Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky (1991) and the Corruption of the Justice System in Bad Movies

As a society, we are persuaded to believe that the police are always right and the people they go up against are wrong.  That is what we are told.  This is not always the case, but it is the story presented to us from a young age.  We play games like cops and robbers, where the police have to chase down the robbers because the police are the good guys and the robbers are the bad guys.  We are raised while being taught not to break the law because if we do, the police will come after us.  If we don’t do anything illegal, we should be fine.  The reality does not always line up with this description of law enforcement.  I’m not going to be writing about real life incidents like Ferguson or whatever the hell is happening in New York City.  Instead, I’ll just do what I do and use movies to discuss some serious topics.

What I really want to get into this week is corruption of law enforcement as shown through movies.  Movies are a great way to dilute any of the idealized thoughts about the justice system that may be rolling around in that head of yours.  As much as many movies make the police out to be heroes, there are numerous movies that show the injustice and corruption within this system.  Whether the movies show police officers breaking the law or wardens and guards of prisons overstepping their authority to basically turn a prison into a dictatorship, movies are able to open the eyes of the viewer to the idea that not all of the law keepers are actually keeping the law.

If you look back through the history of the Sunday “Bad” Movies, you’ll see that corrupt law enforcement has almost always been there.  Freelancers was the first movie I watched for the blog that took a good look at the police force and how easily they could be corrupted.  It dealt with some rookie police officers who got into the drug business after busting an operation.  It showed how easily money could corrupt anything, including the people whose job it is to prevent the corruption.  This is definitely true to some instances in real life as police officers have been found guilty of crimes that they are expected to stop.  But the reason this movie shows this side of the police force isn’t because they want to make some sort of statement.  Well, that could be a little bit of it.  Some movies do make statements.  However, I think that the primary focus of this movie was to be entertainment.  In the current day and age, viewers like to watch anti-heroes or just plain bad people.  Freelancers wanted to capitalize on this desire while also showing the dark side of the police.  They tried to show that these people are not the best people, as we had been raised to believe.  It didn’t quite achieve either of these objectives because it ended up being a very forgettable movie instead.

Freelancers was only the first movie in the Sunday “Bad” Movies that touched upon corrupt police.  Movies such as Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo and The Marine 2 would end up using police corruption as a twist.  More recently on the blog, Exit Wounds took some of its story from this darker side of the police by pitting the good officers against the bad.  Steven Seagal’s character gets sent to a corrupt precinct in Detroit and makes it his job to clean it up.  As a movie, it is basically having its cake and eating it too.  And as bad as the movie might be, the cake is a very important thing to include.  Exit Wounds shows that there is police corruption while also highlighting that there are good cops as well.  This is a distinction that many movies don’t make (aside from a twist of one officer being bad).  Yet this one did, and it was a noble move to make.  It provides hope within a sad reality.

But corrupt police aren’t the only problem I have encountered with the justice system throughout the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Prisons have not had a much better light put upon them.  The wardens have been bad people, the guards have been bad people, and the prisoners have been bad people.  In many cases, the guards and wardens have been working with the prisoners to do something heinous.  They work together to take down someone who has gone against them, or they will strike a deal to make money.  The corrupt ways of the prison system have been on full display through the movies I have watched.

The Death Race franchise manages to highlight many of these corrupt tendencies within prisons.  Whether the first, second, or third movie in the franchise, the concept remains the same.  The prisons of the future are trying to profit off of the deaths of their prisoners.  Let’s start with Death Race 2, the one that takes place first.  The prison stages fights to the death between their prisoners and televises them for people to watch in the safety of their homes.  This soon escalates into races in which the racers are prisoners who try to kill the other prisoners and cross the finish line first.  Now let’s go back to the first Death Race, which takes place last out of the three movies.  After the previous Frankenstein dies (or escapes, as we see in Death Race: Inferno), the warden “hires” one of the prisoners to murder the main character’s wife and frame him for murder.  This is because the main character is a former race car driver.  Having him put on the Frankenstein mask and race will help keep the ratings high for the televised races.  It is capitalist prison corruption at its finest.  The movies help to show how influential money can be to the prison system, though it is done in an overly exaggerated way.  Even though prisons are supposed to be a way to get the bad people off the streets, there can be innocent people incarcerated when money is involved.

