{"id":146725,"date":"2025-05-31T11:54:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146725\/"},"modified":"2025-05-31T11:54:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T11:54:15","slug":"extremely-gory-80s-horror-reboot-finally-confirms-uk-release-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/146725\/","title":{"rendered":"“Extremely gory” ’80s horror reboot finally confirms UK release date"},"content":{"rendered":"

The remake of ’80s horror comedy The Toxic Avenger<\/a> has finally landed a release date in the UK and Ireland.<\/p>\n

The new version of the cult classic will be released in cinemas on 29 August. It’s coming out on the same day in the US as well.<\/p>\n

Like the original, the story focuses on a janitor who is transformed by a freak accident into a mop-wielding mutant superhero named Toxie.<\/p>\n

Game <\/a> of Thrones<\/a>‘ Peter Dinklage<\/a> voices lead character Winston Gooze\/Toxie, while Baldur’s Gate III<\/a> actor Luisa Guerreiro serves as suit actor.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Luca<\/a>‘s Jacob Tremblay, The Bondsman<\/a>‘s Kevin Bacon, The Lord of the Rings<\/a>‘ Elijah Wood and Nighty Night’s Julia Davis also star.<\/p>\n

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Legendary Pictures<\/p>\n

Related:<\/strong> UK film release dates<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The film premiered at Fantastic Fest all the way back in September 2023, so there’s already a fair few reviews from critics out there.<\/p>\n

And the good news is, they’re pretty positive. The new version of The Toxic Avenger currently stands at a very strong 92% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, from 25 critic reviews.<\/p>\n

That’s higher than the 70% positive rating for the original film on the site<\/a>, although only 20 critic reviews are considered and none of them are from the original time of release.<\/p>\n

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Legendary Pictures<\/p>\n

Related: Need a weekend watch? Here’s 5 great movies on BBC, ITV and Channel 4 this weekend<\/a><\/strong> <\/p>\n

The official consensus for the remake states that: “Like the original, The Toxic Avenger isn’t for everyone – but viewers seeking an extremely gory, extremely silly good time won’t be disappointed.”<\/p>\n

Discussing Film<\/a> praised the film for not sanitising the original, while Spectrum Culture<\/a> is glad that none of the big-name actors “behave that this material is beneath them”.<\/p>\n

The Toxic Avenger remake is released on UK, Irish, and US cinemas on 29 August.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Joe Anderton is a freelance news writer at Digital Spy<\/strong>, having worked there since 2016. In his time, he’s covered a host of live events and interviewed celebrities big and small.<\/p>\n

A big fan of TV<\/a> and movies<\/a> both mainstream and obscure, Joe’s main interest is in video gaming. Although particularly a PlayStation gamer, he plays across Xbox, Nintendo and PC\/Steam Deck, and likes to keep tabs on many games he’s not got the time to play.<\/p>\n

Joe currently does not use Twitter, but he only ever used it to tell people to watch the film Help! I’m a Fish (which you really should do).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The remake of ’80s horror comedy The Toxic Avenger has finally landed a release date in the UK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[1380,63091,1331,77,3989,1330,3943,63090,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-146725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-content-type-news","9":"tag-contentid-7c0c3355-1916-4907-8b7c-0511830b938f","10":"tag-displaytype-standard-article","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-hasproduct-true","13":"tag-locale-gb","14":"tag-movies","15":"tag-shorttitle-80s-horror-reboot-finally-confirms-uk-release-date","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114602316192390526","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}