There are tons of films coming out this summer; so many that I may just have to put in some extra hours here at ol? FEARnet just to pay those Fandango bills! Wait a sec, I do get overtime, right? And as much as I?d like to, it?s likely that I like many others won?t be able to catch EVERY summer release. In devising my list of must sees for the summer, I decided that I had to make a trip out to the Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead New York premiere party to see if the fowl filled flick would make it on my must see list.

So, the other night, FEARnet Production Artist Adrian Brattelli and I set off to attend the party to see if the ever persuasive Lloyd Kaufman could convince us to put Poultrygeist on our very own summer must see movie list despite the fact that we?ve already seen the film via bootleg, errr, I mean screener DVD (one of those perks of working for a horror website! See our Poultrygeist review!!)

written by Gabrielle DiPietro

Leaving our humble Philly headquarters, we hopped a train and headed to the Library Bar which at 8 PM was already chock full of our fine feathered friends and the brilliant Troma team. And unbeknownst to Kaufman the party alone started to convince us to revisit the splattastic Poultrygeist fest once again, this time in theaters when it opens in New York on May 9th or in Los Angeles on June 13th!

If you talk to Kaufman, as we did at the party, he?ll give you dozens of reasons to see this sex-blood-potty-humor-filled film. He?ll tell you it?s a ?chick-flick?, it?s ?amazing? and ?you?ll never see anything like it?. Troma starlet Monique Dupree will join him in his enthusiasm telling you ?it?s the movie to see this year!? And if you talk to the Tromettes, well, you of course get the same response; only, they dance and roller-skate as they talk. With dozens of convincing reasons, it may be hard to sift through and pick the best. But after watching the film and spending some time with the Troma crew, I?ve concocted the Top 5 Reasons Troma thinks Poultrygeist is the movie to see this summer?and why I might just agree!

#5 The Tromarketing Geniuses!
While the superhero flicks of summer may have colossal posters, flashy television ads and fancy prop displays in the window at Macy?s, Poultrygeist has planted subliminal chicken messages all over NYC! Brilliant!

In typical Troma fashion, they?re promoting Poultrygeist through viral Tromarketing and even a clever product placement initiative which litters New York City with chickens! Though it may not be completely Troma?s doing (actually, none of it is, but work with me here), in just a few block span we spotted chicken on a cart, on a stick, chicken statues, neon chickens, restaurants that serve chicken, signs that say ?Turkey? but really make you think of chicken (it?s poultry after all), chicken carcasses decorating a bar, dancing chickens in Army attire and even giant chickens fondling half-naked Tromettes on the corner. Hell, even The Toxic Avenger himself gets in on the act. Hungry yet?

#4 It?s a Meat-Mincing Musical!
Remarkably, Poultrygeist is not just a carnage parade of undead chicken, it?s also a musical! Troma?s been trying their hands with musical numbers for years and between (The Toxic Avenger The Musical coming out this fall TheToxicAvengerMusical.com) and Poultrygeist they?ve really got it down! Because in a Tro-musical number, it?s only natural that someone takes their clothes off, reveals some unexpectedly outrageous plot point or partakes in at least one gross out tactic guaranteed to repulse and awe.

And, with the prospects of Spidey on Broadway, it?s quite likely that the other film?s this summer will pain us with atrocities like ?The Iron Man Cabaret? or ?The Incredible Musical Hulk? after they break their own box office records. Although, Troma and the rest of the sane world would argue that those Hollywood inspired musical numbers couldn?t possibly feature crowds of protesting women de-clothing, people biting into a green puss filled pieces of fried chicken or having an all out chicken dead bloodbath involving a guy named ?Paco Bell? being devoured into a meat mincer.

#3 There?s More Legs, Thighs and Breasts Than Your Average Summer Movie!
Between the coup of chicken dead and those lovely Tromettes, Poultrygeist packs double (if not more!) legs, thighs and breasts than those weak superhero movies!

You might be lucky enough to sneak a peek of a bare legged-Leslie Bibb at your local multiplex this summer.

But at the Poultrygeist party alone, Kaufman had a pack of scantily clad, or more likely, half naked, sexy dancing Tromettes, so if you know Troma, you can only imagine how many showed up (topless) in the actual film!

Granted, we completely understand if you?re into watching an ex-junkie play with his jet boots but I think Kaufman and the rest of the Troma crew have a dozen more reasons why you should check out the bucket o? fried legs, thighs and breasts of Poultrygeist instead?

#2 Poultrygeist Ruffles Philanthropic Feathers!
For those of you who aren?t Troma fans (not very likely that you would have made it this far in my Top 5) Poultrygeist may seem like another excuse to throw blood, sex and Lloyd Kaufman together in a film, but you?d be wrong! Poultrygeist, by mere existence actually gives back heavy-heartedly to the community!

On the night of the (chicken dead) Poultrygeist party, self promotion whiz Lloyd Kaufman took a break from pushing Indian-burial-ground-cursed-killer-chickens and reached into his pocket to spread some monetary love to a real live NYC homeless man. Now, had Poultrygeist not existed, Kaufman wouldn?t have been at The Library Bar in New York City snapping pictures with fans and granting passerby?s Tromaville greetings, but rest assured, no matter where that man may have wound up, he would have been slipping a homeless man something.

#1 Bad Chicken Is No Joke!
Apparently, as I found out the hard way, Poultrygeist transcends all fiction and the Night of the Chicken Dead actually ended up seeping into our real world! After the party, we left those drunken feather covered Tromericans to hop the train back to Philadelphia. And just before we boarded, we stopped at a fast food restaurant in Penn Station, which I won?t mention by name, but will call the real life ?American Chicken Bunker?, to get a meal appropriate enough to end such a night. Only our good intentions to end the night on a chicken feast actually ended in projectile vomit chicken disaster.

Could Kaufman be so headstrong on convincing us of the wonders of Poultrygeist that he sent a group of Trom-operatives to switch our delicious chicken fingers for fried puss-filled poultry? Or, could this unsanitary Penn Station fast food joint actually be built on an ancient burial ground riddled with undead chickens? Or did we piss off the guy at the counter so badly by taking pictures of their rancid meat that he decided to piss in our mashed potatoes? I?m still not sure, but I know that regardless of reason, the chicken dead now rest in the pipes under my apartment complex. And the only way to ensure that people know of the dangers of the chicken dead and Poultrygeist is to add it to that must see summer movie list just as Kaufman would advise!