#Return To Nuke Em High Vol 2

[filmesdoano]

Melhores e Piores 2023

Melhores:

Tetris Sisu John Wick Chapter 4 The Roundup The Covenant The Equalizer 3 Project Wolf Hunting Moonage Daydream The Pez Outlaw Extraction II Nefarious Sound Of Freedom The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) Raw Force (1982)

Piores:

Scream VI Renfield Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Vol. 2

[astaparedes]

Big thanks to Forbidden Planet NYC for hosting the Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Vol 2 Bluray release party last night! It was so fun to put in face time with fans old & new. Happy to see the Blu-rays go to good homes. 🎞💚📀 Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High AKA Volume 2 .

[tenaflyviper]

A few picks from my queue, all currently free to watch on Tubi TV.

Horror:

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Un Chien Andalou (1929)

Carnival of Souls (1962)

Blood and Black Lace (1964)

The Wizard of Gore (1970)

The Hills Have Eyes (1977)

Rabid (1977)

Suspiria (1977)

City of the Living Dead (1980)

Next of Kin (1982)

Sleepaway Camp (1983)

The Toxic Avenger (1984)

House (1985)

The Return of the Living Dead (1985)

The Stuff (1985)

Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

Hellraiser (1987)

Meet the Feebles (1989)

The Dead Next Door (1990)

Santa Sangre (1990)

Bride of Re-Animator (1991)

Troll 2 (1991)

Ozone (1994)

Bloody Muscle Body Builder in Hell (1995)

El Día de la bestia (1995)

Audition (1999)

Battle Royale (2000)

The Convent (2000)

Ginger Snaps (2000)

May (2001)

Undead (2003)

Train to Busan (2016)

Antrum: The Deadliest Film Ever Made (2020)

Comedy:

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes (1977)

The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)

Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)

SGT. Kabukiman N.Y.P.D. (1990)

The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1993)

Series:

Freddy's Nightmares (1988)

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (1993)

The Kids in the Hall

Musicals:

Forbidden Zone (1980)

The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)

Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008)

Animated:

The Last Unicorn (1982)

Project A-ko (1986)

When the Wind Blows (1987)

Other:

Robo Vampire (1988)

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)

Manborg (2013)

Documentaries:

Film House Fever (1985)

Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)

Linnea Quigley's Horror Workout (1990)

Reflections on the Living Dead (1993)

Zombie Jamboree '93 (1993)

Flesh & Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror (1994)

Ban the Sadist Videos! (2005)

Horror Effects: Hosted by Tom Savini (2008)

Not Quite Hollywood (2008)

The Wild World of Ted V. Mikels (2008)

Monsterland (2009)

Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue (2009)

American Grindhouse (2010)

Celluloid Bloodbath (2012)

Eurocrime! (2012)

Inside Horror (2012)

Trailer War (2012)

Vampira and Me (2012)

Adjust Your Tracking (2013)

Birth of the Living Dead (2013)

Horrible Horror (2013)

I Am Divine (2013)

Monster Madness: The Golden Age of Horror (2014)

42nd Street Memories (2015)

Kings of Cult (2015)

Monsters Among Us (2015)

Blood on the Reel (2016)

Ghostheads (2016)

VHS Massacre (2016)

Greetings from Tromaville (2017)

King Cohen (2018)

Popcorn Fodder (2019)

Survival of the Film Freaks (2019)

VHS Nasty (2019)

Direct to Video: Straight to Video Horror of the 90's (2020)

Fulci for Fake (2020)

Hail to the Deadites (2020)

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Vol 1 - Midnight Madness (2020)

Time Warp: The Greatest Cult Films of All Time Vol 2 - Horror & Sci-Fi (2020)

Hollywood in the Atomic Age (2021)

Oh! The Horror! (2021)

100 Years of Horror

[movieweb]

Troma Will Premiere Return to Nuke Em' High 2 at Cannes

Troma Entertainment president Lloyd Kaufman is ready to show off his sequel Return To Nuke Em' High 2, which has been 7 years in the making.

