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‘The Toxic Avenger Collection’ 8-Disc Set Comes to 4K UHD
While we wait for the upcoming Toxic Avenger reboot from director Macon Blair and a cast that includes Elijah Wood, Kevin Bacon, and Peter Dinklage, Troma is releasing TA on VK! This is huge news for Toxie fans everywhere. The Toxic Avenger Collection is coming to a special 8-disc set with tons of special features and other goodies.
The set comes with 4 Toxie films on both 4K discs as well as blu-ray. The set includes The Toxic Avenger, Toxic Avenger II, Toxic Avenger III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.
The Toxic Avenger has always been one of my faves over at Troma. It wasn’t difficult as a youth to make the case to your parents that it is a superhero film in order to get them to rent it for you. Little did they know that there is a bit of nudity in there and a kiddo riding a bike who has his head runover rather violently. If you are just young enough, when watching the splat of that head on the road will indeed give ya a bit of scar.
In order to celebrate 50 years of Troma select Alamo Drafthouse locations are also having special screenings of The Toxic Avenger. In order to find local listings make sure to check those out HERE.
TOXIC BONUS FEATURES: New 4K scan and restoration (from the films’ original camera negatives*) of each film presented in their original 1.85:1 aspect ratio in HDR with English DTS 2.0 Stereo audio New introductions for each film from Lloyd Kaufman, President of Troma Entertainment and creator of The Toxic Avenger Optional English Subtitles for the deaf or hard of hearing on all discs Collectible Toxic Avenger Postcard Region Free 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray discs
THE TOXIC AVENGER [Unrated Director’s Cut] 4K Ultra HD Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Cast Members Robert Prichard, Gary Schneider, and Dan Snow Audio Commentary with Director Lloyd Kaufman
THE TOXIC AVENGER [Unrated Director’s Cut] Blu-ray Introduction by Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Cast Members Robert Prichard, Gary Schneider, and Dan Snow Audio Commentary with Director Lloyd Kaufman Interviews with Cast Members Jennifer Baptist, Robert Prichard, Mitch Cohen, and Dan Snow Interview with Co-Director Michael Herz “Mark Torgl Talks About The Toxic Avenger” featurette Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery Trailers
THE TOXIC AVENGER PART II [Unrated Director’s Cut*] 4K Ultra HD Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Director Lloyd Kaufman
THE TOXIC AVENGER PART II [Unrated Director’s Cut*] Blu-ray Introduction by Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary With Director Lloyd Kaufman “At Home with Toxie” Mockumentary Interview with Cast Member Lisa Gaye Japanese News Report On The Filming of The Toxic Avenger Part II “Radiation March” Short Film Directed by Lloyd Kaufman The American Cinematheque Honors 40 Years of Troma Trailers
THE TOXIC AVENGER PART III: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE [Unrated Director’s Cut] 4K Ultra HD Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Cast Member Joe Fleishaker
THE TOXIC AVENGER PART III: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE [Unrated Director’s Cut] Blu-ray Audio Commentary with Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Cast Member Joe Fleishaker Behind the Scenes of the “Return to Nuke ’em High Vol. 1” screening at MOMA The American Cinematheque Honors 40 Years of Troma “Make Your Own Damn Horror Film” – Behind the Scenes of Old 37 with Kane Hodder and Bill Moseley “A Halloween Carol” Short Film Infomercial for “Rabid Grannies” Blu-ray Release “Radiation March” Short Film Directed by Lloyd Kaufman
CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER PART IV [Unrated Director’s Cut] 4K Ultra HD Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Editor Gabriel Griedman Audio Commentary with Cast Member Trent Haaga
CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER PART IV [Unrated Director’s Cut] Blu-ray “Apocalypse Soon: The Making of Citizen Toxie” Behind the Scenes Documentary Audio Commentary with Director Lloyd Kaufman Audio Commentary with Editor Gabriel Friedman Audio Commentary with Cast Member Trent Haaga Tribute to Lemmy Kilmister The American Cinematheque Honors 40 Years of Troma Trailers
This is a great set and you gotta love supporting Troma Entertainment, the longest-running independent movie studio in North America.
