I Spill Your Guts VHS Exclusively at Forbidden Planet!
Horror Boobs Video is back again with another killer VHS release! This time it’s James Balsamo’s I Spill Your Guts! A modern exploitation masterpiece withmore genre cameos than you can shake a bloody stick at! Andrew W.K., Tim Ritter, Donald Farmer, Debbie Rochon, Carmine Capobianco, Lynn Lowery, Frank Mullen, Dave Brockie, Lloyd Kaufman and many more [...]
Footage from the Toxic Avenger VHS Release Party!
On May 24th, Forbidden Planet NYC played host to the crazy crew from Troma to celebrate the limited Big Box VHS release of the original Toxic Avenger! Llyod Kaufman, Troma founder and the man behind such classics as Nuke ‘Em High and Tromeo and Juliet, was on hand to sign posters, chat with fans, and pass out [...]
Lunchmeat VHS Magazine Presents Mother’s Day at MAD Museum 6/15
Come out this Friday June 15th at 7PM to the second screening in the VHS Series at the Museum of Arts and Design. Josh Schafer publisher/editor of Lunchmeat VHS Magazine will present a VHS screening of Mother’s Day with a special Q&A session with Richard W. Haines director of Splatter University and Alien Space Avenger! [...]
Something Weird @ MAD Museum 6/9/12 7PM
Believe it or not all my rambling about VHS has paid off! The Museum of Art and Design, Jake Yuzna, Rebecca Cleman and I (Matthew Desiderio) have put together the mother of all VHS tributes with screenings, workshops, and a real functioning video store on site. VHS at MAD takes places between June 9th and August [...]
Signed Toxic Avenger VHS pre-order starts now!
So you can’t make it to our event but you still wanna get a copy of The Toxic Avenger VHS Big Box signed by Lloyd Kaufman… don’t sweat it FP got your back. Just check out this video for more details. OR Just pre-order it here! <— by clicking this duh!
Thursday May 24th Toxic Avenger VHS Release Party!
Forbidden Planet gets Tromatized Thursday May 24th at 7:30 PM. Toxic Tapeheads Rejoice! This killer collector’s edition VHS of the Toxic Avenger is limited to only 300 copies, comes on a nuclear green tape and comes in a classic oversized Big Box with a hard Clamshell case inside. Forbidden Planet is proud to play host [...]
REMINDER!! Tonight at Midnight!
Midnight Friday February 10th at the Landmark Sunshine Theater The urban legend known as ‘The Father’s Day Killer’ began some years after the demise of serial rapist/murderer Chris Fuchman. Since the 1970s, the use of contraceptives has tripled in North America alone and a generation of fathers fell asleep with the covers pulled tight, buttocks [...]
Troma’s NYC Father’s Day premiere FEB 10th
The newest slice of sleaze from Troma premieres Midnight Friday February 10th at NYC’s Landmark Sunshine Theater. Astron-6′s twisted tale of father rape and revenge may just be another drop in the bucket of Tromatic insanity, but compared to the Sunshine’s usual mundane midnight fare of Goonies and Princess Bride - Father’s Day is gonna [...]
Poultrygeist and Chripy at the Anthology Film Archives
Anthology Film Archives will be screening Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead and John Goras’ Award winning Chirpy on Friday, January 14th, 2012 at 9:00 PM. Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment, Creator of The Toxic Avenger and Producer, Writer and Director of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, will be appearing in person as well as Chirpy creator, [...]
Lloyd Kaufman @ The Strand 7/6/11
Lloyd Kaufman will be at The Strand tomorrow (July 6th) at 7 PM to discuss and sign his new book Sell Your Own Damn Movie. Make sure to drop by Forbidden Planet before hand and stock up on Troma merch to get signed. We have tons of DVDs, shirts, stickers, books and more!!! Everybody should [...]
There’s Nothing Out There
It’s Finally here! Rolfe Kanefsky’s Sci-Fi Horror sleaze-fest There’s Nothing Out There is now on DVD thanks to our good friends Troma. Why should you care? Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma crew invaded our sacred Forbidden Planet grounds to film a new intro that is featured on this 20th anniversary DVD. Check out the intro [...]
Lloyd Kaufman Video
As you may know, Lloyd Kaufman dropped by the shop a few weeks ago. What a sweetheart. And funny, too. Here’s some video from that night. And the hilarity continued like that for, like, 90 minutes. That guy can talk. Many thanks to Lloyd, and all our friends at Troma.
Reel Independence With Troma: Sam Kieth & Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman. To some he’s a film god, the David to Hollywood’s Goliath providing sharp, urbane horror and comedy to a public tired of the white-washed crumbs of the mainstream cinema. To others he’s a crass schlockmyseter, a sad, self aggrandizing turd polisher who couldn’t even reach the levels of Corman or Myers as an auteur but who’s publicity eclipses them both.
Have a Tromatic Experience
New this week to Forbidden Planet’s YouTube page is Matt D (manager, T-Shirt buyer, horror expert, all-around swell dude), discussing TROMA films in all their magnificent lowbrow splendor, and our event with Lloyd Kaufman on Monday night celebrating their first Blu-Ray release of Poultrygeist…