Overview (4)

Mini Bio (1)

Spouse (1)

Trade Mark (6)

The plots of his films center around radiation and science gone wrong.



Always has his films take place in the east coast of the USA (most often in New Jersey).



Most of his films take place in a fictional town called Tromaville.



The end credits of his films include random sections of actors who didn't act in the film, advertisements, quotes, and so on just for humorous purposes.



Always makes a joke, wether in public or on screen, as a character or himself.





Several of his films contain the same slow-motion shot of a 1979 green Dodge flipping over, landing, and exploding that was originally filmed for Sgt. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990).

Trivia (17)



He co-wrote a screenplay with Stan Lee which never got made into a film.



Formed Troma Studios with his friend Michael Herz in 1974.



After reading an article entitled "Horror Movies are dead" he decided to make a horror film, which became The Toxic Avenger (1984).

Is the President of Troma Films, one of the longest running independent film companies.



Sang on songs with newgrounds.com crew (Tom Fulp and Shok) for their FDA animated cartoon music videos.





Was inducted into the inaugural class of the International Horror and Sci-Fi Hall of Fame with Tobe Hooper on October 22, 2005, in Tempe, Arizona.

Speaks fluent French.



Is Chairman of the Independent Film & Television Alliance.



April 26, 2009 - In Nashville, TN, for a book signing. [April 2009]



Appearing at Con Nooga 2010 (Chattanooga, Tennessee) [February 2010]





Is executive producing, along with Michael Herz Father's Day (2011), currently being filmed in Winnipeg by Canadian powerhouse "Astron-6". [November 2010]

Kaufman was a member of the Yale class of 1968, the same year as filmmaker Oliver Stone (who dropped out to enlist in the Vietnam War) and eventual president George W. Bush.



Personal Quotes (9)

In our racist, sexist society, Christmas is the eight hours when we stop killing each other and gratuitous overeating is encouraged so that the starving and other people in the world can die!



The person who goes to the Troma movie knows that he or she may love the Troma movie or, he or she may hate the Troma movie; but the movie goer knows that he or she will never forget the Troma movie.





I'm from the '60s but no one has ever accused me of being a hippie. I never had much interest in the Woodstock crowd, which partied to change the world, while real people were starving to death in Africa. I never liked Peter Paul & Mary or The Carpenters and, despite being the era of "free love", I still had to pay for it.

I like fat people more then I like thin people, things are always a lot more funnier when they happen to fat people.



The thing I find about the movie industry is that 99 percent of the people are absolute scum. They're horrible people, they really are. Very nasty killer rabbits who hate movies. But the other 1 percent are really the greatest, most wonderful people in the world. They love movies--the art of movies and the business of the movies.





I'm working on a movie called Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006). It's about how the masses are being fed the Kool-Aid by the major media and then, like zombies, go out and eat junk food. That's what the "Grindhouse" thing is all about. The major media gets word from the giant, devil-worshiping international conglomerates that own it, that say, "Now it's time to promote Dreamgirls", and therefore it's Dreamgirls 24/7. We live in an age of zombies, and it's particularly appropriate that I'm working on a zombie movie. So, here we've got big media saying, "OK, the big conglomerates have produced a movie called "Grindhouse" for 50 million dollars, so let's brainwash everybody into going to see "Grindhouse". Now I, Lloyd Kaufman, have a feeling that "Grindhouse" will be a good movie because Tarantino and the other guy are definitely talented directors, so I'm quite confident it will be worthwhile.

I don't make crappy movies. I spend two or three years making a film. I don't take myself seriously, but I take my movies very seriously.





That's not saying that all mainstream movies are bad. I just recently saw this film called... Inception (2010). I think it was a really low budget movie, it didn't look expensive. But I think Leonardo DiCaprio was pretty good. So there's good stuff. But 90% of it is baby food, you can live off baby food but it's really boring.

Troma may let you down when it comes to a lot of things, but never, ever, will we fuck you over when it comes to a crushed skull.

