The revel speech from The Tempest is heart-shattering, probably the most beautiful speech of any of Shakespeare’s plays. What line made that whole piece click for you as a vision? Lloyd Kaufman: You may be getting this first, but Stratford-on-Avon, the birthplace of the Bard, has reached out that they would like to show #Shakespeare Shitstorm, as well as a museum in Leeds.

The below interview has been edited for length. Kaufman eloquently broke down the Bard’s most tempestuously insubstantial pageant for Den of Geek, as well as fourth walls, fifth estates, and billion-dollar movies made for a nickel to the dollar. #Shakespeare’s Shitstorm is a diarrhetic skewering of modern hypocrisy masquerading as a scatological spoof of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Troma’s newest film disembowels the classics. Their movies were produced on tiny budgets and were proudly proclaimed to make only “the most offensive, tasteless films in the history of cinema.” Even the lowest of low budget studios aspire to the highest of standards, and those without any at all shoot for the moon.

Troma was founded in 1974 by Yale film society buddies Kaufman and Michael Herz. The iconic studio is renowned for cult classics like Class of Nuke ‘Em High, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, and Surf Nazis Must Die, but the low-budget auteur maintained a diverse career of almost 50 years of “reel independence.” Ironic, sarcastic, or provocatively caustic, Uncle Lloyd has got something to say and gets his point across on several levels simultaneously. Troma Entertainment’s Lloyd Kaufman is as unique as his studio is independent.

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