The Toxic Avenger Collection comes to stores beginning August 29. You can head over HERE to pickup a copy.
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‘Evil Dead’ Film Franchise Getting TWO New Installments
It was a risk for Fede Alvarez to reboot Sam Raimi’s horror classic The Evil Dead in 2013, but that risk paid off and so did its spiritual sequel Evil Dead Rise in 2023. Now Deadline is reporting that the series is getting, not one, but two fresh entries.
We already knew about the Sébastien Vaniček upcoming film that delves into the Deadite universe and should be a proper sequel to the latest film, but we are broadsided that Francis Galluppi and Ghost House Pictures are doing a one-off project set in Raimi’s universe based off of an idea that Galluppi pitched to Raimi himself. That concept is being kept under wraps.
“Francis Galluppi is a storyteller who knows when to keep us waiting in simmering tension and when to hit us with explosive violence,” Raimi told Deadline. “He is a director that shows uncommon control in his feature debut.”
That feature is titled The Last Stop In Yuma County which will release theatrically in the United States on May 4. It follows a traveling salesman, “stranded at a rural Arizona rest stop,” and “is thrust into a dire hostage situation by the arrival of two bank robbers with no qualms about using cruelty-or cold, hard steel-to protect their bloodstained fortune.”
Galluppi is an award-winning sci-fi/horror shorts director whose acclaimed works include High Desert Hell and The Gemini Project. You can view the full edit of High Desert Hell and the teaser for Gemini below:
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‘Invisible Man 2’ Is “Closer Than Its Ever Been” to Happening
Elisabeth Moss in a very well-thought-out statement said in an interview for Happy Sad Confused that even though there have been some logistical issues for doing Invisible Man 2 there is hope on the horizon.
Podcast host Josh Horowitz asked about the follow-up and if Moss and director Leigh Whannell were any closer to cracking a solution to getting it made. “We are closer than we have ever been to cracking it,” said Moss with a huge grin. You can see her reaction at the 35:52 mark in the below video.
Whannell is currently in New Zealand filming another monster movie for Universal, Wolf Man, which might be the spark that ignites Universal’s troubled Dark Universe concept which hasn’t gained any momentum since Tom Cruise’s failed attempt at resurrecting The Mummy.
Also, in the podcast video, Moss says she is not in the Wolf Man film so any speculation that it’s a crossover project is left in the air.
Meanwhile, Universal Studios is in the middle of constructing a year-round haunt house in Las Vegas which will showcase some of their classic cinematic monsters. Depending on attendance, this could be the boost the studio needs to get audiences interested in their creature IPs once more and to get more films made based on them.
The Las Vegas project is set to open in 2025, coinciding with their new proper theme park in Orlando called Epic Universe.
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Jake Gyllenhaal’s Thriller ‘Presumed Innocent’ Series Gets Early Release Date
Jake Gyllenhaal’s limited series Presumed Innocent is dropping on AppleTV+ on June 12 instead of June 14 as originally planned. The star, whose Road House reboot has brought mixed reviews on Amazon Prime, is embracing the small screen for the first time since his appearance on Homicide: Life on the Street in 1994.
Presumed Innocent is being produced by David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot, and Warner Bros. It is an adaptation of Scott Turow’s 1990 film in which Harrison Ford plays a lawyer doing double duty as an investigator looking for the murderer of his colleague.
These types of sexy thrillers were popular in the ’90s and usually contained twist endings. Here’s the trailer for the original:
According to Deadline, Presumed Innocent doesn’t stray far from the source material: “…the Presumed Innocent series will explore obsession, sex, politics and the power and limits of love as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.”
Up next for Gyllenhaal is the Guy Ritchie action movie titled In the Grey scheduled for release in January 2025.
Presumed Innocent is an eight-episode limited series set to stream on AppleTV+ starting June 12.
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