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Back in 1984, Troma Entertainment brought the world The Toxic Avenger (watch it Here), a film about “the first superhero from New Jersey.” That film spawned a franchise, leading to The Toxic Avenger Part II (1989), The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989), Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV (2000), a stage musical, and an animated series called Toxic Crusaders. For a long time, we’ve been hearing that Troma wanted to make a Toxic Avenger 5 – but instead doing that, they have loaned out the rights to Legendary Pictures, allowing them to make a remake of the original film that’s set to reach theatres on August 29th, courtesy of Cineverse. In anticipation of the film’s long-awaited release, we have put together a list of Everything We Know About the Toxic Avenger Remake… and here we go:

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At the helm of this new take on The Toxic Avenger is Macon Blair,...

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A grieving game master’s new online role-playing adventure spirals into a deadly reality, trapping players in a supernatural fight for survival.

“This is an insanely personal film to me, as I wrote it to help deal with the passing of my own father,” writer-director Dan Brownlie tells Bloody Disgusting.

Marcel Jortzik, Amy Tara, Toby Wynn-Davies (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey), Georgie Rogers, James Grimm, and scream queen Debbie Rochon (Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV) star.

Rebecca Wheeler (Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey) handled the practical effects, and a mortician was on hand for technical advice — so the film boasts an undertaker-approved zombie.

With post-production complete, the UK film is currently submitting to festivals. You can...

If you’ve never seen a Troma film, they’re difficult to describe. They’re horror films, they’re comedies, they’re parodies and they’re also full of sex and gore. The most famous Troma title is The Toxic Avenger, the story of a 98-pound weakling who falls into a vat of toxic waste, transforming him into a violent superhero.

Troma founder, Toxic Avenger creator and B-movie legend Lloyd Kaufman is the subject of the new book Lloyd Kaufman: Interviews, edited by Mathew Klickstein. The book, which consists of interviews with Kaufman’s dating from 1981 to the present, is filled with insight into the man and his outrageous movies. Below are the most interesting tidbits from it about 1984’s Toxic Avenger as well as its three sequels.

1 Toxie’s Inspiration

In a 1992 interview with Tabula Rasa, Kaufman was asked about the inspiration for The Toxic Avenger. He recalls seeing a news headline that read,...

Stars: Shiho, Keisuke Nomura, Saki Hirai, Haruki Itabashi, Ryuta Endo, Kento Miura, Lloyd Kaufman | Written and Directed by Ken’ichi Ugana

An expanded version of writer/director Ken’ichi Ugana’s 2021 short film Visitors, Visitors (Complete Edition) is probably the strangest feature to play at this year’s FRomford Horror Film Festival. And at sixty-one minutes, including credits, Visitors (Complete Edition) is probably the shortest as well. In other words, it’s a lot of weirdness packed into a short running time.

It all begins innocently enough as three friends Haruka, Nana, and Takanori drop in on their bandmate Souta who has dropped out of touch with them and everyone else for that matter. They find his house covered in old newspapers, fliers and other assorted papers. But when he finally answers the door he invites them in for tea. That was mistake number one. Mistake number two was pulling a...

Over the course of its 50-year existence, Troma has helped launch the careers of filmmakers like Trey Parker & Matt Stone (South Park), James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy), and Eli Roth (Hostel), along with countless actors who went on to long careers, but their biggest export by any internal metric — financial success, brand recognition, franchisability, fan base — is 1984’s The Toxic Avenger.

The film is preceded by an “extreme violence” warning. The gore is indeed graphic — the first kill features a kid’s head being run over by a car, firmly establishing that no one is safe and nothing is off limits — but it could use about a dozen more trigger warnings by today’s standards. If you can be offended, you will be offended by the boundary-pushing content that includes (but is certainly not limited to) racism, homophobia, ableism, and sexual misconduct — yet there is substance behind the sleaze.

The Toxic Avenger reboot has received a Rotten Tomatoes score of 95%, surpassing the cult classic original and its sequels. The original Toxic Avenger was initially ignored but later gained a cult following through midnight showings. The reboot recaptures the unhinged action, splatter gore, and dark comedy of the original while adding an emotional throughline.

