Mar 12 2009
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (Review)
POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD (2006)
Written and Directed by Lloyd Kaufman (The Toxic Avenger)
Try as big-budget Hollywood movies may, they’ll never grasp the low-brow aspects of trashy low-budget cinema. It takes a special kind of film not bound by studio head demands and a willingness to not play favorites with offensiveness. Poultrygeist is one of those few movies that tears down the barriers and offends everybody, relentlessly and without apology. And there are musical numbers!
The story is simple enough and merely an excuse for some creative/disgusting kills. A sexually confused male teenager named Arbie is trying to win back Wendy, the love of his life turned lesbian. Believing a job will redeem his love life, he seeks a job at the newly opened American Chicken Bunker. While working at the restaurant, he meets a slew of employees ripe for humor and named after different foods/food establishments. There is Denny, the black guy rebelling against whitey, Carl Junior, the redneck chicken fornicator, Humus, the female Muslim who soon turns terrorist, Jose Paco Bell, a rebellious Latino who believes masturbating in the meat grinder sends out a message, and a future version of Arbie called…Arbie. Also, the head of the company, General Lee Roy, makes an appearance and looks exactly like another famous chicken franchise owner. When a bad shipment of eggs makes it’s way into the store, people start vomiting and pooping all over the place. This eventually leads to an outbreak of chicken zombies.
Poultrygeist is a disgusting movie and I mean that in the best possible way. Never before have I seen such combination of vomit, poop, gore, blood and green blood. But what separates this film from others that contain vomit, poop, gore, blood and green blood is that the script is brilliant. While the film does have an underlying message of the hypocrisies in both fast food and peaceful protests, it has a brain that isn’t afraid to break the fourth wall. In fact, it’s not afraid of anything. If it’s tasteless, sexist, racist, and disgusting, you can bet it’s in this movie.
The kills themselves are awesome. Ranging from the outrageous (zombie chicken bites a man’s genitals forcing an employee to shove a broom up his ass to get him off) to the creative (zombie chickens cut up human flesh to serve in buckets), all of them are done with quality and comedy. As I mentioned earlier, there are musical numbers in this movie. All of them are sensational with incredibly hilarious lyrics fitting in with the story. Not since Cannibal the Musical has Troma produced such a finely produced musical. My only gripe about this movie is that because it goes so over-the-top in the humor and the disgusting, many people won’t watch it. That’s a really shame since I consider this to be the king of low-budget horror comedies. Of course, I can understand why it wasn’t distributed to all theaters nation wide. If it got that kind of exposure, there would be a field day with…well, just about every social organization.
DVD Dump Counter:
-1 fingered butt
-1 fist through the butt
-5 musical numbers
-1 body in a meat grinder
-1 body in a meat slicer
-2 men in skirts
-1 talking sloppy joe
-1 pole through the butt
-3 sex scenes
-1 face torn off
-1 head bitten off
-1 head pulled off
-1 head severed
-1 penis bitten by zombie chicken
-1 face deep-fried
-1 pair of testicles deep-fried
-1 scene of explosive poop
-2 breast implants removed
-3 limbs cut off
-1 human turned egg
-1 overdose of steroids
-1 head crushed via chicken monster
-1 nose bitten off
-2 explosions
-1 car crash
RATING: B-Movie
If you have a taste for the tasteless and an iron stomach, Poultrygeist is easily one of the best movies in the horror-comedy genre. As a fan of over-the-top horror, I enjoyed this movie. But be warned, this movie is guaranteed to offend religious Muslims, fat people, Christians, Jews, women, gays, and pretty much anybody who faints at the slightest drop of blood.
