For some, the Troma logo is a brand of quality. Naturally, the definition of “quality” all depends on your own personal taste. I’ve seen a few movies from Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz’s legendary company that have struck very favorable chords with me, while others have just left me baffled as to what kind of drugs the filmmakers responsible for them were indulging in at the time. One thing that people commonly overlook about the films of Troma Entertainment is that their library is not comprised entirely of hokey horror comedies or gritty exploitation features. In fact, Lloyd and Michael have quite the array going on — ranging from classics from the Roan Group vaults to titles made by and starring many award winning filmmakers — though you wouldn’t know it from the selection I have chosen for this chapter of “Catching Up at the Video Store.”
Ha-ha.
Enjoy.
· Psycho Sleepover (2008)
From the makers of Yeti: A Love Story comes this send-up/homage to the classic slasher flicks of yesteryear. Psycho Sleepover focuses on a poor lass named Debbie Dicky (Rachel Castillo), who seems to encounter psycho killers no matter where she goes. Her ex-boyfriend was one, and she was forced to kill him. Her father was one, too! When she moves to a new town, she gets invited to a slumber party by three strange girls. As her bad luck would have it, that night, forty mental patients escape the local loony bin — intent to kill. What these marauding murderers don’t know, however, is that Debbie and her friends aren’t the types to just get slaughtered. If I were a horror forecaster, I would say Psycho Sleepover is “Bloody with a 75% chance of boobs.”
· The Dennis Woodruff Collection, Vol. 1 (2010 Compilation)
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