Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Director:

Lloyd Kaufman

Writers:

Daniel Bova (writer)
Gabriel Friedman (writer)

Genre:

Comedy | Horror | Musical

Tagline:

Humans... the other white meat... Unless you're black, then it's dark meat... Or if you are Asian, then it's yellow meat... Or if you are Native American, it's red meat...

Plot:

When the American Chicken Bunker, a military-themed fried-chicken chain, builds a restaurant on the site of an ancient Indian burial ground...

Plot Keywords:

Chicken | Fast Food | Protest | Zombie | Lesbian

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jason Yachanin	...	Arbie
Kate Graham	...	Wendy
Allyson Sereboff	...	Micki
Robin Watkins	...	General Lee Roy
Joshua Olatunde	...	Denny
Caleb Emerson	...	Carl Jr.
Rose Ghavami	...	Humus / ACB Dancer
Khalid Rivera	...	Jose Paco Bell
Joe Fleishaker	...	Jared (as Mega Herz)
Lloyd Kaufman	...	Mature Arbie
Ron Jeremy	...	Crazy Ron
Faith Sheehan	...	The Little Girl (as Faith Sheenan Gallivan)
John Karyus	...	Graveyard Peeper
Tessa Lew	...	The Little Girl's Mother
Brian Cheverie	...	Father O'Houlihan

Also Known As:

Poultrygeist (USA) (short title)
Poultrygeist: Attack of the Chicken Zombies! (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

103 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:18 (theatrical) | Canada:R (Ontario) | USA:Unrated (original rating)

Filming Locations:

Buffalo, New York, USA

Company:

Poultry Productions LLC

Trivia:

The restaurant scenes were filmed inside an empty McDonalds (you can see the old McDonald's registers and the doors in the restaurant) and everything else was filmed inside an old church that also served as the team's living quarters.

Goofs:

Continuity: As the drunken Chief Whats-His-Face was bought out to the front, in which he soon vomited; that vomit disappears shortly when Arbie pulls out a song and dance number.

Quotes:

Humus: [Looks at the blood covered walls] That reminds me. I need a tampon.

Movie Connections:

References When Nature Calls (1985)

Soundtrack:

What a Shitty Summer

It's Tromarific!!!

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead is Troma's latest offering and easily one of their best movies. Loaded with everything that makes Troma awesome; copious gore, breasts, sex, lesbians, political incorrectness, scatological humour, fat people, slime, car crashes...did I mention gore and sex?? Poultrygeist tells the wonderful story of an American Chicken Bunker fast food store being built on an Ancient Indian Burial Ground (the 'Tromahawk' tribe, to be precise). Young Arbie decides to work there to defy his now ex-girlfriend (who is now a lesbian). What follows is, in typical Troma style, the employees fending off a horde of zombie-chickens who want to the humans flesh.

Lloyd Kaufman has returned to his 'Toxic Avenger' roots and gone for a gross-out comedy/musical/horror that is so much fun, it is hard not to love. Consistently funny the whole way through, with some excellent musical numbers and some truly disgusting special effects, 'Poultrygeist' proves that morally incorrect satire is still alive and kicking. The fact that movies like 'Meet the Spartans' get theatrical releases and this doesn't further proves something needs to be done to get these far superior flicks out for everyone else to enjoy.

Of course, you have to take into account that the acting is not that good (although surprisingly passable), it looks cheap, the story is incredibly random and illogical and it IS shocking. The point of the movie is to be as foul as possible, and it works. The last 20 minutes are a non-stop gore-fest that is bound to please gorehounds around the world.

4½/5