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The Toxic Avenger Collection will be released on August 29 via Troma. The box set collects all four films in the cult classic superhero horror comedy franchise on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray.

1984's The Toxic Avenger is directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman and written by Joe Ritter. Mitch Cohen, Mark Torgl, Andree Maranda, and Pat Ryan Jr star.

1989's The Toxic Avenger Part II is directed by Herz and Kaufman and written by Gay Partington Terry. Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, John Altamura, Rick Collins, Rikiya Yasuoka, Tsutomu Sekine, and Mayako Katsuragi

1989's The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie is written and directed by Herz and Kaufman. Ron Fazio, Phoebe Legere, John Altamura, Rick Collins, Lisa Gaye, Jessica Dublin, and Michael Kaplan star.

2000's Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV is directed by Kaufman from a script he co-wrote with Trent Haaga, Patrick Cassidy, and Gabriel Friedman. David Mattey, Clyde Lewis, Heidi Sjursen, Paul Kyrmse, Joe Fleishaker, Debbie Rochon, and Ron Jeremy star.

The unrated director’s cuts of all four films have been newly restored in 4K from the original camera negatives with HDR as well as English DTS 2.0 Stereo audio. A Toxic Avenger postcard is included. Special features are listed below.

The Toxic Avenger special features:

Introduction by The Toxic Avenger creator Lloyd Kaufman (new)

Audio Commentaries with Casts and Filmmakers

Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman

Introduction by Director Lloyd Kaufman

Interviews with Actors Jennifer Baptist, Robert Prichard, Mitch Cohen, and Dan Snow

Interview with Co-Director Michael Herz

Interview with Actor Aark Torgl

Behind the Scenes Photo Gallery

Trailers

The Toxic Avenger II special features:

Introduction by The Toxic Avenger creator Lloyd Kaufman (new)

Audio Commentaries with Casts and Filmmakers

Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman

Introduction by Director Lloyd Kaufman

At Home with Toxie Mockumentary

Interview with Actress Lisa Gaye

Japanese News Report on the Filming

Radiation March - Short Film Directed by Lloyd Kaufman

The American Cinematheque Honors 40 Years of Troma

Trailers

The original negative of The Toxic Avenger Part II, while complete, was missing several short dialogue sequences in the opening third, which had been removed for pacing reasons. Although no film materials for these sequences could be located, in order to present the most complete version possible, these short segments were inserted from the highest quality digital master.

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie special features:

Introduction by The Toxic Avenger creator Lloyd Kaufman (new)

Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman

Audio Commentary by Director Lloyd Kaufman

Audio Commentary by Actor 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

Radiation March - Short Film Directed by Lloyd Kaufman

A Halloween Carol - Short Film Co-directed by Lloyd Kaufman

Rabid Grannies Blu-ray Infomercial

Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV special features:

Introduction by The Toxic Avenger creator Lloyd Kaufman (new)

Audio Commentaries with Casts and Filmmakers

Prologue by Director Lloyd Kaufman

Apocalypse Soon: The Making of Citizen Toxie

Tribute to Lemmy Kilmister

The American Cinematheque Honors 40 Years of Troma

Trailers

Pre-order The Toxic Avenger Collection.

#the toxic avenger #toxic avenger #troma #lloyd kaufman #horror #80s horror #1980s horror #citizen toxie #debbie rochon #ron jeremy #horror comedy #the toxic avenger 2 #the toxic avenger 3 #dvd #gift

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Moon Knight Primer, Part 4

Moon Knight: Fist of Khonshu (1985), Marvel Fanfare #38, West Coast Avengers (1986) #21-41

Prologue

Part I

Part II

Part III

Small annoying biographical sidebar. West Coast Avengers was the first time I encountered Moon Knight and the guys. And while you will see how that was not the best time to meet the System? I still have some warmth feelings about that run despite it being a very, very bad time for everyone involved.

(And for everyone involved, I mean it. West Coast Avengers single handedly destroyed not just Moon Knight’s relationship with Khonshu, but also Hawkeye and Mockingbird’s marriage AND Wanda and Vision’s marriage! In fact, West Coast Avengers is directly tied to the current status quo of Scarlet Witch as an unstable “crazy” woman and her children being not quite real. So basically, if you liked Wandavision and Multiverse of Madness? This is the comic run you want to read)

And when I say “Destroy”? I am not kidding. In a very funny turn of events, the Fist of Khonshu sets up a new status quo for Moon Knight and the guys that lasts exactly until the end of Moon Knight’s time with the Avengers. Which is a real pity as the mini introduced a lot of very interesting ideas, and the WCA run just… didn’t seem what to do with them. And then, the WCA run ALSO introduced interesting ideas that never went anywhere because they were in the middle of a very complex storyline and by the time that was over? Marc and co. were long gone and thus, it was not even worth it to bring them up again and, as far as I’ve read? No one brought them up ever again. Well, until the TV series resurrected Harrow, so now I have hope.

