(In the best way.) "[15] Keith Phipps from The A.V. Toxie takes Sarah back to her home, where they begin to get to know one another and subsequently become romantically involved. [3] Two less successful sequels, The Toxic Avenger Part II and The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, were filmed as one. Legendary still hasn’t set a release date for the new film. The early antagonists are hip body builders who are some seriously sadistic murders. The Toxic Avenger is born when meek mop boy Melvin falls into a vat of toxic waste. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. As a low-budget B-movie, The Toxic Avenger became known for its campy … The Toxic Avenger is sick and ballsy, yet kind of sweet. The Toxic Avenger must defend his friends from his own evil alternate universe doppelgänger, The Noxious Offender. Alpha Lyrae 6. Tromaville has a monstrous new hero. They are eventually discovered, and the Mayor and the National Guard come to kill him, but the people of Tromaville will have none of it. For years, Lloyd Kaufman and company were making cheesy sex comedies. $50 to $100. Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. October 26, 2014. pg. Tremblay joins a cast of the previously announced Peter Dinklage. [citation needed], In 2019, it was announced that Legendary Entertainment would be producing a reboot of the film, with original creators Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment serving as producers, and Macon Blair serving as writer and director.[4]. Elsewhere in Tromaville, a gang of three men are holding up a Mexican restaurant and attack a blind woman named Sara (Andree Maranda). Directions. On March 7, 2006; the film was released by Koch Entertainment. Mild-mannered Melvin (Mark Torgl) works at the Tromaville Athletic Club, mopping up after the horrible patrons. Toxie is nearly beaten until he discovers one of his new powers he picked up in Japan. The pupils at a high school next to a nuclear power plant start acting and looking strange after buying contaminated drugs from a plant worker. The Toxic Avenger was the film that "built the house of Troma",[5] and was Troma's first horror film. Mike Arnold and Chris Poole were to rewrite the screenplay. [7] Filming also took place in Depew Park and several surrounding streets in Peekskill, New York. The Toxic Avenger, Look Mum No Computer - Lies - feat. A group of drug dealers, led by the criminal Cigar Face (Dan Snow), are harassing a police officer named O'Clancy (Dick Martinsen), trying to buy him off. Troma would release the film for the first time on Blu-ray on August 12, 2014. The Toxic Avenger was about as much of a B-movie as you could get. [22], On December 10, 2018, it was announced that Legendary Pictures had the rights to reboot the film, with Kaufman and Herz to serve as producers. Troma Entertainment founders and original Toxic Avenger directors Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz are also onboard as producers. View production, box office, & company info. Released by Troma Entertainment in 1984, The Toxic Avenger saw an extremely limited theatrical release before gaining popularity as a cult classic midnight movie at grindhouse theaters in New York City's Greenwich Village. This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic, contemptuous and vain health club members, to the point of accidentally ending up in a vat of toxic waste. The film was released by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget B-movies with campy concepts and gruesome violence. The cartoon series lasted one season. [8], The car chase scene was inspired by the final truck scene in George Miller's film Mad Max 2. Melvin was a mop boy for a local health spa. Director Lloyd Kaufman realized that he had shot far too much footage for one film and re-edited it into two. The setting of the movie in a health club and the movie was given a working title of Health Club Horror. Melvin appears out of nowhere and violently kills the criminals, then leaves a mop on their faces as a call sign. 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