FATHER'S DAY Midnight Premiere w/ appearance by director Lloyd Kaufman @ Nuart Theatre February 24, 2012

Hey horror flix fans, set your calendars for this midnight premiere of the comic slasher FATHER’S DAY.

New Troma shocker premieres with appearance by Director Lloyd Kaufman and Tromaville circus
Midnight Premiere Friday, February 24, 2012 in Los Angeles

Landmark’s Nuart Theatre, 11272 Santa Monica Boulevard (310) 281-8223
Tickets are $10.50 for general admission and $8.50 seniors, students, and children
Advance ticket purchase at: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/tickets and at theatre box office.

Troma Entertainment presents the Los Angeles premiere of FATHER’S DAY, showing for one night only at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre ‘round midnight on Friday, February 24. IN PERSON: Producer, actor and co-founder of Troma, Lloyd Kaufman will appear in person to introduce the film. Joining Kaufman before the film will be fellow filmmakers Adam Green (Hatchet films, which starred Kaufman) and Joe Lynch (Wrong Turn 2 & Troma alum), along with The Great Count Smokula, who wrote some of the FATHER'S DAY music and who will perform live. Toxie, the Tromettes and other members of the Tromaville circus will also be in attendance.

Troma's comic slasher FATHER’S DAY, directed by Astron-6 (Adam Brooks and Jeremy Gillespie, with sketch-comedy duo Matthew Kennedy and Conor Sweeney), is a bloody, bizarre and hilarious revenge film that pays homage to the VHS "golden age." An urban legend known as "The Father's Day Killer" begins some years after the demise of serial rapist/murderer Chris Fuchman (Mackenzie Murdock). The story becomes a fire-side cautionary ritual on camping trips, often used by fathers to warn their sons of the dangers of unplanned pregnancy. That deep fear of violation and eventual death waned as the murder and rape of fathers continued to decline all over the world. But those numbers don't remain low, and it would seem that the legend is not yet complete. Ahab (co-director Brooks), a man obsessed with exacting a brutal violent revenge on the man who murdered his dad, joins eager priest John (co-director Kennedy) and hot-headed street hustler Twink (co-director Sweeney) on an epic quest to find and defeat the mythical monster known as The Father's Day Killer
"A gleefully tasteless quasi-grindhouse nasty that's funnier than most of the many such parodic cheesefests that have been created since, well, Grindhouse!" - Variety

"Father's Day is over the top, tasteless, senseless, and completely hilarious." - Ain't it Cool News

Adam Green directed Hatchet (2006), Hatchet 2 (2010), which starred Lloyd Kaufman, and Frozen (2010), and is now writing and producing Hatchet 3. Joe Lynch, a former Troma alum, is the director of Wrong Turn 2 (2007) and the upcoming adventure Knights of Badassdom and the action thriller Everly, shooting this Spring. He claims to be Kaufman's adopted son, and more well endowed than Green and Kaufman combined. Green & Lynch starred in and executive produced the FEARnet series Holliston, which Green wrote and directed.

Established in 1974 by Yale friends Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma Entertainment is one of the longest-running independent movie studios in United States history, and one of the best-known names in the industry. World famous for movie classics like Kaufman's The Toxic Avenger, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead, Class of Nuke'em High, Mother's Day and Tromeo and Juliet, Troma's seminal films are now being remade as big budget mainstream productions by the likes of Brett Ratner, Richard Saperstein, Akiva Goldsman, and Steven Pink. Among today's stars whose early work can be found in Troma's 800+ film library are Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Jenna Fischer, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Costner, Fergie, Vincent D'Onofrio and Samuel L. Jackson.

For more on FATHER'S DAY, including information on filmmakers Astron-6, and additional theatres where FATHER'S DAY will be presented, visit www.thefathersdaymovie.com

Visit Troma at www.troma.com, www.lloydkaufman.com, www.twitter.com/lloydkaufman, and www.tromapast.tumblr.com
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