Peter Dinklage Lets His Freak Flag Fly in ‘The Toxic Avenger’

Peter Dinklage Lets His Freak Flag Fly in ‘The Toxic Avenger’

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I’ll try my best not to cause emotional damage to my fellow millennials by pointing out that it’s been over forty years since the 1984 original The Toxic Avenger haunted screens. Lloyd Kaufman’s bizarre and brazen anti-super-hero movie hit right in the heart of the 80s, playing with subversion of hero and slasher convention in the few years before Batman , The Ninja Turtles , or Howard the Duck . Initially compared more to slasher predecessors, the movie became a hit in midnighter circles, eventually spawning a gaggle of sequels and now, a shiny remake. Taking more notes from the subversive superhero movies that came after and fewer from the slasher darlings before it, this newest The T