Oh? Did I forget to mention? Four parts deep into this we FINALLY get to Harrow’s introduction in the comics! And he has absolutely nothing to do with the TV series Harrow, but this one? This one REALLY has a doctorate!

But I am getting ahead of myself again, so let’s start with what Fist of Khonshu changed from what we know of Moon Knight and the system, the new enemies the guys would fight, and why it is not very remembered as a mini.

Because it’s a new series, we of course have to go back to the origin of how Marc was revived by Khonshu to be his fist. Only that this time, we see that someone else was there besides Marlene and the diggers: Araamses, immortal priest of Anubis, and mayor pain in the ass for a whole issue.

The status quo as the series begins is that, after Rabbi Spector’s second death? Marlene finally got her wish, sort of, and Marc put down the mantle of Moon Knight… and also stopped letting Steven and Jake front. This is pretty much the lowest point for this mini, that we never hear from any of the Alters except for Marc, who is now enjoying Steven’s fortune and making a name for himself as Marc Spector, millionaire art gallery owner. I have NO idea if this is because Alan Zelenetz, the main writer, really thought that integration therapy was good and worked and thus Marc didn’t need the others anymore, or because he didn’t want to bother with the Moon System at all.

Unfortunately for Marlene, but thankfully for us? This doesn’t last long. Among the things she convinced Marc to do was to sell Khonshu’s statue, and the second the thing is out of Grant… sorry, Spector’s mansion? Marc starts having visions of Khonshu calling him to Egypt, telling him that Moon Knight has to rise again against evil. Obviously, Marc wants to investigate, but Marlene, supportive as always, puts down an ultimatum: either he stays with her and forgets all that nonsense, or she won’t be there when he comes back.

And boy, they didn’t see it this way in the 80’s? But that was a huge red flag of a toxic, abusive relationship.

Thankfully, Marc doesn’t fall for that trick (Ok, the fact that a guy tries to kill him and upon failing, kills himself yelling “Death to Khonshu” helps a LOT to make him decide that yep, that is worth investigating), and even calls it her “spoiled kid act”. And yes, he will regret leaving, and spend pretty much the rest of the mini and part of WCA moping that he lost the love of his life? But Marlene is gone as the Girlfriend for now, and good riddance to her. She will appear again in the mini, breaking Marc’s heart over and over, but at the very least, she is no longer telling him he’s crazy every time he steps in his own home.

In Egypt he finds another secret tomb filled with Khonshu statues, and meets three blind priests who declare themselves to be the immortal servants of Khonshu and that they have contacted him because he choose to be Khonshu’s fist (as opposed as being chosen, they say that Marc putting on Khonshu’s robe on his shoulders upon revival is what made him accept become Khonshu’s fist) and he let the statue, his original compass to know when to act, fall into the hands of evil. So now THEY will tell him where to go and fight. Like a very annoying Bat signal because it comes with visions AND sound!

Fortunately, it also comes with its advantages: this time, the guys have proof that there is divine intervention in their lives, as not only he gets a pouch full of mystical weapons (An Ankh that glows when there’s mortal danger near, a boomerang covered with protective charms, wristbands with scarab darts, and so on) but also, the body strength will now increase proportionally to the phase and brilliance of the moon. So, new moon or cloudy day? The guys have normal strength. Full Moon? He can give Captain America a run for his money. This was probably one of the most popular additions of the era, and while it is no longer true for the comics (Long story that, we will go through it in time), it’s one many people still think about when thinking of Moon Knight’s abilities.

Marc starts thinking he must be insane by accepting, but he accepts anyway even if later decides that just because he took the weapons and the new costume doesn’t mean he is going to be Moon Knight again (Ah, the poor innocent guy). He fights Aaramses, is saved by a deus ex machina sandstorm that kills the other man, and gets the Khonshu statue back.

Back in New York we find that THIS time Marlene made good on her promise and left, but Marc can’t really spend much time looking for her because when she does? The Priests alert him to danger in Yucatan, and that’s where we meet Dr. Arthur Harrow.

Yes, you guys know that name. Unfortunately, THIS Dr. Arthur Harrow is not nearly as fun as Ethan Hawke’s Harrow, as he is a novel prize candidate who is following on the steps of Awschwitz’s scientists to create soldiers that can’t feel pain (Of course, the Nobel committee doesn’t know that part, they just know he’s doing advances in pain medicine). So yeah, run of the mill nazi villain for Moon Knight, who appears in this issue and we never, EVER see again.

Only really interesting thing is that, while the narration only refers to the guys as “Marc Spector”, whenever he is in the Moon Knight’s armor he thinks of Marc in the third person so… Who fronts? Who knows?

