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Widescreen Editions The Toxic Avenger WS Unrated Dir Cut Mega-Rare NEW LaserDisc Horror

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Spoof of Heroic Monster Movies with 'Gleeful Violence'

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Spoof of Heroic Monster Movies with 'Gleeful Violence'

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Mega-Rare Factory-Sealed, Director's Cut, Remastered, Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint Condition

Mitchell Cohen and Robert Prichard in...

The Toxic Avenger

( Catalog Number TRO7000 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Audio-Commmentary
Limited Edition Gold Disc
Mini-Poster Signed by Creator Lloyd Kaufman
Vintage Copy of "The Troma Times"
"I Love Toxie" Sticker
Deleted Scenes
Original Theatrical Trailer

The Toxic Avenger
1985 - 90 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
One moment Melvin's a 90 pound weakling, and the next -- with a little help from some toxic waste -- he's THE TOXIC AVENGER! Now Melvin's in shape to get back at all the creeps who have ever tormented him. So those bad guys had better watch out... because Melvin's got superpowers beyond their imagination.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In a crazy spoof of heroic monster movies that spawned two sequels, The Toxic Avenger is about the transformation of a mild-mannered, scrawny janitor into a thundering, muscular hero out for justice, morality, and in one case, a bit of sex. Melvin (Mark Torgl) has a job as a custodian at a work-out club where his humiliating treatment by the musclebound reaches an ugly climax in which Melvin is forced to jump out of a window. He lands in a toxic waste truck, and by some miracle of modern pollution he is transformed into a pumped-up monster, heretofore known as the Toxic Avenger (Mitchell Cohen). From that moment on, TA saves damsels and others in distress by some pretty gory mauling and maiming but finds his moment of fulfillment too. --- Eleanor Mannikka

One of the most gleefully violent and tasteless super-human hero films ever to have been committed to celluloid, The Toxic Avenger proved the film that truly launched Troma as the center of the universe for mindless and endearingly sleazy entertainment. Upon viewing the film in retrospect, the fact that it spawned a series of lucrative sequels for Troma seems a given, though the simultaneous fact that it also proved the forerunner to a fairly popular but short-lived Saturday morning kiddie cartoon (complete with action figure tie-ins) is no less than mind-boggling considering the film's shockingly graphic violence towards children. Though anyone with a sensitive stomach and the easily (and, perhaps, not so easily) offended should be forewarned to avoid this film at all costs, those with a hearty sense of pitch-black humor will certainly find this no-budget, no-holds-barred cartoonish shock-a-thon required viewing. Best appreciated with a group of similarly twisted gore-hounds in the wee hours of a Saturday night, co-directors and Troma Studios co-founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Hertz pull out all the stops in playing such atrocities as a shotgun pointed at a baby and a child whose head is smashed repeatedly in graphic detail under the wheels of a car for laughs. While taken out of context these situations would read as some of the most horrifying imaginable, combined with sub-par and gleefully campy acting, cheap gore effects and an infectively giddy sense of anarchy, they work to create an atmosphere in which these otherwise unforgivable events are rendered so improbable that they become ridiculously humorous. Reportedly inspired to create this extreme effort after hearing that horror films were a dead genre, Kaufman may not have succeeded in single-handedly revitalizing the truly effective horror film, though he without question created one of the most influential exercises in bad taste since Pink Flamingos. --- Jason Buchanan

