Month: August 2023

Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody here back again! And this time it’s gonna be a bit shorter than normal, mainly because I really don’t want to talk about this but we do one of these every time soooo anyway here it goes! We recorded this episode a while back in November 2022 and then it got released in March 2023, and boy did it stir up a lot of controversy – which I will get in to a bit. I asked Paul my co-host and special guest Jason Cooke to come on. It was Jason’s first episode on our show and hopefully won’t be the last. We got more to get him in on. But this so far has been the only one for Indie Film Cafe he has done.  

The movie in question is… Joel D. Wynkoop’s Lost Faith, which I got directly from Joel himself. Maybe he was suspecting a more glowing review or maybe he was not expecting some of the things we said because a lot of people love it to death. Hell, I enjoyed it for the campiness of it.

Here is a bit of a disclaimer…. We love bad movies. We love watching them. We love reviewing them. They are fun. The lower the budget, the even more fun. And when we review these movies we are generally talking about our love for them (whether they are good, bad, or ugly it doesn’t matter to us cause we had a blast doing it)… if a movie bores us or we just weren’t in to it we wouldn’t review it. 

With that being said this movie was fun to me. I love it. I’m glad I own it. However it’s still not a great movie. Like, it has problems. It goes off the rail a lot. Like, there is NO purpose to some of the scenes except either for padding or for ridiculousness. And the ridiculousness is fine but some of the rest of the movie doesn’t hold up to that and so the film to me is kind of uneven. Which is normal for a Low Budget film. There are some really fun scenes and Joel shows off his karate skills like you wouldn’t believe! 

However in the end we said what we said, and this is one of the first times on our actual podcast that the director felt differently than we did and was a little upset. All I can say is I will stand by my review because what I said and what others said were what we felt at the time. We didn’t even give it a 30 which is the highest stink rating you can give. I just want to once again clarify that when I say a movie is bad it means I probably enjoyed it for what it was. Whether people agree or disagree is none of my business and none of my concern. That’s all up to interpretation. 

And the scores are in….  I gave it a 9; Paul gave it a 10; and Jason gave it a 9.5 bringing the stink total to 28.5, or a Stinky Average of 9.5. Which puts it up there with A LOT OF MOVIES… including: Alien Prophecy, Birdemic: Shock and Terror, Midget Zombie Takeover, Blood Predator, Hard Rock Zombies, and The Creeping Terror. 

Well that’s it for me… even a little longer than I was planning to talk. If you wanna know what we are talking about Paul will put up the link to the episode. Speaking of Paul… the Moo Cow is gonna take over and show you guys where you can get this and maybe he’ll add his own thoughts on the whole show… take it away Paul…

Check out the SLAM-BANG TRAILER on Youtube! SLAM!! BANG!! This is the so-called HYPER trailer! And here is a message about the film from the man himself, Joel D. Wynkoop! And check out this tv cowmmercial spot for the flick!

Pick up the Vinegar Syndrom Blu Ray release, including the special slip cover release, HERE. The standard Blu Ray is also on Amazon. The DVD is tough to find these days, but it does pop up on Ebay from time to time. I wish I cud offer you some places for the poster, a tee shirt, a mug, or udder merch, but at this time there doesn’t seem to be anything beyond the Blu Ray – but if that changes we will update the page! We all need some extra Wyncoopage!

In the meantime, here is the Bad Movie review, and also So Bad Its Good. Here is the man himself talking moore in depth about his moovie, and the Bad Movie Night interview. This flick also appears on Schlocaholics, and on Grindbin! Joel has his own Youtube channel too, check it out!

Hey everyone… Jonathan Moody back here. Sorry its been a while. Things have been off the hook crazy with everything IFC and the network has been doing. So I finally got the chance to just sit down here and write up this episode. Which was a bit of a fun one. Back last year Paul and myself went out to Scarefest in Lexington KY and met Uncle Lloyd Kaufman of Tromaville. Lloyd was gracious enough to do an interview with us which you can find on our site. Anyhoo, we also got to meet in person Jessa Flux who was our guest host for a few episodes and will most likely be returning for Season 7. And we decided to do SGT. Kabukiman, NYPD since she had never seen it and it has been by far my favorite Lloyd Kaufman directed Troma movies.

Now don’t get me wrong… I love me some Toxic Avenger, Tromeo and Juliet, and even Class of Nuke Em High. Paul is very partial to Poultrygeist which I am sure will come on this show as well but I am 100 percent a fan of Kabukiman, It is so ridiculous and off the wall but honestly has. A great heart to it which I feel lacks a lot of the Troma movies that got put out. I think a lot of that has to do with multiple directions it took. This is a hard R movie but has some PG-13 style qualities to it. Mainly since the Japanese investors originally wanted to market it toward kids and Lloyd really had no interest in doing that. So Lloyd made this weird ass flick instead. Even though it is co directed by Michael Herz you know a lot of it is the brain child of Lloyd.

