Tales from the Crapper

Infobox Film | name = Tales from the Crapper


caption = Theatrical Poster
director = Gabriel Friedman
Chad Ferrin (space crash segment)
David Paiko (“Soul Stripper” segment)
Brian Spitz (“Freeride” segment)
Lloyd Kaufman (uncredited)
producer = Ramzi Abed
Gabriel Friedman
Michael Herz
Lloyd Kaufman
India Allen
writer = Mark C. Adams
Edward Havens
Adam Jahnke
narrator=
starring = Julie Strain
Masumi Max
Ron Jeremy
James Gunn
Debbie Rochon
Kevin Eastman
Arban Ornelas
Jorge Garcia
music =
cinematography = Steven Vasquez
distributor = Troma Entertainment
released = September 28, 2004 (USA)
runtime = 90 min.
language = English
budget =
gross =
amg_id = 1:312934
imdb_id = 0338479
preceded_by =
followed_by =

"Tales from the Crapper" is a 2004 straight-to-video anthology film that was a spoof of Tales from the Crypt. The film was released by Troma Entertainment.

Plot

"Tales from the Crapper" is an anthology film from Troma Entertainment that was released straight to DVD in 2004. Troma co-founder and B-movie king, Lloyd Kaufman, plays the almighty Crap Keeper. He presents the viewers with several horror stories that are filled to the brim with gore, nudity, fat guys, talking penises, lesbian love scenes, vampires, UFOs, and appearances by porn star Ron Jeremy and the band New Found Glory. The film was purportedly shot over three years with six directors and close to fifteen writers. [ [http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=1:312934~T0 allmovie ((( Tales From the Crapper > Overview ))) ] ]

Production

The movie started pre-production in early 2001, after a successful digitized web-comic starring Yaniv Sharon entitled Tales From the Crapper hit the Troma website. After the three-part comic was done, Troma President Lloyd Kaufman wanted a real series on their website to be made. A contract was done with India Allen, who had recently produced and directed the film "The Rowdy Girls" which Troma distributed. The budget for the first season was 200,000 dollars.

After more then a year of production, Troma received the footage that was shot and it was unwatchable. In some cases, there was missing sound, the camera-work seemed unprofessional. And all of the episodes were unfinished. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz were even more displeased when they found out that the entire budget was gone. In order to salvage the project, Lloyd Kaufman got former Troma Alumni to re-work the script and find new uses for the footage shot. In 2003, re-shooting began both in Los Angeles and New York with Kaufman overseeing production. Gabriel Friedman, Troma's editor at the time, had made a list of the shots that were needed for the rewrites that they were working on. Despite Friedman and Kaufman being clear on what to do, many problems arose as well in the re-shoot with incompetent crew members. This lead to years of post-production. In order to make scenes fit together and due to the lack of sound on most of the footage, many scenes had to be re-dubbed. Both segments, who started out as horror films with a slice of comedy, had now become over-the-top comedy. This is not the first Troma film to do this. Lloyd and Charles Kaufman did a similar thing to the action film they had acquired and re-dubbed as "Ferocious Female Freedom Fighters", which is now one of Troma's most popular comedies. The same thing was also done to the Belgian horror movie (which Lloyd Kaufman produced, but was unhappy with the final product), known as "Parts of the Family". While "Tales From the Crapper" has gotten mixed reviews over the years, many fans of Troma like the film and have given it a positive rating.

Cast

ee also

*Troma Entertainment
*Lloyd Kaufman
*"Tales from the Crypt"

External links

*imdb title|id=0338479|title=Tales from the Crapper
*amg title|id=1:312934|title=Tales from the Crapper

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