A movie that takes a different approach to the bad things involving higher-ups in prison is 1991’s Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky.  This movie follows the character of Ricky Ho as he goes to prison for murder and must deal with corruption on every level.  There are inmates trying to kill him.  The deputy warden wants him taken care of, if you know what I mean.  The warden is growing opium on the prison grounds.  And they’ll beat, torture, maim, and kill whoever goes against their wishes.  The idea of corruption based on the profit of growing opium was set up early in the movie, though not explicitly.  Text on the screen mentions the privatized nature of prisons in the near future, and compares them to franchised businesses.  They didn’t say where the money really came from, but they set up that there was money to be made.  Money is a big problem in the prison system and much of the reason for the corruption in the institutions as shown through movies.  That and the basic cruelty of people.

The justice system is frequently shown to have corruption in movies.  Usually the bad movies that I watch for this blog focus upon the greed and capitalism aspects of it.  In Freelancers and Exit Wounds, it was police getting into the drug trade.  In Riki-Oh, it was the warden and his underlings involved in the drug trade.  In Death Race and movies like it (Gamer), it is the prison capitalizing upon the demise of the prisoners.  Not all movies focus on this stuff, however.  There are movies out there, usually better, that focus on other aspects of bad policing.  Movies such as Fruitvale Station show that money isn’t always the problem with the justice system.  It could just as easily be the mental stability of a police officer.  It could be racism.  It could be prejudice against a certain demographic.  Or it could simply be police brutality, which we all know exists.  There are many movies that depict this kind of stuff happening because it is real stuff.  If we’re not careful, our society could end up being similar to the over-the-top gory Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, or the high octane insanity of Death Race.  We already live in a world where Freelancers and Exit Wounds could happen, and probably are happening somewhere.  Isn’t that enough?

And now for some notes:

• Riki-Oh: The Story of Riki is the first three time suggested movie.  It was suggested by @robtrench, @1sttimewatchers, and @TheTrueBrendanF.
• Let’s link to the posts of the three other movies I focused on in this post.  They were Freelancers, Exit Wounds, and Death Race.
• I also mentioned the Deuce Bigalow and The Marine franchises in there.
• Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky is a foreign movie.  Other foreign movies (not North American) I’ve covered for the Sunday “Bad” Movies are Dig Your Grave Friend… Sabata is Coming and Infra-Man.
• Have you seen Riki-Oh?  Do you actually want to discuss the movie in all of its crazy, gory, actiony glory?  Are there other movies like it that you want to take about?  Did you like the movie?  You can use the comments below to discuss anything related to the movie or this post.
• You can also use the comments section to give me suggestions about what to watch for future Sunday “Bad” Movie installments.  If you don’t want to use the comments section, why not message me on Twitter or drop me an email at sundaybadmovies@gmail.com?  Those work too.
• Next week’s movie will be The Time Machine (I Found at a Yardsale) and let me tell you that it was a tough movie to get through.  The post is going to be… I don’t know.  It’s not written yet.  Anyway, see you next week.

The Brainstorming of the Post for D.E.B.S. (2005)

This week, with the movie D.E.B.S. being my focal point, I’m going to let you guys in on a little bit of background on how I write the Sunday “Bad” Movie posts.  Is this because you need to know this information?  Not at all.  Most of you probably don’t even care at all about how I get the posts written.  If you’re reading the posts, you probably only care that there are posts to read.  And I know that not too many people are actually reading them.  So the number of people that this post is going to mean anything to will actually be next to none.

