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The Toxic Avenger
1985 82m R
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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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Directed By
Lloyd Kaufman
,
Michael Herz
Written By
Joe Ritter
,
Lloyd Kaufman
Studio
Troma Entertainment
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)
The Toxic Avenger Reviews
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.
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.
Reel Film Reviews
David Nusair
The Toxic Avenger is an incredibly bizarre flick, combining silly jokes with outrageous gore, but it works.
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.
rec.arts.movies.reviews
Mark R. Leeper
It has crude production values, weak humor, and an inexplicable following.
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
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.
Chicago Reader
Dave Kehr
Cruddy, primal, extremely violent, and fairly entertaining, it captures some of the snot-flicking spirit of the old EC comics.
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.
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.
FilmLand Empire
Anton Bitel
here, beneath all the smiles and sun and buff bodies, is a vision of the US as a place of corruption, pollution, and violent criminality, with the ordinary law-abiding "little people" constantly at the mercy of a toxic American Dream.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
It sports a frenzied and freewheeling attitude that none of the follow-ups were able to recapture.
Variety
An outlandish mix of gory violence and realistic special effects.
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.
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