Rare UK cinema screening of two Troma horror classics, 'Terror Firmer' and 'Poultrygeist', with an introduction from Fright Club's Darrell Buxton.
QUAD is bringing a Troma double bill to the big screen on Friday 20 November, with Terror Firmer and Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead playing back-to-back. Both were directed by Lloyd Kaufman, the man behind Troma, the famously trashtastic American indie studio he still runs. It's a rare UK cinema screening for these two, so if you've only ever seen them on a small screen, this is your chance to see them as they were meant to be watched.
Terror Firmer (USA, 1998, 114 minutes) is Kaufman's extremely loose adaptation of his own book, All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from The Toxic Avenger, which he co-wrote with James Gunn — the man who went on to direct Guardians Of The Galaxy. Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead (USA, 2007, 103 minutes) follows a counter boy, his ex-girlfriend, and a fry cook as they try to stop chicken zombies unleashed when a military-themed fast-food chain is built on an ancient Native American burial ground. Between the two, you're looking at over three and a half hours of Troma's particular brand of chaos.
The night is part of Fright Club, QUAD's monthly horror programme that mixes brand-new terrors from home and abroad with pickings from the archives, presented by programmer Adam Crowther and cult film historian Darrell Buxton. Buxton will be there to introduce the double bill before the films start, and the whole thing closes out the venue's Shocktober season.
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It starts at 19:00 at QUAD, Derby, DE1 1AS. Tickets are £15 standard and £13 concession.
