The King of Shrock Horror in the Microbudget has a surprisingly classy bargain.
Lloyd Kaufman has seen a plain-decorated Upper East Side townhouse for the past 33 years, in stark contrast to the Gross Out exploitation film that defends his career. I call him his home.
The 76-year-old is best known for producing and distributing over 1,000 sex and gore-rich films at PocketChange through his film company Troma Entertainment. .. But at the end of his work, he returns to a townhouse in Yorkville. He and his wife, Pat, raised three grown-up daughters.
The four-story brownstone is filled with antique wooden furniture, emphasizing 19th-century woodwork. With works of art earned on a couple's trip — a wealth of bargains for the sovereign saints of comedic limb loss and harmful waste.
Kaufman qualifies as director of the 1984 cult classic The Toxic Avenger (one of Marisa Tomei's first acting credits), Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 1993 comedy Cannibal. Includes distribution. He set the record for "musicals" and most of the squibs used so far in one movie (The Toxic Avenger Plum in 1988).
I can't explain to many, but Troma's excessive violence, political inaccuracies, huge breasts, and slapstick comedy superhero brands have proven to be permanent. Today, the company claims to be the world's longest, continuously operating independent film company.
"Fans are our secret source," Kaufman told the post, and despite his many years of bad publicity, this is the first time he has shown his home in the press. Said. "They are very active."
The interior is foreign pottery, Full of family photos, classy wallpapers, but signs of his hysterical professional identity are everywhere. Toxic Avenger's paintings, portraits, props, stickers (left), jersey-born Janita transformed by sissy, mop-wielding strongman, the main character of "Toxic Avenger" can never be seen in the distance. ..
"He has so much fan art that he needs to circulate it," said Kaufman's 48-year-old wife and longtime chief of the Government-General of Korea for Film and Television Development. One putt says. "He must be very selective."
In the backyard, rusty Toxie contours are wall-mounted and bricked from the deck. Overlooking the paved garden. Lloyd wrote the script for the sequel "Citizen". Toxie. On the ground floor, someone put a silicone toxie head decorated with an "I'heart' TROMAVILLE" bumper sticker on top of the New Elpost. And most strangely, for novice pedestrians, a Toxie gargoyle-like head sculpture is set on a brownstone leaning forward.
"When Uncle Loidi called me about it, he explained that it would be on the door of his house forever," said the creator and former Troma make-up artist. Kaufman Josturi rang about getting a figure head made.
"And of course it had to be Toxi. Toxi is Lloyd's Mickey Mouse." ("Who do you think that character is Lloyd?" Pat once told Ringer. "Lloyd was a 90-pound vulnerable person. Lloyd is like a superhero fighting for the rights of small people."
Like many, prolific Neither Kaufman nor Turi, who believe they helped the director step into the Hollywood door, couldn't remember when Toxie was thrown into the brownstone and didn't have an invoice, so they don't know how to check. Hmm, but their best guess is that it was added to the facade 10 years ago.
"This Was like paying him back for helping me when I was young. I don't think I charged him, "Turi said of his gift. I've known the man for years. You love him or haven't caught him. Lloyd has great implications for many of us here. "
Toxie's head has pulled out many doorbell rings over the last decade, one whether it's Charles Lawton and another whether it's Hillary Clinton. And the priest once crossed the street to ask.
"I told him it was a devilish cult, but don't worry, we are for world peace and climate control. "I'm alive," Kaufman laughed and admitted that he then revealed what he really was.
The doorbell rings infrequently, About twice a week, he says, he can be recognized by someone who thinks he's Mel Brooks. This is perfect for him. "We are private," Pat said.
Inside, like the elephant mandible and West African mask that Lloyd got while volunteering in Chad and brought back to the United States with State Department approval, this secular Traditional decorations include both works of art and more quirky trinkets. A pair of framed Mora textiles from Panama and a custom horse trophy with a couple's face, presented by the President of Mongolia. Toxi's action figures can be seen riding Lloyd's horses, or they can disappear in other pastures in the house.
The art from travel is mainly The chosen Pat also praises the fact that he put the house "together." Most of the family relics are from Lloyd.
"Almost everything comes straight out of his mother's house," said Pat, gesturing on a Civil War dresser. Lloyd's parents' former home is just a few blocks away. Except for traveling and studying at Yale University, the splatter movie Savant has spent most of his life on the Upper East Side.
The second floor is a grandchild's playroom and an old daughter's room, full of unclaimed childhood accessories, Zabar's bags, and Troma's chocks.
"Your Old Curious Shop" Lloyd's sister nicknamed their home, so full of curious souvenirs and weird things.
In addition to the myriad trailers, interviews, and short clips shot by Lloyd for social media, two films have been shot in this space for years.
Downstairs is the rental unit where Tromafan currently lives.
Before moving home in 1987, when Pat was pregnant with his third daughter, they lived on Lexington Avenue, a one-bedroom apartment that paid $ 350 a month.
Kaufman still took the Q train to Troma's studio in Long Island City, where the company moved from Hell's Kitchen about 14 years ago.
Recently, the studio produced "Shakespeare's Storm".
Kaufman says the 2020 flick will "probably" be his last.
"I think that's what makes his film so great. It's full of references," said Pat, who is illuminating his partner as he toddlers in the hallway with a big sword.
And, like the cake lessons he learned from his movie sludge and ridiculous at Yale University, his home is a green-skinned guard, an unlikely hero, and a color. Inject a difference joke around Tony.
"If [Toxy's sculpture on the front door] fell and killed me, that's a great way. Before quoting Shakespeare, Kaufman joked." And Prospero says. "And our little life is rounded by sleep."
