After years without a distributor, Peter Dinklage’s Toxic Avenger is finally coming out. And what’s more, we have a trailer to enjoy.
After a couple of years of uncertainty, Macon Blair’s adaptation of The Toxic Avenger is finally headed towards general release. Whilst the film did make a brief appearance back in 2023 with a teaser trailer, but the film is reportedly very violent – so violent in fact that it struggled to find a US distributor in 2023. We got a brief teaser for the film, and since then, nothing.
However, Blair is a talented director having helmed the Netflix thriller I Don’t Feel At Home In This World Anymore to very positive notices. Likewise, the film’s star Peter Dinklage has raised the quality bar on many a project too, so hopes were always high that eventually somebody would swoop in to pick up the film for distribution and secure some kind of release for it.
Ultimately, it would be Cineverse, the studio behind the Terrifier films that would recognise a kindred spirit in Toxic Avenger and acquire the film, As we heard back in January when the deal was announced, the company will probably skip the MPAA ratings system in America as it did with its hugely successful Terrifier 3.
The Toxic Avenger is set for release in the US in August, so we can probably expect it to arrive around the same time here, hopefully. Along with Dinklage in the title role, Jacob Tremblay, Taylour Paige, Julia Davis, Jonny Coyne, Elijah Wood, and Kevin Bacon co-star.
1980s toxic waste movies have a surprisingly rich history, and should you want to familiarise yourself with such a fertile period for the sub-genre, we have something for you right here. We’ll leave you with the synopsis and the first trailer for Toxic Avenger below. The trailer doesn’t show too much in the narrative sense but is full of the kind of weirdness, mayhem and violence that we were hoping for from this project.
A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: The Toxic Avenger! Now wielding a glowing mop with super-human strength, he must race against time to save his son and stop a ruthless and power-hungry tyrant bent on harnessing toxic superpowers to strengthen his polluted empire.
