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The Toxic Avenger remake was considered to be an unreleasable movie for several years, but in 2025, the impossible has become reality. With the unrated cut of the film now out in theaters–and garnering positive reviews for its over-the-top violence and general weirdness–the home media release has been set for October 28. Three different Blu-ray editions of The Toxic Avenger are up for preorder now.
Amazon is offering a steep preorder discount on The Toxic Avenger Collector’s Edition Steelbook that drops the price to only $31 (was $50). There’s also a 4K edition with a lenticular sleeve, but it’s still selling for full price. The Toxic Avenger’s standard Blu-ray edition is discounted to $25.85 (was $38), but keep in mind the Steelbook Edition includes 4K and 1080p Blu-ray discs.
$31.13 (was $50) | Releases October 28
The Collector’s Edition Steelbook of The Toxic Avenger Unrated features the mutated face of Toxie–played by Peter Dinklage–while the back has a cool full-body image of the mop-wielding vigilante as he strikes an action pose. Inside, you’ll find promo images of the movie’s two villains, Bob and Fritz Garbinger, played by Kevin Bacon and Elijah Wood, respectively.
It comes with 4K and standard Blu-ray copies of the movie, and bonus features include a behind-the-scenes documentary, director Macon Blair’s audio commentary track, a video on why the world needs Toxie, a 40th anniversary tribute to the original movie, and the film trailer.
The Toxic Avenger Bonus Features
- A Toxic Environment: Best of behind the scenes
- Director’s commentary with Macon Blair
- Toxic Shock with Tiffany Shepsis
- 40th Anniversary of the Toxic Avenger retrospective
- Trailer
$47 | Releases October 28
The Toxic Avenger’s non-steelbook Collector’s Edition comes with a limited-edition lenticular O-card sleeve featuring Dinklage’s character in human and mutated forms. When you remove the sleeve, you’ll see the cover art pictured above. Toxie is once again preparing for battle and is armed with his trusty mop.
Outside of the different packaging, this 4K edition is the same. It also includes a standard 1080p Blu-ray and the handful of special features found in the Steelbook Edition.
But unlike the Steelbook Edition, this hasn’t received a discount yet, making it significantly more expensive at the moment.
$25.85 (was $38) | Releases October 28
The standard 1080p Blu-ray edition is also billed as a Collector’s Edition, but the “collectible” component here appears to be reversible cover art. The unique cover displayed above shows Toxie doing his best Uncle Sam recruitment pose. The alternate cover art matches the 4K edition. The standard Blu-ray edition comes with the same bonus features.
The Toxic Avenger is also releasing on DVD and is available to preorder for $30.
A remake of Troma Entertainment’s 1984 Toxic Avenger movie, the new version spent several years in limbo. Outside of a few premieres in 2023 at film festivals, the future of the movie looked uncertain as finding a distributor to help release it to a wider audience proved to be especially challenging. As one anonymous producer remarked at the time, The Toxic Avenger was deemed an “unreleasable” movie due to its gory nature and a prediction that it would only attract a niche audience to theaters.
Fortunately, various other companies stepped up to the plate and The Toxic Avenger is now out in theaters. If you haven’t seen any of the trailers yet, The Toxic Avenger reimagines the 1984 original movie and stars Dinklage as Winston Gooze, a health club janitor stricken with a terminal illness thanks to his employer. After he approaches his boss for help and finds himself dumped into a vat of toxic waste instead, Gooze is mutated into a revenge-fueled vigilante hellbent on cleaning up his town using any and all violent means possible.
In addition to Dinklage, Bacon, and Wood, the movie also stars JJ Doherty, Jacob Tremblay, Sarah Niles, and Johnny Coyne. Like the original, this new take on the character is designed to be incredibly gory and silly, plus it has a punk-rock attitude. Basically, if you’re in the mood for some brutal violence and laughs, then this might be just the movie that you’re looking for.
The original Toxic Crusder still holds up well
Even though it’s over 40 years old, the original Toxic Avenger is still worth checking out. You can grab the first film and all of its sequels in a 4K collection for $94.89 at Walmart. While the sequels showed signs of diminishing quality, the first movie is still a work of splatterpunk art thanks to its low-budget charm and low-brow humor. Make no mistake, this is a bad movie, but like several other pieces of media that reach this level, it’s so bad that it’s actually good, and it quickly became a cult-classic after it was first released. The “Toxset” features restored 4K scans of the four movies, as well as standard Blu-ray copies.
The standard Blu-ray version of The Toxic Avenger Collection is available for only $28.57 (was $50) at Amazon and Walmart.
For the bonus materials, there’s a very healthy selection on offer here. The first movie includes behind-the-scenes featurettes, an intro from Troma Entertainment president Lloyd Kaufman, and a few archival materials from the DVD release. The first sequel gives viewers more documentaries, commentary tracks, and interviews, the threequel offers a similar arrangement of extras, and Citizen Toxie, the fourth movie, has one of the best features here in the form of a documentary that runs for over two hours. The fourth Toxic Avenger movie is still divisive amongst the fandom, but this is an uncompromising look at how the movie was made with seemingly no part of the production being off limits for the camera crew.
Yes, there was even a Toxic Avenger animated series
Finally, you can also complete the collection with the animated spin-off, Toxic Crusaders: The Series for under $20 (was $35). Originally designed to be a not-so-subtle way to sell action figures in the ’90s–all the cool animated shows were doing it–this Blu-ray offers the original 13-episode run, a new introduction by Lloyd Kaufman, the original Toxic Crusaders toy commercials and TV spots, archival footage thought to be lost media, and extra cartoons. As an added bonus, there’s a documentary about the making of the Toxic Crusaders video game from Retroware.
Toxic Crusaders released on Blu-ray last December, and the current $19.84 price is one of the lowest yet.