http://movieweb.com/return-to-nuke-em-high-2-cannes-premiere/

[nightmarelist]

Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Vol. 2 (2017, Lloyd Kaufman)

[disck]

Return to Return to Nuke Em High aka Vol 2 out now on blu ray from @tromateam ! I get my nose ripped off, did some of the visual effects in it (including tracking Lloyd Kaufman’s head onto Warrens body from the original film) and in some scenes I play a duck monster! https://www.instagram.com/p/B4kGE-8FrB6/?igshid=1fu59l4grmv24

[umseen]

Troma Film Fest @ Superchief NYC

Troma Film Fest @ Superchief NYC

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Superchief Gallery NYC is bringing back some of Troma Entertainment‘s classics for TROMA FILM FEST, featuring Return to Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol. 2, The Toxic Avenger, and Tromeo and Juliet.

Troma Entertainment is an American independent film company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herzin 1974. The company has produced low-budget, independent horror films, which feature elements…

[horrorsociety]

Tromalum Trent Haaga & Tiffany Shepis Join Q&A Panel for LA Opening of Lloyd Kaufman's "Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2" Read More Here: https://www.horrorsociety.com/2018/02/07/tromalum-trent-haaga-tiffany-shepis-join-qa-panel-la-opening-lloyd-kaufmans-return-return-nuke-em-high-aka-vol-2/

[hyaenagallery]

We're at the premiere for @tromateam's Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High AKA Vol. 2. We've brought a portable art exhibit, @lloydkaufman is here, and they've got popcorn. Come join us!

[lloydkaufman]

Thanks LA Troma fans for a great @return2nukeemv2 Premiere! http://filmthreat.com/reviews/return-to-return-to-nuke-em-high-aka-vol-2/ @tromateam @laemmle TONIGHT 9pm @laemmlenoho7 after party @clubcobra

[dougsakmann]

#nyczombiecrawl & the @tromateam are invading Queens with the @belairediner & #drivein in all October for #Tromaween ! Starting with 2 double features on Oct 9-10 including an all new sneak peak at #kabukimanreturns a #zombie carnival midway - Down The Street from the Troma Building!!!! 31-91 21st St, Queens, NY 11106 Tix and event details: https://www.belairediner.nyc/store/events/ Fri, Oct 9th - Troma Classics - 8pm The Toxic Avenger, 10pm Sgt Kabukiman NYPD Sat, Oct 10th - 8pm Terror Firmer, 10pm Return to Nuke Em High Vol. 1 Midnight Return to Nuke Em High Vol 2 Thursday, Oct 15th - 8p Mother's Day, 10p Father's Day Thursday, Oct 22 - 8p Cannibal the Musical, 10p Def by Temptation Thursday Oct 29th - 8p Slashening: The Final Beginning, 10p Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead Friday Oct 30th - 8p Tromeo & Juliet, 10p Secret MOVIE!!!!! (at Bel Aire Diner) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFsDu5JFfN3/?igshid=8zcrkrfm53ce

[videoreligion]

The Nuke ‘Em High Saga

Class of Nuke 'Em High (1986)

Class of Nuke ‘Em High Part II: Subhumanoid Meltdown (1991)

Class of Nuke ‘Em High 3: The Good, the Bad and the Subhumanoid (1994)

Return to Nuke 'Em High Volume 1 (2013)

Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High Aka Vol. 2 (2017)

[astaparedes]

NY Theatrical Premiere of RETURN TO RETURN TO NUKE EM HIGH aka Vol 2

[aaronmblevin]

100 Awesome Folkways LPs

Back in 2005 I had just dropped out of graduate school and returned to Edmonton, Alberta. I was waiting for the semester to start so I could begin my journey as a mathematician. I'm indebted to my friend Christopher Bateman (co-author of In Fine Style) who told me that there was a collection of Folkways Records at the University of Alberta. An entire collection?! Wow! The only other complete collection was at the Smithsonian Museum! And I had nothing to do all day (except for my string of terrible minnimum wage jobs)!

