Release Date: April 1986
Directed by: Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
The Toxic Avenger is about a geeky man who has been mercilessly bullied and falls into a vat of toxic waste. He turns into a superhero, and begins to save the town from any wrongdoers and becomes a vigilante and taking criminal punishment into his own hands.
I really didn't like this film trailer for The Toxic Avenger (1984). The first reason for this is that it is too long, which I think defeats the point of a trailer as the audience begins to switch off.. The second being that it gives too much of the film away, without even needing to watch the film you know exactly what the narrative is and you've also seen most of the more exciting bits of the film. It’s also really irritating how many times the film title is repeated throughout the trailer and becomes almost comical.
Although I really didn't like this trailer, it does sell the movie for its comedy/horror hybrid style, which means that the audience wouldn't have any surprises if they went to watch it. Some trailers make you think certain things about a film and then when you go to see the actual film, it’s completely different from how it was sold to you.
The average score for this trailer was 3.5/10 because of how long the trailer is and how much of the film it gives away which makes it ineffective as a trailer.
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