Product Description

He was 98lbs of pure nerd until he fell into a barrel of Toxic waste and transformed into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength! In 1985, The Toxic Avenger opened in one NYC movie theater but just a few short years later, Toxie would become a household name! Up in the superheroic stratosphere with characters as eclectic as Swamp Thing, Spidey, and the Incredible Hulk, The Toxic Avenger endures till this day! Through three smash hit sequels, a children’s cartoon show, lines of comics, toys, public appearances and even his own Nintendo video game, Toxie has been the creature on the scene! From the NY Times to Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign, and beyond, few figures receive as much adoration as the Toxic Avenger, and this wacky, violent and hilarious movie started it all! The DVD release includes tons of tromatic extras, including lost scenes, an interactive tour of Troma Studios and an audio-commentary track from Troma president and creator of the Toxic Avenger, Lloyd Kaufman! The toxic Avenger is presented uncut and uncensored, featuring the full head-crushing scene!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15396 in DVD
• Released on: 1998-03-25
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Color, Director's Cut, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 82 minutes

Amazon.com
The most widely known of Troma Films' stable of low-budget exploitation, The Toxic Avenger is an exuberantly crude poke at superheroes and monster movies, delivered with a healthy dose of cheap gags, splattery special effects, and T&A. It's also a genuinely funny film, and its no-holds-barred attitude has a grubby charm that eludes most gross-out comedies. The Toxic Avenger opens with an absurdly vicious crew preying upon Melvin, a nebbishy janitor. Their pranks land him in a vat of chemical waste, which transforms him into a lumpy monster that deals out gruesome revenge. Directors (and Troma company heads) Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz aim low in detailing "Toxie's" vengeance spree, and the subsequent carnage should please gorehounds. But they're also savvy enough recognize the film's limitations, and wisely camp things with plenty of slapstick. The result is a frantic and funny mess that should amuse even the most dour cult movie fan. --Paul Gaita

DVD features
As with most Troma DVDs, The Toxic Avenger is loaded with extras that were either shot specifically for the release or culled from their vaults. Codirector Lloyd Kaufman provides a very amusing (and loud!) commentary track that repeats and occasionally supplements many of the stories he told about the film in his terrific 1998 autobiography, All I Need to Know About Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger. A collection of missing footage, production stills, and trailers for other Troma titles fill out the archival material; the disc is rounded out by commentary by actor Mark Torgl (who played Melvin), a short "interview" with the Toxic Avenger, and clips from the animated series Toxic Crusaders. --Paul Gaita

The New York Daily News
"...we would watch it again in a minute!"

Customer Reviews

insanly awesome movie
i remember seeing the VHS copys when i went to the video store as a kid. I thought it was a horror movie and never saw it, until now. i was familiar with the TROMA company before this movie. it was on T.V. on G4. so i decided to watch it. after that i thought it was the craziest, funniest movie i have ever seen. i went out and got it right away. this is a must own classic. if you find this movie "distasteful" then you have no sense of humor.

Definately worth your time.
After hearing for so many years about The Toxic Avenger, I made it my mission in life to hunt this movie down. I spent a lot of time at the local Hastings looking for it, but it seems big companies have a thing against Troma films. Hm, I wonder why.
This search continued for many years, and finally when I was about to give up, the Heaven's blessed me. Kind of. I was looking around in the store and decided to look up TTA in their computer system. To my luck, it said the store had one copy of the 21st Anniversary Edition in stock. So, naturally, I went looking for it, and, of course, couldn't find it on the shelves. Now, when I say local Hastings, I really mean Hastings-that-I-have-to-drive-thirty-miles-to-get-to. The lady said that it was probably still in the back and I asked her to go look, and of course she feeds me some line of crap saying that it's probably still boxed or whatever and she doesn't have time to look for it, try back next week. So I did. And I found it.
So I pop it in my DVD player and start watching it. At first, I was kind of thinking, 'Oh man, what did I just do?' because the acting in the beginning was atrocious. But then I realized it was part of the film's charm. And from there, the film just impressed me, especially with the few-but-gory death scenes. It was controversial, and I finally understood why Wal Mart hates Troma.
If you're looking for something with a budget, good acting, and some sort of class, this is not the place to look. Only special people can appreciate a Troma film, and I am proud to say that I am one of these special people. If you appreciate low budget film making with little to no candor, you just can't go wrong with a Troma film. Especially this one.

Only In Tromaville Can You Get Away With Murder In Public
It's pretty tame by today's standards, but the Toxic Avenger is still one of the best movies of the gore/horror genre that you can find today. In it's day, it had some pretty shocking scenes. How far have when come in society that it doesn't even phase me to see a kid getting his head run over by a car? That is only one of the many scenes that are very memorable from this movie. In the world of many superheroes, there is only one Toxic Avenger, a hero that can kill people and be cheered instead of arrested. If you love B-rated movies from the 80s, and this film is proudly B-rated, then this is for you. A classic for sure, but not everyone will find it appealing.