Rating: R | Runtime: 82 minutes
Release Date: September 20th, 1985 (USA)
Studio: Troma Team Releasing
Director(s): Michael Herz & Lloyd Kaufman
Writer(s): Joe Ritter / Lloyd Kaufman (story)

You like Mexican food, little baby?!

When the corrupt mayor laments the loss of his drug dealing cronies because of the hit it will take to his bottom line and then smugly turns to his Nazi police chief to revel in the fact that the “Mop Monster” hasn’t cleaned the streets of all the trash yet (meaning himself), I just knew he’d call in the National Guard. Why? Because that’s what Trump did when his poor wittle “Big Balls” got roughed up in DC.

If only our actual National Guard had the integrity of the one Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz put on-screen, maybe a Melvin of our own (Congress, Supreme Court, Bueller, anyone?!) could check whether Donnie Small Hands has any guts too.

People can’t be doing things just because they’re right!

Pure deranged midnight movie schlock. There’s so much to dislike, but it’s all delivered with such inspired energy that you can’t help grinning. Troma truly is that little psycho kid tearing the wings off an insect while looking for approval and we’re the proudly delusional parents applauding the ingenuity, oblivious to the depravity.

I felt bad laughing out loud when Bozo punched that old woman in the stomach, but having him instantly reminisce about doing it to Slug assured me it was actually okay to find it funny. Thanks, Bozo!

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Andree Maranda and Mitch Cohen in THE TOXIC AVENGER.