#the-toxic-avenger

#the-toxic-avenger

The Toxic Avenger, the schlocktacular splatterfest from the 1980s, is slashing its way out of video store purgatory this week, with a reboot starring Peter Dinklage and Kevin Bacon-and an innovative marketing campaign. Hybrid studio-distributor Cineverse is hyping the film by working with the nonprofit Undue Medical Debt to wipe out at least $5 million in debt for families struggling to pay their medical bills. (The grand total may end up being much more as another $1 million in debt will be shredded for every million that Toxie takes in from theaters.)

The movie is about this guy who's an unlikely hero who becomes one and fights against the evil forces in this town that are conspiring to sort of take over and harm people, The movie takes place in a slightly heightened reality with over-the-top violence and kind of absurd wild characters, very much paying homage to the Troma films that inspired it, telling a new story within the context of that universe,