Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)
*** (out of 4)
Outrageous horror spoof from Troma delivers just about every sick joke and vile thought that one movie could possibly have. A chicken restaurant opens up on the grounds of a Native American grave site, which doesn't sit too well with those buried there. After people eat some tainted chicken, they turn into chicken zombies and begin to eat humans. I'm not a die-hard Troma fan even though I love THE TOXIC AVENGER as well as a couple other movies they delivered throughout the past couple of decades. With that said, this is pure classic trash as I'm quite sure that I've never seen anything like this. The amount of vile jokes know no limits as it's clear from the opening five minutes that this movie is willing to go as far as it can in order to get a laugh. A lot of the humor comes from bathroom humor including a point of view shot of a man sitting on the toilet and delivering something that will have most viewers hitting their eject button. Not only do we get that but we also have people puking on one another, sex between a redneck and a chicken, a butt plug via a zombie finger, lesbian chicken lovers, cannibals, jokes aimed at "Jared" of Subway fame and countless other things that can't be mentioned here. The movie, as is the norm for Troma, sets out to offend everyone no matter their color or gender and they succeed here unlike anything they've done before. The movie also contains the typical sex, nudity and violence that we've come to expect from the studio. The performance are actually a lot better than one might expect with Joshua Olatunde really stealing the film as the black store manager who spent all of his grandmother's money trying to open this chicken shop. Jason Yachanin does fine work as the lead as does Kate Graham and even Ron Jeremy in his cameo. Those who hate Troma films are certain to hate this one but I guarantee that you've never seen anything like this before. The horror spoofs work well, the vile humor even better. This isn't a masterpiece of cinema but it's pretty close in terms of trash.