The Toxic Avenger reboot's Rotten Tomatoes score debuts at an impressive franchise high. Written and directed by Macon Blair, the upcoming reimagining follows a similar story as the 1984 original involving an everyman-janitor who is transformed into a monstrous vigilante after a toxic accident. The original film achieved cult classic status and was followed by three less successful sequels – The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

Now, following its premiere at the Fantastic Fest, critics have started sharing their reviews for the Toxic Avenger remake,...

Legendary's The Toxic Avenger is soon premiering in movie theaters, and the early reviews from critics at Rotten Tomatoes have separated the new film from the first four movies.

As of now, the Toxic Avenger reboot is sitting with a near-perfect score of 95% on the Tomatometer based on 20 reviews. Only a single one of those reviews is "rotten" while all of the others heap high praise onto the film. Everyone also appears to be in agreement that the new Toxic Avenger is absolutely bonkers and "immature" in a way that's reminiscent of Troma's prior films, but the result is said to be very entertaining, making for a rather enjoyable film.

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"Here, 'agreeably stupid' is the order of the day... It’s a deliberate choice on the filmmaker’s part -- one that will alienate much of the film’s potential audience,...

A new preview for The Toxic Avenger shows off the cast of the upcoming horror remake.

Shared exclusively by Entertainment Weekly, the teaser images highlight Peter Dinklage as Winston Gooze, a lowly janitor at a chemical factory who is eventually mutated into the film's titular hero. "There is a terrible industrial accident that renders him a mutant and an outcast, but also gives him some super strength and super abilities that sets him on a path of being an unlikely vigilante in this downward-spiraling society," director Macon Blair explained. "Similar to the original Toxic Avenger, he's singularly unqualified to be a hero. He's not especially brave, he's not especially crafty, but he has his heart in the right place, and he starts taking it to the limit when he's pushed into a corner."

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Earlier images have teased Dinklage's transformation into the repulsive crusader,...

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The Toxic Avenger Collection 4K Uhd Box Set from Troma

Troma will release The Toxic Avenger Collection on August 29. The box set collects the unrated director’s cuts of all four films in the cult classic franchise on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray, newly restored in 4K from the original film negatives with Hdr and English DTS 2.0 Stereo audio.

Created by Lloyd Kaufman, the superhero horror-comedy series consists of 1984’s The Toxic Avenger, 1989’s The Toxic Avenger Part II, 1989’s The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, and 2000’s Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

Kaufman recorded new introductions for all four films. Existing special features – audio commentaries for each film, cast interviews,...

Writer-director Trent Haaga, who got his start with Troma working on everything from Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV to Terror Firmer, would go on to pen classics such as Deadgirl and Cheap Thrills, not to mention direct both Chop and 68 Kill. Next up, he’s revving his engines for Cub director Jonas Govaerts, having […]

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Julia Davis will be joining the cast of Legendary's The Toxic Avenger reboot. Davis is one of the most acclaimed voices in UK comedy, as a two-time BAFTA winner and eight-time nominee. She is known for creating and starring in the BAFTA-winning comedy series, Sally4Ever for Sky Atlantic and HBO. Davis also won a BAFTA for writing Hunderby, which she also starred in. Besides that, she also created and starred in several series, including: Camping, Human Remains, and Night Night. Currently, Davis is being repped by Clair Maroussas at Independent Talent.

For those who don't know, The Toxic Avenger was a low-budget action-comedy that followed a 98 pound weakling named Melvin, who, after a cruel prank, ends up jumping into a cauldron of toxic waste and becomes the title character, a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength with a drive to destroy evil. Originally conceived as a horror...

Kevin Bacon has joined the cast of Macon Blair’s ‘The Toxic Avenger’ reboot at Legendary Pictures.

Bacon joins the already cast Peter Dinklage, Jacob Trembley and Taylour Paige.

Written and directed by Blair, the film is said to be a “contemporary reimaging” of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy, Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz will serve as producers.

Drawing parallels to an eco-friendly ‘Deadpool’, the original centred on a struggling everyman after he is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends and his community from the forces of corruption and greed.

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Filming is due to commence later in June in Bulgaria.

The original film spawned a franchise that went on...

Jacob Tremblay has joined the cast of the reimaging of the ‘Toxic Avenger’ at Legendary.

Tremblay joins a cast of the previously announced Peter Dinklage.

