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Overview

User Rating:
5.8/10   6,162 votes
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Writers:
Lloyd Kaufman (additional dialogue)
Lloyd Kaufman (story)
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Release Date:
11 April 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Action | Comedy | Horror more
Tagline:
"Melvin was a 90lb. weakling until nuclear waste transformed him into..." [The Toxic Avenger] more
Plot:
This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 nomination more
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(13 articles)
Melvin Movie Stills
 (From 28 Days Later Analysis. 12 June 2009, 7:02 PM, PDT)

Look Out! 'The Toxic Avenger' 5 is Coming!
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User Comments:
The "Citizen Kane," uh, Citizen Toxie of b-pictures... more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Andree Maranda ... Sara
Mitch Cohen ... The Toxic Avenger (as Mitchell Cohen)
Jennifer Prichard ... Wanda (as Jennifer Babtist)
Cindy Manion ... Julie
Robert Prichard ... Slug
Gary Schneider ... Bozo
Pat Ryan ... Mayor Peter Belgoody (as Pat Ryan Jr.)
Mark Torgl ... Melvin Junko
Dick Martinsen ... Officer O'Clancy
Chris Liano ... Walter Harris
Dan Snow ... Cigar Face
Doug Isbecque ... Knuckles
Charles Lee Jr. ... Nipples
Xavier Barquet ... Man Killed In Mexican Restaurant

Patrick Kilpatrick ... Leroy (as Pat Kilpatrick)
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Health Club (USA) (working title)
Health Club Hero (USA) (working title)
Health Club Horror (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
87 min | Canada:78 min | USA:110 min (director's cut) | USA:82 min (unrated version) | Argentina:87 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival)
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
New Zealand:R18 (director's cut) | Iceland:16 | Finland:(Banned) (original rating) (director's cut) | Singapore:(Banned) | Norway:15 (director's cut) | Italy:VM14 (VHS rating) | Australia:R | Finland:K-16 | Finland:K-18 (director's cut) | France:-12 | Norway:18 | UK:18 | USA:Unrated | West Germany:18 | Canada:18+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Argentina:18 | Germany:BPjM Restricted
Filming Locations:
Boonton, New Jersey, USA more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The spinning newspapers were simply newspapers placed on a spinning cheese rack. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Melvin is putting the cream and ice cream on one of the robber's faces, the bowls and bottles, and the ice cream on the robber's face all keep changing position. more
Quotes:
Officer O'Clancy: No way, you're wasting your time.
Cigar Face: That's where you're wrong. YOU'RE wasting our time. And now we're gonna waste you!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in A Tour of the Inferno: Revisiting 'Platoon' (2001) (V) more
Soundtrack:
IS THIS LOVE more

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4 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
The "Citizen Kane," uh, Citizen Toxie of b-pictures..., 11 April 2006
10/10
Author: dee.reid from United States

For those that don't know, there are intentionally "bad" movies, and then there are intentionally bad movies; "The Toxic Avenger" is the latter. Troma Entertainment is the undisputed king of bad b-pictures, but the 1985 cult hit "The Toxic Avenger" ranks as their finest effort. Essentially a take on superhero movies and sci-fi pictures, "The Toxic Avenger" is Troma's "Citizen Kane."

With co-directors Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman at the helm, respective veep and president of Troma Entertainment, "The Toxic Avenger" begins with a humiliating prank gone horribly wrong. Melvin, the resident 90-pound geek and janitor of the Tromaville health club, is fooled into thinking a blonde bimbo wants him. But instead the prank, which involves a stuffed goat and pink tutu (don't ask), goes wrong and ends with Melvin diving out a second-story window and landing in a vat of misplaced toxic waste.

What emerges from the bubbly green goop is Tromaville, New Jersey's hideously deformed, bloodthirsty vigilante mutant monstrosity who sets out on a vendetta against all forms of evil in his hometown, particularly against the jocks (who are too sick to be believable) who made him what he is. Meanwhile, Toxie eventually finds romance with a blind woman who is unaware her boyfriend is responsible for the recent wave of gruesome vigilante killings (in essence, they're the perfect couple).

A sick and depraved sense of humor is flaunted throughout this low-budget film project, which is in itself (to the politically-correct), an inspired, mean-spirited, overtly racist, funny, and completely, utterly insane cult flick that also reveals a slight penchant for animal cruelty.

The acting is atrocious, the gore is plentiful and the low budget shines, but there's no question I loved this flick. Like any horror film, it's rightfully found its place in this film lover's heart.

Vote for Citizen Toxie in 2006!

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