Once upon a time, sex sold—and so did ultra-low-budget movies known for their double-entendre-laden scripts, extreme depictions of raunch and violence, and lots of radioactive slime. Not so anymore.

Released in 1985, The Toxic Avenger was produced by Lloyd Kaufman’s Troma Entertainment and became the company’s first notable success. It influenced not just Troma’s output for the next 50 years, but ...

After two years in search of a distributor, the remake of 1984’s The Toxic Avenger is finally set to hit theatres on August 29. It’s billed as a remake, but by necessity it’s really a reboot. To make ...

I want you, for a moment, to picture the protagonist of an indie movie. Do they, by chance, happen to be a near 7-foot modern-day Frankenstein’s monster with boils the size of golf balls, Picasso ...

When “Footloose” and “The Toxic Avenger” arrived in theaters within weeks of each other in early 1984, about the only thing they had in common was that they were both, well, movies. “The Toxic Avenger ...

The Monkey (2025) Film Review, a movie directed by Osgood Perkins, written by Osgood Perkins and starring Theo James, Tatiana Maslany, Christian Convery, Rohan Campbell, Colin O’Brien, Elijah Wood, ...