Schlocky B-movie kingpin amps up the camp in Austin drag tribute during Texas tour

A schlocky film tour is hitting the Lone Star State, starring Lloyd Kaufman, president of Troma Leisure, the B-movie kingpin, who’ll make stops in DFW and the Hill County in late February and early March.

No stranger to Texas, Kaufman is coming to attend the Cult Basic Conference in Bastrop, a three-day horror and cult film conference going down from March 3-5.

He’ll bookend that with stops in DFW and Austin; the latter contains drag performances by each regionally and nationally recognized stars Bulimianne Rhapsody and Louisianna Buy, featured on competitors exhibits.

Troma is legendary for campy gory movies comparable to 1984’s The Poisonous Avenger, and who might overlook 1986’s Class Of Nuke ‘Em Excessive?

As Movie Faculty Rejects observes, Troma movies are thought-about by many to be “crude, infantile, and usually executed in dangerous style.”

However a press launch counterpoints that Troma offers an entry level for filmmakers with little to no expertise. Is {that a} good factor? This isn’t for us to say. The corporate has a streaming platform referred to as Troma Now, which hosts shorts and unbiased movies from world wide.

The tour by means of Texas will embrace the next stops:

February 28, 8:30 pm: Screening of Troma traditional Tromeo and Juliet on the Texas Theatre in Dallas, with Lloyd and varied Troma characters in attendance for autographs and photograph ops.

March 1, 5:30 pm: Kaufman seems at Bizarre Wednesday, a month-to-month cult film collection and vendor market held at Southside Preservation Corridor in Fort Value, the place he’ll introduce and conduct a Q&A for his movie Poultrygeist: Night time of the Rooster Lifeless.

March 3, 11 pm: Tromatic Drag Tribute Present, that includes Bulimianne Rhapsody (star of Camp Wannakiki on OUTtv), Louisianna Buy (star of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula on Shudder), and different Austin space drag and burlesque performers, at Valhalla in Austin. Performances shall be Troma-themed, with Houston DJ PostModernSleaze.

March 4, 7:30 pm: Kaufman will current his most up-to-date movie, #ShakespearesShitstorm, on the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar in Austin, with a post-movie Q&A, autographs, and photograph ops.

On March 2, Kaufman can even be at UNT in Denton, instructing a filmmaking class, however it’s not open to the general public.

Tickets for the conference ($15-125) can be found at cultclassicconvention.com. Tickets for the Austin present (beginning at $10) can be found by way of Eventbrite.