On the Marlene front? The writers FINALLY remembered that in her early appearances Marlene was called Fontaine and not Alarune, so they work to fix that particular plot hole by letting us now that Eric Fontaine? Is her ex-husband! And she’s going back to him because she has no money left and man, the writers REALLY wanted to make her look as if she only cared about money in her significant others! She still has to call Marc because Morpheus is back again, and this time with mind control powers so she really has no choice, as Morpheus is attacking her patients because she’s studying social work which is honestly the worst possible major for her. (Also, as much as Marc hates Fontaine, he can’t really hate him when he finds out he’s on a wheelchair and that’s once again the last we hear from Fontaine in the mini)

Interestingly enough? While the Priests also send Marc (Who now thinks of himself as “Marc Spector, REFORMED mercenary and multi-millionaire”) visions about Morpheus, they scold him for thinking more about saving Marlene from the monster than about saving the innocent. While I think the Priests are a bit heavy handed? On this part, I am totally with them. But that is a thing that continues during the mini: Marc wants to quit being Moon Knight and only puts on the suit when the Priests insist… and then his own friends get affected by the case that he just rejected from the police (He has his own commissioner Gordon in the form of NY Detective Flint) so he realizes that he should’ve been more empathic and not just wait for the Priests to call him. Even if he really, really wants to quit (I have to check other comics, but I think this was also the time when Spiderman was quitting, and Captain America was quitting and Iron Man was close to quit and what was with the eighties and all superheroes wanting to hung the cape?)

Issues 5 and 6 have him fighting first two immortal priests that are sacrificing children to remain immortal and then a voodoo priestess who deals with heroine. Both issues end in a very low note and then the mini ends without a peep from Steven or Jake. As I said? Not a very good mini except for the “Moon Knight’s strength increases with the moon bit”.

And then… then we have the West Coast Avengers. (There’s Marvel Fanfare #38, but that one is even MORE run of the mill than Fist of Khonshu’s issues #5 and 6 with a “Boyband is actually made of old men who stole their fans’ youth with an incan idol” plot). And boy, West Coast Avengers makes a MESS out of things, as I said in the introduction because the very first thing it does? Is completely destroy the possibility that Khonshu is just in Marc’s mind by letting us hear the God’s voice as he talks not to any of the System… but to Clint Barton, aka. Hawkeye.

See, at the time the West Coast Avengers were divided in different time eras, and Clint, Wonderman and Tygra were stuck in ancient Egypt. There, Clint half-dies, and Khonshu, true to form, appears in his mind and offers him the same deal he offered Marc. Only Clint is not as easy to manipulate. He accepts helping Khonshu against Rama-tut, the enemy to fight, BUT only if Khonshu agrees to send his team back to their right time. Since Khonshu doesn’t have that power, the god instead sends a message to Marc to go to California and help the Avengers in the present to figure out that the others are stuck in the past and get a time machine to get them out. After this, Khonshu returns Clint to life (Or to full strength, it’s not clear) and Clint gets to meet the priests of the cult of Khonshu who refer to him as “Beloved of Khonshu”, a term that has NEVER been used to refer to the Moon System.

And then Clint goes and creates the weapons that Marc is using in the future. Yeah, that’s right. Hawkeye made Moon Knight’s mystical arsenal because Khonshu asked him to, and Clint thought “Well, I can’t ask everyone to become a master archer so let’s diversify!”.

We get the Origin re-told, by the way, only that this time Marlene is nowhere to be seen, it’s the Priests themselves who bring Marc to the feet of the Statue, no one knows if he was dead or alive at the time, and we’re specifically told that the Alters came to be AFTER his resurrection, so that he had to quit being Moon Knight for his mental health to find himself again until the Priests called him back into service. This will be the first time the Origin is changed from its original form, but not the last.

Also, for all the “Everyone in the Marvel Universe thinks/knows Moon Knight is insane” meme? Here we have Marc being very careful not to let the Avengers know about his “schizophrenia” -his words, not mine- , even if really, Marc is sort of fronting all the time -sort of. This will get ugly soon- and Reed Richards, of all people, theorizing that Moon Knight’s powers come from an Egypcian god. So… no one thinks Khonshu is a figment of the System’s imagination! Yet.

And here comes the ugly part: Unlike in Fist of Khonshu, we do get to hear the other Alters, as they appear around Moon Knight from time to time. Except… at first we’re told that Marc IS fronting while being Moon Knight, and he only has three personalities (This comes handy when fighting a mind control ray… apparently, the ray can only control ONE person per zap, so since Moon Knight is only zapped twice, Steven and Jake get controlled, but Marc can still fight). Marc also seems convinced that Khonshu wants him to join the Avengers, so he has to say goodbye to Frenchie who is 100% supportive both of Moon Knight’s plurality and his career as an avenger. Frenchie is ten thousand times better than Marlene and that will again come up later as to why.

