15 Awesomely Gut-Churning Troma Films You Won't Want To Watch Before Eating

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Purveyors of the wacky, the weird, and the rank, Troma is famous for making repugnant masterpieces such as The Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead. They are also distributors of some of the most insane, disgusting, and all-around nasty underground indie and exploitation films around the world. With a 40-year history, Troma Entertainment bills itself as the longest running independent movie studio in North America with a library of nearly a thousand films, cartoons, and TV shows — all the way from teenage sex romps to gory murderfests.

And if that wasn't enough, Troma has launched the careers of Hollywood power players such as James Gunn and J.J. Abrams, and spit in the face of censorship with edgy content. Troma films have featured everything from talking wang monsters to rabid grannies. Taken from their impressive library of disgusting films, here are some of the goriest, lewdest, and generally most WTF Troma movies. These are the ones that would make even Troma's colorful co-founder Lloyd Kaufman blush. 

  • Bloodsucking Freaks

    Bloodsucking Freaks truly has everything you could ask for in a Troma movie. Torture and murder? Check. Dismemberment and decapitation? Check. Cannibalism? Check. In one memorable scene, a girl trapped in a guillotine is forced to hold the rope with her teeth and is tickled until she laughs and decapitates herself. Then, a black little person desicrates her severed head. But that's not all; Bloodsucking Freaks is replete with classy lines like these: "Her mouth shall make an interesting urinal!" 

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    Combat Shock

    Combat Shock is a disturbing film about a traumatized war veteran named Frankie readjusting to civilian life after fighting in Vietnam. Perhaps the most shocking element of Combat Shock is Frankie's mutant baby (portrayed by a puppet), deformed from Frankie's exposure to chemical warfare. As if that wasn't nasty enough, the movie ends with Frankie shooting his baby and cooking it in the oven before drinking rancid milk and shooting himself. Real fun for the whole family. 

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    Blood Orgy At Beaver Lake

    Blood Orgy At Beaver Lake

    What happens when a group of hippies gets ambushed by a couple of sex-crazed zombie hillbillies while on a weekend away at Camp Beaver Lake? Why, a blood orgy, of course! In the above Blood Orgy at Beaver Lake trailer, you can see zombie rednecks having sex with the head and neck hole of a freshly decapitated coed, along with an obese man in drag wielding a power drill dildo. The rest of the film plays out about as tastefully. 

    45 votes
  • Redneck Zombies

    When it comes to Redneck Zombies, the title pretty much speaks for itself. After consuming toxic moonshine, the film's titular rednecks become "flesh-eating, blood-thirsty kinfolk from Hell." The film's low-budget aesthetic actually helps sell the nastiness of the gore and effects, featuring graphic violence, dismemberment, and cannibalism. As the above trailer warns: "It makes Dawn of the Dead look like Mary Poppins."

    47 votes
  • Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead

    Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead takes on the fast food industry with hilarious (and tasteless) Troma aplomb when a fried chicken joint built atop a Native American burial ground is attacked by a chicken-possessed zombie-alien spirit. In addition to a healthy dose of gore, nudity, and lesbian sex (which protagonist Arbie tastefully describes as "bumping tacos"), Poultrygeist includes some aggressively non-P.C. characters such as: Hummus, a burqa-wearing Muslim who suicide bombs herself to save the restaurant, Paco Bell, an effeminate Mexican employee who is pushed into a meat grinder and reanimated as a "sloppy José," and Carl Jr., a redneck who has sex with an uncooked chicken that comes to life and bites his penis.

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    The Taint

    The Taint

    Depicting scenes of violent brutality, The Taint is Troma's answer to the question, "What happens when tainted water turns men into raging misogynists?" According to Troma's website: "It features sadistic violence, gratuitous sexual content, and scenes of spellbinding dramatic interest. It also contains more c*ck explosions than any other movie ever." And that's straight from the horse's mouth. 

    58 votes
  • Tromeo and Juliet

    Tromeo and Juliet is a Troma classic, infusing the original Shakespeare story of star-crossed lovers with (more) kinky sex, incest, and dismemberment. Narrated by Lemmy of Motörhead, Tromeo and Juliet has the high honor of being the first film written by James Gunn of Guardians of the Galaxy fame.

