terrible... so disappointed.

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

The makers of a Troma film, including its director Larry Benjamin (Troma head honcho Lloyd Kaufman) are both hard at work and hard at play. Some of its crew members get targeted by a crazed mystery woman (Sheri Wenden), who's busy slaughtering people in inventive ways.It wouldn't be inaccurate to consider "Terror Firmer" a magnum opus, as far as Troma product goes. It goes on a LOT longer than a typical film from the independent studio, clocking in at almost two hours. As a result, if you're not on board with the kind of crude, graceless tomfoolery on display, that will make sticking with this difficult if not impossible.Of course, if you're a fan of Kaufman and these guys & gals, you'll be amply rewarded with an amazing plethora of bad taste gags and twisted characters. In his review for the excellent sleeper "Def by Temptation", Leonard Maltin referred to Troma as being "aggressively schlocky", which is as good a way to describe them as any. Here they have tremendous fun just tossing anything resembling decorum out the window. They've always *embraced* the tackiness to be found in many a B picture, and you can certainly see that in a lot of the hammy, campy performances and the onslaught of hilariously crude gore effects.The cast is enthusiastic as Hell. Future Oscar winners they might never be, but they give this production everything that they've got. Will Keenan, Trent Haaga, and Alyce LaTourelle play the love triangle at the heart of the story, with the appealing LaTourelle cast as the script girl who gets a chance to be an acting star. Uncle Lloyd himself is a gas as the flamboyant director, who happens to be blind. B movie icon Debbie Rochon is fine as temperamental actress Christine; look for cameos by such people as Ron Jeremy, Lemmy, and Joe Franklin.*Obviously* not to many tastes, but if you love Troma to begin with, you'll likely have a good time.Inspired by the book "All I Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger", written by Kaufman and Troma alumnus James Gunn.Seven out of 10.

Debbie Rochon as a blond? Wow, this is something different! Of course, this whole movie is something different. Lloyd Kaufman has really pulled out all the stops to give us the grossest film I could ever imagine. No, I would be Lloyd Kaufman if I imagined this stuff - this is waaaay beyond my imagination.Extreme amounts of blood and gore and body fluids and solids. This was the ultimate in gross, but you had to look.Once again, there was a perfect part for me. I coulda been a contenda in indy film.Not for those with a weak stomach.

A low budget studio working on a 4th installment of "The Toxic Avenger" and blind director named Larry Benjamin ( Lloyd Kaufman) is working on it as unfortunately there's a maniac on the loose in New York causing terrible crimes as he or she murders his/her victims then collects their body parts in m jars. The killer begins to strike and kill off most of the actors during filming of their movie, and one of the workers must find the mystery behind this fiend.Entertaining and ultra-violent horror comedy satire from the people at Troma and is based on Lloyd Kaufman's book " All i need to know about film-making i learned from The Toxic Avenger" and has that movie-within-a-movie-about-a-movie like thing (i.e. New Nightmare). The movie has scenes of graphic gore like a hilarious "Riki-Oh" style scene where Michael Herz ( producer of Troma and star) gets his entire body mutilated through an escalator even though it's kind of cartoonish. But wait there's more! there's also a dark sense of humor, appearance by Sgt. Kabukiman, sleaze, nudity, booze and everything to fill a horror and gore-hound's appetite for the sick and funny here in this must see flick that is one of their most acclaimed movies yet.Also recommended: " The Toxic Avenger", " Class of Nuke'Em High", "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger 4", " Demons", " New Nightmare", "From Dusk Till Dawn", " The New York Ripper", " Caligula", " Tromeo and Juliet", " Hostel", " Pink Flamingos", " Re-Animator", "Dead Alive", " Last Action Hero", "Scream 1 & 2", "Evil Dead II", " Cat in The Brain", "Evil Ed", " Beware! Children at Play", " Rabid Grannies", " Meet The Feebles", " Bad Taste", "Evil ED", "C.H.U.D.", " Urban Legend", "Final Destination Trilogy", " Redneck Zombies", " House By The Cemetery", " Surf Nazis Must Die", " Freddy Vs. Jason", "Nightmare on Elm Street series", "Wild at Heart", "Se7en", "Fargo", "Cabin Fever", " Men Behind The Sun", " Ichi The Killer", "Blood Sucking Freaks", "Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky", "Battle Royale", " Troma's War", "Combat Shock", " Versus", " Kill Bill", " Sin City", "Blood Diner", " Shaun of the Dead", " Man Bites Dog", " Cemetery Man", " Team America World Police", "Airplane!", " Tenebre", " Deep Red", "Saw 1 & 2", "House of 1000 Corpses", "The Devil's Rejects", "High Tension", "Phenomena", "Fist of the North Star ( Anime)", "Psycho (1960)", "Sleepaway Camp", "Friday The 13th series", " Just Before Dawn", "Maniac ( 1980)", "Last House on The Left", "Cannibal Apocalypse" and "Wolf Creek".

Larry Benjamin (a thinly veiled Lloyd Kaufman, playing more or less himself) is in the midst of shooting a movie, while all around him ghastly murders are being committed to people associated with the film. All of the "plot" is just a flimsy device to have more blood, guts, bad-taste, vulgarity, and general depravity then even other Troma films never had as much of before, or since thus far. But more doesn't equal better at all, quite the opposite, because while I love other Troma films such as the "Toxic Avenger" films (well accept for the abysmal third one), the first "Class of Nuke 'em high", "Tromeo and Juliet" and others/ This film (the unrated version at least) is so extreme, so artless, so offensive that it gave even me pause to wonder what the hell the point of it all was. Note to Lloyd: I NEVER thought I'd say this in my life. But tone it down a notch or two, bro.My Grade:D DVD Extras: Disc 1) intro by Llyod; Lloyd's Commentary; Editor's commentary; actor's commentary; 19 deleted scenes; 21 alternate takes; comic to film escalator scene comparison; audition footage; blooper reel; Teaser and theatrical trailers Disc 2) the 99 minute "Farts of Dakness: the Making of Terror Firmer" documentary; 3 music videos (Say what you mean by Lunachicks, Freak of the Week by DJ Polo *with nudity AND Ron Jeremy*, and Seeing Red by Entombed); soundtrack spot; promos for All you need to know about Filmaking, and Tromadance film festival; Gyno-talk with Alyce Latorelle wherein she talks of how disgusted she was; a mini interview with Lloyd Kaufman's daughter, Charlotte; the Radiation March (the horrid PSA that's on every Troma disk it seems), and Trailers for "Citizen Toxie", "Unspeakable", "Cannibal the Musical", & "Parts of the Family" DVD-Rom content: Terror Firmer the game (I can't get past the "Toddster level, the nails go by to fast) Easter Eggs: On disc 1, let the credits under the filmmakers menu play through for a re-creation of a phone call; highlight the face in the main menu 3 times for a 6 minute censored version of the film. Highlight the Terror Firmer logo in the extras menu for 10 seconds of color bars followed by 10 seconds of a gross appendage; (their's another egg, but the link it gives you doesn't work anymore) Now onto the second disk,highlight the face for footage of "the Naked Cowboy" (who I've seen at Mardi Gras in New Orleans multiple times)