The Toxic Avenger1984
“He was 98 lbs. of solid nerd until he became...the Toxic Avenger!”
Directed by Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
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The premise
A gang of thugs devise a cruel hoax that goes horribly wrong as Melvin, a nerdy emaciated janitor at the local health club, is cast through a third story window into a vat of hazardous toxic waste.
Horror Vault's take
When a pathetic health-club janitor named Melvin becomes the target of a sadistic clique's cruel prank, a freak encounter with toxic waste sets him on an explosive new path. What crawls out of that chemical sludge is something New Jersey has never seen — and the town's corrupt underbelly is about to find out the hard way. Part superhero origin story, part gleefully unhinged gore-fest, Troma's cult landmark revels in bad taste with zero apology. If grindhouse excess and absurdist vigilante mayhem are your thing, this is ground zero.
Content: Graphic Violence, Gore, Sadistic Humor, Body Horror, Depictions Of Bullying And Public Humiliation, Person On Fire, Vehicle Violence
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