I started visiting folkwaysAlive!, the small Folkways centre (photos below), regularly and digging through their collection. Most of the knowledge about Folkways at the time was centred on their incredible collection of ethnographic recordings. However, as I began looking through the catalog I was finding all kinds of weird and amusing records. There was one titled Speach After the Removal of the Larynx and another called Sounds of the Junkyard. Even more, there were famous composers of electronic music who had published LPs on folkways. What were those doing there? It turns out that Folkways founder Moses Asch was determined to capture all "sound" and that in the pure pursuit of this philosophy several LPs of collateral damage would delight the catalog.

Some years later I had a radio show on CJSR where I played music entirely from the Folkways collection (the show was appropriately titled The Sounds of Folkways). At the same time I was trying to capitalize on my newfound knowledge and tried to pitch a book and/or column to various people titled 100 Weird and Wonderful LPs on Folkways. I wasn't successful, but in the process I had made a "list of weird Folkways LPs" and that's what I'd like to share today.

Here is my list. It's not complete. It's not a list of "the best folkways LPs." It's just a list of Folkways records I happen to like and think weird or cool. Thus, there are large omissions in categories like Blues and Ethnomusicology, which contain many of the most incredible Folkways records.

You can find music clips for most of these LPs on YouTube. This list is a decade old, so there's probably some errata and some of the catalog numbers aren't likely correct.

I hope you enjoy.

PS - I still need a copy of Speach After the Removal of the Layrnx!

PPS - I'm forward thankful to Lorna Arndt who so graciously let me hang out in the folkwaysAlive! office!

Avant-Garde / Electronic

FW 34006 – Music of Ann McMillan - Whale-Wail, In Peace, En Paix

FW 33451 – Gateway Summer Sound – Abstracted Animal & Other Sounds Composed by Ann McMillan

FW 33855 – Reelizations – Composed and Preformed by Barton Smith

FW 33856 – Reelizations Vol. 2 – Composed and Preformed by Barton Smith

FW 37464 – Dariush Dolat-Shahi – Electronic Music Tar and Setar

FW 37467 – Dariush Dolat-Shahi – Ostashagah

FW 03434 – Eight Electronic Pieces – Todd Dockstader

FTQ 33951 - Ilhan Mimaroglu - To Kill a Sunrise and La Ruche

FW 31313 – Gamelan in the New World Vol.1

FW 31312 – Gamelan in the New World Vol. 2

FSS 33878 - Israeli Electroacoustic Music

FS 003861 – Radio Programme No. 1 Audio Collage / Henry Jacob’s Music & FolkloreFT 03704? – Indeterminacy (John Cage Reading and David Tudor Music)

FW 47902 – Invocations – Richard Kostelanetz

FX 06250 - Science Fiction Sound Effects Record

FW 06160 – Sounds of New Music

FW 06241 – Travelon Gamelon – Music for Bicycles – Richard Lerman

FW 33440 – Outer Space Music by Vaclav Nelhybel

FW 33436 – Electronic Music

FW 06253 – Futuribile the Life to Come – Gianni safred and his Electronic Instruments

FM 03349 – The Piano Music of Henry Cowell

FW 03438 – Electronic Music From Razor Blades to Moog – Produced & Composed by J.D. Robb

FW 33435 – J.D. Robb - Rhythmania & Other Electronic Compositions

FW 33439 – Music by Jean ivey for Voices, Instruments, and Tape

FW 33445 – Jon Appleton – Music for Synclavier and other Digital Systems

FW 33437 – The World Music Theatre of

FW 33442 – The Dartmouth Digital Synthesizer

FW 37461 – Jon Appleton – Four Fantasies for Synclavier

FW 33450 – McLean: Electro-Symphonic Landscapes

FW 36050 – Electronic Music from the Outside In

FW 37465 – Computer Music from the Outside In

FW 37475 – Computer Music

FSS 6301 – Highlights of Vortex

FW 33431 – Extended Piano (Elliot Schwartz)

