After two years of uncertainty whether it’d come out, the next Toxic Avenger movie is hitting theaters this upcoming week. But in case you’re not aware, the folks at BloodyDisgusting —a subsidiary of Cineverse, the film’s distributor—commissioned a trailer that it hopes will make you, in its own words, “show the fuck up.”
This new “grindhouse” trailer comes courtesy of Wilson Cleveland , a producer and actor who’s previously made fan trailers for Weapons and other films. Cleveland’s approach for Toxic Avenger was to directly mimic the trailer for the original 1984 film 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 “fucked up hot dog” in the same clip he gets something throw