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Troma's War (1988)

Troma's War poster
Directed by
Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Genre
comedy horror, war film, action comedy film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
R
Rating
5.4 of 10 from 67 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A plane full of passengers crashes on a remote island. They find the island is run by a terrorist group. The survivors fight back using whatever weapons they can find.

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What happens

Troma's War, also known as 1,000 Ways to Die in the United States, is a 1988 American action-adventure comedy film written by Lloyd Kaufman and Mitchell Dana and directed by Michael Herz and Kaufman (credited as Samuel Weil). It began production in 1986 and was released in theaters in 1988 shortly after Class of Nuke 'Em High was done making its rounds at the box office. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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