The Toxic Avenger (1984)
THE FIRST SUPERHUMAN-HERO... FROM NEW JERSEY!
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.
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They remade this movie recently with Peter Dinklage and Kevin Bacon but they refuse to actually release it for some reason: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1633359/
Like... It's actually finished? There is a full Toxic Avenger remake, with Kevin fucking Bacon in it, just... Sitting around?
Yep. They showed it at a film festival a year ago.
I am desperately awaiting it. But it seems it's producer and distributor issues.
It's infuriating lol. One of the rare remakes I am looking forward to, and this happens
The whole Toxic Avenger series is the best thing to come out of Troma Films. Period. Full stop.
Shit was actually successful enough to have gotten a cartoon series and action figures.
I've only watched Cannibal the Musical from them. Is the Toxic Avenger actually good?
Oh, holy fuck, it's better than good.
It's genre defining masterpiece of absurdist escapism.
No bullshit, no joking, it's one movie everyone should see once, even if they end up not liking it because it exemplifies what a B movie can be, and why they're so fun. And, it manages to be coherent despite the absurdity of the premise and the script. There's a story there that makes sense, and resonates in the same way Spider-Man does. Again, I'm not joking.
I have to keep saying I'm not joking because Toxie gets pigeon holed as comedy, and it is a comedy as much as anything else, but Ritter and Kaufman crafted a brilliant script in terms of cultural relevancy, plus Herz and Kaufman made it work on screen with a minimal budget. That is filmmaking at its purest. The cast, despite largely being mediocre or bad actors in an objective way, manage to work together to be greater than the sum of their skill.
And yes, I know exactly what I'm saying and how it looks lol. But, again, I'm not joking. I really think the Toxic Avenger stands out as not only the best Troma film, and at least in the top ten of all B movies, and it deserves to be held to the same esteem and affection as more mainstream movies.
cheesy violence and T&A
how can it go wrong?!
Exactly!
Dope. I just watched Hellboy and the Crooked Man and saw some value in that so I'll give it a shot.
Ok, sold. I'm gonna rewatch it! Been decades. So damn excited
@IMongoose @Kolanaki Troma distributed Cannibal: The Musical, but wasn't involved in production.
Troma movies are not actually good, on purpose.
Ya, I just had that movie as a reference point to their budget lol.
It's a fun trip.
Hell no.
And video games
The movie that put Troma(ville) on the map.
My friend in highschool was obsessed with Troma movies. I'll never forget the first time I saw the six foot penis monster in Tromeo and Juliet.
I've been trying to talk my spouse into watching that one for years. She refuses. Sigh.
Maybe try Poultrygeist?
My wife just got me the Mondo print of this movie poster for our anniversary last week. After 33 years she is still a keeper!
That's wonderful! ♥️
The cartoon is also fantastic.
The Toxic Avenger is also a cool synthwave artist, named after this movie iirc. Only reason I know this movie exists is because I looked up the artist one day
A hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength: New Jersey’s first superhero!
I'm about to cornhole me a blind bitch!
One of my all time favorites. Wear my Tromaville Health Club shirt on the regular.
A Toxic Avenger? Isn’t that just Iron man?
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