Make Your Own Troma Fancast

27/02/2023

In our new episode, we discuss some choice picks from the most controversial horror subgenre of them all - Rape/Revenge films.

Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, House on the Edge of the Park, Promising Young Woman... what do all these films have in common? They're all part of the r*pe/revenge subgenre. Jeff Burk and Lucas Mangum discuss these films in detail, as well as list some of their favorites.

02/02/2023

Due to power outages in Austin, our episode on what the f**k happened to the AMITYVILLE HORROR franchise will be delayed. We hope to have it live tomorrow.

26/01/2023

New episode about the most notorious UK made for TV movie - GHOSTWATCH!

In 1992, the BBC aired a Halloween special starring its own anchors and featuring an excursion into a purportedly haunted house. The results led to Ghostwatch being one of the most controversial made-for-TV movies ever made. Jeff and Lucas unpack the movie itself and its notorious reputation.

07/01/2023

Join Lucas and Jeff as they each review their ten favorite movies of the year.

We guarantee some of our picks will surprise you.

Jeff and Lucas come back swinging with their top ten movies of the previous year. A lot of the entries may surprise you, but not as much as a plethora of internet issues surprised us this week. The gods did not want us to do a listicle, it seems, but we did it. We won. If you love the show, consider...

21/10/2022

Continuing our month of horror, we take on the most controversial movie ever made - CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST!

Unquestionably the most controversial film ever made, Cannibal Holocaust was unleashed upon audiences in 1980. It's been talked about at-length, but Jeff Burk has uncovered some even more shocking behind-the-scenes information regarding this landmark film. And despite all its baggage, Cannibal Holoc...

14/10/2022

Brief delay on this week's episode. Our discussion on PLAGA ZOMBIE will be up tomorrow.

21/07/2022

No new episode this week. We're taking a brief summer break. But we'll be back next week and we'll be taking on THE TOXIC AVENGER PART 2!

16/06/2022

We are back with a new episode covering the new extreme horror getting all the buzz - THE SADNESS!

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/extreme-horror-cinema-is-back-with-the-sadness

27/05/2022

New episode! This time Lucas and Jeff take on the sleaziest and most distasteful true crime documentary of all-time - BAZAAR BIZARRE!

This is a wild one!

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/the-most-tasteless-true-crime-documentary-ever-made

21/04/2022

New episode of Make Your Own Damn Podcast and we got a like from Kevin Smith himself! Check out Lucas Mangum and Jeff's thoughts on his body horror opus TUSK!

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/tusk-kevin-smiths-criminally-underrated-body-horror-movie

On the 259th episode of SModcast, indie legend turned Hollywood darling turned cinematic outlaw Kevin Smith and longtime collaborator Scott Mosier read a bizarre want ad in which a homeowner was offering free lodging, so long as the tenant was willing to wear a Walrus costume. This led to an in-dept...

15/04/2022

Our 50th episode and we've finally made it to the first superhero from New Jersey! Lucas and Jeff finally take on THE TOXIC AVENGERO!

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/the-toxic-avenger-episode-50

We made it to 50 episodes and thought it all too appropriate to cover Troma's most famous movie, a movie as old as us and soon to be remade. We're talking, of course, about 1984's THE TOXIC AVENGER. With ripping limbs, head-crushing, and deep-frying of hands, this movie is a gory classic. It's also....

07/04/2022

No new episode this week but we'll be back next Thursday with our 50th episode about THE TOXIC AVENGER!

15/02/2022

We managed to connect FLESH FOR FRANKENSTEIN to the Velvet Underground, E.T. THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL, the five New York crime families, and President Trump. Listen to Thursday's episode to find out how all these things tie together. It's a wild one.

08/02/2022

We didn't mean to have a brief hiatus but that's what happened. We return Thursday with a new episode. Until then, have you caught up with all our previous episodes?

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/

Make Your Own Damn Podcast is a show where co-hosts Lucas Mangum and Jeff Burk look back on the wonderful, whacky films of Troma Entertainment.

02/11/2021

Lucas and Jeff finish their retrospective on the NUKE 'EM franchise with RETURN TO RETURN TO NUKE 'EM HIGH AKA VOL 2! Check out their final thoughts on the high-school/horror/comedy/borderline-soft-core-p**n low-budget masterpiece of trash! https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/return-to-return-to-make-your-own-damn-podcast-volume-2

Jeff and Lucas finish their deep-dive on the Class of Nuke Em High franchise in this their 30th episode. Return to Return to Nuke Em High Volume 2 is Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team at their irreverent, frenetic best. Plus, getting screened at MOMA beats getting escorted at gunpoint from Cannes, me...

27/10/2021

Our newest episode! Lucas and Jeff continue their deep dive into the NUKE 'EM HIGH franchise with RETURN TO NUKE 'EM HIGH VOL 1!

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/return-to-nuke-em-high-volume-1-2013-cult-horror-comedy

This week, Jeff and Lucas take on the slickest (so far) of the Lloyd Kaufman films: Return to Nuke 'em High, Volume 1. "Torture p**n" is a term that rolls off the tongue and Lucas is spacey. Plus, organic is bu****it, Uncle Lloyd's in a bad mood, armored wheelchairs, the MPAA still sucks, economic b...