    Nasty highlights include: Juliet's transformation into a cow with a three-foot penis, a guy splitting his skull open on a fire hydrant, a pregnant woman’s stomach bursting open to reveal it's full of popcorn (which people eat), and a giant talking d*ck monster.

    104 votes
  • The Toxic Avenger

    Another Troma classic, The Toxic Avenger tells the story of a janitor-cum-nuclear-waste-superhero. He fights bad guys who do terrible things, like shoot a blind woman's seeing eye dog before attempting to rape her. Luckily, Toxie's there to turn the attacker's face into a human milkshake, dunk another's hands into a deep fryer, and crush the last's head with weightlifting plates. And he even has time to get laid.

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    Terror Firmer

    Terror Firmer is a satirical look at the making of a Troma movie, with just as much gratuitous, uh, everything as you'd expect. Lloyd Kaufman, playing the role of a blind director, says it best in the above trailer after giving a rousing inspirational speech to his crew: "Now where are the big-titted women at?"

    Just to scratch the surface of Terror Firmer, a woman gets hit in the face by an amputated leg, causing her nose to swell up to Pinocchio-esque proportions, a fat man runs naked through the streets of New York and blows up in a car explosion, a guy gets tipped in a Porta-Potty and covered in feces (only to have someone perform CPR on him ), and a sexually-confused serial killer is covered in gasoline and ignited by a lighter and a fart.

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  • The Class Of Nuke 'Em High

    High school is tough. Just ask The Class of Nuke 'Em HighWhen the local nuclear power plant springs a leak, the good teens of Tromaville High mutate into psychopathic, sex-crazed cretins who overrun the school with shocking violence. In one particularly lovely instance, teenage Chrissy finds herself pregnant and barfs up her carnivorous mutated offspring into the toilet. 

    Once expelled, it mutates further into an evil slimy monster who can punch straight through heads. Other highlights include a student farting in a teacher's face during a frisking session, and a non-zero amount of wet dreams/nightmares involving swelling body parts excreting black ooze. 

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    Killer Condom

    If an army of crazed and crawling genitalia-chomping condoms overseen by Alien designer H.R. Giger wasn't nasty enough for you, try to stomach the scene in which detective Luigi Mackeroni gets his testicle bitten off by one of them. It's true what the tagline says, the Killer Condom is: "The rubber that rubs YOU out!"

    45 votes
  • Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV

    The Toxic Avenger returned for another round of nastiness 15 years later in Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Part IV. In true Troma style, we get all of the following: little people dressed as fetuses fighting in a set designed to look like a blind woman’s womb, porn star Ron Jeremy as a priest who gets stabbed in the throat by a cross, a bunch of men in diapers shooting up a school, and Toxie doing cocaine. Classic stuff. 

    44 votes
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    Rabid Grannies

    Everyone loves a trip to grandma's house. Well, except when grandma opens a gift from Hell and turns into a rabid cannibal. In Rabid Grannies, two grandmas go psycho and devour their dinner guests, turning a lovely evening into a blood-soaked, gore-filled nightmare to remember. The movie's tagline sums it up quite nicely: "They love their grandchildren... well done!" 

    36 votes
  • Surf Nazis Must Die

    In perfect Troma style, Surf Nazis Must Die combines a deeply tasteless premise (surfing Nazis taking over the beach) with violence and nudity. In the above trailer alone, you witness a man get stabbed in the crotch with a knife, a man taking a harpoon to the chest, a man getting his throat slit, and a man getting blown up by a grenade. Other not-so subtle moments include a character named Adolf proclaiming, "I am the Führer of the beach!" without a hint of irony.  

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    Nightbeast

    Nightbeast

    What happens when a horrible-looking alien comes to earth and brutally murders, dismembers, and disembowels people for an hour? You have to watch Nightbeast to find out. The film, interestingly, was directed by J.J. Abrams when he was only 16 years old. 

    31 votes