Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

Genre - Comedy/Horror/Musical

Year Released - 2006

Running Time - 100 minutes

Directed by Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger 1 - 4, Class of Nuke 'Em High, Tromeo & Juliet)

Written by Lloyd Kaufman, (who also wrote all of the above mentioned movies) Daniel Bova, and Gabriel Friedman (who also co-wrote The Toxic Avenger IV)

Cast Includes: Jason Yachanin, Kate Graham, Allyson Sereboff, Robin Watkins, Joshua Olatunde, Caleb Emerson, Rose Ghavami, and Khalid Rivera

Rating: 5 Skulls

Plot Summary:

What happens when a fast-food chicken franchise is built on a sacred Native American burial site, rife with restless spirits? Zombie chickens!

Now, it's up to high school grad Arbie to find a way to destroy the featherless fiends. Or will the fowl beasts turn the hungry drive-thru customers into the insatiable undead too?

Review:

In case you couldn't read the tag-line on the 1st poster image, it reads "Humans... the other white meat... Unless of course you're black, then it's dark meat... Or if you're Asian, then it's yellow meat... Or if you are Native American, it's red meat..." HA! I just find that hysterical! :-)

I was actually going to save this one for Thanksgiving, however I finished the book that I was reading, last night, so I decided to go ahead and watch it today. This movie is a riot! [and I bet that it is even funnier, watching it with friends! So, if you aren't going to be doing anything, on Thursday afternoon, after you've eaten that delicious Thanksgiving meal, get some friends together and rent this movie!]

The movie starts out with teen lovers, Arbie & Wendy, "dry-humping" in an Indian Burial Ground [the tribe's name is TromaHawk Tribe!] :-)

While the teens are making out, the dead began to reach up from their graves - a hilarious scene ensues, which I don't want to give away - just remember that this is a Troma film!

The movie then jumps ahead to where an American Chicken Bunker (think KFC) has been built - you guessed it, right on top of where the sacred Indian Burial Ground used to be. There is a crowd of people gathered about, picketing the restaurant, (think P.E.T.A.) when along comes Arbie, (wearing a Toxie shirt!) who notices two chicks making out in front of a group of C.L.A.M.'s (Collegiate Lesbians Against Mega Conglomerations) Upon further observation, Arbie realizes that one of the girls is Wendy. So upset that she has become a lesbian, he abruptly breaks into a song & dance routine [this happens frequently throughout the movie, which is too funny!]

Once he is finished singing, he marches directly into the ACB and gets a job.

Eventually General Lee Roy, (think Colonel Sanders) a proud member of the KKK, shows up to calm down the crowd. . .

This movie is absolutely hysterical, though it isn't for everyone. It is actually pretty disgusting, and sometimes it is downright offensive - though if you are a fan of Troma, then I am sure that you will like the movie! ;-)

To me, this may just be 'Uncle Lloyd's' best film to date!

[I forgot to mention that he plays the older Arbie - Very funny!]

Also, the end of the movie ~ Fantastic!

To give you an idea of the grotesqueness in this movie, here is an absolutely gross trailer:

Let me leave you with one of my favorite lines from the movie:
[when a customer is served one of ACB's famous Sloppy Jose - think Sloppy Joe - sandwiches, he comes back to the counter. . .]
"I don't mean to complain, but there's a severed penis in my Sloppy Jose." hahahahahahaha :-)

Jason