Review: Terror Firmer (1999)

Lemme qualify this review with the following:

Let's say you're having a barbeque with your wife and two other couples. You've eaten, but you're all still feeling good from the drinks and food and decide to pick up some more booze and a movies or two. So, everybody piles into the SUV and heads out. At the video store everyone's trying to decide between Wedding Crashers and Old School. But, let's get one thing straight: I'm the dink that recommends getting Unspeakable or I Spit on Your Grave.

So with that in mind, let's review Terror Firmer, a flick I've heard some about, but never pulled the trigger on renting. I picked up the 2-disc R-rated DVD from the video store, and supposedly there's an unrated version available as well. The R-rated flick has some of the raunchiest parts overdubbed with Lloyd Kaufman acting out the scene himself, and these are for the most part, blindingly hilarious.

The plot simply follows an independent movie gang (Troma) shooting the latest in their Toxie franchise while being stalked by a hot serial killer.

The best way to review a Troma flick is to simply list all of the atrocities you can remember and then saying it's cool. So here goes: cornholing with a funnel, Toxie exploding during sex, Kaufman being blown to bits, Fleishaker getting eaten by an escalator, much vomiting on one another, many naked fat chicks, and of course, the raison d'etre for the whole flick, a big fat naked guy running around New York city. And, man was it cool.

The full-length documentary, Farts of Darkness, is not as good as the Toxie 4 one, Apocalypse Soon, but editor Gabriel Friedman and his henchmen do a good enough job that you'll watch the whole damn thing.

One last note: I've really enjoyed the Troma stuff from the Trent Haaga-Patrick Cassidy era. There's just so much shit going on that it almost takes two viewings to catch all of the background humor.