Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment, Responds to Slate’s Chadwick Matlin
posted in News, `Roids |Regarding Chadwick Matlin’s March 2nd, 2010 article entitled, “A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell: Hulu’s Mega-Popular Movie About Child Molestation,” that appeared recently in Slate‘s online magazine, I cannot imagine why he is picking on Troma Entertainment and suggesting we are pedophiles. Who does he think we are? The Catholic Church? I’m very surprised to read this misinterpretation of Brett Piper’s masterpiece of stop motion animation as a piece about pedophilia. I challenge the readers of Slate, along with anyone who works for Slate, to go to Troma’s Hulu Channel, actually watch the film, and then try to tell me that A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell is perpetuating pedophilia. I cannot believe Mr. Matlin watched the film. I surmise he only watched the trailer in a very cursory manner.1
In this most ridiculous interpretation of a family oriented movie, Mr. Matlin seems to judge the film as guilty based on the tag line for its coming attractions’ trailer: “Where the prehistoric meets the prepubescent.” Why does “prehistory,” namely dinosaurs, “meeting the prepubescent” immediately suggest pedophilia? What kind of sick mind makes interpretations of that nature? Perhaps Matlin should go after Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, and other blue nose members of the establishment who advocate forgiving Roman Polanski for drugging a 13 year-old girl with Quaaludes and sodomizing her!
Matlin’s Original Article:
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/hulucination/2010/03/02/nymphoid-barbarian-dinosaur-hell-hulu-s-mega-popular-movie-about-child?page=full
Watch A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell on Hulu:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/130446/nymphoid-barbarian-in-dinosaur-hell
[1] Matlin refers to a dinosaur in the trailer, by the way, as the “Chromasaurus” – even this he gets wrong. It’s the “Tromasaurus.”