The story is about a streetwise New York Police Officer who transforms in to the world’s most unusual superhero… KABUKIMAN. He starts taking down the thugs and bad people in New York while also trying to do his regular job as a Sergeant in the NYPD. There’s a lot of gore and a lot of wackiness that ensues in this flick. Also very offensive and very politically incorrect. Not surprising for all of this considering that pretty much describes Troma to a tee.

Troma back in the early 90s were really starting to hit their stride. They were becoming more and more popular. Mainly due USA playing, “Toxic Avenger” all the time right next to Revenge of the Nerds (oh man another movie you could not really make these days) and because of the early 90’s cartoon, “The Toxic Crusaders” which I use to see as a kid on the Morning cartoons. I never liked it because I found it too weird when I was a kid. That was because I was in to shows like GI Joe, Thundercats, The Real Ghostbusters, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Which is what the Japanese investors wanted SGT. Kabukiman to end up being.

The Japanese investors were more interested in (In the words of Mel Brooks…) “Moichendizing”… they wanted Kabukiman dolls, lunch boxes, back packs, and whatever other merchandise they could sell to little 9 year old kids like me at the time. However like I said earlier that just wasn’t Troma. Troma had no interest in making basically a commercial product for kids. They were an adult studio. They wanted to market to late teens and adults that were interested In guts, gore, nudity and all that. And boy did they do that. I’m pretty sure the investors were not pleased.

As a 40 year old adult I’m pleased as punch though. This is exactly the type of superhero movie I feel like the world needs. I know Jessa really enjoyed it for her first time watching it and Paul well he loves the wackiness of Troma and on the show he was a plethora of knowledge about that time period. And if you are looking for more information on SGT. Kabukiman I’d say to check out the book, “Everything I know About FILMMAKING I learned from The Toxic Avenger” by Lloyd Kaufman. They have a whole chapter devoted to the making of SGT. Kabukiman, and it is worth the read.

And the scores are in… And of course I had to give it the lowest score on here cause yes it is my favorite. I gave it a 2 on the Stinkometer. If this is your first time reading this a 2 is low on the stink: I really enjoyed it and loved its wackiness. Paul gave it a 4.5 which I’m still a bit surprised about – I mean that’s low, but not as low as I expected from him. And Jessa gave it a 4, which for her first time watching this flick she really did enjoy it. Obviously there were problems but I overlooked a lot of them because, well, Troma is one of the companies that just makes things silly. That makes the total of 10.5 which puts it between For Y’ur Height Only, Lunatics a Love Story, and Tromeo and Juliet… and a Stinky average of 3.5. Wow… two Troma movies tied by the same score. That’s incredibly awesome.

Well that’s it for this write up! I’ll be doing the next two as well and they should be out soon. I know we have been slacking but a lot of that just has to do with fitting it in to the schedule. Anyway… more to come… but until then listen to Paul tell you how to find the film and how to buy the Merch for it…. Take it away The Moo-Cow Avenger….

Well cats and kitties, here is your TRAILER – I think it pretty mooch says it all… ;=8) You can find it for free on Youtube, and also Tubi, but we should all try to support indie companies like Troma, so try to buy yerselves a copy! Uncle Amazon has the DVD, Blu Ray, AND VHS version of this film, so there is no excuse! And its on PRIME too. You can also find it at Wallyworld, BreastBuys, Barnes & Nobles, Oldies.com, and Grindhouse Video, but the best way is to go through TROMA DIRECT itself so that Uncle Lloyd gets all the cashola! You can also get it used through the resale market in places like Ebay and DeCluttr.

Redbubble has a kewl Kabukiman poster for sale, and Cinematerial.com has the traditional poster in digital form; original posters come up for sale now and then on Ebay and Posteritati. There are a butt-load of places to get the Tee-shirt, including TeePublic, Redbubble, Chief T-shirt.com, Artistshot, Printerval.com, and AliExpress, although Twisted Merch might have the best one, IMO. Get the coffee mug at TeePublic, GoMugYourself, and The Sticker Space. ETSY has a kewl Kabukiman patch too! AND you can pick up the blue vinyl soundtrack there as well. Ebay also has enamel pins and udder stuff too, so check it out! And if yer votin’ for Kabukiman for president, and who isn’t, then you need this Vote for Kabukiman Button!

DVDTalk has a pretty good discussion about the film and its origins, and, of course, it is on the Tromaville WIKI. AND, if that isn’t all, will there be a Kabukiman return???