Tag: the toxic advenger
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Classic Review: The Toxic Avenger (1984): A Mop-Wielding Misfit Who Mutated Cult Cinema
In the radioactive stew of 1980s genre filmmaking, few films are as gloriously grotesque, politically irreverent, and culturally enduring as The Toxic Avenger. Released in 1984 by the renegade studio Troma Entertainment, this low-budget black comedy splatter film directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz didn’t just birth a mutant superhero—it birthed a movement. What…