When a downtrodden janitor, Winston Gooze, is exposed to a catastrophic toxic accident, he’s transformed into a new kind of hero: The Toxic Avenger. Now, Toxie must rise from outcast to savior, taking on ruthless corporate overlords and corrupt forces who threaten his son, his friends, and his community.

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Film Cast:

• Winston / Toxie, the Hero: Peter Dinklage
• Wade, the Kid: Jacob Tremblay
• J.J. Doherty, the Wild Card: Taylour Paige
• Kissy Sturnevan, his Associate: Julia Davis
• Thad Barkabus, the Big Boss: Jonny Coyne
• Fritz Garbinger, his Creepy Brother: Elijah Wood
• Bob Garbinger, the Villain: Kevin Bacon
• Guthrie Stockins, the Wise Hobo: David Yow
• Mayor Togar: Sarah Niles
• Mel Ferd, the Crusading Reporter: Shaun Dooley
• Toxie, the Bod: Luisa Guerreiro
• Daisy, the Shopkeeper: Annette Badland
• Dr. Walla, who means well: Sunil Patel
• Agent Sarah Weatherwax, aka Sneaky Cheetah: Margo Cargill
• Shelly, dearly missed: Rebecca O’Mara
• Dennis, the Noisy Slob: Macon Blair
• Lloyd, the Hospital Grump: Lloyd Kaufman
• Monster Garbinger, his Imperfect Self / Him Under the Hood, mysterious guitar: Spencer Wilding
• Kupp, a Science Geek: Kitodar Todorov
• Sawser, another Geek: Sophia Vassili
• Wally, the Butler: Konstantin Ikonomov
• Budd Berserk, crazy/dangerous: Julian Kostov
• DJ Cool Cthulu, tables & black magic: Neda Spasova
• Nightmare Josh, rhythm of madness: Nencho Stefanov
• Venus Devalero, sex bass: Duke Nwamerue
• Zodiac 3000, hype & parkour: Dimitar Bozhilov
• Spence, his Shithead Heir: Abraham Lewis
• Ponytail, a Thug: Ioan Lov
• Keg-Stand, another Thug: Leart Dokle
• Incompetent Mob Doctor: Svetoslav Dobrev
• Cardinal Rooney: Valentin Ganev
• Chief Wormer: Atanas Srebrev
• Detective Swofford: Derek Morse
• Officer Dingus: Nikola Mutafov
• Beat Cop: Emmanuel Todorov
• Fritz Cop: Euan Macnaughton
• “Cornholed”: Nathan Cooper
• “Youse!”: Max Kraus
• “Seriously!”: Adam Othman
• “Triggered?”: Simon Feek
• Louis, the Brave Fry Cook: Owen Davis
• Gut-Shot Manager: Nikolay Stanoev
• Cashier: Kexin Wang
• Bike Helmet Kid, no car for you: Alen Angelov
• Distraught Mother: Laura Giosh
• Toxie Fan Hostage: Mariana Kovacheva
• Protective Hostage: Ulyana Chan
• CJ Doons, formerly Miss Fall Harvest: Lee Eddy
• Rick Feet, the Silver Pro: Ev Lunning
• Bonnie Dimble, on the beat!: Rachel Grode
• J.R. Gile, reporting live!: JR Esposito
• Toxie Witness: Brent Werzner
• Stuart, a Sympathetic Stagehand: John Riho
• Coach Bobby Stanwyck, on fire: Randy E. Aguebor
• Student Judge, hard to impress: David Kanov
• Student Judge, hard to impress: Mariah Rozeva
• Student Judge, hard to impress: Anh Kamenov
• Student Judge, hard to impress: Goran Simeonov
• C.S. Hawley, the Payroll Guard: Chris Sharp
• Sad Commercial Man, “thank you, Bob”: Byron Brown
• Cheerful Insurance Rep (voice): Jane Levy

Film Crew:

• Editor: Brett W. Bachman
• Editor: James Thomas
• Producer: Lloyd Kaufman
• Director of Photography: Dana Gonzales
• Casting: Julie Harkin
• Production Design: Alex Cameron
• Art Direction: Ivan Ranghelov
• Stunts: Teodor Tzolov
• Set Decoration: Elizabeth Boller
• Casting: Mark Bennett
• Costume Design: Vanessa Porter
• Costume Supervisor: Irena Maximova Kirkova
• Original Music Composer: Brooke Blair
• Original Music Composer: Will Blair
• Set Decoration: Asen Bozilov
• Stunt Double: Rayna Sirmina
• Fight Choreographer: Danko Jordanov
• Casting: Mariana Stansheva
• Stunts: Ivo Vuchkov
• Prosthetics: Abigail Harcourt-Smith
