Boulder will host two new film festivals in 2027: One backed by decades of prestige, celebrity panels and multimillion-dollar distribution deals, and one that once screened a movie called “Surf Nazis Must Die.”

While the first is the Sundance Film Festival, of course, the second is TromaDance, a free-to-attend, free-to-submit festival created by quirky filmmaker Lloyd Kaufman, co-founder of Troma Entertainment, the gleefully grotesque and shamelessly subversive studio behind nearly 50 years of low-budget, high-havoc cinema.

Troma was launched in the 1970s by Kaufman and his producing partner Michael Herz, and quickly became synonymous with blood-soaked cult comedies like “The Toxic Avenger” (’84), “Class of Nuke ’Em High” (’86) and “Tromeo and Juliet” (’96). If you’ve never seen one, exp

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