FW 33901 – New American Music Vol. 1

FW 33902 – New American Music Vol. 2

FW 33903 – New American Music Vol. 3

FW 33904 – New American Music Vol. 4

FW 33441 – Tract: A Composition of Agitprop Music for Electromagnetic Tape by Ilhan Mimaroglu

Ethnographic

FW 31306 – The Nuru Taa African Musical Idiom: Played on the Mama-Likembi (Nadi Qamar)

FW 08975 - Mushroom Ceremoney of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico

FW 08512 – Music of Upper-Egypt

FW 04457 – The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest

FE 4377 - Modern Maya: The Indian Music of Chiapas, Mexico

FE 4379 - Modern Maya: The Indian Music of CHiapas, Mexico - Vol. 2

FC 7755 - Bilal Abdurahman – Echoes Of Timbuktu And Beyond

Folk

FG 3526 - Elizabeth Cotton - Folksongs And Instrumentals With Guitar

FTS 31003 - Elizabeth Cotton - Vol. 2: Shake Sugaree

FW 03537 - Elizabeth Cotton - Vol. 3: When I'm Gone

FW 07535 – Innovative Rythmic and Tonal Textures for developing Creative Motor Skill Activities (Bilal Abdurahman)

FW 07540 – Sound Rhythm Rhyme and Mime for Children (Bilal Abdurahman)

FW 03581 - Mike Hurley – First Songs

FW 07520 – Ghetto Reality (Nancy Dupree)

FW 32850 – Niss Puk Band – No More Nukes

FW 32852 – Roger Matura – The Outrage Grows

FW 32851 – Roger Matura – Times are Gonna Get Harder

BR 304 - The Village Fugs - Sing Ballads Of Contemporary Protest, Point Of Views, And General Dissatisfaction

PAR 01020 – A Grain of Sand: Music for the Struggle by Asians in America

FTS 31066 - Lucinda Williams - Ramblin' on My Mind

FTS 31067 - Lucinda Williams - Happy Woman Blues

FA 2951 - Anthology of American Folk Music Volume One: Ballads (Harry Smith)

FA 2951 - Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Two: Social Music (Harry Smith)

FA 2951 - Anthology of American Folk Music Volume Three: Songs (Harry Smith)

Jazz

FW 33867 – East New York Ensemble de Music at the Helm

FW 33866 – Entourage

FW 33870 – The Neptune Collection – The Entourage Music & Theatre Ensemble

FW 05403 – From the Cold Jaws of Prison

FW 09718 – Kenneth Patchen reads with Jazz in Canada

FW 02966 – Mary Lou Williams – The Asch Recordings 1944-1947

FW 02843 – Mary Lou Williams – Black Christ of the Andes

FSS 37462 - Bertram Turetzky - A Different View

New Age

FW 06195 – Clouds: New Music for Relaxation Vol. 1 (Craig Kupka)

FW 06916 – Crystals: New Music for Relxation Vol. 2 (Craig Kupka)

FW 37463 – Charles Compo – Seven Flute Solos

Soul / Funk / R&B

FW 32863 – Into Morning – Charles Cha-Cha Shaw

FW 32870 – Kingdom Come – Cha Cha Shaw

FW 31037 – Climbing High Mountains – Juanita Johnson & The Gospel Tones

FW 33868 – The Montgomery Movement featuring The Montgomery Express

FW 09723 – Underground Streets – Words and Original Music by Normal Riley

FW 09710 – Boss Soul – 12 Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio set to Drum Talk, Rhythms & Images

FW 09715 – Together to the tune of Coltranes “Equinox” (Sarah Webster Fabio)

FW 09714 – Jujus Alchemy of the Blues – Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio Read by Sarah Webster Fabio with Musical Background

Spoken Word

FC 7471 - Rev. Howard Finster - Man of Many Voices

FW 06134 – Speech After the Removal of the Larynx

FW 05401 – Angela Davis Speaks

FW 09871 – Dante: The Inferno

FW 06102 – Interview with Sir Edmun Hillary – Mountain Climbing

FW 09711 – Soul Ain’t Soul Is – Poems by Sarah Webster Fabio

FW 05404 – The End of the World

FW 09701 – The Psychedelic Experience (Timothy Leary)

