Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

If there's any justice in the world this will become a bigger cult classic than Toxic Avenger.

Your personal enjoyment of this movie comes down to one simple question: Do you love cheesy horror b-movies? I do, and Troma have made some of the best films in this cliche-driven field. This one especially, is amazing. I bought the 3-disc set which includes a making of documentary and a sing-a-long karaoke disc! So much fun!

This is it. This is the pinnacle of Troma. Automatist filmmaking at its finest. Any pretense that they're making actual movies is completely gone with this one. While they certainly haven't killed the conventional film, Poultrygeist demonstrates how much they believe they could do just that and (for 90 minutes at least) had me believing as well.

Troma's masterpeice. I can't tell you how good I think this very strange film is, but oh well, you're just gonna hafta see it for yourselves.

I WANNA BE A PRINCESS

I had a blast watching this! One of the best Troma's ever released.

maybe its the bourbon talming, but holy fuck this movie is funny. okay it's definitly the bourbon talking

Utterly fabulous, over-the-top, B-horror-movie travesty. Has much of the verve of early John Waters, if none of the restraint.

Absolutely ridiculous, absurd humor (as expected). Most of the songs were weak, but everything else was deliciously gory and laugh-out-loud funny!

Chicken zombies, gratuitous lesbians and toilet humour: it's Tromalicious!

A great piece of satire that has all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. It's a good movie in its own right, the FX are of a great standard and the songs are fun and catchy and the parody elements are funny. One day the academy will come to appreciate that a movie can be something more even if it has a gag about a fat man shitting himself.

It's a Troma It's great... gorgeus Movie by Kaufman. Only for fans !

Kaufman is really the king of a very specific homegrown type of American exploitation film, and he has only improved with age. His fierce independence is admirable, and Poultrygeist is a typically outrageous effort that skewers the fast food industry, anti-corporate activism and the pavlovian response of consumers. It's a horror musical comedy with surprisingly witty dialogue (at times), plentiful gore and actors who throw themselves into this ridiculous scenario with reckless aplomb.

With absurd, over-the-top comedy that sometimes lands and other times very much doesn't, it's a completely ridiculous ride that's out to offend every single person watching it, which makes parts of it work better than they should. It's definitely a product of the mid-2000's, and it's hard to tell at points whether or not its insults are rooted in any real beliefs or prejudices. Despite that, though, if taken as the all-around dumb B-movie that it is, there's some enjoyment to be found.

Funny x infinite.

Funny x infinite.

Has its moments of inspired insanity, but creaks under the weight of too many references and an inconsistent song score.

The worst movie ever made

One word: Troma

I have nothing.

Zombie chickens!

Good Movie

I didn't think it was funny at all. Ok I giggled a few times, but most of the time I thought it was friggin annoying. Lot's of blood, severed limbs and boobs though

This movie asks the question: what if someone built a KFC on top of an Indian Burial ground? It's juvenile, disgusting, and vulgar; like a YouTube reject tried to go big on Ebaum's world and still failed. But, uh, I kind of liked it. It knows it's terrible and does what it can to poke fun at both corporate fascism and stupid zombie movies anyway. This makes it better than Cabin Boy, even if it could've made itself better by throwing out the grueling musical numbers. C

"Quite possibly the world's first horror-musical-sex-comedy, the strangely impressive originality of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead doesn't come even close to compensating for its everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink midnight-movie awfulness." - Rob Humanick

Obviously this piece of bizarre irony gets better and better every minute of screentime. Overacting sometimes is not so funny, shitcore humor gets boring after fat-man-shitting-all-over-himself-while-ancient-spell-takes-place. But overall, it's entertaining, bloody and has great musical numbers. Btw, great job, angry mob!

Too long for its own good.

The musical elements being dropped less than halfway into the film was very merciful on part of Kaufman. Not a great movie, but fun, mostly.

Creative plot, but you shouldn't watch this with your stomach full!

Sluggish to start and the songs were pretty bad, but eventually the zombies break out and everything comes together. Best thing to come out of Troma since... Well... Ever.

errrrrr, what just happened.

"Kaufman is one of the last great trash filmmakers."

Your typical troma movie that will be a cult classic and be amazing to the fans that have seen it. But for me, this movie made me realize that I don't really like troma movies.