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The Toxic Avenger
MEANRANK
61/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #3812
- IMDb #4271
- Rotten Tomatoes #2606
- Metacritic #3750
- Letterboxd #2773
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2582
+6 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3159
- Metacritic Audience #2770
- Criticker #2283
- Kinopoisk #3300
- AlloCiné #2776
- Trakt #4256
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 42, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 73.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A meek and scrawny janitor at a health club falls into a vat of toxic waste after being bullied by a group of patrons. He is transformed into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength. Adopting the name Toxie, he decides to use his new powers to fight against bullies, corruption, and injustice in the absurdly violent and polluted city of Tromaville.
Details
- Directors
- Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz
- Writers
- Joe Ritter, Lloyd Kaufman
- Studio
- Troma Entertainment
- Released
- 15 May 1984
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $500.0K
- Box office
- $800.0K
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