Best Troma Films Ranked – From Toxic Avenger to Poultrygeist

Top 10 Troma Movies That Prove Cinema Can Be Filthy, Funny, and Freakin' Fantastic

Let’s get one thing out of the way: Troma movies are not for the faint of heart, the easily offended, or anyone who expects their movies to make... you know, sense. But if you’re the kind of geek who likes their cinema with a side of guts, boobs, radioactive chickens, and Shakespeare rewritten with incest—welcome home.

Founded in 1974 by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma Entertainment has been serving up unapologetic, ultra-low-budget madness for over 50 years. So grab your mop, hug your mutant baby, and let’s countdown the most gloriously disgusting masterpieces from the house of Troma.

10. 🧟‍♂️ Redneck Zombies (1987)

What happens when backwoods hillbillies brew moonshine with a barrel of government-grade toxic waste? You get Redneck Zombies, a shot-on-video horror comedy that’s as dumb as it is delightful. It’s grainy, it’s green, it’s gross, and it’s got more overacting than a soap opera on meth.

This is DIY horror at its most ridiculous—there’s no story structure, no pacing, and absolutely no shame. Just pure, undiluted splatter fun.

9. 🎁 Mother's Day (1980)

Forget brunch—this is the mother’s day horror classic no one asked for but Troma gave us anyway. Directed by Charles Kaufman (Lloyd’s brother), this movie follows three women who are abducted by two backwoods creeps under the thumb of their deranged, sadistic mother.

It’s brutal, controversial, and often cited as a prime example of early exploitation horror. Yes, it was remade in 2010 with Rebecca De Mornay—but trust us, the Troma version is way nastier.

8. 💣 Troma's War (1988)

What if Rambo, Gilligan’s Island, and a fever dream had a baby? You’d get Troma’s War—a gory, hyper-patriotic satire that throws logic out the window and replaces it with explosions and one-liners.

The plot: survivors of a plane crash fight terrorists on an island. The reality: blood, boobs, and chaos. It’s also Troma’s most expensive movie to date. That budget? Spent mostly on blood packs and squibs. We approve.

7. 🐔 Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead (2006)

Zombie chickens. Possessed fast-food employees. Musical numbers. Yeah, Poultrygeist is exactly what it sounds like, and then some.

Set in a fried chicken joint built on an ancient Native American burial ground, this movie skewers fast food culture, American consumerism, religious extremism, and political correctness—all while drowning in puke, blood, and mutant poultry.

It might be the most disgusting Troma movie ever made… which is saying a lot.

6. ♻️ Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000)

After a couple of weaker sequels, Toxie came back with a vengeance. Citizen Toxie doubles down on everything—more gore, more politically incorrect humor, more insane plot twists.

Toxie gets trapped in a mirror dimension called Amortville (get it?), while his evil counterpart, the Noxious Offender, terrorizes Tromaville. There’s dimension-hopping, mutant babies, and jokes so tasteless they make South Park look like PBS Kids.

It's the Toxic Avenger sequel fans were waiting for—and it delivers in buckets of slime.

5. ❤️ Tromeo and Juliet (1996)

Written by James Gunn (yes, that James Gunn), this is Shakespeare like you’ve never seen it before. There’s love, tragedy, incest, punk rock, body horror, and a man who turns into a literal cow.

Tromeo and Juliet’s tale of forbidden love gets reimagined in grimy 90s NYC with narration by Lemmy from Motörhead. It’s weird, it’s gross, it’s kind of romantic, and weirdly poignant in between all the exploding genitalia.

4. 🍗 Cannibal! The Musical (1993)

Before South Park and Book of Mormon, Trey Parker and Matt Stone made this blood-soaked, banjo-fueled musical comedy while they were still in college.

Loosely based on the true story of cannibal Alfred Packer, this movie features cheery songs like “Let’s Build a Snowman” right next to scenes of graphic dismemberment. It's sweet, psychotic, and deeply Troma in spirit, even if it came from outside the company.

Troma picked it up, and the rest is flesh-eating history.

3. ☢️ Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

This one’s got everything: a high school next to a nuclear plant, a gang called the Cretins, radioactive weed, mutant pregnancies, and oozing body horror.

Basically, imagine Grease meets Chernobyl, directed by someone on a five-day energy drink bender. It's absurd, chaotic, and loaded with gnarly practical effects. Truly one of Troma’s most iconic creations.

2. 🎬 Terror Firmer (1999)

A blind film director, a killer on the set, exploding prosthetics, and a hermaphrodite PSA from Trey Parker and Matt Stone. This slasher-satire hybrid is basically Troma's Scream, if Scream was directed by a maniac with a vendetta against normality.

It’s meta before meta was cool, and also somehow grosser than any slasher on the market. One of the best examples of how self-aware and absolutely unhinged Troma can be when firing on all cylinders.

1. 🧼 The Toxic Avenger (1984)

The one that started it all. Melvin the mop boy, transformed into a muscle-bound, mutated vigilante after falling into toxic waste, is Troma’s crown jewel.

The Toxic Avenger has it all—gore, comedy, a hero you actually root for, and villains so over-the-top they make Cobra Kai look like choir boys. It’s the perfect blend of camp and chaos. It also spawned three sequels, a cartoon show, a musical, and now a 2023 reboot starring Peter Dinklage.

No movie better captures the true heart of Troma: ugly, angry, weird... and kind of beautiful.

Troma Is a Genre of Its Own

Love them or hate them, Troma movies do not care what you think. They're here to gross you out, make you laugh, and flip the middle finger at Hollywood polish.

Whether you're into mutant superheroes, radioactive teenagers, or cannibal cowboys, there's a Troma film out there that will scar you—in the best way possible.

Stay grotesque and glorious with more cult cinema madness at Land of Geek Magazine!

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