Oh, yes. The Ugly. See, from that point on, Moon Knight’s personality starts to change and be weird. On one hand, he speaks to Khonshu in his head a LOT. On the other, he suddenly has knowledge that none of the Alters had, such as a deep, deep understanding of Astrology when in his own book we know that none of the Alters had time or belief in the supernatural, even doubting Khonshu’s existence from time to time. He also begins a relationship with Tygra, despite having earlier in his comic thought about how being Moon Knight was not conductive to romance.

When this happens, Steven and Jake start arguing with Marc about Marc wanting to be the only one in the body AGAIN. And they start wondering if the fact that Khonshu is now speaking to them is only a sign of madness… despite their powers being quite obviously real and moon-based. He is also in probation as an Avenger because Clint really doesn’t like it when people die and Marc… doesn’t have that particular hang-up. YET.

And then Khonshu comes up to speak up to Marc and tells him he WANTS Moon Knight to be an Avenger because the god is VERY interested in Clint Barton and the Avenger experience. Which is problem #1 of Moon Knight’s time in the Avengers. They broke the cardinal rule of “We don’t show if Khonshu is real or not” in order to make the god obsess… over a completely different character. Oh, and then we get told that nope, Khonshu doesn’t approve of Marc being with Tygra because she is “sun-oriented” despite claiming to love the moon and this is the first time Khonshu openly talks about his preferences about Moon Knight’s romantic life. While still insisting that he totally wants to understand Hawkeye and I do wonder about the West Coast Avenger’s writers obsession with Hawkeye back then.

Still, after Moon Knight saves Mockingbird from Phantom Rider -although they both lie to Hawkeye regarding exactly from whom he saved her- he officially becomes the #24 Avenger (Which, given that now the rooster of Avengers and ex-Avengers is about 150? Kinda impressive) but then, during a fight where Marc is left unconscious… Khonshu leaves the body. It is revealed then that he has been possessing the system, making them join the Avengers and then slowly taking over because since he was SO impressed by Hawkeye’s spirit, he wanted to be in the Avengers “personally”. And none of the Alters know about this. And he is more active than ever, as every time the team faces someone who can mind control them? Khonshu takes over to remain immune.

And yet, with Khonshu apparently over the moon for Hawkeye (yes, sorry, I just had to say that), when Hawkeye and Mockingbird divorce and separate? Moon Knight takes Mockingbird side and stays with her rather than remain with the Avengers. And yet, Khonsu is STILL fronting as we get thoughts like “Assuming the form of Marc Spector is becoming a hindrance” -as he can’t use his full godly powers like that- “My human Host, Marc Spector”, and stuff like that.

Finally, as the whole drama with Phantom Rider ends, Damion Hellstorm, Spawn of Satan, exorcises Khonshu from Moon Knight’s body and, after a very, very long fight with Seth’s armies (Because of a different crossover that was going on at the time), Khonshu declares that his little experiment with experiencing the human life was over, he had to go and fight Seth since they’re from the same pantheon, and thus, Marc will be left alone in his body (With the Alters, which Khonshu at some point calls “their madness” because Khonshu is an ass) but will still be the fist of Khonshu on earth and as such Marc is still under his service even if “their time of oneness is over”. Marc is not impressed. During the fight with the Seth armies, every bit of Moon Knight’s mystic arsenal is destroyed, so he is left only with his augmented strength during the moon cycle.

Once Khonshu leaves and the fight is over, Marc -who is probably fronting- breaks things up with Tygra and leaves the avengers, stating that “I have met my maker, and I’m not sure I like what I saw” which marks the FIRST time Moon Knight and Khonshu are in real conflict, but not the last.

He also participated in the West Coast Avengers 2 and 3, but really, he was only there as a warm body to fight villains.

So there you have it, the series that brought the biggest change to Moon Knight status quo in the eighties, and yet… didn’t do anything interesting with the Alters. Seriously, I’d have KILLED to see Jake interacting with Clint, Steven with Tony Stark -as Iron Man was on the team for a bit at the same time as Moon Knight, and Marc with Mockingbird. To see the team confused as to who was fronting when with the guys desperately trying to keep their plurality a secret. To NOT have Khonshu just become a Hawkeye fangirl and take over the guys’s autonomy just because he wanted to play Avenger near his new shiny non plural friend (That really left a bad taste in my mouth), but in the end, it was just a means to undo what they had done in the mini and get back to the original status quo, with just the new change of us knowing that Khonshu IS real, even if he is no longer around.

What did they do with that? Well, tune in for Part 5 when we get to see what happened in Marc Spector: Moon Knight (Oh, and The Punisher Annual 2), And that one is going to be short, and it’s going to be PAINFUL, so I am warning you right now.

#Moon Knight #Moon Knight Comics #Moon Knight Primer #This is where they start doing the Moon System dirty #Steven Grant #Marc Spector #Jake Lockley #And yet Marc is still the killer #Khonshu #Khonshu is a Hawkeye fangirl #No #Seriously #he can't go one appearance without going on about how wonderful Hawkeye soul is #Stupid pigeon being unfaithful to his avatar

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kayedium-writes · 2 years

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Kay's Movie Favs

@writingpotato07, you made my day with this tag! <3

I could go on and on about movies all. damn. day. This was the hardest thing I've had to narrow down in my life, but here we go. In no real order.