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Cast for The Toxic Avenger

Andree Maranda - Sara
Mitchell Cohen - The Toxic Avenger
Jennifer Babtist - Wanda
Cindy Manion - Julie
Robert Prichard - Slug
Mark Torgl - Melvin
Gary Schneider - Bozo
Dick Martinsen - Officer O'Clancy
Chris Liano - Walter Harris
Norma Pratt - Mrs.Haskell
Myrna Williams - The Kansas Runaway
Betty Pia - Woman In Salon
Margaret Riley - Lady Crossing Street
Peter Racini - policeman
Alisha Riggs - Girl In Health Club
Mike Russo - Rico
Joe Zarro - Mr. Wilson
Donna Winter - Mayor's Secretary
Martin Scott McMann - Policeman
Albert Pia - Tom Wrightson
Jessica Perkins - T-Shirt Salesperson
Bruce Morton - Tony
Sherry Park - Woman In Salon
Samuel Weil
Andrea Suter - Mayor's Secretary
Larry Sutton - Frank
Joe Supor, Jr. - truck driver
John Stobaeus - Truck Partner
David N. Weiss - Chief of Police
William Christopher Weiss - Bodybuilder
Vickie Usher - Woman In Salon
Pat Ryan, Jr. - Mayor Belgoody
Ryan Sexton - Johnny
Barry Shapiro - Bruce
Cosmo Wilder - Mayor's Secretary
Donna-Marie Stipo - Health Club Member
Andy Stamatin - Chauncey
Teresa Simpson - Body Builder
Dennis Souder - Drug Dealer
Dan Snow - Cigar Face
Bruce Zimmerman - Policeman
Mary Cox - Distressed Mother
Andrew Craig - Fred
Don Costello - Sara's neighbor
Teddy Copley - Blonde Teeny Bopper
Charles di Cagno - Policeman
Joe Curtis - Policeman
June de Young - Reporter
Mary Ellen David - Woman Whose Car Gets Stolen
Brigitte Douglaston - Mayor's Secretary
Giorgio Calderone - Hero fan club member
Joe Caldrone - boy selling t-shirts
Xavier Barquet - Man Killed In Mexican Restaurant
Nancy Compansanto - Mayor's Secretary
Nathan Jon Castaldi - Baby In Restaurant
D.J. Calvitto - Boy On Bicycle
Eileen Nad Castaldi - Woman In Restaurant
Lisa Martinsen - Hero fan club member
Patrick Kilpatrick - Leroy
Matt Klan - Boy Hero
Kenneth Kessler - Toxic Avenger [Voice]
Vicki Juditz - Girl In Health Club
Roxanne Maranda - Girl In Restaurant
William Klan - Interviewer
Sarabel Levinson - Melvin's Mom
Charles Lee - Nipples
Richard Duggan - Ice Cream M

Crew for The Toxic Avenger

Michael Herz - Director / Producer
Lloyd Kaufman - Director / Cinematographer / Producer / Screenwriter
Joe Ritter - Screenwriter
Stuart Strutin - Screenwriter
Gay Partington Terry - Screenwriter
James London - Cinematographer
Richard Haines - Editor
Alan J. Polyniak - Editor
Alexandra Mazur - Art Director
Barry Shapiro - Art Director
Jennifer Aspinall - Special Effects
Tom Lauten - Special Effects
Scott Leva - Stunts

Feature Details

Title: The Toxic Avenger
Feature Release Date: 1985
Genre: Horror
Rating: R
Color: Color
Runtime: 90 Minutes
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 1.85:1
Playback Format: CLV

IMDB Info...

Technical Details

Catalog Number: TRO7000
UPC: 790357700035
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi
Publisher: Troma Video

Sides: 2
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: TRO7000-N
Shipping Weight: 1 lbs
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Mega-Rare Factory-Sealed, Director's Cut, Remastered, Widescreen, LaserDisc Movie

Near-Mint Condition

Mitchell Cohen and Robert Prichard in...

The Toxic Avenger

( Catalog Number TRO7000 )
(1.85:1) (2 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

LaserDisc Special Features

Best Version on LaserDisc
Audio-Commmentary
Limited Edition Gold Disc
Mini-Poster Signed by Creator Lloyd Kaufman
Vintage Copy of "The Troma Times"
"I Love Toxie" Sticker
Deleted Scenes
Original Theatrical Trailer

The Toxic Avenger
1985 - 90 min. - Color
Genre: Horror
Rated R
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
One moment Melvin's a 90 pound weakling, and the next -- with a little help from some toxic waste -- he's THE TOXIC AVENGER! Now Melvin's in shape to get back at all the creeps who have ever tormented him. So those bad guys had better watch out... because Melvin's got superpowers beyond their imagination.

LaserDisc Movie Review:
In a crazy spoof of heroic monster movies that spawned two sequels, The Toxic Avenger is about the transformation of a mild-mannered, scrawny janitor into a thundering, muscular hero out for justice, morality, and in one case, a bit of sex. Melvin (Mark Torgl) has a job as a custodian at a work-out club where his humiliating treatment by the musclebound reaches an ugly climax in which Melvin is forced to jump out of a window. He lands in a toxic waste truck, and by some miracle of modern pollution he is transformed into a pumped-up monster, heretofore known as the Toxic Avenger (Mitchell Cohen). From that moment on, TA saves damsels and others in distress by some pretty gory mauling and maiming but finds his moment of fulfillment too. --- Eleanor Mannikka

