2/5 "Paul! No Paul! Why'd you do it? I could have cut her clean! So clean!"
  by Darsh
The fact this film is put out by Troma should clue you in that it's going to suck and it's going to suck hard...and it does (the acting, music, direction, script, everything is pathetically bad), but somehow I still enjoyed it and laughed until my sides hurt.

Tom doesn't like being in a Manson-style burnout hippie free love cult, so he splits. Soon the cops raid the shack they live in and throw cult leader Paul in prison. Sixteen years later Paul is released and with the help two cult members (including the highly overacting Igor who screams nonstop) they set out to kill everybody in the small town where they were arrested. Now it's up to Tom and the woman he ran over with his car to save the day.

Like I said before this film is a steaming [...], but if you're a seasoned veteran of bad film watching then you know you have no choice but to watch. All others should just skip it. Also a note to gorehounds: there's nothing here, you'll see more blood on an episode of "Nip/Tuck". The infamous buzzsaw scene is *way* overhyped.

3/5 Not bad at all!
  by John Lindsey (Socorro, New Mexico USA.)
In the late 60's, a former murderous hippie cult leader named Igor and his maniacs caused terror in the town of Tromaville. Luckily the town's folk had him locked up in prison only that 16 years later he is a reformed man, his gang unites with him so they can get revenge on those that sent him to prison.

Not too shabby effort from Troma inspired by the crimes of Charles Manson but not based on them. It's a little slow at times but really gets going on some of the gore and torture sequences like a chick being sawed in half by a buzzsaw machine or the climatic fight scene, there is some nice nudity thrown into the movie. This is one of Troma's weakest movies only saved by a few redeeming qualities.

This DVD contains an ok DVD Transfer and some nifty extras like an interactive tour of the Troma building, The Troma Intelligence Test, Production stills, trailers to this and other Troma movies, Troma's Edge TV episodes, Aroma Du Troma, special message from Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Hertz, Gyno Talk bit, and more.

1/5 Lunatics, indeed!
  by
I knew most of the people in this movie, which was filmed locally in the area around Brewster, New York. In fact, I went out with a member of the cast.....who boasted that he was in "the worst movie ever made". It's got gratuitous violence, major holes in the plot....yeah, it's a stupid movie, but good for a laugh or two. All the cast members were "discovered" in a local community theatre production in Brewster.

That's a real Carmel cop car in there...a character name changes from one scene to the next, and scenes that would have pulled the plot together were cut from the film.

Joe Niola puts in a hilarious performance as Igor.

The scary thing was seeing the announcement after the movie... "If you liked this film, we have more like it."

2/5 A very confusing movie
  by (Texas, of course.)
And the fact that this one is so confusing does most definitely work against it. I had a lot of trouble following the plotline of this film. Further, it is not really very frightening at all, being instead rather tedious. The story is about a serial killer who leads a cult of hippies (gee, I wonder where they got this idea from). The lead character is not even the one named Igor! In the movie Igor is just a member of this murderous group. This is one that you can skip. Even the added features on the DVD aren't worth the time.

1/5 this movie was just baaad! it was stupid and pathetic
  by shfux@YAHOO.COM (UNITED STATES)
when i first saw this movie i noticed that it was in the in cult classics section in which i always rent movies from second i read on the box that it was a bascially hardcore movie and some scenes shouldnt be watched bla bla bla bla. so i rented this movie poped in my vcr and ten minutes into the film i turned it off not because it was scarry nor gross , it was because it was a waste of my time and money . i put it on later asking myself "why did i rent this again?" so in order to make things short i just watched it on fast foward and saw that there was nothing good about it after all there was one part where a lady got cut in half and thats about the only part that was supposed to be gross but not really maybe it wasnt my type of genera of a movie maybe was expectinga TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE type movie but all i got was a cheap plot with a stupid script that just SUCKED dont waste your money and time on this piece of CRAP!!!!