{"id":90597,"date":"2025-08-25T01:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90597\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T01:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T01:01:03","slug":"the-final-toxic-avenger-trailer-is-a-goofy-retro-call-to-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/90597\/","title":{"rendered":"The Final ‘Toxic Avenger’ Trailer Is a Goofy, Retro Call to Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two years of uncertainty whether it\u2019d come out, the next Toxic Avenger<\/a>\u00a0movie is hitting theaters<\/a> this upcoming week. But in case you\u2019re not aware, the folks at BloodyDisgusting<\/a>\u2014a subsidiary of Cineverse, the film\u2019s distributor\u2014commissioned a trailer that it hopes will make you, in its own words, \u201cshow the fuck up.\u201d<\/p>\n

This new \u201cgrindhouse\u201d trailer comes courtesy of Wilson Cleveland<\/a>, a producer and actor who\u2019s previously made fan trailers for Weapons and other films. Cleveland\u2019s approach for Toxic Avenger was to directly mimic the trailer for the original 1984 film<\/a> from Lloyd Kaufman, right down to the narration and visual filters. What updates he gives the reboot play up its humor (poor Toxie gets called a \u201cfucked up hot dog\u201d in the same clip he gets something thrown at him) and the gnarly violence, including an electrifying new kill involving Toxie\u2019s radioactive mop.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Suffice to say, Troma really wants this\u00a0Toxic Avenger\u00a0to be seen by as many people as possible and revitalize the brand: Kaufman, reboot director Macon Blair, and its cast<\/a> have been doing a lot of promo lately, and the character\u2019s even made a return to comics thanks to Ahoy\u2019s just-started ongoing series<\/a>. The movie hits theaters on Friday, August 29, and you can get tickets here<\/a>\u2014and if it gets you interested in the earlier movies, Kaufman seems to recommend starting with 2000\u2019s\u00a0Citizen Toxie<\/a>,\u00a0his personal favorite.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two years of uncertainty whether it\u2019d come out, the next Toxic Avenger\u00a0movie is hitting theaters this upcoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,2839,25706,22847,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-90597","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-the-toxic-avenger","11":"tag-troma","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}