When Harry Met Sally (1989) - By far, my favorite take on the rom-com genre. I've watched it too many times.

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002) - listen, I know everyone's favorite prequel movie is ROTS, but I will not apologize for my love for this movie despite how cringey it gets at times. 😂

Steel Magnolias (1989) - The cast of this movie is incredible, and I always appreciated the balanced tone between emotional impact and humor.

Just Mercy (2019) - Bryan Stevenson is a fantastic lawyer, and person. His book was so impactful and I thought this adaptation was done really well. (Go read the book! It's so memorable and inspiring, but it will make you mad, and probably sad at times.)

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) - I've seen this movie more times than I can count... Thank you, Carrie and Harrison, for that iconic scene.

Closer (2004) - I love the way this movie is told. The exploration of truth, and lies, and insincerity in relationships. They're so toxic, but hey!

Love Jones (1997) - Music, photography, poetry, and romance. There's a literal poetry slam in this movie.

Her (2013) - I have no real explanation for liking this odd movie so much, but I do.

The Lion King (1994) - it was my favorite movie as a child. I've seen it on Broadway, in other theater productions, live-action, rereleased editions, the sequels...

Avenger's Infinity War (2018) - I'm a big fan of subverting expectations in tropey films, and this is no exception. Also a big Wanda x Vision fan, and this movie is part of the reason.

Honorable Mentions????

Jackie (2016)

Singin' in the Rain (1952)

Pretty Woman (1990)

Star Wars: Episodes III (2005) IV (1977) and VI (1983)

Tagging: Open Tag!

#my favorite movies #there are so many more #I tried my best

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uneasylisteningradio · 2 years

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The Kids Just Don’t Understand: May 26 2022

Photo: Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens

stream on Mixcloud

Hazel Dickens - They'll Never Keep Us Down

DJ speaks over The Surfrajettes - Toxic

Sort Sol - Abyss The Addiction - 侵略者 Forest - Fading Light Tangerine Stoned - Chameleons

Tyrades - Detonation Heavenly - Escort Crash On Marston Street Iron Knowledge - Give Me a Little Taste of Your Love (part 1) The Pets - El Entierro de Un Hombre Rico Que Murió de Hambre AMDI PETERSENS ARMÉ - Truffet Ronno - Powers of Darkness

The Bongos - Numbers With Wings Southern Sons - I'm Free at Last Lavender Hex - Banana Jellyfish Statuesque - Camberwell Kids They Might Be Giants - It's Not My Birthday

Mick Ronson - Only After Dark Sylvester - Happiness Hot Blood - Soul Dracula Sun Ra Arkestra - Pink Elephants on Parade

At Night - Fake Gold Speed Twins - Bomb in the Jukebox Dan - Office Boys and Cats The Flying Burrito Brothers - Wheels Golden Gate Quartet - The Sun Didn't Shine Gray Matter - Oscars Eye

The Jimmy Castor Bunch - Bad F-Systems - People Tony Ritchie - Has Anyone at the Party Seen Jenny Crime of Passing - Vision Talk Nimrod Workman - Coal Black Mining Blues

Verdun - Block H The Louvin Brothers - When I Stop Dreaming Elli & Jacno - Je t'Aime Tant Memphis Minnie & Kansas Joe - When the Levee Breaks

The Vores - Love Canal Kochise - Qui Jettera La Derniere Pierre? Rudimentary Peni - ¼ Dead The Avengers - We Are the One Trees - Road

Hank Williams III - Low Down Chubby Parker - King Kong Kitchie Kitchie Ki-Me-O Mahotella Queens - Igugu Lezwe Mission of Burma - New Disco

Jimmie Rodgers - Any Old Time

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Assistir Filme O Vingador Tóxico Parte III Online fácil

Assistir Filme O Vingador Tóxico Parte III Online Fácil é só aqui: https://filmesonlinefacil.com/filme/o-vingador-toxico-parte-iii/

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Depois de limpar a cidade de Tromaville dos bandidos, o herói Toxic Avenger percebe que não tem mais nada para fazer. Procura emprego, mas percebe que não há muitas oportunidades para um gigantesco monstro gerado por lixo tóxico. Quando descobre que sua namorada Claire pode voltar a enxergar com uma cirurgia revolucionária, Toxie acaba aceitando um emprego na Apocalypse Inc., a maléfica corporação vista em "Toxic Avenger Part II", em busca de dinheiro para pagar a operação. Mas, sem saber, ele pode estar vendendo a alma ao demônio.

