Get the "cluck" outta here!

I haven't spent any time post­ing here about my time at Troma, but I plan to, all in due course. Until then, I want to share with you, my loyal read­ers (all two of you), a para­graph of a great review over on DVDTalk:

If you don't already appre­ci­ate Troma's style, this one isn't likely to change your mind but those who 'get it' will find a lot to love about this mam­moth three-disc col­lec­tion. Poul­trygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead is a ter­rific return to form for Kauf­man and Troma and the film is as hilar­i­ously enter­tain­ing as it is an equal oppor­tu­nity offender. Crass, juve­nile, and gen­uinely dis­gust­ing, it's never the less a clever and cre­ative film and Troma has pulled out all the stops with this jam-packed release. Highly recommended.

Poul­trygeist! is a spe­cial film to me, which seems odd to say, given its sub­ject mat­ter. Spe­cial for two rea­sons: 1) it's the one film that I saw from its gen­e­sis all the way to com­ple­tion while I was still with the com­pany, and 2) from a purely ego­cen­tric stand­point, it's the one Troma film that actu­ally has my name in the credits.

So, for the unini­ti­ated, watch the trailer above and then go and pick up Poul­trygeist! Night Of The Chicken Dead exactly one week from today: Tues­day, Octo­ber 28, 2008 — just in time for Hal­loween! Avail­able in local big box retail­ers every­where, as well as Amazon.com, and the Troma Stu­dio Store!

Mitt Zombie Commercial

Ladies and gen­tle­men, we present to you the first truly green can­di­date for the 2008 elec­tion. This year, don't vote along party lines. Vote Zombie!

"Klingon Skits" [dragon*conTV]

We shot so many damn Klin­gon bits for 2006. Well, say­ing "we" is actu­ally a mis­nomer here, as I wasn't present for the footage that was used to make these up. How­ever, I was tasked with edit­ing most of them.

Get even more funny at dragoncontv.com!

"Hamilton Center" [dragon*conTV]

My first attempt at edit­ing video for dragon*conTV. I shot about half the footage for this spoof as well as did the post-editing.

Fun fact! If you keen view­ers out there rec­og­nize the back­ground image that's hid­ing the green screen, it may be because you saw it here.

"Blood Train" [dragon*conTV]

This is, to date, my Tour de Force, if such a thing exists for spoof videos made by vol­un­teers on a nonex­is­tent bud­get for a con­ven­tion on Labor Day weekend.

My friends Brian and Patrick filmed a day's worth of these great sports in Klin­gon garb danc­ing in a com­mu­nity cen­ter. They had no real script or idea for the com­mer­cial, just the footage. I remem­ber talk­ing to Brian, and get­ting a response some­thing like, "Try to do some­thing with it."

So here's what I came up with. The "script" took a cou­ple of hours of review­ing the shots and then about fif­teen min­utes of putting them down on a stickie note. I think it came out pretty well, considering.

I also decided to use pseu­do­nyms, since I think that hav­ing my name in the cred­its more than once for such a short video comes off as a bit pre­ten­tious. So, for the record, Melvin Ferd and El Duckie Caliente are also yours truly.

I am not, how­ever, Clay Leap­heart. That's a real per­son. (I think.)

More Klin­gon silli­ness at dragoncontv.com!

"Goth Eye" [dragon*conTV]

Thank Goth I don't appear in this video, although it is one of the more hilar­i­ous skits I've been involved in the film­ing of. I shot behind-the-scenes footage for this one.