FW 055338 – What If I am a Women? Black Women’s Speeches Narrate by Ruby Dee

Strange

FW 06118 – Playing Music With Animals – The Interspecies Communication of Jim Nollman with 300 Turkeys, 12 Wolves and 20 Orca Whales

FW 06143 – The Sounds of the Junk Yard

SFW 45060 – Sounds of North American Frogs

FW 06142 – Sounds of the Office

FW 06121 – Sounds of the Sea Vol. 1

FW 06122 – Sounds of the Sea Vol. 2

FW 05589 – Street and Gangland Rhythms

FW 05580 – A Dog’s Life (Tony Schwartz)

FW 05562 – The World in My Mailbox (Tony Schwartz)

FW 05581 – Music in the Streets (Tony Schwartz)

FW 06200 – Voices of Satellites

FW 06123 – Vox Humana

[totalconway]

The Right Kinda Fat Shit

A bit of water went under the bridge between acting in ‘The Unsung Docker’ and my next acting job. In that time I got to open for some big name comedians including Steve-O from Jackass, Doug Stanhope, and Donell Rawlings from Chapelle show.

In that same time I was awarded the ‘Fuck off to Melbourne Award’ at the annual Doustie Awards (The Perth Comedy Scene Awards) but I had already set my sights on a move to Sydney to pursue my comedy dream a little less then 2 years into starting stand up.

So after I packed my things and left my job I headed for the big city lights of Sydney. I had only been to Sydney a handful of times prior to moving there, once to see Danny Green vs Anthony Mundine, the second was to see Jay and Silent Bob Live after their Perth show sold out and the third time was to perform at the Sydney Comedy Store to perform at their Christmas show. It was a huge honour for me so early in my comedy career to be invited to perform at the Sydney Comedy Store as it is arguably the best comedy club in Australia. It felt like I was being presented with a black belt for an art form I was still wrapping my head around. My decision to move to Sydney was made easier by the fact that one of my best mates was heading over as well and we agreed to rent together in the inner west suburb of Petersham.

After working for 10 years on the Docks, manual labor jobs was something I was trying to avoid at all costs so I applied for some weird jobs. Some jobs I didn’t even realise were a thing including a job making sales commission on selling Paralympic Pins. After sitting in the interview and listening to the lady explain in a thousand different ways but never actually saying “You will sell Pins for a commission” I politely declined and hauled my unemployed ass back to Petersham.

After the success of ‘The Unsung Docker’ I was keen to dip my toe in the acting pool again, if only to fill in my days of unemployment creatively. I went searching through the website ‘StarNow’, which is essentially the Craiglists of media work and applied for numerous gigs. Along with the short films and University projects I applied for I also applied to be represented by an acting agent so they could make the job search easier for me. After a few days I received a call about my application and they were super keen to have me on their books which was weird because the only film credit I had was ‘The Unsung Docker’. I’ve always been skeptical of people who are too excited to offer me something because 99.9% of the time its something you don’t want.

I reluctantly agreed to sign with them, I figured if this was a scam they wouldn’t be able to get any money out of me because I’m fucking broke but sure enough a week later true to their word they sent me out for my first audition. The gig was paying $2000 for a days work playing a delivery man for a Tatts Lotto commercial. Being $2000 for a days work I wasn’t exactly confident because I felt you needed to have some serious acting chops to make $2000 a day. In my mind that’s like ‘Home and Away’ money. But sure enough, I went to the audition and for the first of many times in my acting career I was the right kinda fat shit.

I don’t remember much of the commercial, it never made it to air. All I remember was pushing an empty refrigerator box and pretending it was full. My experience in manual labour had given me the skills to be able to look like I work harder than I do so I was able to nail the performance. The only other thing I remember from the shoot was that the little girl in the scene was a spoilt little rich kid and was as annoying as fuck for the whole day. She kinda reminded me of Veruca from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory only she didn’t die chasing golden duck eggs.