• Set Designer: Yossif Mladenov
• Executive Producer: Macon Blair
• Producer: Michael Herz
• Executive Producer: Jay Ashenfelter
• Producer: Mary Parent
• Producer: Alex Garcia
• Executive Producer: Andrew Pfeffer
• Choreographer: Spencer Liff
• Line Producer: Iliya Sotirov
• First Assistant Director: Derek Peterson
• First Assistant Director: Antony Tanev
• Second Assistant Director: Monika Hristova
• Associate Producer: Zak Kline
• Associate Producer: Seth Persons
• Fight Choreographer: Danko Jordoanov
• Stunt Double: Boris Dimitrov
• Stunt Double: Radoslav Ignatov
• Stunt Double: Olivia Ntsuba
• Stunt Double: Ivo Dimitrov Kehayor
• Stunts: Ivo Kehayov
• Stunts: Emil Videv Greorgeiev
• Stunts: Grancho Doykov
• Stunts: Genadiy Ganchiev
• Electrician: Emil Petkov
• Stunts: Viktor Hristov
• Stunts: Tsvetolyub Iliev
• Stunts: Ognyan Balgziyzki
• Stunts: Hristo Parvanov
• Stunts: Delyan Dimitrov
• Stunts: Krasimir Simeonov
• Stunts: Valentin Roglev
• Unit Manager: Sasho Raychev
• Production Coordinator: Violeta Piperevska
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Petia Petrova
• Assistant Production Coordinator: Kristina Tamahkyarova
• Production Office Assistant: Nevena Dimitrova
• Production Office Coordinator: Svetoslav Petcov
• Second Second Assistant Director: Margirita Aneva
• Third Assistant Director: Kristiya Tombusheva
• Third Assistant Director: Bozhidar Peychev
• Supervising Art Director: Ivan Rangelov
• Art Department Coordinator: Anna Hadzhieva
• Graphic Designer: John Pundt
• Graphic Designer: Deliana Stoyanova
• Graphic Designer: Vladimir Brandiyski
• Storyboard Artist: Zhivko Menendez
• Concept Artist: Vanessa Menendez
• Concept Artist: Jonas McGluggage
• Tattoo Designer: Tad Peyton
• Concept Artist: Svetoslav Hristov
• Concept Artist: Ivailo Bonev
• Draughtsman: Veselin Petrov Lesev
• Draughtsman: Ivan Radev
• Runner Art Department: Georgi Angelov
• Researcher: Paul Goldblatt
• Researcher: William Lacey
• Researcher: Sandy Barnett
• Researcher: Justin Allen Ward
• First Assistant “A” Camera: Boryana Papazova
• Second Assistant “A” Camera: Chavdar Simeonov
• “B” Camera Operator: Hristo Genkov
• First Assistant “B” Camera: Miroslav Stoilov
• Second Assistant “B” Camera: Antoanela Nakova
• “C” Camera Operator: Martin Chichov
• First Assistant “C” Camera: Iordan Borissov
• Second Assistant “C” Camera: Vasil Stefanov
• “D” Camera Operator: Alexander Krumov
• First Assistant “D” Camera: Mihail Kotev
• Second Assistant “D” Camera: Dimitar Krumov
• Still Photographer: Yana Blajeva
• Script Supervisor: Maria Djidrova
• Production Sound Mixer: Petar Kralev
• Boom Operator: Nikolay Sabchev
• Boom Operator: Yuzi Anachkov
• Video Assist Operator: Peter Shterev
• Video Assist Operator: Vasil Hristov
• Video Assist Operator: Iliya Petrov
• Gaffer: Konstantin Vladimirov
• Best Boy Electrician: Dimiter Tsvetkov
• Electrician: Tsvetan Tsvetkov
• Electrician: Hristo Elandiev
• Electrician: Galiyan Radkov
• Electrician: Nikola Lilovski
• Electrician: Ivailo Genchev
• Electrician: Vladimir Varadinov
• Rigging Gaffer: Georgi Tsvetkov
• Electrician: Ivan Bakalov
• Electrician: Ivaylo Spasov
• Electrician: Boris Vasilev
• Other: Valentin Nikolov
• Key Grip: Miroslav Borisov
• Best Boy Grip: Venelin Stepanov
• Dolly Grip: Stoyan Georgiev
• Grip: Ivaylo Kirilov
• Grip: Yavor Saykov
• Grip: Manol Ivanov
• Grip: Danail Vuchkov
• Grip: Petar Stoyanov
• Additional Grip: Desislav Dimitrov
• Key Rigging Grip: Filip Filipov
• Rigging Grip: Bojidar Mitsakov
• Rigging Grip: Kaloyan Pehlivanski
