''Tales from the Crapper'' is a 2004

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'' comics. The film was released by

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co-founder and

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director and producer

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plays the Crap Keeper. He presents the viewers with two horror stories that contain gore, nudity, fat men, talking penises,

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scenes,

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s, and appearances by porn star

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and the band

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. The film was purportedly shot over three years with six directors and close to fifteen writers.

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Production

The film started pre-production in early 2001, after a successful digitized web-comic starring Yaniv Sharon entitled ''Tales From the Crapper'' hit the Troma website. After the three-part comic was done, Troma President Lloyd Kaufman wanted a real series on their website to be made. A contract was done with

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, who had recently produced and directed the film ''The Rowdy Girls'' which Troma distributed. The budget for the first season was $200,000 USD. After more than a year of production, Troma received the footage that was shot and it was unwatchable. In some cases, there was missing sound, the camera-work seemed unprofessional. All of the episodes were unfinished. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz were even more displeased when they found out that the entire budget was gone. In order to salvage the project, Lloyd Kaufman got former Troma alumni to re-work the script and find new uses for the footage shot. In 2003, re-shooting began both in Los Angeles and New York with Kaufman overseeing production. Gabriel Friedman, Troma's editor at the time, had made a list of the shots that were needed for the rewrites that they were working on. Despite Friedman and Kaufman being clear on what to do, many problems arose as well in the re-shoot with incompetent crew members. This led to years of post-production. In order to make scenes fit together and due to the lack of sound on most of the footage, many scenes had to be re-dubbed. Both segments, which started out as horror films with a slice of comedy, had now become over-the-top comedy.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tales From The Crapper American comedy horror films American direct-to-video films 2000s comedy horror films American anthology films 2004 direct-to-video films 2004 films Films directed by Chad Ferrin Films directed by Lloyd Kaufman Troma Entertainment films Parodies of horror 2000s English-language films 2000s American films

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