Macon Blair saw the controversial 1984 film “ The Toxic Avenger ” as many Millennials did: on a contraband videotape courtesy of a friend’s older brother. The 12-year-old Blair was exactly the right age to be on the wavelength of Troma’s signature gross-out satire, and it fueled the budding filmmaker with inspiration.

“Someone had gotten their hands on a VHS camera, and we were trying to make our own movies,” he says. “The tone of this, along with Monty Python and zombie stuff from George Romero, really came into the stuff we were trying to make as short films. Also, the feeling that it was totally homemade, not a Hollywood movie. It was seemingly regular people in their hometown doing it. So that was hugely inspirational and something that carried forward for us.”

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