One of the most gleefully violent and tasteless super-human hero films ever to have been committed to celluloid, The Toxic Avenger proved the film that truly launched Troma as the center of the universe for mindless and endearingly sleazy entertainment. Upon viewing the film in retrospect, the fact that it spawned a series of lucrative sequels for Troma seems a given, though the simultaneous fact that it also proved the forerunner to a fairly popular but short-lived Saturday morning kiddie cartoon (complete with action figure tie-ins) is no less than mind-boggling considering the film's shockingly graphic violence towards children. Though anyone with a sensitive stomach and the easily (and, perhaps, not so easily) offended should be forewarned to avoid this film at all costs, those with a hearty sense of pitch-black humor will certainly find this no-budget, no-holds-barred cartoonish shock-a-thon required viewing. Best appreciated with a group of similarly twisted gore-hounds in the wee hours of a Saturday night, co-directors and Troma Studios co-founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Hertz pull out all the stops in playing such atrocities as a shotgun pointed at a baby and a child whose head is smashed repeatedly in graphic detail under the wheels of a car for laughs. While taken out of context these situations would read as some of the most horrifying imaginable, combined with sub-par and gleefully campy acting, cheap gore effects and an infectively giddy sense of anarchy, they work to create an atmosphere in which these otherwise unforgivable events are rendered so improbable that they become ridiculously humorous. Reportedly inspired to create this extreme effort after hearing that horror films were a dead genre, Kaufman may not have succeeded in single-handedly revitalizing the truly effective horror film, though he without question created one of the most influential exercises in bad taste since Pink Flamingos. --- Jason Buchanan

Thanks for Visiting DaDon's !

Reviews, Articles, Newsletter and Information for Movies on LaserDisc LD Laser Disc, LazerDisc.

Cast for The Toxic Avenger

Andree Maranda - Sara
Mitchell Cohen - The Toxic Avenger
Jennifer Babtist - Wanda
Cindy Manion - Julie
Robert Prichard - Slug
Mark Torgl - Melvin
Gary Schneider - Bozo
Dick Martinsen - Officer O'Clancy
Chris Liano - Walter Harris
Norma Pratt - Mrs.Haskell
Myrna Williams - The Kansas Runaway
Betty Pia - Woman In Salon
Margaret Riley - Lady Crossing Street
Peter Racini - policeman
Alisha Riggs - Girl In Health Club
Mike Russo - Rico
Joe Zarro - Mr. Wilson
Donna Winter - Mayor's Secretary
Martin Scott McMann - Policeman
Albert Pia - Tom Wrightson
Jessica Perkins - T-Shirt Salesperson
Bruce Morton - Tony
Sherry Park - Woman In Salon
Samuel Weil
Andrea Suter - Mayor's Secretary
Larry Sutton - Frank
Joe Supor, Jr. - truck driver
John Stobaeus - Truck Partner
David N. Weiss - Chief of Police
William Christopher Weiss - Bodybuilder
Vickie Usher - Woman In Salon
Pat Ryan, Jr. - Mayor Belgoody
Ryan Sexton - Johnny
Barry Shapiro - Bruce
Cosmo Wilder - Mayor's Secretary
Donna-Marie Stipo - Health Club Member
Andy Stamatin - Chauncey
Teresa Simpson - Body Builder
Dennis Souder - Drug Dealer
Dan Snow - Cigar Face
Bruce Zimmerman - Policeman
Mary Cox - Distressed Mother
Andrew Craig - Fred
Don Costello - Sara's neighbor
Teddy Copley - Blonde Teeny Bopper
Charles di Cagno - Policeman
Joe Curtis - Policeman
June de Young - Reporter
Mary Ellen David - Woman Whose Car Gets Stolen
Brigitte Douglaston - Mayor's Secretary
Giorgio Calderone - Hero fan club member
Joe Caldrone - boy selling t-shirts
Xavier Barquet - Man Killed In Mexican Restaurant
Nancy Compansanto - Mayor's Secretary
Nathan Jon Castaldi - Baby In Restaurant
D.J. Calvitto - Boy On Bicycle
Eileen Nad Castaldi - Woman In Restaurant
Lisa Martinsen - Hero fan club member
Patrick Kilpatrick - Leroy
Matt Klan - Boy Hero
Kenneth Kessler - Toxic Avenger [Voice]
Vicki Juditz - Girl In Health Club
Roxanne Maranda - Girl In Restaurant
William Klan - Interviewer
Sarabel Levinson - Melvin's Mom
Charles Lee - Nipples
Richard Duggan - Ice Cream M

Crew for The Toxic Avenger

Michael Herz - Director / Producer
Lloyd Kaufman - Director / Cinematographer / Producer / Screenwriter
Joe Ritter - Screenwriter
Stuart Strutin - Screenwriter
Gay Partington Terry - Screenwriter
James London - Cinematographer
Richard Haines - Editor
Alan J. Polyniak - Editor
Alexandra Mazur - Art Director
Barry Shapiro - Art Director
Jennifer Aspinall - Special Effects
Tom Lauten - Special Effects
Scott Leva - Stunts

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