Troma Entertainment is an American independent film production and distribution company founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974.

The company produces low-budget independent movies that play on 1950s horror with elements of farce. Many Troma films contain social commentary.

Troma films are B-movies known for their surrealistic or automatistic nature, along with their use of shocking imagery; some would categorize them as "shock exploitation films". They typically contain overt sexuality, nudity, and intentionally sadistic, gory, and blatant graphic violence, so much that the term "Troma film" has become synonymous with these characteristics. Troma's slogan is Movies of the Future. Troma reuses the same props, actors, and scenes repeatedly, sometimes to save money. At a certain point, however, this became another hallmark of Troma. Examples include a severed leg, a penis monster, and the flipping and exploding car filmed for the movie Sgt. Kabukiman, NYPD, which is used in place of any other car that needs to crash and explode.

Lloyd Kaufman (born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, including The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet. Kaufman also serves on the board of the Independent Film & Television Alliance of which he is the former President.

Kaufman was born Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Jr. in New York City, New York, the son of Ruth (née Fried) and Stanley Lloyd Kaufman, Sr. a lawyer.

Kaufman graduated from Yale University with the class of 1968, where he majored in Chinese studies. His Yale classmates included Oliver Stone and George W. Bush. Originally intending to become a social worker, he became fast friends with student filmmaker Robert Edelstein and Eric Sherman (son of filmmaker Vincent Sherman), who introduced him to his future lifelong obsession, cinema. Some of Lloyd's favorite filmmakers include John Ford, Kenji Mizoguchi, Ernst Lubitsch, Stan Brakhage and Franklin Schaffner. Like the members of Monty Python troupe, who were a big influence on him, Kaufman read Punch magazine and enjoyed the theatrical performances of Beyond the Fringe, Flanders & Swann, etc.

Ryan Barrett (born December 27, 1982) is a British boxer from Thamesmead, London, England. He is the current English Super Featherweight Champion and former British Masters Featherweight champion, and is probably most famous for his loss to 2004 Athens Olympics silver medalist Amir Khan via a T.K.O. Since which he has gone on to fight for both British and World titles.

Started Boxing at the age of 7 with Thamesmead ABC then moved to Eltham ABC where he won school boy titles and class B and C N.A.B.C titles under the training of Father Steve Barrett, Ryan also finished with a record of 75 fights 60 wins 15 losses.

Made Pro Debut 13 June 2002 British masters featherweight champion Won on points against Jamie McKeever. British featherweight title challenger Lost round 5 against John Simpson. English superfeatherweight champion Won round 3 against Femi Fehintola. International masters lightweight champion Won round 1 against Mark Alexander. W.B.U lightweight world title challenger Lost on points against Willie Limond.