'Toxic Avenger' Finally Landed Distribution Thanks to 'Terrifier 3's Success

Why compromise your vision, even if the end result is so grotesque that it can't even garner an official MPAA rating? Filmmaker Macon Blair — also an actor from various Jeremy Saulnier movies such as Blue Ruin and Green Room — has a new film that is "unrated" but will still hit theaters, as early as this month. Interestingly, the official festival premiere of The Toxic Avenger took place way back in 2023, and despite critical acclaim, it's taken almost a full two years for the Peter Dinklage-led reboot of a 1984 cult classic to get properly distributed to North American theaters, as deservedly so. But why now? MovieWeb recently caught up with Blair himself, whose highly anticipated remake is being released by Cineverse — the same backers of Terrifier 3, the similarly unrated horror film that won the box office one weekend last year. Blair opened up about his black comedy splatter film's long journey to cinemas.