The Toxic Avenger
This is the story of Melvin, the Tromaville Health Club mop boy, who inadvertently and naively trusts the hedonistic…
- Director: Michael Herz
- Genre:Action / Comedy / Horror
- Runtime:82 minutes
Cast
Andree Maranda : Sara
Mitch Cohen : The Toxic Avenger (as Mitchell Cohen)
Jennifer Prichard: Wanda (as Jennifer Babtist)
Cindy Manion : Julie
Robert Prichard : Slug
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Melvin Junko (Mark Torgl) was a stereotypical 98-pound weakling. He works as a janitor at a health club in the fictional town of Tromaville, New Jersey where the customers—particularly Bozo (Gary Schneider), Slug (Robert Pritchard), Wanda (Jennifer Babtist) and Julie (Cindy Manion)—harass him constantly. His tormentors get more and more violent until he is tricked into wearing a pink tutu and kissing a sheep. He is chased around the health club and out a second story window. He lands in a drum of toxic waste, which immediately causes severe burns and disfigurement. Melvin survives, however, and stumbles home. Drawing a bath to try and scrub some of the chemical residue from his horribly scarred flesh, Melvin begins his transformation into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength.
A group of drug dealers, led by the criminal Cigar Face (Dan Snow), are harassing a police officer by the name of O’Clancy (Dick Martinsen), trying to buy him off. When he refuses to accept the money, Cigar Face and his gang prepare to castrate Officer O’Clancy. A large creature comes out of nowhere and violently kills the criminals, then leaves a mop on their faces as a call sign. Officer O’Clancy is initially terrified of the creature but soon learns he was only trying to help and will not hurt him.
The officer’s rescuer, dubbed the “Monster Hero”, is the now profoundly-mutated Melvin. He tries to return home but his mother is terrified of him and will not let him in the house. Wracked with sorrow, the Monster Hero builds a makeshift home in the junkyard.
Elsewhere in Tromaville, a gang of three men are holding up a Mexican food restaurant. The men kill one of the patrons, and attack a blind woman named Sarah (Andree Maranda). They kill her guide dog and attempt to rape her, but are stopped by the Monster Hero. He wreaks bloody vengeance on the three men: one is stuffed in an oven, one has his hands and wrists plunged into a deep-fryer, and one is first covered in whipped cream (and a cherry) before having a milkshake-stirrer rammed into his oesophagus. The Monster Hero takes Sarah back to her home, where they begin to get to know one another, and subsequently become involved. Read more
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