When the shoot was done I had to wait a few weeks to get paid and after union fees and my agents cut I ended up only making about $1100 which is less Home and Away money and more regular Delivery Man money.

In between acting jobs I was still hitting up ‘StarNow’ to find independent projects to cut my teeth on. Only two stood out, one was playing a a security guard ( I think my character died in it but I don’t remember) the other was me in a suit watching a chick dance in front of me with a red light filling the room. The scene felt like a cross between a David Lynch film and a soft core porno. I have yet to see either of these films but I’m sure I nailed the fat guy character they were looking for.

During this time, I finally buckled on avoiding manual labour work and got a job at the Airport working for REX Airline which is a small regional airline. One of the most brain numbing jobs I ever experienced, so much so I started regretting not taking that sweet sweet Paralympic Pin money. The REX job was to purely help me pay the bills and it barely did that. My excitement for living in the big city lights of Sydney was starting to dimmer.

During one particular shift I got a call from my agent saying that I had been offered another gig. I didn’t even have to audition I just had to meet the director and see if we “vibed”. I asked my agent why I didn’t have to audition for this film and she blew so much smoke up my ass I felt like I was sitting on top of a volcano. She said “I was the best actor on their books”, “how incredibly talented I was”, and “how I have a big future in acting”. Pretty much saying I was the next Heath Ledger and for a millisecond I actually believed it until I read the character description “Fat, Balding, pale, poor skin etc etc”. The gig was for an anti obesity health campaign and I was like, Fuck that! two seconds ago you were describing me as the next Heath Ledger and now you want me to do a role that is me just being a fatty fat boombardy FUCK THAT. Then she said it was paying $5000 so I agreed to do it. 

We didn’t really need an excuse to party in Petersham so being offered $5000 for an acting job is as good as any. We also had friends over from Perth and what better way to celebrate my thriving acting career than getting drunk with the Perth crew. Partying was not the best decision because I ended sleeping in and had to race to the meet and greet with the director stinking of piss (alcohol and my own) looking super haggard and feeling paranoid I may have flushed $5000 down the toilet. I managed to get to the meeting in time by spending my last few bucks on an Uber, walked into the meeting looking disgusting and smelling like an alley way. I walked in to meet the Director gingerly and feeling a bit embarrassed about the state I was in. Too my surprise though, my night on the piss had helped me become the living embodiment of their ‘Fat piece of shit character’ they wanted for the commercial. So I left the meeting on a high but with no more money, I ended up spending the next 3 hours getting home for round 2 of Partying Perth style.

It actually paid about $10,000 because every year it aired I would get paid another $5000 in roll over cost.

The shoot ended up being 3 days and it was pretty chilled, I literally had one scene with no dialogue. I pretty much just had to sit there and be fat and sad which was surprisingly hard considering the guy directing the commercial was mostly known for working on comedies so we had a lot of banter in those 3 days. The third day of the shoot was my time to shine, I had to sit there and be told how my fat is killing me etc etc. It was the most important shot of the commercial because this is where they drive home the point that Fat is Bad.

There was some tension on this day because the big honchos of NSW Health who were paying for the commercial wanted to sit in and watch and make sure the scene was delivering their Fat is Bad message. So my first thought was what better way to show off my comedy skills in front of the director than to crack a joke during this pivotal scene. When the Doctor said to me “All that toxic fat can lead to blah blah... its not looking good” I turned to my wife in the scene and said in the saddest voice I could “I better lay off the meat pies then”, This popped the tension in the room and got the whole crew laughing. Its not the best joke but it was good enough to send the crew into a giggle fit after a hard couple of days. Everyone was laughing except the producer who came marching down yelling and screaming about having a bit of respect for NSW Health who were there and are taking this very seriously (Fuck off cunt). NSW Health have been paying to fat shame me for 3 fucking days, they can go fuck themselves if they can’t handle one Meat Pie joke. Getting told off made the crew laugh even harder. They struggled like school children being told off at an assembly but once everyone got their composure back we shot the scene and it was a wrap. 

