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The Toxic Avenger (1984)

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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.

Cast

  • Andree Maranda
  • Mitchell Cohen
  • Mark Torgl
  • Jennifer Babtist
  • Cindy Manion
  • Robert Prichard

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63

Cruddy, primal, extremely violent, and fairly entertaining, this 1984 feature from the New York-based exploitation outfit Troma, Inc. (Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz) captures some of the snot-flicking spirit of the old EC comics. How much you'll enjoy its deliberate crudity probably depends on how far you can let yourself regress to surly adolescence.

Metacritic review by Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
20

All-in-all a fairly unpleasant experience for most audiences.

Metacritic review by Kim Newman
Kim Newman
Empire
60

The Toxic Avenger may be trash, but it has a maniacally farcical sense of humor, and Tromaville's evildoers are dispatched in ingenious ways. One is dry-cleaned to death, another made into pizza, a third partly french-fried.

Metacritic review by Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
The New York Times