Trauma

Seems like every Troma-produced film directed by Lloyd Kaufman is about childhood trauma, usually of a psychosexual/sadomasochistic nature. So its easily in the same family as the neurotic, self-psychoanalytical, fetishy genre work of Hitchcock, Kubrick, DePalma, Argento, Fincher, Tarantino, Godard, Polanski, Woody, Wes Anderson, Landis, Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Jerry Lewis, Billy Wilder, David Lynch, so many others. These artists are true creatives but suffer a psyche damage (trauma) from the dangers of our politicized totalitarian regimes.

They are all kind of working class guys who feel an exclusion from high class "worthy" women, yet keenly aware that its an impersonal class-driven schism that has marked them and not objective failure. They are all directors concerned with "the victim" in society's hunger games. But freely indulge the dark fantasy it presents so as to feverishly insult and expose its lack of grace. They play the fool in the king's court, playing to and supporting his reign but trying to self-reflect, educate and effectively return some democracy to this elite power with total carte blache in our running our lives by censoring and writing our dialogue.