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ryanmoody · 2 years

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Aroma From Troma - Sci-Fi Channel Promo

#Sci-fi Channel #movies #cinema #film #horror #cult movies #the toxic avenger #The Toxic Avenger Part II #The Toxic Avenger Part III #class of nuke 'em high #1990's #90's #TV #TV Promo #commercial #troma entertainment #Troma films

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90smovies · 3 years

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#Robin Hood Prince of Thieves #Kevin Costner #The Silence of the Lambs #Jodie Foster #Anthony Hopkins #The Godfather Part III #The Toxic Avenger Part III #Home Alone #90s

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cinematicwasteland · 5 years

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The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)

Toxie finds he has nothing to do as a superhero, as he has ridden his city of evil. He decides to go to work for a major corporation, which he discovers may be the evilest of all his adversaries.

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silveremulsion · 5 years

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The Silver Emulsion Podcast: Ep. 127 – The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

#the toxic avenger part iii: the last temptation of toxie #lloyd kaufman #toxic avenger #troma #film #film podcast #movie podcast #80s movies #superhero movies

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incorrectlooneytunesquotes · 2 years

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Oh man, you are one ugly amphibian!

Bugs Bunny to Michigan J. Frog

#Bugs Bunny #Michigan J. Frog #source: Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

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thisobscuredesireforbeauty · 3 years

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The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (Dir. Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz 1989).

#the last temptation of toxie

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brokehorrorfan · 6 months

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The Toxic Avenger Parts II & III soundtracks are available on vinyl for $27 via Ship to Shore PhonoCo. It features cues composed by Christopher De Marco (Troma's War) along with original songs by actress Phoebe Legere.

The album is pressed on "Toxic" neon green vinyl. Terror Vision Records carries an exclusive color variant. It's housed in a jacket featuring original artwork along with a booklet featuring liner notes by DeMarco and an interview with Legere.

#the toxic avenger #toxic avenger #troma #horror #80s horror #1980s horror #toxic avenger 2 #toxic avenger 3 #ship to shore phonoco #terror vision records #vinyl #soundtrack #gift #lloyd kaufman #toxic crusaders

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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 years

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All the books I reviewed in 2020

I know it's a little late for Xmas shipping, but I'm FINALLY getting around to publishing a roundup of all the books I reviewed in 2019!

Part 1: FICTION FOR ADULTS

I. AGENCY by William Gibson: A sequel to The Peripheral for the Trump years, about seductive bitterness of imagined alternate timelines, filled with cyberpunk cool and action.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2020-01-24/agency-william-gibson

II. RIOT BABY by Tochi Onyebuchi: An incandescent Afrofuturist novella that connects the Rodney King uprising with contemporary struggle, pitting supernatural powers against dire politics.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/04/23/riot-baby/#Tochi-Onyebuchi

III. OR WHAT YOU WILL by Jo Walton: A metafiction about the desperate attempt of a character to pull his writer into a fictional world to save the both from human mortality.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/07/little-bro-with-snowden/#metafiction

IV. A BEAUTIFULLY FOOLISH ENDEAVOR by Hank Green: Sequel to An Absolutely Remarkable Thing - a madcap and sometimes brutal tale of social media influencers, alien invaders, disinformation, and runaway capitalism.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/08/absolutely-remarkable-thing/#carls

V. FAILED STATE by Christopher Brown: A legal eco-thriller that imagines the end of capitalism without imagining the end of the world - cyberpunk meets ecotopianism, with anarchist jurisdictions, show-trials, and rewilding.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/12/failed-state/#chris-brown

VI. AFTERLAND by Lauren Beukes: Eerily well-timed road-trip novel set after a prostate-cancer plague wipes out nearly every man on Earth, except for the protagonist's teenaged son, who is now being hunted by the (all-female) US government.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/28/afterland/#XY

VII. BALLISTIC KISS by Richard Kadrey: Sandman Slim confronts the worst demons of all - his own trauma and self-doubt.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/25/anxietypunk/#bk

VIII. SQUEEZE ME by Carl Hiaasen: Hiaasen was writing comedic whodunnits about improbable Florida Man types decades before the memes, and his Mar-a-Lago gator plague novel is a hectic and hilarious tale for our times.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#disappearing-act

VIII. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson: KSR says it's his last novel and I say it's the book he's been training to write all his life. If you like your climate fiction wrenching but still uplifting enough to move you to tears...

https://pluralistic.net/2020/12/03/ministry-for-the-future/#ksr

IX. SET MY HEART TO FIVE by Simon Stephenson: An absurdist robot-romp in the mold of Kurt Vonnegut about a robot who catches the disease of emotions and tries to treat it by moving to Hollywood to write screenplays about robots.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/01/cant-pay-wont-pay/#robot-rights

Part 2: NONFICTION FOR ADULTS

I. A PUBLIC SERVICE by Tim Schwartz: An incredibly practical, detailed guide for would-be whistleblowers (and journalists who work with them) to staying safe while spilling the beans.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/08/a-public-service-a-comprehensive-comprehensible-guide-to-leaking-documents-to-journalists-and-public-service-groups-without-getting-caught/

