Toxic Avenger, The

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The Toxic Avenger

Credits
Title:	The Toxic Avenger
Director:	Michael Herz; Samuel Weil
Writers:	Lloyd Kaufman; Joe Ritter; Gay Partington Terry; Stuart Strutin
Producers:	Michael Herz; Lloyd Kaufman; Stuart Strutin
Cinematography:	Lloyd Kaufman; James London
Editors:	Richard Haines
Production
Distributed by:	Troma Entertainment
Released:	May, 1984
Rating:	R
Running time:	82 min.
Country:	USA
Language:	English
Budget:	$475,000
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The Toxic Avenger is an American independent feature film of the super-hero fantasy and comedy genres with an emphasis on "gross-out" exploitation. It was directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman (as Samuel Weil) with a screenplay written by Kaufman and Joe Ritter. It was produced by Troma Entertainment and premiered in New York City, New York in May, 1984. It opened to limited theatrical release in the U.S. on April 11th, 1986. The premise of the film revolves around a socially awkward mop boy named Melvin Junko, who works at a health spa in the fictional Tromaville in New Jersey. After being bullied by the more athletic patrons of club, he falls out of a window into a vat of toxic chemicals, which transforms him into a muscular mutant. Guided by an instinctive need to destroy evil, the so-called "monster-hero" stalks his way across Tromaville dispensing his own brand of mop-water flavored justice one mutant footstep at a time.

Cast[]

Actor	Role
Andree Maranda	Sara
Mitchell Cohen	Toxic Avenger
Jennifer Babtist	Wanda
Cindy Manion	Julie
Robert Prichard	Slug
Gary Schneider	Bozo
Pat Ryan, Jr.	Peter Belgoody
Mark Torgl	Melvin Ferd
Dick Martinsen	Office O'Clancy
Chris Liano	Walter Harris
David Weiss	Chief of Police
Dan Snow	Cigar Face
Doug Isbecque	Knuckles
Charles Lee, Jr.	Nipples
Pat Kilpatrick	Leroy
Larry Sulton	Frank
Mike Russo	Rico
Norma Pratt	Mrs. Haskell
Andrew Craig	Fred
Ryan Sexton	Johnny
Sarabel Levinson	Melvin's mom
Al Pia	Tom Wrightson
Reuben Guss	Doctor Snodburger
Kenneth Kessler	Toxic Avenger (voice)
Barbara J. Gurskey	Barbie
Donna Winter	Mayor's secretary
Mary Ellen David	Woman whose car gets stolen
Dennis Souder	Drug dealer
Joe Zarro	Mister Wilson
William Christopher Weiss	Body builder
Dan Hogan	Aerobics instructor

Notes & Trivia[]

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The tagline for this film is "Not all monsters are scary to people. Not if it's one fighting crime in the Garden State."
On the movie review aggregate website Rotten Tomatoes, The Toxic Avenger retains a 70% Fresh rating on their Tomatometer based on twenty reviews. It has an audience score of 63% based on more than 10,000 user ratings.
On Metacritic, The Toxic Avenger has a rating of 42 out of 100 based on eight posted critic reviews. It has a user score of 7.6 based on twelve ratings.
Actress Jennifer Babtist is credited as Jennifer Baptist in this film.
In addition to being an on-screen couple, actors Robert Prichard and Jennifer Babtist ended up in a relationship after shooting this film together and got married. They were divorced in 2003.

Recommendations[]

Toxic Avenger Part II
Toxic Avenger Part III
Toxic Avenger IV: Citizen Toxie

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