Tromeo & Juliet

Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, directed by Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn. The film is more or less a faithful adaptation of the play except with the addition of extreme amounts of sexuality and violence, used in a way the filmmakers believed actors would have done in Shakespeare's time (with proper adjustments to content to suit the times, updating the fashion and setting to contemporary needs, also in Shakespeare's tradition). The title of the film is a portmanteau of "Troma" and "Romeo & Juliet". The first draft of Tromeo and Juliet surfaced in 1992, written by Kaufman and Troma employees Andy Deemer and Phil Rivo, written entirely in Shakespearean verse and supposedly featuring The Toxic Avenger as a side character. The feedback from other Troma employees and Michael Herz was unanimously negative, so the idea was scrapped. In 1995, another shot was taken at the concept, this time by... full article at wikipedia