Poultrygeist rips a new orifice for the film industry

A bold satirical comment on the chemical-industrial food complex, Poultrygeist forces us to ask why – in the 118-year history of cinema – have we never been shown this before?

Poultrygeist: Kate Graham and Jason Yachanin as Wendy and Arbie Troma – the production company that brought you the low budget schlock-horror classics The Toxic Avenger and Surf Nazis Must Die <>- has ruffled feathers in the gorehound community with its latest release Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead <>, a moving tale about a fast food restaurant built on a native American burial ground that inevitably results in a disco-dancing chicken/human hybrid zombie apocalypse.

(Transvestism-obsessed director Lloyd Kaufman says it’s a “fromage” to the film The Happiness of the Katakuris <> directed by Takashi Miike.)

Poultrygeist isn’t subtle. In one scene a rectum is ripped out and tossed on a sizzling griddle.

“McDonald’s moved into the neighborhood next door and put their garbage in front of the Troma building,” director Lloyd Kaufman told the Arizona Star. “[Now] there are rats the size of raccoons in the basement.”

In short Poultrygeist – described by Variety as “a veritable Cluckwork Orange” – is the movie Fast Food Nation could have been if it hadn’t sucked.

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