Troma Entertainment

Background

Troma Entertainment was founded in 1974 by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz. Originally producing a slew of lowbrow comedies, the company later found success with many cult low-budget horror-comedy movies. Since the 1990s onward, Troma has specialized in distributing independent films.

1st Logo (1974-1981)

Nickname: "The City Skyline"

Logo: We see a city skyline at dusk. The words:

MICHAEL HERZ

AND LLOYD KAUFMAN PRESENT
A

TROMA TEAM RELEASE

are shown on the screen, in the same font for the credits for All in the Family.

FX/SFX: Just the fading.

Music/Sounds: Environment sounds. Sometimes, it's silent.

Availability: Extremely rare. Seen on older copies of earlier Troma films such as Bloodsucking Freaks.

Editor's Note: None.

2nd Logo (1981- )

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Logo: We see a city skyline plastered on an animated, cloudy blue sky background, with the music from the 2nd logo playing on. Then, the sky fades to red as searchlights appear and a whistling noise is heard as a UFO crashes into the Empire State Building and explodes. From it comes a logo formed by a yellow oval (with a whirl-lke pattern), and the word TROMA with the face of Toxie, the Toxic Avenger inside the O (Toxie's name and the copyright symbol feature underneath). "movies of the future" [sic] can be read above the logo, while "ENTERTAINMENT INC." is below. The logo spins out and apparently crashes on the screen, causing Toxie to get propelled out the logo and crash onto the screen as his eyes pop up (he seemingly screams in protest of this explosive situation). He gets back into the logo and then the background explodes, causing the logo to shatter to pieces. As the explosion clears out, the skyline morphs into the Troma logo on a black screen.

Trivia: The face is actually from Toxie, the title character from The Toxic Avenger and leader of The Toxic Crusaders team (as seen in the cartoon series about the character).

FX/SFX: Very basic CGI effects.

Music/Sounds: The music from the 2nd logo, which is then interrupted by a metal guitar tune (the intro part from "Ten Ton Hammer" by Machine Head). Proceeding is the whoosh and "boom" of the UFO, an alarm whooping and an ascending sci-fi whoosh. When Toxie is zooming-in, a weird roaring scream is heard, probably from him. An old fashioned-sounding explosion is heard for the remainder.

Availability: Rare. Found on Troma films on VHS and DVD.

Editor's Note: None