II. THE MONSTERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING by Keith Ammann: A sourcebook for RPG game-masters explaining how different kinds of monsters can use a variety of combat tactics that add depth, texture (and challenge) to your games.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/10/the-monsters-know-what-theyre-doing-an-rpg-sourcebook-for-dms-who-want-to-imbue-monsters-with-deep-smart-tactics/

III. SNOWDEN'S BOX by Jessica Bruder and Dale Maharidge: The incredible, true tale of how trust among friends allowed Snowden's leaks to safely transit from his home in Hawai'i to the hands of Laura Poitras and the journalists who reported the story.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/03/31/snowdens-box-the-incredible-illuminating-story-of-the-journey-of-snowdens-hard-drive/

III. ABOLISH SILICON VALLEY by Wendy Liu: A personal journey from a fully bought-in believer in Silicon Valley's meritocracy to a ferocious critic who demands tech to serve humanity, not a human race in service to the tech industry.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/04/14/abolish-silicon-valley-memoir-of-a-driven-startup-founder-who-became-an-anti-capitalist-activist/

IV. THE CASE FOR A JOB GUARANTEE by Pavlina Tcherneva: A fierce little book setting out an economic program to rescue the nation and the planet from a system that insists we can't even hope for a better world.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/22/jobs-guarantee/#job-guarantee

VII. SUBPRIME ATTENTION CRISIS by Tim Hwang: What's worse than having our lies destroyed by surveillance to manipulate us with ads? Having our lives destroyed by surveillance in order to fuel a fraudulent market in ad-based manipulation.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/05/florida-man/#wannamakers-ghost

VIII. MONOPOLIES SUCK by Sally Hubbard: There are plenty of *great* books about monopolies and the resurgence in antitrust, but Hubbard's is the most practical, providing the reader with excellent advice for actually *doing something* about monopolism.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/27/peads-r-us/#sally-hubbard

IX. BREAK 'EM UP by Zephyr Teachout: The most lucid, readable, infuriating, energizing book on the rise of monopolies. Teachout never loses sight of the systemic nature of the problem, even as she uses individual stories to tell the tale.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/29/break-em-up/#break-em-up

X. BOUNDLESS REALM by Fox Nolte: There has never been a better book about the Haunted Mansion (indeed, this is one of the best books ever written about environmental design in general). Nolte goes *way* beyond trite wisdom about "storytelling."

https://pluralistic.net/2020/11/09/boundless-realm/#fuxxfur

PART 3: GRAPHIC NOVELS

I. YEAR OF THE RABBIT by Tean Viasna: A graphic memoir of Viasna's harrowing boyhood during the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. It's a tale we've rarely seen through the eyes of a child, and brilliantly realized.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/01/22/year-of-the-rabbit-a-graphic-novel-memoir-of-one-familys-life-under-the-khmer-rouge/

II. FEMALE FURIES by @misscecil: Castellucci uses an obscure and anachronistic all-woman cast of DC Universe b-characters to tell an incredible, smart, pitiless story about #MeToo, comics, solidarity and betrayal.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/29/female-furies/#apokolips-now

III. LONELINESS OF THE LONG-DISTANCE CARTOONIST by Adrian Tomine: A memoir of intensely felt impostor syndrome, a forceful reminder that comparison is the thief of joy - and that the traits that keep an artist going at first go toxic over time.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/21/the-thief-of-joy/#tomine

IV. CONSTITUTION ILLUSTRATED by R Sikoryak: The Trump years were an unhappy crash-course in Constitutional law, but Sikoryak's genius adaptation of the Constitution in the style of dozens of cartoonists is a pure delight.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/07/27/ip/#r-sikoryak

PART 4: KIDS AND YA

I. SEND PICS by Lauren McLaughlin: A YA novel that's a thrilling revenge-play about "revenge porn," a cyber-heist novel that's also a sneaky and forceful book about teen girls' sexuality.

https://memex.craphound.com/2020/04/21/send-pics-ripping-brutal-amazing-novel-about-teens-sextortion-revenge-and-justice/

II. IMPOSSIBLE MUSIC by Sean Williams: A YA novel about a music-obsessed kid who loses his hearing is the frame for a book about ability, adaptation, music theory, family, Deafness and what dreams are really for.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/30/deafhood/#impossible-music

III. HARD WIRED by Len Vlahos: A 15 year old discovers the truth behind bizarre dysfunction of the world around him: he's an AI in a sim, and the guy he thinks of as his long-dead father is actually the research scientists who created him.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/31/ai-rights-now/#len-vlahos

IV. ADVENTURES OF A DWERGISH GIRL, by Daniel Pinkwater: Like every Pinkwater novel, it defies description, it is brilliant, and it is his best to date. Ghosts, Revolutionary War fleshbots, papaya juice, and supernatural beings from the Catskills!

https://pluralistic.net/2020/09/25/dwergish-girl/#you-are-a-pickle

V. WITCH by Finbar Hawkins: A beautiful debut novel about a pair of 17th century sisters who avenge themselves against the witchfinders that murdered their mother. A superbly told historical.

https://pluralistic.net/2020/10/01/the-years-of-repair/#witch

FINALLY: I published *four* books in 2020!

I. POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER: My debut picture book, about a little girl who turns her toys into weapons and torments her parents by hunting monsters all night, with wonderful art by Matt Rockefeller:

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626723627

II. LITTLE BROTHER/HOMELAND: My multibestselling YA novels were reissued last summer in a gorgeous package with a (fantastic) new introduction by Snowden.

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250774583

III. ATTACK SURFACE: A standalone, adult sequel to Little Brother and Homeland. The New York Times called it "vocal and unflinching" and "ultimately optimistic"; the Washington Post called it a "riveting techno-thriller."

https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250757531

IV. HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM: A long pamphlet/short book that makes the case that Big Tech manipulates us and spies on us because they have monopolies - not because they've developed devastating, data-driven mind-control.

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

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The Pleasure and Pain of Cult Horror Films: An Historical Survey, by Bartlomiej Paszylk, McFarland, paperback edition, 2020 (2009). Info: mcfarlandbooks.com.

The horror genre harbors a number of films too bold or bizarre to succeed with mainstream audiences, but offering unique, startling and often groundbreaking qualities that have won them an enduring following. Beginning with Victor Sjöström’s The Phantom Carriage in 1921, this book tracks the evolution and influence of underground cult horror over the ensuing decades, closing with William Winckler’s Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove in 2005. It discusses the features that define a cult film, trends and recurring symbols, and changing iconography within the genre through insightful analysis of 88 movies. Included are works by popular directors who got their start with cult horror films, including Oliver Stone, David Cronenberg and Peter Jackson.

Contents: Introduction PART I: THE ROOT OF ALL HORROR The Phantom Carriage (Körkarlen) (1921) Between Two Worlds (Der Müde Tod) (1921) Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) Faust (Faust—Eine Deutsche Volkssage) (1926) Vampyr (Vampyr, Der Traum des Allan Grey) (1931) The Old Dark House (1932) Doctor X (1932) Freaks (1932) White Zombie (1932) WereWolf of London (1935) Mad Love (1935) Mark of the Vampire (1935) PART II: MONSTERS AND MADMEN Dr. Cyclops (1940) The Mad Monster (1942) I Walked with a Zombie (1943) The Body Snatcher (1945) Dead of Night (1945) The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) The Thing from Another World (1951) House of Wax (1953) Tarantula (1955) The Curse of Frankenstein (1957) The Fly (1958) I Bury the Living (1958) Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959) A Bucket of Blood (1959) Horrors of the Black Museum (1959) Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) (1959) PART III: TO SCARE THE WORLD Black Sunday (1960) The Blancheville Monster (1963) Blood Feast (1963) At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma) (1964) Kwaidan (Kaidan) (1964) The Saragossa Manuscript (Rdkopis Znaleziony w Saragossie) (1965) Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965) The Reptile (1966) The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) The Sorcerers (1967) Viy (1967) Hour of the Wolf (Vargtimmen) (1968) The Cremator (SpalovaV Mrtvol) (1968) Murder à la Mod (1968) The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (L’Uccello dalle Piume di Cristallo) (1970) Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Una Lucertola con la Pelle di Donna) (1971) Blood on Satan’s Claw (1971) Vampyros Lesbos (1971) Raw Meat (1972) Flesh for Frankenstein (1973) Scream Blacula Scream (1973) Horror Express (1973) Seizure (1974) Frightmare (1974) Black Christmas (1974) The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) The Beast (La Bête) (1975) Shivers (1975) The House with Laughing Windows (La Casa dalle Finestre Che Ridono) (1976) Eraserhead (1977) Martin (1977) I Spit on Your Grave (1978) The Driller Killer (1979) PART IV: THE NASTY EIGHTIES Cannibal Holocaust (1980) Hell of the Living Dead (Inferno dei Morti Viventi) (1980) Possession (19819 The Living Dead Girl (La Morte Vivante) (1982) Basket Case (1982) Escape 2000 (1982) Swamp Thing (1982) Q—The Winged Serpent (1982) Sleepaway Camp (1983) The Toxic Avenger (1985) Bad Taste (1987) Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) Night of the Demons (1988) Society (1989) PART V: THE NEW WEIRDNESS Begotten (1991) Benny’s Video (1992) Schramm (1993) Dark Waters (1994) The Day of the Beast (El Día de la Bestia) (1995) The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra (2001) No Such Thing (2001) Bubba Ho-tep (2002) The Stink of Flesh (2004) Calvaire (2004) Lunacy (Sílení) (2005) William Winckler’s Frankenstein vs. the Creature from Blood Cove (2005) Bibliography Index

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