Lloyd Kaufman

Troma, the company Kaufman co-founded, makes gross, political, deliberately terrible films. In The Toxic Avenger, a nerdy janitor at a health club is thrown through a window into a vat of toxic waste. Class of Nuke 'Em High has radioactive water from a leak turn the students of a nearby school into mutants. Poultrygeist opens a fast-food chicken restaurant on a Native American burial ground.

Signature

• Splatter comedy on a tiny budget.
• Satire of corporations and nuclear power.
• New Jersey locations and amateur casts.
• Troma's self-promoting brand of trash.