Is The Toxic Avenger actually good?

The Toxic Avenger sits in the 58.9% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 58.9% of them.

How does The Toxic Avenger compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, The Toxic Avenger lands in the 55.8% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The Toxic Avenger's score based on?

165 calibrated reviewers stand behind The Toxic Avenger's score.

1984

global pct

58.9

Film · 1984 · Films · 1980s

The Toxic Avenger

Name: The Toxic Avenger
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Released: 1984

Scored from 165 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

58.9%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

55.8%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

75.4%

AI-adjusted percentile

165 calibrated reviewers

Summary

In the town of Tromaville, New Jersey, a bullied, scrawny health-club janitor named Melvin is humiliated by a gang of cruel pranksters and falls into a vat of toxic waste. The accident transforms him into a hideously deformed but superhumanly strong creature who becomes a mop-wielding vigilante, hunting down corrupt criminals terrorizing his town and finding romance with a kind blind woman.

Released in 1984, The Toxic Avenger is an action, comedy and horror film. Inside comedy it is classed as Dark Comedy.

The calibrated figure is built from 165 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 165 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them.

Is The Toxic Avenger (1984) worth watching?

Cohort: Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles
Calibrated reviewers: 165
Method: How percentiles are computed

Cohort: Films · 1980s

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