• Rigging Grip: Matey Mateev
• Other: Teodor Asenov
• Other: Desislava Stoyanova
• Other: Kaloyan Ignatov
• Other: Julian Gochev
• Special Effects Supervisor: Yovko Dogandjiiski
• Special Effects Coordinator: Antonia Tocheva
• Special Effects Technician: Andrey Velchev
• Special Effects Technician: Ivaylo Maksimov
• Special Effects Technician: Lyubomir Voynski
• Special Effects Technician: Valeri Pandezov
• Special Effects Technician: Emil Hristov
• Special Effects Technician: Ivaylo Angelov
• Special Effects Technician: Yordan Angelov
• Location Manager: Ivo Simeonov Nikolov
• Location Assistant: Peter Shipkov
• Set Supervisor: Plamen Milanov
• Production Assistant: Teodora Simova
• Production Assistant: Hristiyan Yordanov
• Production Assistant: Miroslav Georgiev
• Production Assistant: Borislav Simov
• Production Assistant: Yavor Petrov
• Production Assistant: Alexandre Stanimitov
• Production Assistant: Mitko Mitkov
• Production Assistant: Yuli Popov
• Property Master: Mosko Masev
• Assistant Property Master: Liubomir Sirakov
• On Set Props: Martin Genchev
• Property Buyer: Maria-Eliza Bakova
• Armorer: Marin Takov
• Armorer: Stefan Razlojki
• Animal Wrangler: Stoyan Lazarov
• Picture Car Coordinator: Lubomir Evtimov
• Makeup Artist: Greta Velikova
• Makeup Artist: Anna Andreeva
• Wigmaker: Desislava Manasieva
• Visual Effects Supervisor: Chris Morley

Movie Reviews:

• CinemaSerf: This doesn’t start well, indeed after about ten minutes I thought it was just going to be “Tyrion Lannister” does “Bruce Banner”. Well I was quite pleasantly surprised as it takes those foundations and, with it’s tongue firmly implanted in it’s cheek, and with him suitably armed with his newly radioactive mop, we set off on a crime caper with a difference. Kevin Bacon’s “Bob Garbinger” runs a big chemical company that routinely churns out enough gunge into the rivers and streams of the city to give Julia Roberts and Albert Finney enough work for a lifetime. “Winston” (Peter Dinklage) is trying to rear teenage stepson “Wade” (Jacob Tremblay) whilst holding down a menial job in one of those plants. When he gets a terrible diagnosis from his doctor, he thinks he has company health insurance – but when platinum turns out not to be all it’s cracked up to be, he decides to ask his boss to intercede. That just sees him rather savagely treated and dumped into a drain where, well let’s just say it isn’t envy that has turned him green. Meantime, we learn that all in his garden isn’t exactly rosy for “Garbinger” either, so with hoodlums chasing him and his wacky brother “Fritz” (Elijah Wood doing his best impersonation of “Gru”) organising a kid-napping it falls to the irritated “Toxie” to save the city, nobble the baddies, rescue “Wade” and maybe even stop his eye from constantly popping out of it’s socket on a great big stalk! This is quite an entertaining parody of many things super-hero with shades of Hammer and John Carpenter thrown into a mix that is held together amiably by a Dinklage who looks like he is enjoying himself. He even manages to rescue a cat! The scenario serves to remind us of just how cavalier we have been and still are with our environment in the name of convenience and though Bacon isn’t really at his best, he and his band of “Nuts” provide plenty to swing a pretty lethal sponge-on-stick at! High brow it isn’t, but when “Winston” discovers the astonishingly corrosive powers of his own wee…! Mindless and enjoyable, and I liked it in the end. Wouldn’t bet against a sequel.
