ANAHEIM, Calif. — 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” was a low-budget indie horror comedy about a mutant superhero that featured a no-name cast awash in buckets of fake blood and gore producer-director Lloyd Kaufman splashed on screen. Copy article link

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