Troma Entertainment: 150 free films on YouTube

Legendary psychotronic film studio Troma Entertainment, maker of such cinematic masterpieces as The Toxic Avenger, Class of Nuke'em High, and Redneck Zombies, has put 150 movies (including some classics that it distributes) on YouTube for free viewing. Above is the 1932 film White Zombie, starring Bela Lugosi. It's considered to be the first zombie film ever. There goes the weekend. Tromamovies (via Techdirt)

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Slowermo

I can vouch for The Stabilizer being great fun. I also enjoyed The Children. At least it’s a three day weekend!
http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

Aren’t a lot of the movie titles they’re running already available on the Internet archive for free?
- http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt
  
  Many are. Check out the Rod Serling movie “Patterns”, either on YouTube or IA. It is little known now, but I think it won Serling his first Emmy (it was a teleplay first). More in the class of “Requiem for a Heavyweight” than of The Twilight Zone.
Frank Diekman

New band name: Zombie Grip

(I hear White Zombie is taken)
bcsizemo

Can Full Moon Entertainment be next? I miss Trancers and Dollman.
Conan Librarian

Shouldn’t those old movies be in the public domain by now?
- Brainspore
  
  The hard-working lawyers and lobbyists at Disney have spent a staggering amount of time and money to ensure that virtually no films from 1928 onward will ever fall into public domain. (Hint: that year saw the screen premiere of a certain round-eared rodent.)
Geoduck

I wish someone would make a new voodoo-zombie film, instead of cranking out another reanimated-corpse flick.
joeposts

Cannibal! the Musical, Sgt Kabukiman, Tromeo and Juliet… could be a long night
- http://www.facebook.com/people/Arcelia-Thoams/100000111961467 Arcelia Thoams
  
  sgt kabukiman was awesome!
- Bliss
  
  In fact, the Cannibal! the Musical song is the riff used as the slogan for Braniff, producers for South Park, just compare the song here: http://www.cannibalthemusical.org/sounds/Cannibal%20The%20Musical%20-%20Shpadoinkle.mp3 and here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY8HT2gyGx8
  
  “The sky is blue and all the leaves are green. “
Tribune

I wonder how many will have had takedown orders by the end of the weekend
- Boundegar
  
  I don’t think Troma would do this if they didn’t have the rights, and these don’t look like good targets for a troll. I think this is a great gift to humanity. I went back last night and reviewed some old favorites!
  - joeposts
    
    It looks official to me, plus IIRC youtube would notice copyrighted +60 minute videos pretty quick, if they were uploadable at all. Troma doesn’t want takedown orders, they want merchandise orders. Kaufman’s gotta eat!
    - Tribune
      
      does it really matter if they have all the rights – certainly has not stopped the DCMA takedowns in the past
yadayada

youtube-dl -citw ytuser:Tromamovies
Toffer99

How can we go wrong with movies like “Poultrygeist: Night Of The Chicken Dead!”
- http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli
  
  Then again, we’re also talking about movies like “Buttcrack” so, yes, we can go wrong.
Jon Dart

“White Zombie” is awesomely trashy. Unfortunately the print on DVD at least is in bad shape.