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Title: Tales From the Crapper (2004) Starring: Julie Strain Director: Not available Rating: NR (Not Rated) Runtime: 90 minutes Avg. Score: 4 Submit Comment Hits: 29

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• Posted on 2006-07-10
  The DVD shows this is much more than a film!
  
  Tales from the Crapper is a film that only one studio in the world could deliver. The one that has brought us innovative and original REAL independent films for 30 plus years now: Troma. This is truly a very special film because it manages to be certainly not my favorite of the Troma-productions, but released on a disc that because of what I just said is one of my most valued and favorite DVD's. Not only counting the countless Troma discs I own, but counting my entire collection of films. The film itself is the result of an ill fated plan to produce a television series to be directed by a director who was trusted with a substantial amount of money (especially for Troma) to make something wonderful and delivered a lot of unfinished and incomphrehensible material before quitting (or being fired, I am not sure which at this moment). In order to prevent having to shove a vast investment down the toilet Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz decided to get together a team of directors and actors and use the material as the backbone of one movie. One movie that really consists of two, in the nice old Tales From The Crypt anthology fashion, hosted by the Crapkeeper played by Mr Kaufman himself. But, as I said, not quite my own favorite of all their movies. That is greatly due to a weird sense of discipline at the various sets, forgetting about the hard Troma rule of "no booze on the set" which was discovered by a furious Lloyd and other less respectable emplyees that Troma had at the time of the filming of the added scenes. All this made it all but impossible for Mr Kaufman to make a worthwile product in the editing room.
  But Lloyd Kaufman is a genius, and with the troubled added scenes to an already misshapen startproduct he crafted not much less of a masterpiece. The film itself is as good as circumstances would allow the most brilliant
  filmmaker to slice together and it is certainly highly entertaining, totally confusing, loaded with those elements that made Troma great and certainly unique and one of a kind. As a film itslef, though, not as brilliant as many other Troma productions. The genius of Independent Cinema however made the DVD of this film so much more than a release of a film with some extra's. The film is, when push comes to shove, actually only a part of the entire dvd that in its whole is a document of the difficult situation serious filmmakers find themselves in having to survive in a world that is monopolized by the few Very Big Ones who don't really allow any other players on their market turf. A document of the problems one has when trusting people to be on the level, only to find out that freedom sometimes is something that is hard to live up to and realisation that access to a Movie Budget when the Boss is not around can corrupt even those who should really know better.
  The brilliance of this DVD is that the film is not perfect, and that Lloyd KNOWS it, and doesn't want to make anyone think he believes it is. The full-length commentary is a show in itself (as is often the case with Mr. Kaufan's audio commentaries), mixing humor, sneers at those who deserve it and highly interesting information for anyone interested in Independent Filmmaking in such a fashion that watching the film again with this commentary straight after viewing it on its own merits is so interesting it is hard to stop. The feature-length documentary THE THICK BROWN LINE takes us behind the scenes at the various locations where Lloyd visits the sets only to sometimes take over and make the most of what he finds there. We see him somewhat desillusioned sometimes, different from his appearances in other Making Of Documents such as Fart of Darkness and Apocalypse Soon, both to be found in the must-own MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE box set.
  
  The added scenes with James Gunn (who started his carreer at Troma only to find success as a writer an now a director in Hollywood) and Trey Parker (again someone to start out with a Troma-released work, to later be a national hero with his South Park series) are entertaining and probably (as is much else on this release) a reason for obtaining this disc alone for anyone remotely interested in the work of these two characters.
  Loaded with much more than I could mention here (including a SECOND audio-coommentary) this is one of the best Troma-dvd-releases.
  
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2006-03-31
  One of Lloyd Kauffman's masterpieces
  
  I can't understand why "Tales from the Crapper" only has a collective three star rating. This masterpiece cinema born from the ingenius mind of the master of comedy/horror Lloyd Kauffman is absolutely brilliant in every way and form. Starring the beautiful and perfect Julie Strain (who predictably bares her breasts in nearly every scene that she is in), tons of lesbian sex, full frontal nudity, violence and gore, and a "Crapkeeper" costume that should have won an Grammy award for its ingenuity and sophistication. Plus, there is the novel idea of "boner vision" to gain the attention of the disinterested viewer. Even if you only watch this film for the commentary scenes by Oliver Stone you will not regret it. Also, there are surprise appearances by Ron Jeremy and Trey Parker.
  Check this one out!
  
  Score: 5
• Posted on 2006-02-22
  a lesson harshly learned
  
  cannibal the musical-great
  toxic avenger-great
  tromeo and juliet-good
  terror firmer-alright
  
  everything else troma has ever released-worthless
  
  kaufman is a man who knows that if there's a overweight, borderline retarded redneck out there who thinks some movies are just "too smart" then they'll be more than willing to dish out $20+ to see some boobies and blood.
  
  this film just adds to the fact that kaufman just wants $, and he'll released anything, and i mean ANYTHING to get his hands on it.
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2005-05-22
  This movie is from the crapper
  
  Crap is right, This truly awful Troma film is a waste of time and it even isn't a Troma film. Two tales feature a woman battling a alien and a party gone bad. Even the special effects are cheap and instead we get bad acting and sloppy stroylines and not to mention crappy editing. Please do yourself a favor and watch the Toxic Avenger or Citizen Toxie and forget this crappy movie. This movie deserves to be flushed down the toilet. This movie is only one thing:crap.
  Score: 1
• Posted on 2004-11-11
  'Tales' Very Troma-tic
  
  Maybe I am getting too old, maybe more mature, either way I didn't enjoy this movie like "Tromeo and Juliet," "Toxic Avenger Series," and my personal fave, "Killer Condom." Pretty much in the same vein as "Terror Firmer," it follows 2 stories that is loaded with sickness, grossness, lesbian vampires, and cannibal hos. Also features "Boner-Vison" which features boobie shots galore. Too much self parody and not enough of what made Troma great. Julie Strain is well, Julie Strain. 'Nuff said there. If your looking for silliness and lesbian sex, this is for you.
  Score: 3