{"id":8152,"date":"2024-11-11T23:43:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T04:43:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=8152"},"modified":"2024-11-11T23:43:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T04:43:41","slug":"poultrygeist-night-of-the-chicken-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/11\/11\/poultrygeist-night-of-the-chicken-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead <\/strong>(2006)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Troma Films\/Comedy-Horror-Musical\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 103 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (extremely bloody violence and gore, graphic nudity, strong sexual content, language, racial slurs, icky special effects, gross bathroom humor, alcohol abuse)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Lloyd Kaufman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Daniel Bova, Gabriel Friedman and Lloyd Kaufman\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Duggie Banas\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Brendan C. Flynt\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: May 2008 (Philadelphia, PA)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham, Allyson Sereboff, Robin L. Watkins, Joshua Olatunde, Caleb Emerson, Rose Ghavami, Khalid Rivera, Joe Fleishaker (as \u201cMega Herz\u201d), Lloyd Kaufman, Ron Jeremy, Faith Sheehan (as \u201cFaith Sheenan Gallivan\u201d), Tessa Lew, John Karyus, Brian Cheverie.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $13,804 (US)\/$22,623 (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0I may never eat fried chicken again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0No, I\u2019m not going vegan on you. I just watched Troma\u2019s horror spoof Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead<\/strong> and it does for fast food fried chicken what Stand by Me does for blueberry pie. You\u2019ll never even want to look at a KFC sign after bearing witness to what goes down at the grand opening of American Chicken Bunker in scenic Tromaville, NJ (home of Toxie!).<\/p>\n

\u00a0The first mistake made by ACB founder General Lee Roy (Watkins) was building his newest franchise on what used to be the Tromahawk Native American Burial Ground. Bad things tend to happen when you desecrate sacred ground. Have we learned nothing from Poltergeist? But I\u2019m getting ahead of myself here. Let me start at the beginning.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead<\/strong> opens with high school sweethearts Arbie (Yachanin) and Wendy (Graham) attempting to have sex in the dilapidated cemetery. It\u2019s far from the most romantic spot on earth and not just because of the creepy guy with an axe masturbating while watching them. It\u2019s also because of the zombie hands sprouting from the ground trying to get into the act. Needless to say, poor Arbie remains a virgin.<\/p>\n

\u00a0One college semester later, their special spot is now home to a new ACB franchise. Not only that, Wendy turned into a \u201cleft wing, lipstick lesbo liberal\u201d courtesy of her activist girlfriend Micki (Sereboff). Arbie spots them making out in a crowd of demonstrators picketing the chicken joint. Understandably hurt and angry, he promptly goes inside and applies for a job. That is, after he belts out a heartfelt number called \u201cRevenge Is a Dish Best Served Fried\u201d. Yep, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead<\/strong> is also a musical.<\/p>\n

\u00a0ANYWAY, the manager Denny (Olatunde) hires Arbie as a \u201ccounter girl\u201d. It isn\u2019t long before the weirdness begins starting with a fat facsimile of (former) Subway spokesperson Jared taking a wicked, messy dump all over the bathroom. It\u2019s the side effect of consuming a slimy, pulsating alien egg inadvertently served with his Sloppy Jose sandwich, their equivalent of the Big Mac.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Let\u2019s just cut right to the chase. It\u2019s the angry spirits of the Tromahawks AND the billions of chickens slaughtered in \u201cconcentration coops\u201d taking revenge. When people eat the food tainted by the alien eggs, they turn into homicidal chicken zombies with a taste for human flesh. It\u2019s up to Arbie and Wendy to save the day. It bears mentioning Arbie isn\u2019t the brightest bulb in the pack. For example, it takes him forever to figure out the mysterious old co-worker (Lloyd Kaufman himself!) is his future self. Is it any wonder he decided against college?<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0In order to fully appreciate a Troma title, you first need to understand their movies are intentionally bad and incompetent. Do you honestly expect high cinematic art from titles like The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke \u2018Em High, Surf Nazis Must Die and Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD? I certainly hope not! Thankfully, none of Troma\u2019s films are even remotely serious. Once you let go of any and all preconceived notions of cinema as fine art, you might have a good time with any one of their movies.<\/p>\n

\u00a0That is definitely the case with Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead<\/strong>, a wild, zany and insanely OTT goof on zombie flicks that\u2019s equally apt to trigger the gag reflex as tickle the funny bone. It\u2019s riotously funny, extremely disgusting and totally bizarre. It\u2019s what happens when you let the inmates run the asylum. Director Kaufman doesn\u2019t hold back at any point in any area. Over the course of 102 nauseating minutes, we\u2019re treated to gallons of green vomit, projectile diarrhea, repulsive body horror and a river of blood. One of the goriest bits is a scene where a Mexican co-worker by the name of Paco Bell (Rivera) gets pushed into a meat grinder by an uncooked chicken. He\u2019s reincarnated as a talking Sloppy Jose. I swear I\u2019m not making any of this up. Other highlights include a guy getting his penis bitten off by a chicken head and another fellow getting his head ripped off by a chicken zombie.<\/p>\n

\u00a0There\u2019s plenty more to Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead<\/strong>. <\/strong>It has out-of-nowhere musical numbers, lesbian sex, bestiality (in a manner of speaking), slimy effects, zombie-finger butt plugs, reanimated frozen chickens, bad acting, worse dialogue and Ron Jeremy. It also gives us a POV shot from inside the toilet bowl when fake fat Jared takes a dump. Yeah, it\u2019s a first for me too.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In addition to all else, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead<\/strong> is exceedingly un-PC with its exaggerated stereotypes (racial, ethnic and otherwise). The line cook is a burqa-wearing, suicide-bombing Muslim named Hummus (Ghavami). A redneck co-worker, Carl Jr. (Emerson), likes to have sex with uncooked chickens. BTW, do you notice something odd about the characters\u2019 names? Uh-huh, they\u2019re all named after fast food places. That explains the other ACB employees Hardee, Long John and Red Lobster.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The musical numbers, performed by non-singers\/non-dancers, are really something. I don\u2019t know what, but they\u2019re definitely something. The toppers have to be Arbie\u2019s three-way sex fantasy with Wendy and Micki \u201cMilk Milk Lemonade\u201d and one (\u201cSlow Fast Food Love\u201d) that features topless lesbian dancers prancing around the bad where Arbie (also topless) sings his heart out to Wendy (also topless) while she\u2019s fooling around with Micki (also topless).<\/p>\n

\u00a0No two ways about it, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead<\/strong> is NUTS! It\u2019s vile and revolting, yet you can\u2019t avert your eyes. It gives new meaning to the term \u201cover the top\u201d. It\u2019s clearly not for everybody. I can think of a few people that would bolt from the room before the 20-minute mark. Me, I think it\u2019s great even if it isn\u2019t great filmmaking. I\u2019d call it ballsy. Kaufman is like a very low-rent Mel Brooks. He aims to offend and gross out audiences with Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. I\u2019d say he more than succeeds in this case.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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