What this post is going to be is a brainstorming session about what I could have written this week.  The reason I chose to do this kind of post was that a lot of the ideas I was coming up with ended in the same sort of way.  I didn’t feel like I had enough knowledge to fully back up writing an entire post based on the themes.  There are two major concepts that I came up with that I think could have made for highly interesting posts, but my lack of knowledge in those areas of film would have made me seem obnoxious, uncaring, or downright unintelligent if I were to write about them in a lengthy post at this point in my life.  I just don’t know enough about the subjects to feel comfortable.  Other ideas that I had I just pushed away because I didn’t want to do those concepts or I thought they would be boring.  The idea of taking a look at ideas that I come up with for the posts seemed like one that could be enlightening for readers, and one that I would be able to write about with a good knowledge of the subject.

But before I get to that, let me tell you guys about the movie that spawned all of these thoughts.  It seems like a good place to start the brainstorming session.  I watched a 2004 movie called D.E.B.S.  The movie is a love story between two women.  One of them is a college aged spy, and the other is a mastermind criminal terrorist.  It’s kind of like a Romeo and Juliet, without anyone dying, and with a lot of early millennium teenage movie cheese.  It’s action, it’s comedy, it’s romance, and it’s not that good.  I’d still say it’s worth watching for Jimmi Simpson, since he’s always fairly great in his acting, but it could easily not be your type of movie.  I enjoyed it though, so there’s that.

So now that you know what the movie is, I’m going to get into the ideas that I had thought of when trying to decide what to write about for D.E.B.S.  Most of the ideas that I’m going to write about here were ideas that I had already come up with prior to beginning this post.  There might be a couple of ideas that appear while I’m writing this, too.  I’m going to set it up by type of ideas, explain the idea, and then explain the good and bad of the idea.  By the end of my writing about each idea, you should know why I didn’t use that idea.  It’s time to begin.

The Usual Suspects

This whole categorizing of ideas coming up covers the ideas that I could use for writing about almost any movie that I watch.  There are certain blueprints for posts that could be used every single week.  Most of the time, I try not to use these concepts when writing my posts because they feel a little bit lazier to me, and I tend to not like writing in these ways.  There is no real challenge to it other than getting the words out.  Sometimes they are things that have been written many times before and I feel that my writing of them will add nothing to the discussion.  And other times, I just think it won’t be fun to write or interesting to read.

The first of the usual suspects is a straight review of the movie.  I guess it could have been semi-interesting for D.E.B.S. because not a lot of people talk about the movie.  Having my input about the movie could interest some people.  And though you already know that I enjoyed the movie even though I can admit it’s bad, I could have elaborated on that to make you understand why.  However, there are some things about a straight review of D.E.B.S. that I would have had problems with.  Most of it comes down to my interest in reviewing movies.  I review movies for another website.  The fact that I do that makes me prefer not to review movies in other places.  I like to write different stuff.  I like the variety of writing different things.  If I’m going to write a review for the Sunday “Bad” Movies, I tend to keep that limited to newer bad movies that most people wouldn’t have seen yet.  That way, I feel a direction in what I am writing that keeps me more invested than I would be writing about a forgotten movie from the early millennium that nobody cares about.

Another of the usual suspects is to single out an actor and write about their history in bad movies.  D.E.B.S. had a few people that I could have written about for this week’s post.  Sara Foster whose two big movies, I believe, are this one and The Big Bounce.  Or Jordana Brewster who is really only doing Fast and Furious movies anymore.  And there’s Jimmi Simpson who can entertain me with any role he fills, even if he is in something terrible.  Finally, there’s Michael Clarke Duncan who was in a previous Sunday “Bad” Movie.  But my problem with this idea is how lazy the idea is.  Unless I have a personal connection to the actor, like I did with Paul Walker, I feel like it would just be a listing of credits.  It would also be worse if I hadn’t seen many of the person’s movies.  And the one time I did write a post about a specific actor, I don’t think it turned out as well as I wanted.  It was a release for me, but it wasn’t a good post.  A look at an actor’s movies only works if you talk about the movies and your connection to their work, and that only works if you’ve seen their movies.  With all of the actors in the movie, I haven’t seen their whole filmography and feel like I couldn’t do them justice because of that.

