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The Toxic Avenger
Directed by
Lloyd Kaufman
,
Michael Herz
R
1984
82m
Comedy
,
Science Fiction
,
and more
6.2
70%
64%
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Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. Now evildoers will have a lot to lose.
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Cast of The Toxic Avenger
Andree Maranda
Sara
Mitch Cohen
The Toxic Avenger
Jennifer Prichard
Wanda
Cindy Manion
Julie
Robert Prichard
Slug
Gary Schneider
Bozo
Pat Ryan
Mayor Belgoody
Mark Torgl
Melvin
Dick Martinsen
Officer O'Clancy
Chris Liano
Walter Harris
David Weiss
Chief of Police
Dan Snow
Cigar Face
Doug Isbecque
Knuckles
Charles Lee Jr.
Nipples
Patrick Kilpatrick
Leroy
Larry Sulton
Frank
Michael Russo
Rico
Norma Pratt
Mrs. Haskell
Andrew Craig
Fred
Ryan Sexton
Johnny
Sarabel Levinson
Melvin's Mom
Al Pia
Tom Wrightson
Reuben Guss
Dr. Snodburger
Kenneth Kessler
Toxic Avenger's Voice (voice)
Barbara Gurskey
Barbie
Rick Collins
Bully
Randy Schein
Bozo's Friend
Richard Duggan
Ice Cream Man
Donna Winter
Mayor's Secretary
Marisa Tomei
Health Club Girl (uncredited)
Lloyd Kaufman
Director / Writer / Producer
Michael Herz
Director / Producer
Joe Ritter
Writer
The Toxic Avenger Ratings & Reviews
Shamus2k
March 19, 2025
High up to column of so bad it's good.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
It sports a frenzied and freewheeling attitude that none of the follow-ups were able to recapture.
Deep Focus Review
Brian Eggert
Watching The Toxic Avenger isn't about literalism or taking the material seriously as a text; it's about identifying with Troma's defiance of good taste and low culture, therein celebrating its excessive forms of deviancy in all their many violations.
Stream on Demand
Sean Axmaker
The humor is not merely sophomoric and silly, it's aggressively so, and the bargain basement gore effects are over-the-top and excessive.
Cinema Crazed
Felix Vasquez Jr.
Leave it to Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz to take typical superhero tropes and twist in to something wonderfully gruesome and absurd.
Blu-ray.com
Brian Orndorf
Still manages to trigger disgust and a handful of laughs, representing not only a key Troma financial victory, but it's quite possibly their finest original work.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Cruddy, primal, extremely violent, and fairly entertaining, it captures some of the snot-flicking spirit of the old EC comics.
TV Guide
Though it is silly, sleazy, and graphically violent, The Toxic Avenger does hold a bit of warped charm for fans of this sort of thing.
Variety
An outlandish mix of gory violence and realistic special effects.
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Ken Hanke
It's your basic nerd revenge fantasy, only decked out in gore and over-the-top, bad-taste gags.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
[It] may be trash, but it has a maniacally farcical sense of humor, and Tromaville's evildoers are dispatched in ingenious ways.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The Toxic Avenger tells the humorous story of a geeky weakling who is turned into a superhero when he is slimed by some toxic waste.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
The Toxic Avenger is an incredibly bizarre flick, combining silly jokes with outrageous gore, but it works.
eFilmCritic.com
Brian Mckay
It's passable entertainment for a while, but even with the short 87 minute running time it starts to feel a bit long in the tooth
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
It has crude production values, weak humor, and an inexplicable following.
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