Said to be a “contemporary reimaging” of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy, Macon Blair will take the helm on the project. Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz will serve as producers.

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Drawing parallels to an eco-friendly ‘Deadpool’, the original centred on a struggling everyman after he is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends and his community from the forces of corruption and greed.

The original film spawned a franchise that went on to produce sequels ‘The Toxic Avenger Part II’, ‘The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie...

Child actor Jacob Tremblay has joined the cast of The Toxic Avenger, Legendary's upcoming reboot of the iconic Troma movie. With Macon Blair set to direct the reboot, the new movie will reimagine the story established in the 1984 original. Game of Thrones favorite Peter Dinklage has previously been cast as the titular vigilante, and a new report from Deadline confirms that Tremblay has joined the project as his first co-star.

Full plot details aren't clear, but The Toxic Avenger reboot is said to be "steeped in environmental themes" and will provide a humorous take on the superhero genre in the spirit of Deadpool. Per the logline, when a "struggling everyman is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends and his community from the forces of corruption and greed.

Peter Dinklage has locked down his next big gig. The former Game of Thrones actor has been tapped to headline The Toxic Avenger reboot, which is currently in the works at Legendary Pictures. Macon Blair (I don't Feel at Home In This World Anymore) has been tapped to direct the movie, which will reimagine the 1984 Troma flick for modern audiences.

According to multiple reports, Peter Dinklage has closed a deal to star in The Toxic Avenger. No other cast members have been revealed at this time. The reboot is being positioned as a subversion of the superhero genre, with comparisons being made to Deadpool. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, who directed the original, are on board as producers. A logline for the movie has been revealed as well, which reads as follows.

"When a struggling everyman is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant...

Peter Dinklage has signed up to star in the re-imagining of the iconic low-budget comedy “The Toxic Avenger”.

Said to be a “contemporary reimaging” of Troma Entertainment’s successful 1984 low-budget action-comedy, Macon Blair will take the helm on the project. Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz will serve as producers.

Drawing parallels to an eco-friendly ‘Deadpool’, the original centred on a struggling everyman after he is pushed into a vat of toxic waste, he is transformed into a mutant freak who must go from shunned outcast to underdog hero as he races to save his son, his friends and his community from the forces of corruption and greed.

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The original film spawned a franchise that went on to produce sequels ‘The Toxic Avenger Part II’, ‘The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie...

Two years after making his directorial debut with “I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore,” Macon Blair is stepping behind the camera for Legendary’s “Toxic Avenger” reboot. The actor-turned-filmmaker, whose on-screen resume includes everything from “Blue Ruin” and “Green Room” to “The Florida Project” and “Logan Lucky,” will both write and direct. Variety first broke the news, including the fact that Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman and Michel Herz are producing and Alex Garcia and Jay Ashenfelter of Legendary are overseeing the project.

The former two also directed the 1984 original, a midnight-movie staple that was followed by the sequels “The Toxic Avenger Part II,” “The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie,” and “Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV”. “The Toxic Avenger” tells the tried-and-true story of a 98-pound janitor who falls into a vat of toxic waste (as you do) and, imbued with newfound powers,...

Macon Blair has been tapped to write and direct Legendary’s reboot of the cult classic “The Toxic Avenger,” sources tell Variety.

Legendary acquired the feature film rights in December and have quickly made the project a high priority at the studio. Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment will serve as producers with Alex Garcia and Jay Ashenfelter overseeing for Legendary.

Kaufman and Herz produced the original 1984 comedy, set in the fictional town of Tromaville, N.J., and centered on a mild-mannered janitor at a health club who’s chased out a second story window by bullies and lands in a drum of toxic waste. The chemicals cause him to transform into the Toxic Avenger, who has superhuman size and strength and stands up to bullies and corruption.

“The Toxic Avenger” became successful after a long run as a midnight movie in New York City, leading to the...

Legendary Entertainment is developing “The Toxic Avenger” as a movie after acquiring the feature film rights.

Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment will serve as producers. Alex Garcia and Jay Ashenfelter will oversee for Legendary.

Kaufman and Herz produced the original 1984 comedy, set in the fictional town of Tromaville, N.J., and centered on a mild-mannered janitor at a health club who’s chased out a second story window by bullies and lands in a drum of toxic waste. The chemicals cause him to transform into the Toxic Avenger, who has superhuman size and strength and stands up to bullies and corruption.

