Giuseppe Andrews' Trailer Town - Region 1 DVD

When Bill recieves an eviction notice for having too many wild parties, he takes to the roof of his trailer with a rifle, and declares he is a victim of an "aluminum holocaust."


How low can you go? Not much lower than Guiseppe Andrews's Trailer Town. This Troma release sets itself in the realm of a reality-based version of the early John Waters. The movie is filled with lewd sexual commentary (by all characters), non-traditional relationships (mostly older women with somewhat younger men), and the just plain gross (one character, O Henry, courts his own feces). In other words, diehard Troma fans will love it. The parodic Lloyd Kaufman intro, which shows a brief scene with the Troma president and his debutante daughters set in upscale Manhattan, sets a stark contrast to the California trailer-park setting of Trailer Town. The movie is relatively plotless. It focuses on the personalities of the Trailer Town who risk being thrown out of their homes. The characters come together at the end as they resolve to go to war to avoid eviction. The portraits play like lowbrow Warhol, but pick up energy as they focus in on Chief Stan and Bill for the last half of the movie. The highlight of the movie (other than the Kaufman intro) is undoubtedly Stan and Bill's mock Catskills-style stand-up routines just prior to the war; their performances are so inspired even non-Troma fans may find them entertaining. Special features include Andrews's feature-length Who Flung Poo, starring most of the same actors in Trailer Town, and the usual Troma promotional fare. --Brian Saltzman