The final idea that I’m going to put into this section are two ideas that are similar but done differently.  One of them is the live commentary.  To the reader this isn’t actually live.  What it entails is me writing while watching the movie, and pointing out the absurdities as I watch it.  The problem with this is one that I noticed while doing this with Exit Wounds.  I can’t be writing a commentary post for a movie I’ve never seen before.  Therefore, D.E.B.S. could not have this kind of post.  The other kind of post in this vein is just me writing about the crazy things I just witnessed.  The writing, in this case, happens after I watch the movie.  I just make a list of events from the movie I watch and write about why I found them as insane as they are.  The main reason that I didn’t do this for D.E.B.S. is because, as crazy as I thought it was, it didn’t go over the top enough that I found it unbelievable.  These posts are usually my way of coming to terms with the unbelievably dumb nature of the movie.  This movie wasn’t quite that.

The No Ways

This type of post is a blueprint that I have for some movies that just doesn’t fit with the movie.  As much as the idea pops into my head, there is no possible way to do the idea because there is something about either the movie or my experience watching it that just stops that from happening.  It’s nothing against the blueprint or the movie.  It’s just impossible to mix the two in this case.

The main reason I made this entire category was to talk about the post I’ve done a few times where I write about my history with the movie at hand.  I like these posts.  I get to write about what the movie means to me, my experience watching the movie in the past, and how the movie has informed my appreciation of bad movies.  It lets you, the reader, get to know me a little more while also learning about the bad movie that I had just rewatched.  There was no way that I could write this kind of post this week since it was my first time watching D.E.B.S.  I have no history with it, can’t enlighten you on how it changed me… I hadn’t seen it until now.  So that’s why this post couldn’t happen.

Unique Ideas

Now we enter the fun zone of the Sunday “Bad” Movie posts.  This section is about the ideas that were wholly inspired by the movie of the week.  In this case, the movie was 2004’s D.E.B.S., so these topics are topics that were thought up after watching the movie this past week.  Actually, saying they were wholly thought up this week might be wrong.  Some might have been ideas I had and didn’t use for other movies that also fit into any themes within this week’s movie.  For the most part, I believe these ideas only came up this week though.  Not positive, but pretty sure.

In my summary of D.E.B.S., I brought up the fact that the movie heavily involves a romance between two women.  I thought that looking at homosexual relationships in bad movies might be an interesting idea to tackle.  I still think that it could make for an interesting concept.  However, I don’t feel like I am the right person to tackle the topic.  I am a straight white male.  I don’t have much experience in the gay culture, especially gay female culture.  Not that it’s really touched upon in D.E.B.S.  Though the two people in love are female, the gender of one of them could have been swapped and the movie would basically be the same.  But I also don’t have much of a cinematic background with that kind of relationship either.  Maybe if I watch more movies with same sex relationships I will feel comfortable touching upon the subject in a full post.  Right now, I don’t feel comfortable with it.

The same could be said for the next idea.  I dabbled with the idea of writing about movies centered on female teams.  The problem is that I can’t think of many movies that center on that concept, and I have seen fewer.  Though I think it would be a great topic to write about, I am not yet the right person to cover the topic.  I feel like my writing would be lacking if I were to tackle the subject.  So I didn’t.

In the end, I chose one of the topics I didn’t even cover in the post.  I chose to take a behind-the-scenes look at the Sunday “Bad” Movies and let you in on my thought process as I tried to write this week’s post.  I did that because I haven’t let you in on how I make these posts lately.  I did it because I didn’t feel comfortable with any of the other topics that I had thought up for various reasons.  This was the first idea I had for this week’s post that I felt was a good fit with me for this week.  And I feel like it turned out alright.  It was about the movie while being about anything but the movie.  It doesn’t feel like a complete mess as some recent posts have.  And I highly enjoyed writing the post this week.  That’s all that matters to me.  I need to like what I write.

I hope you enjoyed this look at how I come up with what I write as well.  I hope you got to know a little more about me and about how this blog works.  D.E.B.S. was a good movie to use as the inspiration for a post on the brainstorming of ideas that I go through in a typical week.  There were many components to it that made me debate some ideas that I have for posts on a regular basis.  And there were some meaty parts to the movie that would make for good topics to cover.  So there were a lot of choices that I could have made with the post, and a lot of reasons why I couldn’t use those topics to write the post.  What I came up with was this post.  It’s a good post.  I’m glad to have made it, and I’ll be glad if you enjoy it.