“The Toxic Avenger” became successful after a long run as a midnight movie in New York City, leading to the sequels “The Toxic Avenger Part II,” “The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie,” and “Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.” The property also became a stage musical production,...

The Post Apocalyptic Commando Shark trailer has arrived, bringing a new kind of superweapon to the forefront. Snow Shark director/writer/star Samuel Qualiana is going back to his shark roots with his new film, which has something for everyone. There's horror goodness, to comedy, to satire, and an awesome shark commando created by the Russians and Germans to fight a nuclear war. Snow Shark is highly regarded in the low-budget horror community and has already seen some of his influence take shape through Asylum's Avalanche Shark, which means that Post Apocalyptic Commando Shark could have some imitators in the near future as well.

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Believe it or not, Toxic Avenger 5 is still happening. The Toxic Avenger first arrived on the scene back in 1984 and has been a surprisingly enduring franchise. The low-budget flicks have come courtesy of Troma Entertainment, famous for their B-movie, independent offerings. Now, Troma's Lloyd Kaufman has confirmed a fifth entry in the franchise is still on the way.

Lloyd Kaufman recently sat down for an interview with SFX Magazine and dished some details on Toxic Avenger 5. While there is no word on when we can expect to see it, as they are still working on getting the money issues ironed out, the script is done and he seems rather excited about what they've cooked up. Here's what Kaufman had to say about it.

"It's definitely coming. The problem is that we need to get our new Troma movie, Shakespeare's Shitstorm, which is our version of The Tempest, out into the...

If you were a kid in the ’80s or early ’90s, then you may remember how we were graced with animated series and toylines pertaining to franchises we were probably too young for. Seriously, my toy box included the likes of RoboCop, the Terminator, Rambo and even some of the Toxic Crusaders, a child-friendly take on Troma’s cult classic, The Toxic Avenger.

So, whether you’ve been on board with the live action flicks from the get-go, or saw one as a kid thinking it’d be like its animated counterpart and were instead treated to an unforgettable learning experience, you may be thrilled to learn that Toxic Avengers 5 is in the earliest stages of development – even if a remake of the original is said to be on the way as well.

When recently sitting down with SFX Magazine, Troma’s own Lloyd Kaufman had this offer regarding the...

Fresh out of Santa Monica’s American Film Market, we’ve got some news for all you Troma fans! I got the chance to sit down with Lloyd Kaufman, who not only gave me some fun information but also shared with us… Continue Reading →

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After gestating in development for nearly six years, The Toxic Avenger remake is finally moving forward with a new director. Conrad Vernon, who co-directed the hit R-rated animated comedy Sausage Party, has signed on to direct. Mike Arnold (Archer) and Chris Poole (The Grackle) have come aboard to rewrite the script for this long-awaited remake, which was first written by the project's original director, Steve Pink and D.C. Franklin.

Deadline says this new version is a more grounded and mainstream approach to The Toxic Avenger, which first hit theaters in 1984 from director Lloyd Kaufman. The story followed a New Jersey teenager named Melvin, a nerdy janitor who falls into a vat of hazardous waste, which transforms him into The Toxic Avenger. Here's what Conrad Vernon had to say in a statement about joining this project.

"The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite cult-classic from my high school years is an honor.

16 years ago today was (arguably) the beginning of the modern superhero movie era. Even if you give that distinction to Spider-Man or Iron Man, it’s undeniable that the first X-Men movie paved the way for the proliferation of caped heroes in Hollywood today. In 2000, the only other superhero movies released were negatively received comedies The Specials and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, and M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable — a superhero movie in a time before they could be baldfaced superhero movies. Now, everyone wants in on the superhero genre, which is now producing the buzziest and most lucrative blockbusters of 2016. The ninth and most recent X-Men movie, Apocalypse, ultimately delivered disappointing numbers in the ever-more-crowded superhero line-up, but that didn’t stop Fox from ordering a pilot for what looks to be a series based in the X-Men world. Other notable July 14 happenings in pop culture history: • 1966:...

