Episode 24 Part 2: Lloyd Kaufman, President & Co-Founder of Troma Entertainment!

Shock Waves

Blumhouse + FANGORIA Podcast Network

Performing Arts, Arts, Society & Culture, Tv & Film

4.8 • 936 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2016

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

In the second portion of episode 24 of Shock Waves, your hosts Rob Galluzzo, Elric Kane and Rebekah McKendry sit down with the one and only Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Entertainment, the longest standing truly independent film company. In this candid, yet fun chat, we get to learn a bit about Lloyd's humble beginnings in the film business, how he met Troma's Michael Herz, his early comedy successes with SQUEEZE PLAY and THE FIRST TURN-ON, hooking up with John Avildsen and helping on ROCKY, and much, much more. We discuss the origins of THE TOXIC AVENGER, how he gave everyone from James Gunn to Eli Roth to Trey Parker & Matt Stone their starts in the film business, to the drastic changes of independent filmmaking and more over the course of this interview. Kick back, relax and listen to one of horrors most fascinating raconteurs tell it like it is!

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0:00.0	Oh, uh, uh, ... Okay and welcome back to this interview portion of Shock Waves.
0:36.0	We're really excited. I mean, we've done so many episodes at this point and had so many
0:40.0	different guests on from all different aspects of the film industry of the horror genre.
0:46.2	But I can safely say that I don't know a man that has shaped us more in our formative young
0:52.0	years than the creator of the Toxic Avenger.
0:54.5	And the first filmmaking book I ever read.
0:56.5	First film in life.
0:57.5	We have talked about having him on so much and we finally get the opportunity.
1:01.3	He's a legend.
1:02.3	Here he is, Lloyd Kaufman.
1:03.0	Wow, thank you so much.
1:05.0	Thank you.
1:06.0	Shock waves.
1:07.0	I'm in shock that you said something nice.
1:08.0	And you know, we had, a few weeks ago, we had Oz Perkins on the show, the son of Anthony Perkins, who's now a filmmaker writing
1:15.4	in direction.
1:16.4	And when we asked him about his earliest horror recollections, he said when he was 12, he'd
1:21.0	have 20 kids sleep over and they'd be forced to watch the Toxic Avengers, which we thought you'd get a kick out of.
1:27.0	Well, you know, David Bryan, who wrote the music for the Toxic Avenger musical, which is, I think it played out here.
1:33.0	He was 12 when he saw the toxic avenger and vowed he would write a musical about it.
1:38.0	And he wrote that.
1:40.0	And I'm not bullshitting you.
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