27/10/2021

Check out the band Rapedoor - featured in RETURN TO NUKE 'EM HIGH VOL 1 and talked about on our newest episode of MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN PODCAST!

rapedoor from Minneapolis I believe.... I don't own this its just killer hahah

05/10/2021

Tired of people talking about Facebook? Listen to Lucas and Jeff talk about IGOR AND THE LUNATICS instead!

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/makeyourowndamnpodcast/id/20697923

Hippies! Table saw bisection! Obnoxious laughter! IGOR AND THE LUNATICS has all this and more, but is it any good? Find out as Jeff Burk and Lucas Mangum dive into this little-seen bit of exploitation. Plus, I DRINK YOUR BLOOD and EASY RIDER are brilliant, we need to Twitter, and Zack Beins rules. S...

29/09/2021

New episode alert! We take a look at Troma's classic succubus tale, DEF BY TEMPTATION!
https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/def-by-temptation

Lucas and Jeff take a look at the seminal DEF BY TEMPTATION, a historically significant and compelling work of NY low-budget cinema. It stars Samuel L. Jackson in an early role and cinematography from Ernest R. Dickerson (DEMON KNIGHT & THE WIRE). 

10/08/2021

Want to make a movie but don't have any money? No problem. You got socks. You got garbage. You got recyclables. Sick Sock Monsters From Outer Space EMBODIES Lloyd Kaufman of Troma's single commandment: MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE. Is that a good thing? You'll have to listen to find out.
https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/sick-sock-monsters-from-outer-space

Want to make a movie but don't have any money? No problem. You got socks. You got garbage. You got recyclables. Sick Sock Monsters From Outer Space EMBODIES Lloyd Kaufman of Troma's single commandment: MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN MOVIE. Is that a good thing? You'll have to listen to find out.

05/08/2021

Who has seen this insane psychedelic freak out? Hear what Lucas and Jeff thought of it on the next episode. https://youtu.be/eTWMpzBc35Q

BETTER THAN STAR WARS! Watch this one of a kind science fiction puppet adventure at http://watch.troma.com !Exclusively on Troma Now! Subscribe: http://watch...

04/08/2021

Our Lucio Fulci episode!

Lucas and Jeff take on the Troma distributed NEW GLADIATORS and discuss their favorite works by the Godfather of Gore.

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/the-lucio-fulci-special

In 2001, five years after Italian director Lucio Fulci passed into the great beyond, Troma Entertainment picked up the distribution rights for the Godfather of Gore's low-budget dystopian sci-fi flick The New Gladiators (or Warriors of 2072). Jeff and Lucas deep-dive into this hidden gem, as well as...

27/07/2021

New episode! Lucas and Jeff take on the fan-requested geek/slasher/sleaze flick, LUTHER THE GEEK.

Check it out!

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/luther-the-geek

In carnie terminology, a geek was a sideshow act involving the eating of strange, inedible things (in the old days, this often invited biting the heads of chickens). In Roger Ebert's review of the Troma classic Mother's Day, the critic used the term "geek cinema" to describe films intended to shock....

22/06/2021

It's our epic Father's Day episode with Astron-6's amazing FATHER'S DAY! https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/fathers-day

Jeff and Lucas take a look at the sleeper grindhouse hit Father's Day. A joint venture between Troma and the now-defunct Astron-6, Father's Day is a wildly inappropriate and enjoyable slice of cinematic splatter and gonzo exploitation. Our hosts deep dive on the film itself as well as the gory detai...

07/06/2021

This week Lucas and Jeff pop their cherry with THE FIRST TURN-ON!

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/the-first-turn-on

Before changing independent cinema forever with The Toxic Avenger, the Troma Team liked to get us hot while simultaneously making us laugh. The last of Kaufman and company's early s*x comedies was The First Turn-On, a summer camp film all about losing your virginity. No, Jeff and Lucas do NOT share....

05/06/2021

05/06/2021

We now have new hosting and a website. We should be on all major podcast providers. If you can't find us on your favorite, let us know and we'll fix that.

https://makeyourowndamnpodcast.libsyn.com/

Make Your Own Damn Podcast is a show where co-hosts Lucas Mangum and Jeff Burk look back on the wonderful, whacky films of Troma Entertainment.

03/06/2021

https://www.theilluminerdi.com/2021/06/02/elijah-wood-the-toxic-avenger/

Legendary Pictures is setting out to reboot the cult classic, The Toxic Avenger, and The Illuminerdi can report that the movie has its villain in Elijah Wood!

31/05/2021

Punch a Surf N**i!

Lucas and Jeff take on one of the best titles films from Troma's library. But did they actually it?

Long before we were punching N**is, Leroy's Mama was shooting them on the beach! Jeff and Lucas examine the cult classic Surf N**is Must Die.

25/05/2021

Let's make some art!

Lucas and Jeff take on one of the most offensive movies ever made. TERROR FIRMER is on!

https://anchor.fm/tromapod/episodes/Terror-Firmer-e11fvaj

Terror Firmer is the latest moneymaking Dali-esque masterpiece unleashed by director Lloyd Kaufman and the Troma Team. Their trademark manic humor combines with a new darker sensibility to create the latest in a legendary line of genre-bending classics. Inspired by Lloyd Kaufman’s book, “All I N...