thisseatofmars "Take this camel jockey out back—and hose her down!" "That chicken has declared jihad on us all!"...and so on.All Hollywood ever gives us are boobs, muscles, aggression and explosions: nothing subtle. Ever. So, the exploitation genre figures, why patronize us with a hackneyed plot? Enter Poultrygeist, a subversive film where we're given sex and violence on a pornographic scale. It's a wonderful addition to the splatstick genre, equal parts satire and horror. It's funny, highly quotable, and worth your time. Gross? Sure, if you think obvious cranberry juice as blood is gross. Offensive? I guess, but it's a movie where chickens replace zombies. If you find this film offensive, then you're most likely a PC fool.I only have three gripes with Poultrygeist. First, there are way too many musical numbers. Songs in comedies never work. All they do is reiterate the plot up until that point, rephrasing already said dialogue, while adding nothing new. Plus they're never funny. Songs slow the momentum of comedies completely, by forcing you to sit patiently and wait for the plot to pick back up just for the sake of squeezing a limerick or pun in with a rhyme now and then.Second, Poultrygeist feels overlong at 103 minutes (90 may even be too long) but on repeated viewings the extra run time may be welcome. I don't often rewatch comedies (who likes hearing the same joke twice?) but Poultrygeist exists in its own special little vacuum and its cult quality is evident. That said, I found the movie kind of dragging towards the end the first time I watched it, and in a single viewing the extra run time hurts the overall shock and awe of the film.Third is not so much a problem with Poultrygeist itself, but rather the attitude (or philosophy) behind its studio, Troma Movies. I watched this entire film on Troma Movie's official youtube site (handy tip: type NSFW ahead of youtube in the URL to bypass the annoying sign-in age filter) and I noticed that the tagline for Troma Movies is "40 years of disrupting media." I just want to point out that Poultrygeist isn't truly "disruptive" media. Lloyd Kaufman is no rebel and and neither are you for watching this film. Anyway, these are minor gripes through and through. Hey: thumbs up just for the Irish priest complaining about the severed member in his sloppy joe and the depiction of the character "Hummus.""Like the dip!"

metalrage666 I had high expectations when I settled in to watch this, (well, as high as one can get with a Troma movie), however even for them this seems to be nothing more than an drunken excuse to sully their "So bad it's good" reputation. To say that this movie took so many years from script writing to the final product is really indicative of the problems that are obvious throughout the movie as it doesn't gel together like many other Troma films seem to do.This movie is just plain bad in every sense. It starts off fine enough with a young couple, (Arbie & Wendy), getting it on in a old Native American burial ground and before you know it, in typical Troma fashion, the place gets bulldozed and paved over to make way for a burger joint. Suffice to say, the deceased members of the "Tromahawk" tribe are none too happy about it.Arbie has returned to the spot of his one and only sexual encounter and found that burger chain, American Chicken Bunker now stands on the site and Wendy has become a lesbian who's in the midst of protesting the fast-food chain along with her activist girlfriend. So naturally Arbie decides the best way to get revenge, is to get a job there.From there the movie seems to really lack that panache that made many other Troma movies, as low-budget as they may be, enjoyable to watch. I didn't really see the point in having musical numbers throughout the movie, which just slowed it right down. After the first 2 songs, I found myself fast-forwarding the rest as they didn't even add to the story.With a movie like this, you expect bad acting, poor effects, little story, nudity and over-the-top death and dismemberment scenes, yet even knowing this before hand, still won't prepare you for this futile attempt at making a low-budget and watchable movie. The sort of stuff that made Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke Em High and the original Mothers Day etc. the trashy classics that they are.There are quite a number of disgusting and inventive torturous death scenes and random displays of nudity in Poultrygeist to keep most fans of exploitive movies happy throughout, (the woman who gets her breast implants ripped out is a new one), however if you're no stranger to Troma films, there's very little that hasn't been done before. Instead of Zombie Rednecks, Zombie Kids or Rabid Grannies, it's simply Zombie Chicken people who are now disemboweling people, which leaves me to wonder why even make a movie like this. The overall premise of the story is trashy enough to make a fun blood-drenched movie, but the singing, child-like acting and recycled humour just made it boring to watch, (I fell asleep twice while watching this), so there's my summation of Poultrygeist - A snooze-fest.

ZomComGod I liked it. Let's get this straight. It is cheesy to say the very least but I think that made the film, after all, have you ever seen a serious film about half-zombie-half-chickens? lol The major problem I have with this film is that it tries to offend everyone - although it failed to hit us straight, white, British, it did get very annoying. I hope it doesn't offend you too, because it is a brilliant idea for a film, as I may have mentioned before. The choice of music entertained me. I have never seen a better use for "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" or Grindcore Death Metal. Yes. I am a metal fan... This film is obviously done on a tight budget and it shows throughout, but the directing, editing and camera-work is superb! Even the close-ups of the obviously fake anus didn't look out of place. Comedy films appeal to me, zombie film appeal to me and cheesy, low budget films appeal to me. If these things appeal to you, and you love some gore (constantly throughout!)then this film is deffo for you! XDThis film is so colourful too! Reds and greens everywhere. I gagged at points too!

trashgang Troma. What can I say. You love or you hate them. I don't hate them, I have seen some watchable movies but this one was surely not my cup of tea. I have no problem with comedy in horror but this is a bit too childish. It's all about farts and other jokes. They even put some songs in it, a musical they call it. Sorry, it was a turn off for me. Oh yeah, a lot of tits and a lot of gore but it didn't bother me. Troma surely isn't made for me but I can understand that people love it. For comedy/horror I would rather recommend Lesbian Vampire Killers or Doghouse. No really, it was okay to see the guy being turned inside out in the beginning, but the constantly sound of farts, to much for me that is.