In its effort to be the leading self-distributor of the digital media revolution, Vhx has signed up a shiny new partner to utilize the company’s Netflix-like subscription service platform. So, now would-be and hardcore fans of 1950’s farcical horror films who were looking for opportunities to binge have a perfect destination in Troma Now.

Troma is best known as the production company behind cult-classic B-movies like The Toxic Avenger and Mother’s Day, but the company has recently become a force of online video with an active and ever-growing YouTube channel (currently with over 119,000 subscribers) of Troma-styled videos and even full feature films.

Founded in 1974 by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, Troma made its name with sex comedies like The First Turn On!! before its aforementioned, breakout hit The Toxic Avenger, which debuted in theaters in 1985 and has since inspired sequels, a TV series, and (maybe soon) a family-friendly remake.

September 8th is shaping up to be another great week for horror and sci-fi fans as we’ve got a lot of great home entertainment releases to look forward to. The good folks over at Scream Factory have two great releases coming out on Tuesday, the Collector’s Edition Blu-ray of Wes Craven’s Shocker and Astron-6’s comedic homage to Giallo films, The Editor. For all you Jason Voorhees die-hards out there, not only do you have a special 2-Disc Collector’s edition of Crystal Lake Memories to look forward to, the original Friday the 13th films are also getting re-released in several double feature packages on Tuesday.

Other notable releases for September 8th include Supernatural: Season 10, Dressed to Kill from Criterion, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, and for those of you kids at heart out there, Alvin and the Chipmunks Meet the Wolfman is arriving on DVD as well.

Two outings for The Toxic Avenger and a surprisingly good vampire movie feature in this month's Bottom Shelf...

The advent of high definition technology has ushered in an era of unsurpassed quality in terms of the home-cinema experience. With TVs now able to match filmmakers' original visions closer than ever, the path has been cleared for the true maverick masters of cinema to shine on the small screen. Which brings us to Troma Entertainment head honchos Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, whose final two Toxic Avenger sequelsmake their way onto Blu-ray this month.

Not by any stretch of the imagination a pair of essential HD releases (you could argue the grainy footage of any Troma film is best viewed on ancient VHS), The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation Of Toxie and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV are what they are: both the best and worst of Kaufman...

From Troma to Super, via Scooby Doo, we chart the movie career of Guardians Of The Galaxy director James Gunn...

Darling of outsider cinema turned blockbuster-building genius James Gunn is sure to have made millions of new fans in the last week alone. With August box office records broken by Guardians Of The Galaxy (Marvel’s off-world gamble and a wildly entertaining space-romp with heaps of heart written and directed by James Gunn - as if you didn’t know), he’s about to get a lot more phone calls than he did before. And he may have already been getting a fair few.

You don’t have to wait years for the already-announced sequel for your next dose of his unique brand of cinema though; he’s got a hefty CV that blends horror, hilarity and heroes in equal measure. Here’s our low-down on some of the highlights…...

Actor in talks to star in remake of 1984 action comedy about mutated man who wreaks revenge on bullies

Arnold Schwarzenegger is in talks to star in a remake of the classic 1984 cult film The Toxic Avenger, about a mutated hero who wreaks bloody revenge on his erstwhile tormentors, according to Variety.

Schwarzenegger's role remains unclear, but he will not be playing the title character. The Toxic Avenger is traditionally a seven-stone weakling who is transformed into a muscle-bound monstrosity after being dumped in a barrel of toxic waste by a gang of bullies. Lloyd Kaufman's original film was a flop upon release but subsequently gained huge popularity on the New York midnight screening circuit: three sequels eventually emerged, culminating in 2000's Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, and there has also been a musical and a cartoon spin-off.

Hot Tub Time Machine director Steve Pink is taking charge of...

Revenge is a dish best served cold … and sometimes without even knowing what the entrée is. In Chop, Will Keenan stars as a man being tortured — both psychologically and physically — by a mysterious stranger (Timothy Muskatell) who claims Keenan wronged him in the past, despite Keenan’s insistence that he simply doesn’t remember the dude. With no apologies forthcoming, Keenan is ordered to first dispatch certain family members, then pieces of his own body in Trent Haaga’s bloody horror comedy.

Chop is Haaga’s directing debut and, made in 2011, still his only directing credit. Also an actor, Haaga first worked with Keenan on the set of a pair of Troma films, Terror Firmer and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV. They learned well under sensei Lloyd Kaufman with Chop being reasonably described as Troma-lite with a fun manic and absurdist tone with some fairly gory sequences.