After the fat commercial I felt I was done with acting. Don’t get me wrong acting is a lot of fun but it kinda loses its magic when you’re whole role is sitting their looking fat. 

One of the ways I tried reigniting the spark to do acting was when I came across a ‘Kickstarter’ campaign for Troma’s new film Return to Nuke em High Vol 2. Troma was a big part of my childhood with the toy line Toxic Crusaders which was inspired by the animated series and not the incredibly gory live action movies. With ‘Kickstarter’ campaigns they have rewards depending on the amount of money you donate and for $3500 you could have the legendary Lloyd Kauffman direct a 5 minute short film that I would write. I jumped at the opportunity to buy this reward not only would I be following in the same steps as actors like Kevin Costner, Samuel L Jackson, James Gunn who got their start doing Troma films, but it was a great excuse to head over to New York. 

I purchased this reward which was $3500USD, it was not only all the money I made working on the fat commercial but it was also all of my pay from REX Airline for that fortnight after.( I didn’t take into consideration the exchange rate). I made my investment in 2015 and I finally received the DVD copy and posters at the end of 2019. It was a slow process but definitely looking forward to heading over once this COVID-19 shit is over and done with. I don’t think I’ll use the original script I wrote in 2015 called Love/Life about a guy who develops a relationship with the girl who catfished him, she also happens to be a Banshee.

A few months later I got sent for another audition this time it was a paid short film called The Spa. What was the role? Well Fat delivery man of course! but this one was different, it was an amazing script and I actually had dialogue which is always great. 

I ended up scoring the role of Moose and part of the job requirement was having to do table reads with the other cast members. Still being naive I thought this was a bit of over kill for a short film but if I’m getting paid and it gets me out of a days work so I’m happy to do all the table reads you want. I’m glad they did the table reads because when I went in for the rehearsal I was star struck by the cast. 

After the Fat Commercial I had bitch and moaned to the universe to give me a role that would show I could hold my own against the best of the best and not just a guy whose there for being the right kinda fat. In return the universe slapped me into check when I walked in for the first table read and saw the cast that included Chris Haywood, Jay Laga'aia who have pretty much starred in every great piece of Australian cinema and  Peter Moalaeua who I had seen on a bunch of TV commercials. They say be careful what you wish for and I was definitely worried I had bitten off more than I could chew. It was a dream come true to work with the likes of these actors and also a huge motivator to make sure I could hold my own against these acting beast.

The shoot for The Spa was absolutely amazing, working with some of the most talented actors and crew in the country. Watching Chris Haywood and Jay Laga’aia on set was one of the greatest experiences. Observing them walk around just nailing every take and then joking and laughing with the rest of the crew and doing so with absolutely zero ego.

This reminds me, after the shoot Jay Laga’aia drove me as close as he could to my flat in Petersham and then gave me his $50 Taxi gift voucher to help me get the rest of the way home. It was a crazy experience driving home with Jay because we’re talking about comedy and what not and I’m sitting there like Jay Laga’aia is giving me a lift home, this dude was in fucking Star Wars.  

Working on The Spa was an amazing experience and it is incredibly humbling to sit back and watch the success it has had. Being showcased at film festivals all around the world and picking up numerous awards. 

Acting is a weird industry. I’ve loved all the opportunities I’ve gotten, even the shit ones because sometimes you have to work through the Fat Shit Roles to get the skills to be the Fat Shit you’ve always dreamed of. The right kinda fat shit.

[remyverse]

We are excited to welcome Shawn C Phillips to the Crave: Roots of Evil Cast. He's been in such films as Krampus: The Devil Returns & Return to Return to Nuke 'Em High aka Vol. 2. #CraveRootsofevil #ShawnCPhillips #AdventuringWithRemy #HorrorFilm #NextLevel #killingit #BigNews #BigAnnouncement #troma #tromaville #tromafilms #krampus https://www.instagram.com/p/B0jo9LJHOs3/?igshid=17553r98x3id7