There are a few notes before we’re done here:

• D.E.B.S. was suggested for the Sunday “Bad” Movies by none other than @thenickisaac.
• I brought up that Michael Clarke Duncan was in another Sunday “Bad” Movie.  It was called A Crush on You.
• Other female group led movies I have covered are Chopper Chicks in Zombietown and Bratz: The Movie.
• I also mentioned Exit Wounds in the post.
• Have you seen D.E.B.S.?  Do you think it dealt with a lesbian relationship well?  Did you enjoy it?  Did you enjoy this post?  Would you like to know more about what goes into making the Sunday “Bad” Movies?  You can ask questions, answer questions, or just comment in the comment section.
• If you have suggestions for what I should watch for future installments of the Sunday “Bad” Movies, you can leave them in the comments section.  You can also suggest them to me on Twitter, or by emailing your suggestions to sundaybadmovies@gmail.com.
• I still don’t know what this month’s bonus post is going to be, but I have two days off now and I’ll figure it out during the two days.  I’ll tell you next week, I promise.
• Next week’s movie is Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, the first triple suggested movie ever.  You can watch in on YouTube like I did.  Have fun with that one.

Troma and The Toxic Avenger Series (1984, 1989, 2001)

Throughout the history of the Sunday “Bad” Movies, there are a few production companies that I have gone back to multiple times.  It’s me going back to the same well over and over again.  These are dependable sources of movies to add to the schedule.  Networks like lifetime and Hallmark put out lots of television movies that I could consider for these posts.  Or there are studios like WWE and The Asylum that I could pick movies from.  This week, the source is the cult favourite, Troma.

Troma has been around for a long time.  A long time is forty years, in fact.  The company was founded in 1974, which is forty years before the year that we just exited on this past Wednesday night.  (Happy New Year, by the way.)  They’ve spent the forty years making independent movies in multiple genres, as well as acquiring many other independently made movies in those multiple genres and releasing them.  Famous people have come and gone throughout their doors but one thing has remained constant.  Lloyd Kaufman.

Before I get into Lloyd Kaufman and the full history of Troma as far as I know, let’s take a few moments and have a small discussion about my history with Troma.  This won’t take long.  Two, maybe three paragraphs.  There’s not much since I haven’t delved too deep into their catalogue.  The movies that I’ve covered on in the Sunday “Bad” Movies are it for what I’ve seen from Troma.  But the timeframe is a little bit different.

It was 2007 or 2008 when I first introduced myself to Troma.  I have satellite television at home and at the time, I had a DVD burner with a large harddrive.  I basically used it as my own DVR sort of thing.  I would check to see what was coming on the movie channels on the satellite, and pick and choose things to record for later enjoyment.  One night I saw that a movie called Poultrygeist was going to be coming on.  I thought, in my typical way, that it sounded odd but ingenious and that I wanted to see it.  So I set the timer for recording and got the movie.  Little did I know what I had gotten myself into.

When I saw the movie, I hated it.  It was crude, it was obnoxious, and every single moment of it was dumb as rocks.  The only thing I liked about it was the Slow Fast Food Love song.  I never wanted to see the movie again.  And I wasn’t sure I wanted to experience Troma again.

Oh, I missed something in here, so this might actually be a lot of paragraphs.  Anyway, I was at lunch in high school.  One of the guys that typically sat at my lunch table came in.  The few of us that always sat together were talking and he said he saw the greatest movies ever on the weekend.  The Toxic Avenger movies.  He described them.  THAT was my first introduction to Troma.  I didn’t know that at the time.  I didn’t even know that when I saw Poultrygeist.  But that was my introduction.  So back to the linear story…

Along comes the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  For the first many weeks, not a Troma film was in sight.  I don’t believe that was intentional.  I think it was just a subconscious thing, excluding them.  It wasn’t until I began taking suggestions for movies that one snuck in.  I didn’t know it was a Troma movie.  When I hit play on Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town and the Troma logo appeared, I got a little worried.  Those worries went away quickly as I began watching one of my favourite inclusions in the blog up to that point.