The basic...

The world famous porn star is still unconscious, following his Jan. 30 hospitalization for a heart aneurysm, however, his two emergency surgeries ‘went smoothly.’

Ron Jeremy, also known as “The Hedgehog,” is recovering in Los Angeles’ Cedars Sinai hospital, following Two emergency surgeries for a heart aneurysm. Ron, 59, checked himself into the hospital at 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 30, when he was experiencing severe chest pains, and doctors discovered an aneurysm close to his heart. He had emergency surgery later that day, which has been deemed successful, however, he is still unconscious. Read on for all the new details.

Ron Jeremy Unconscious Following Emergency Surgery

The “king of porn” is unconscious after he underwent two emergency surgeries to treat an aneurysm near his heart. Ron was “resting with complete privacy and no visitors” after procedures that “went smoothly,” his manager Mike Esterman told the New York Daily News.

It looks like...

The porn star was admitted to a California hospital on Jan. 29 and is now in critical condition following a heart aneurysm. So sad.

Ron Jeremy, also known as “The Hedgehog”, admitted himself to Los Angeles’ Cedars Sinai hospital following a heart aneurysm. Ron, 59, was suffering from chest pains on Jan. 29, and things became rapidly worse by Jan. 30. He is currently being prepped for surgery. Read on for all the details.

Ron Jeremy Suffers A Heart Aneurysm

Ron’s manager Mike Esterman spoke about his condition, and currently it is touch and go.

Ron drove himself to Cedars-Sinai hospital on Jan. 29 after experiencing severe chest pain, Mike tells TMZ. Doctors examined the him and discovered the aneurysm close to his heart.

Mike says that Ron’s condition’s worsened and he was transferred to the ICU, and he is having surgery on Jan. 30.

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Ron is most famous for...

The horror-comedy. Perhaps the most difficult sub-genre of film to perfect. Most attempts at horror-comedy don't come off well. Either they're too scary without enough comedy or (more frequently) mostly humor with not enough horror. A lot of times they just come across as trying too hard and cheesy. But every once in a while a movie gets it just right. And when that happens, audiences embrace and celebrate the brilliant and elusive successful horror-comedy.

That being said, in celebration of the upcoming release of Trent Haaga's Chop, we did our best to put together a list of 10 horror-comedies (in no particular order) that we feel are the most impressive efforts in the field. Wocka, wocka, wocka!

Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil (2011)

We've seen quite a few attempts at horror-comedy over the past few years, but recently none has been better than Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil. Starring Alan Tudyk...

Vampires and zombies. Cops and corpses. Murderers and mad scientists. All parts an actor might be called on to play-and all will likely put you in the vicinity of fake blood. Here are a few tips for working with this sticky, sinister substance.1. Wear your laundry-day underwear.Even if you're protected by a multilayered costume, there's no guarantee the stuff you've got on underneath will survive a day of pseudo-gore. Actor David Mattey sacrificed a few unmentionables while being drenched in 18 gallons of fake blood during a gory death scene in the cult-classic film "Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.""The underwear I had on under my costume for that scene was pink for the rest of its life," he says. "Wear stuff that you aren't in love with, 'cause you may have to throw it out."2. Invest in a can of shaving cream.Your skin may also bear the brunt of.

Troma Entertainment's Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz are fully behind the upcoming remake of their 1984 cult hit The Toxic Avenger, but in an interesting twist, they are shooting a true sequel at the moment which they hope will coincide with the remake's release.

Lloyd Kaufman is directing for the first time since 2006's Poultrygeist, bringing the environmentally conscious superhero Toxie back to the big screen for his fifth outing in Toxic Twins: The Toxic Avenger V. Troma regular Lemmy, from Motorhead, is rumored to be appearing in the film, which stars Lloyd Kaufman's own daughter Charlotte Kaufman and Music and Lyrics's Suzi Lorraine. The storyline picks up directly after Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, and follows Toxie's adventures in fatherhood.

Suzi Lorraine recently released a couple of photos from the New York-based set, which give us a look at Toxie's twin sons.

In related news, director...

