The Toxic Avenger Movie Review 1986

Tongue-in-cheek, cult fave has 98-pound weakling Melvin (Torgl) fall into barrel of toxic waste to emerge as Toxie (Cohen), a lumbering, bloodthirsty hulk of sludge and mire. He falls for blind babe Sara (Maranda) and sets out to do good (and get revenge). Set in the legendary city of TromaVille. Billed as "The first Super-Hero from New Jersey." Followed by: "The Toxic Avenger, Part 2;" "The Toxic Avenger, Part 3: The Last Temptation of Toxie;" and "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger, Part 4."

Distribution

Troma Entertainment, 733 9th Ave., New York, NY 10019, Phone: (212)757-4555, Toll-free: 800-83-TROMA, Fax: (212)399-9885, Email: tromcon@aol.com, URL: http://www.troma.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Horror Comedy, Blindness, Troma Films, Eco-Vengeance!, New Jersey

Screenplay

Joe Ritter

Cast

Mitchell Cohen, Andree Maranda, Jennifer Baptist, Robert Prichard, Cindy Manion, Mark Torgl, David Weiss

Cinematography

James London

Director

Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

Producer

Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz, Troma Team