https://vo.rs/tags/troma/Latest from the Troma desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/the-toxic-avenger-tromas-grubby-superhero-satire/<p>There is a case to be made that the most prophetic superhero film of the 1980s was not made by a studio, cost almost nothing, and features a mutant hero beating a man to death with his own severed arm in the first reel. <em>The Toxic Avenger</em>, directed by Troma founders Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz, arrived in 1984 as a piece of deliberately repellent low-budget schlock, and it accidentally invented the ironic superhero a full generation before the multiplex made irony the house style of the genre. Watch it now, after fifteen years of self-aware caped franchises, and its grubby little joke looks less like a joke and more like a forecast.</p>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 11:00:00 +0000