‘The Toxic Avenger’ – Macon Blair Previews Gory Miss Meat Scene That Packs in the Troma Tributes

Troma founder Lloyd Kaufman may have officially passed the mop to The Toxic Avenger filmmaker Macon Blair at SDCC last month, but Blair’s gonzo reimagining more than speaks for itself when it comes to its reverence for the original Troma cult classic.

In The Toxic Avenger, Primetime Emmy-winning actor Peter Dinklage stars as Winston Gooze, a struggling janitor who’s instantly transformed into an unlikely hero by a freak toxic accident. Winston’s rise from outcast to savior is paved with buckets of blood and radioactive insanity, of course, but the new Toxic Avenger never forgets its Troma roots.

Expect Easter eggs and references aplenty, especially when it comes to the fictional fast food joint Miss Meat. An early scene sees Winston Gooze honing his new skills against a group of thugs, but it also doubles as a massive love letter to the original 1984 film.

That was, of course, by design.

Macon Blair tells Bloody Disgusting, “Toxie fucking up bad guys in the fast food place in the original was one of the scenes that always stuck with me, and so of course we wanted to nod to that a little bit. But it’s also like our version of that scene that exists in most of the Batman variations, where he appears in his suit for the first time and confronts some villains, and nobody knows what to make of him, and it’s all very disorienting and chaotic.

“We wanted to do our version of that ‘I’m the Batman!’ kind of scene.”