Even though Troma Entertainment's Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead had a relatively small theatrical run at around three hundred theatres nationwide, it still managed to garner itself a #1 per-theater average. To say thank you to fans, the full movie has hit online, and you can now watch it for free! Take that, all you cheapskates out there!

"We've got millions of fans, but it's difficult for them to see our movies due to economic blacklisting," stated Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and director of Poultrygeist. "For example, theatrical and home video hits like Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV and Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical have never played on any American TV stations – not even Showtime! Instead of taking a chicken feed TV deal that would put Poultrygeist in a chicken shit timeslot, we decided to just give it away so all of our fans can see it for free.

It seems that even B-movies are not immune from Hollywood's current fixation with rehashing and repackaging failed or forgotten franchises for a new audience. According to Deadline, Troma Entertainment's campy The Toxic Avenger is the latest movie property to be rebooted, courtesy of producers Akiva Goldsman, Richard Saperstein and Charlie Corwin of Corwin's Original Media. Deadline describes the new Toxic Avenger as "a green superhero for these environmentally conscious times."

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The Toxic Avenger - Trailer

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Akiva Goldsman | Lloyd Kaufman | Michael Herz | Richard Saperstein | The Toxic Avenger | The Toxic Avenger, Part II | The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie | Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV | The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie...

One of the great, gory gems of the '80s was Troma films' <>The Toxic Avenger, the terrifically bad tale of a lowly janitor who falls into a tub of toxic waste and becomes an unlikely superhero. It spawned an unbelievable three sequels, all of them varying degrees of stupid and terrible, and was something of an underground staple for teenage horror/comic fans in the mid- to late-'80s (I never saw the fourth entry, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, released in 2000 -- well past its expiration date).

Believe it or not, The Toxic Avenger is coming back, with a vengeance. According to the fellas at Bloody Disgusting, Original Media has picked up the rights to the Troma character, and will begin releasing no less than four new movies, as well as an animated TV series and a series of comic books based on the character (not too unusual,...

Starring: Shiloh Fernandez, Noah Segan, Eric Podner, Jenny Spain, Candice Accola, Michael Bowen

Writer: Trent Haaga

Directors: Marcel Sarimento and Gadi Harel

The first time I watched my screener copy of Deadgirl, I silently took it out of my player, placed it in its case, and put it on my shelf. My thoughts after watching the film were so upsetting that I couldn't quite articulate my feelings about it. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either. I knew I had to watch it again to organize my thoughts, but for some reason, my hand refused to pick up that disc and put it back in the player.

And when I finally did watch Deadgirl again for the purposes of this review, I remembered what it was that was keeping me from watching. Her eyes. Deadgirl is on one level a perfectly functional zombie flick (and quite literal,...

What's this? A Toxic Avenger 5 ? Yep, Lloyd Kaufman and the team at Troma are collecting funds for another installment in the franchise. And as you can see, there will be two new additions to the family, "The Toxic Twins." No word yet on exact plot, but you can imagine where the plot turns with this motley brood you see below. The last film, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV , arrived nine years ago. Kaufman's past due for a new film, wouldn't you say?...

The East Coast edition of Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors convention, which will be held This Weekend, June 5-7 at New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (11th Avenue between 34th and 39th Streets; use Javits’ Crystal Pavilion entrance; panels and vendors’ area are in Hall 1-d), is getting even FANGorier!

Visitors to the event can stop by the Fangoria Entertainment booth on Saturday, May 6th to get made up with Gore FX by makeup artist Josh Turi of Design To Deceive!

"I am going to bring all sorts of make-up and prosthetics, (wounds, horns, bullet holes, foreheads, etc)" says Turi. "Anybody that wants to be made up can come over and sit down, and get whatever they want. I'll take a break here and there, but basically doing make-up all day. I am a gluten for punishment."

Turi is a regular makeup artist on Saturday Night Live,...

This is not a joke. There will not be a snide April Fools retort after you are finished reading this. What we are about to tell you is near unbelievable but absolutely true. As with each New Fear Wednesday, FEARnet delivers 10 new movies for Free online! On today's list we've got Saw III, Bruiser, A Dead Calling, The Butcher, Tamara, Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger and most importantly, Night of the Creeps which has never been available on DVD…Ever! In addition to the 10 new flicks, be sure to catch 10 of your favorites from last week. See? We told you this was no joke...