• jackmeat: My quick rating – 7.0/10. Somewhere in the cosmic video store of nostalgia, my 12-year-old self just did a cartwheel in parachute pants. I grew up rewinding the original Toxic Avenger on worn-out VHS until the tracking lines looked like snowstorms over Tromaville. So when Hollywood whispered “remake,” I braced myself for PG-13 sterilization and emotional damage. But bless Macon Blair’s radioactive heart—he didn’t just do it justice, he hosed it down in glowing sludge and handed it a mop.
• Our new hero is Winston Gooze (Peter Dinklage), a terminally ill janitor who gets baptized in toxic goop and comes out looking like a meatball with abs and a Costco-sized case of trauma. Dinklage doesn’t just play Toxie, he owns him. He swings that glowing mop like Excalibur dipped in biohazard, and suddenly I remembered why deformed vigilantes matter: because nothing says “hero” like ripping someone’s intestines out while trying to make it to parent-teacher night.
• And can we talk about the casting? Kevin Bacon as the corporate tyrant who drinks villain monologues for breakfast? Chef’s kiss. Elijah Wood pops up as his gremlin-esque brother, looking like he crawled out of a vat of expired hair dye and cryptid rumors swirling in the time warp. Their private death squad, the Killer Nutz, is less “elite mercenaries” and more “fetish convention meets meth carnival,” which is a compliment in the Troma-verse.
• Nice touch naming the crusading reporter Melvin (Shaun Dooley)—a blood-splattered wink to the OG mop-wielder himself. And Taylour Paige as J.J., Toxie’s ride-or-die, holds her own with a mix of badassery and the facial expressions of someone who’s just seen a spleen used as a yo-yo. How about that son, Wade (Jacob Tremblay), busting out some moves on the dance floor? Leads me to my next point.
• The humor? Alive. Mutated. Proudly infectious. The girls’ dance troupe shaking it to an aggressively inappropriate song had me choking on nostalgia. Speaking of, if the music budget really landed on “Hall of the Mountain King” instead of “Gutter Ballet,” shortly after, in the street. That is Troma logic, baby. Or a joke I am not getting. I salute the chaos.
• Now, the gore. Oh, the gore. Heads get pop-quizzed off with a mop. Limbs fly like bargain-bin confetti. Practical effects hold hands with CGI the way drunks slow-dance at weddings—awkward, sloppy, and perfect. It still feels like a B-movie dipped in beer money and glitter vomit, exactly where it belongs.
• Blair doesn’t sand off the edges—he sharpens them. This isn’t some sanitized “modern reimagining.” There are still tits, cameos, filth, goop, indignity, and heart—because even under ten layers of melted skin, The Toxic Avenger is still just a guy trying to save his kid and be the world’s scariest father-in-law.
• Is it better than the original? No. But it’s not trying to be. It’s leaning into the glorious stupidity, raunchy enthusiasm, and gleeful carnage that made Troma what it is. Unlike the neutered Hellraiser reboot crimes we recently had to relive, this one embraces the cheesy, sleazy, bloody mayhem and dares us not to grin.
• Also: Lloyd Kaufman cameo? Check. Post-credit joke about a billion-dollar box office to finance a sequel? Beautiful. Gratuitous nudity because “this is Troma”? You bet your irradiated butt.
• What else can I say? It made the 12-year-old VHS warrior in me scream, “I TOLD YOU SO,” and the adult me kind of wants a glowing mop. Now with 30% More Mop-Based Dismemberment!