This in turn led Monty’s nephew, Benny (Stephen Blakeheart, from Rockabilly Vampire and The Ghouls), and family friend Murray Martini (Valentine Miele, also of Rockabilly Vampire) to take revenge by chopping off some of Sammy’s fingers with a paper cutter when they corner him at their favorite nightclub, and then heading over to the Capulet place to holler obscenities in the garden in the middle of the night. In the latest affront, the cross-dressing Sammy Capulet (Sean Gunn) snuck into Monty’s apartment while he was passed out drunk (as usual), and hung a dead squirrel from the ceiling. Ever since then, the two families have been gunning for each other, to the extent that police detective Ernie Scalus (Gene Terinoni) is well acquainted with all of them. Capulet’s wife, Ingrid (Wendy Adams), was definitely involved at some level, though. Monty was once the partner of Cappy Capulet (Maximilian Shaun) in the most profitable pornography studio in New Jersey, but then Cappy blackmailed him into signing away his share of the business by exploiting some interpersonal ugliness that nobody wants to talk about. As per the bard, we have the Capulet clan on one side, but rather than the familiar Montagues, this version gives us instead one Monty Que (Earl McCoy), together with his son and nephew. For another, either of the feuding families at the story’s center would give their counterparts from Pink Flamingos credible competition for the hotly contested “Filthiest People Alive” title, and the original Romeo and Juliet really does suffer from its distinct paucity of transvestitism, lesbianism, and S&M incest.
No movie that causes the lead singer of Motörhead to spout a plausible approximation of blank verse, occasionally for minutes on end, can be all bad. Naturally, Tromeo and Juliet is sick and wrong on just about every conceivable level, but most unexpectedly, the movie turns out to be considerably more entertaining than the typical Troma suckfest.įor one thing, Lemmy Kilmister narrates.
So obviously- obviously- what the world was really waiting for all along was for Kaufman to try his hand at a Shakespeare adaptation. Meanwhile, it seems almost equally likely that there is no filmmaker in the history of life on Earth more despised than Lloyd Kaufman. There is probably no dramatist in the history of life on Earth more respected than William Shakespeare.