SModcastle Cinemas bombastically welcomes Troma head honcho and creator of the Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman, for a very special evening of celebrating the original American independent film spirit.

With a shamelessly scholarly introduction by LLOYD KAUFMAN:INTERVIEWS editor and pop culture historian Mathew Klickstein, join Kevin Smith as he shows clips from and explores fifty years of Tromatic kookiness onscreen while intimately excavating the deepest annals of the madcap mind of Kaufman in-person onstage.

Prepare to have your brain tickled and prodded ruthlessly, as these two mavens of indie cinema discuss (and likely as often argue) just what it means to be a modern-day pioneer of no-budg cinema ... while still being provocative, contrarian, engaging and even -- dare we suggest -- once-in-a-while commercially viable enough to keep churning out more cinematic machinations for the masses. (Or at least audiences who love plenty of head crushings, projectile vomiting, bisexual love affairs, chain smoking, rampant veganism and speaking truth to power.)

RUN TIME: 120 min