Peter Dinklage as Toxie in “The Toxic Avenger” Yana Blajeva/Legendary Pictures hide caption toggle caption Yana Blajeva/Legendary Pictures Macon Blair’s take on the 1984 cult classic of the same name starts with spiraling, violent and colorful visuals overlaid with a commandingly grave voiceover from star Peter Dinklage. “I didn’t want any of this. Not the grief. Not the illness. Certainly …
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Photo: Yana Blajeva/Legendary Pictures I don’t think I was supposed to feel emotional during The Toxic Avenger, a movie in which the title character pulls someone’s intestines out through their asshole. But the truth is that I genuinely did get a little teary the first time Toxie triumphantly enters the scene of a hostage situation wielding his radioactive mop and …
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Photo: Yana Blajeva/Legendary Pictures Whither the B-movie? Movies like The Toxic Avenger (1984) — an unbridled superhero spoof that mixed together black comedy and body horror in its mockery of everything from wellness culture to the U.S. government — don’t really get made anymore, which is probably part of why The Toxic Avenger (2025) had such a hard time getting …
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Macon Blair has had a charmed run since 2013’s Cannes Film Festival. That’s when he and childhood best friend Jeremy Saulnier turned heads with their micro-budget revenge thriller, Blue Ruin. In 2015, Saulnier directed Blair in yet another critically acclaimed thriller known as Green Room. The following year, Blair moved into the director’s chair on I Don’t Feel at Home …
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There’s a new movie called “The Toxic Avenger” in theaters. Somehow, that might be a problem for its built-in audience. This movie, which follows a sickly janitor who transforms into a mutant vigilante, is more of a tribute than a remake of the proudly crass 1984 superhero comedy of the same name. That earlier movie has become synonymous with the …
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Nothing makes me feel older than the inescapable, soul-crushing passage of time, which waits for no one and marches ever forward, towards — without any exceptions — our lonely deaths. But coming in second I would say it’s probably Troma, the little independent movie studio that could. And what it could do, was sleaze. Cheap, scuzzy, prurient sleaze with, somehow, …
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An out-there marketing campaign can do wonders for a horror movie, but Cineverse is forgoing anymore stunts to advertise The Toxic Avenger in favor of spending the rest of their budget on something more important, and closer to home, than radioactive justice. In Macon Blair’s long-awaited Troma reboot The Toxic Avenger, Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a downtrodden janitor …
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The Toxic Avenger, a semi-reboot of the 1984 superhero splatter-fest, made the rounds of the festival circuit back in 2023. But all the violence and gore scared off most distributors, so the film—starring Peter Dinklage (Game of Thrones) in the title role—has been languishing in the vault for much of the last two years. Thanks to Cineverse, The Toxic Avenger …
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