And so the curse was broken.  I included Monster in the Closet as a tribute to Paul Walker, and I would later dip my toes back into Poultrygeist.  This week’s post is a result of having seen all four Toxic Avenger movies for the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  So I’ve been including them as I go along now.  The reason for their inclusion is that they play in that b-movie realm that I try to look for when it comes to many of the movies I choose.  I don’t want a bunch of mainstream stuff that was just plain boring or headache inducing.  I want something enjoyable sometimes too.  B-movies tend to be enjoyably bad, and Troma tends to make b-movies.  It’s a good match.

Now back to Lloyd Kaufman, the man known for Troma.  And where better to start than with the birth of Troma.  Forget the stuff between school and his creating a studio with Michael Herz.  That stuff is not too important.  It’s the Michael Herz collaboration that is of true importance to the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  Troma was created by the two men in 1974, and soon began producing sex comedies.  Yes, Troma produced sex comedies back in the day.  They didn’t begin as the studio that people know and love.  They began in a completely different genre, which shared elements with what they would become.

The sex comedies didn’t pay the bills as much as Lloyd Kaufman would have liked.  That meant that he had to do work in other areas of film.  Just a couple of examples include some adult films that he directed and produced throughout the 70s, as well as location scouting for Saturday Night Fever, production managing for My Dinner with Andre, and providing editing equipment for Rocky.  That’s right, Kaufman worked on those films.  And Rocky has another important meaning to Troma outside of being a movie that Lloyd Kaufman worked on.

Rocky was the movie that inspired Lloyd Kaufman to make The Toxic Avenger.  Well… Sort of.  Rocky gave Lloyd Kaufman the idea to set a movie in a health club, or a gym.  Apparently, Kaufman had heard that horror movies weren’t popular anymore, so he turned it into a horror movie.  Because that makes sense if you want a popular movie.  He turned his health club movie into a superhero horror movie, and The Toxic Avenger was born.  It is probably Troma’s most well-known movie.  They even took Toxie as their mascot.

The Toxic Avenger was followed up by Class of Nuke ‘Em High, and you have your two big Troma franchises.  Both movies spawned at least three sequels.  And both are the go-to examples when someone is trying to explain what Troma is.  As memorable as Sgt. Kabukiman NYPD and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead might be, the two franchises are what made Troma into the studio that they are.  They are the flagship franchises, and the perfect examples of what the studio stands for.  The premiere movies of each of the two franchises were Troma’s closest foray into mainstream filmmaking.  That attempt at becoming a mainstream studio got squashed by the failure of Troma’s War, an anti-war, anti-Reagan movie.  It did poorly, and put financial strain on the studio.

Since the collapse in the late 80s, Troma has found itself as the producer and acquirer/distributer of many low budget features.  In 1990, Troma acquired a movie called Def By Temptation that featured an early performance by Samuel L. Jackson.  He’s not the only future famous person featured in a Troma acquisition.  Paul Walker made his film debut in Monster in the Closet.  Vincent D’Onofrio was featured in My First Turn-On!  Trey Parker and Matt Stone made Cannibal: The Musical for Troma.  And director James Gunn began his career by working on Troma films, notably writing Tromeo and Juliet, and having a small appearance in Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.  Troma has a history of finding people who would later go onto stardom and featuring them in their work.

More recently, Troma has made another foray into Hollywood as some of the movies have been licensed out for Hollywood remakes.  The Toxic Avenger has been rumored to have a remake in the works since 2010, with Akiva Goldsman attached.  Arnold Schwarzenegger even showed interest in being involved.  But that’s not the only movie up for this sort of treatment.  Mother’s Day, a 1980 Troma film, was remade by director Darren Lynn Bousman in 2010.  Lloyd Kaufman himself has said that there is also interest in a remake of Class of Nuke ‘Em High.  So there is a chance that we’ll be seeing much more of Troma in the future.

