The Toxic Avenger Remake: Modernizing a Cult Classic
Macon Blair’s remake of the 1984 cult classic splatter film The Toxic Avenger brings the monstrous superhero Toxie into the modern age, but there are still plenty of echoes of the original movie. Starring Peter Dinklage, Taylour Paige, Jacob Tremblay, Kevin Bacon, and Elijah Wood, the outrageous and unrated black comedy trades some of the original’s sleaze and silliness for a more pointed, yet still relentlessly gruesome narrative.
