicken Dead
- ↑ Murder Most Fowl ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the official website
- ↑ " Alan Smithee ": Rise and Fall of an Empire . In: X Rated Edition 49. 3rd quarter 2009. pp. 4–6
- ↑ a b c Poultrygeist only cut in Germany on Schnittberichte.com
- ↑ Mike Masnick: B-Movie Legends Troma Entertainment Releases 150 Films On YouTube. In: Techdirt . August 30, 2012, accessed August 31, 2012 .
- ↑ Cutting report and review on Schnittberichte.com
- ^ Nathan Lee: Going for the Finger-Licking Gusto . The New York Times, May 9, 2008
- ↑ Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead on moviepilot.de .
- ↑ Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Poultrygeist and The Class of Nuke 'Em High Remakes Coming? on Dreadcentral.com
