The Toxic Avenger (film)

The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 American superhero horror comedy film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman credited as Samuel Weil and written by Kaufman and Joe Ritter. The film was released by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget Bmovies with campy concepts and gruesome violence. Virtually ignored upon its first release, The Toxic Avenger caught on with filmgoers after a long and successful midnight movie engagement at the famed Bleecker Street Cinemas in New York City in late 1985. It now is regarded as a cult classic.

Melvin Ferd Mark Torgl is a stereotypical 98pound weakling. He works as a janitor at a health club in the fictional town of Tromaville, New Jersey where the customersparticularly Bozo Gary Schneider, Slug Robert Prichard, Wanda Jennifer Babtist and Julie Cindy Manionharass him constantly. His tormentors get more and more violent until he is tricked into wearing a pink tutu and kissing a sheep. He is chased around the health club and out a second story window. He lands in a drum of toxic waste, which sets him on fire. After running down the street in a ball of flames, Melvin douses the flames in his bathtub. The chemicals cause him to transform into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength.A group of drug dealers, led by the criminal Cigar Face Dan Snow, are harassing a police officer by the name of OClancy Dick Martinsen, trying to buy him off. When he refuses to accept the money, Cigar Face and his gang prepare to castrate him. A large creature Melvin, grotesquely mutated comes out of nowhere and violently kills the criminals, then leaves a mop on their faces as a call sign. Melvin then tries to return home, but his mother is terrified of him and will not let him in the house so Melvin publicly dubbed The Toxic Avenger and hailed as a hero builds a makeshift home in the junkyard. ........

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