Troma is a company with an interesting history.  Their beginnings as a sex comedy company transitioned into a couple of mainstream horror films, then into low-budget horror infamy, and now back to being somewhat known.  Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz have been along for the ride the entire time.  They’ve made some highly entertaining movies as well as a few clunkers.  But they’ve made a great catalogue for the Sunday “Bad” Movies to pull from, and for that I am thankful.  Thank you Troma, and thank you Lloyd Kaufman, for over forty years of entertainment.  Thank you for the people you have found and introduced to the world.  Thank you for the interesting, though many times bad movies that you have given us.  You have changed the movie landscape for the better.  Thank you.

There are a few notes that I have to present here before we part ways, and by a few, I mean that this is going to be a long one:

• Dan Snow and Rick Collins were in all four Toxic Avenger movies.  They have yet to appear in another Sunday “Bad” Movie.
• Lisa Gaye appeared in The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
• Patricia Kaufman and John Reidy were both in The Toxic Avenger and The Toxic Avenger Part II.
• There were a lot of actors who were in both The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie.  They were Orentha Alava, John Altamura, Fernando Antonio, William E. Benson, Paul Borghese, Sylvester Covin, William Decker, Jessica Dublin, Ron Fazio, Mark Fucile, Bonnie Garvin, Michael Gingold, Marc Allan Ginsberg, Arthur M. Jolly, Karen King, Phoebe Legere, Sal Lioni, Doug McDonald, Benny Nieves, Melissa Osborne, Bryan Perkins, Kariim Ratcliff, Phil Rivo, Ray Seiden, Tsutomu Sekine, Raven Skye, Helen Wheels, Susan Whitty, Ichiro Yamanaka, and Jeremiah Yates.
• Mitch Cohen, Mark Torgl, and Matt Klan were in The Toxic Avenger and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
• Eric Alan was in The Toxic Avenger Part II and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
• Lloyd Kaufman was in The Toxic Avenger Part II and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.  This was after he already appeared in the Sunday “Bad” Movies in Bachelor Party in the Bungalow of the Damned, Big Ass Spider!, and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.  Kaufman also directed all four Toxic Avenger movies, as well as Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
• Michael Herz was a director on the first three Toxic Avenger movies.
• Joe Fleishaker was in The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.  He was previously in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
• Traci Mann was in The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie.  She was previously in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
• Charlotte Kaufman was in The Toxic Avenger Part II and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.  She was previously in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
• Michael Jai White was in The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie.  He could previously be seen in Exit Wounds.
• Lily Hayes Kaufman and Lisbeth Kaufman were in The Toxic Avenger Part II.  They were also in Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
• Poultrygeist shared a few cast members with Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.  These cast members were Caleb Emerson, Gabriel Friedman, Ron Jeremy, Debbie Rochon, and Purple Pam Shelby.
• Andrew Craig was in The Toxic Avenger.  He was also in Glitter.
• Marisa Tomei was in The Toxic Avenger after already being featured in Parental Guidance.
• The Toxic Avenger also featured Kenneth Kessler from Monster in the Closet.
• And finally, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV featured and appearance by Corey Feldman.  He was in a little Sunday “Bad” Movie called Friday the 13th: A New Beginning.
• The three Troma movies I covered previously in the Sunday “Bad” Movies were Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, Monster in the Closet, and Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead.
• What are your thoughts on Troma?  What are your thoughts on Lloyd Kaufman?  How about The Toxic Avenger?  You can share your thoughts in the comments section below.
• Also in the comments section below, you can suggest movies for me to watch in the future as part of the Sunday “Bad” Movies.  I will consider any suggestion thrown my way, as long as it is a bad movie and not just one that you dislike.  You could find me on Twitter and suggest that way, too.  Or email me at sundaybadmovies@gmail.com
• I don’t yet know what this month’s bonus post will be.  I’ll come up with something in the next week or so and I’ll get back to you on it.
• I know this has been a lengthy notes section but I’m now onto the final one.  Next week’s movie will be D.E.B.S.  Do you know it?  If you don’t, do not worry.  You will next week.  Have a good week!