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A Scene From The Toxic Avenger

The World Trade Center as seen in The Toxic Avenger

Troma Entertainment was founded by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz in 1974, an independent producer/distributor located in New York. Their movies are generally low-budget throwbacks to horror films of the '50s, though with an intentional shock factor thrown in. In 1984 they ended up with a surprise hit in The Toxic Avenger - a movie that spawned three sequels, a cartoon series, a comic series, a novelization, and an Off-Broadway musical. The titular character (nicknamed "Toxie") has been a staple of pop culture for over 25 years, and is currently the official mascot of Troma Entertainment. It's a silly movie that knows what it is and lets us have fun right along with it.

But when it was filmed, The Toxic Avenger was just another low-budget movie. So when filming scenes in the fictional "Tromaville, NJ," the production crew simply used nearby locations, including a few shots from New Jersey showing the Manhattan skyline. The film ends up being bookended by two shots of the Trade Center, the closing one also including Toxie after becoming the hero of Tromaville. It's a fitting scene that - like everything else in the movie - doesn't take itself too seriously.
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