Rating: NR
Genre:
Horror
Release Date: 01/23/2001
Run Time: 114 Minutes
Flags: Nudity, Profanity, Sexual Situations, Gore
Distributor/Studio: Troma
Troma Team Pictures, the company that brought you such classics as
The Toxic Avenger,
When Nature Calls and
Class Of Nuke 'Em High, takes a look inside the making of a "typical" Troma release with
Terror Firmer, directed and co-written by Troma co-founder
Lloyd Kaufman, who also appears as the director of the film-within-the film. Here, Kaufman (whose character is blind, which would explain a lot about Troma's product) and his crew are making a willfully sleazy horror flick, complete with monsters, gore, gratuitous nudity and loud rock 'n' roll, when a serial killer appears who doesn't happen to be in the script.
Terror Firmer is based in part on Kaufman's 1998 book about his career with Troma,
All I Need To Know About Filmmaking I Learned From The Toxic Avenger, and includes a plug for the upcoming
Jane Austen's Schlock and Schlockability (possibly a follow-up to 1996's
Shakespeare variant
Tromeo and Juliet).
~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
