The Toxic Avenger (film)
The Toxic Avenger is a 1984 American superhero black comedy splatter film directed by Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman( credited as Samuel Weil) and written by Kaufman and Joe Ritter.
It is the first installment of" The Toxic Avenger" franchise.
The film was released by Troma Entertainment, known for producing low budget B-movies with campy concepts and gruesome violence.
Virtually ignored upon its first release," The Toxic Avenger" caught on with filmgoers after a long and successful midnight movie engagement at the famed Bleecker Street Cinemas in New York City in late 1985.
It is now regarded as a cult classic.
The film has generated a media franchise including three film sequels, a stage musical production, a video game and a children's TV cartoon.
Two less successful sequels," The Toxic Avenger Part II" and, were filmed as one.
Director Lloyd Kaufman realized that he had shot far too much footage for one film and re-edited it into two.
A third independent sequel was also released, titled.
An animated children's TV series spin- off," Toxic Crusaders", featured Toxie as the leader of a team of mutated superheroes who fought against evil alien polluters.
The cartoon series was short- lived and quickly cancelled.
New Line Cinema had planned a live- action film based on the cartoon, but the deal fell through.
In 2019, it was announced that Legendary Pictures would be making a reboot of the film, with original creators Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz of Troma Entertainment serving as producers, and Macon Blair serving as writer and director.
Lloyd Kaufman
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr.( born December 30, 1945) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment film studio, and the director of many of their feature films, such as" The Toxic Avenger" and" Tromeo and Juliet".
Will Wilson (photographer)
Will Wilson is a Native American photographer and a citizen of the Navajo Nation.
Lisa Gaye (actress, born 1960)
Lisa Gaye is an American actress more known for her role in" The Toxic Avenger" saga.
Terror Firmer
Terror Firmer is a 1999 American comedy horror film directed by Lloyd Kaufman, written by Douglas Buck, Patrick Cassidy, Kaufman, and James Gunn, and starring Will Keenan, Alyce LaTourelle, and Kaufman.
The film was produced by the Troma Entertainment company, known for distributing campy exploitation films.
The film features several direct references to the previous Troma films, such as" The Toxic Avenger", and includes famous Troma props, like the' Penis Monster'( referred to, in the film, as" Thor, the God of Love") and a severed leg.
It was loosely based, in that respect, on Kaufman and Gunn's book" All I Need to Know about Filmmaking I Learned from the Toxic Avenger".
The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie
The Toxic Avenger
III: The Last Temptation of Toxie is a 1989 American superhero comedy splatter film and the third installment of" The Toxic Avenger" franchise.
It was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz.
The title is a parody of the 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ.
Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV
Citizen Toxie:
The Toxic Avenger IV is a 2000 American superhero splatter comedy film directed by Lloyd Kaufman and written by Kaufman, Michael Herz, Patrick Cassidy, Trent Haaga, and uncredited co-director Gabriel Friedman.
It is the fourth installment of" The Toxic Avenger" franchise.
Despite being the third sequel to" The Toxic Avenger", Stan Lee's opening narration claims that" Citizen Toxie" is, in fact, the official sequel to the first film, disacknowledging the events of the first two sequels.
The Toxic Avenger Part II
The Toxic Avenger Part II is a 1989 superhero comedy splatter film released by Troma Entertainment.
It is the second installment of "The Toxic Avenger" franchise.
It was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and features The Toxic Avenger in an adventure to Japan to meet his father.
The film has received cult status among a new audience almost a generation after it was first released.
Devilman and Cutie Honey creator, Go Nagai makes a cameo appearance and the film is also the debut of actor/martial artist Michael Jai White and musician/composer/performance
artist Phoebe Legere.
Ghare Baire (film)
Ghare Baire(" The Home and the World") is a 1984 Indian Bengali romantic drama film by director Satyajit Ray, based upon the novel" Ghare Baire" by Rabindranath Tagore.
It features Soumitra Chatterjee, Victor Banerjee, Jennifer Kendal( in her last film appearance) and Swatilekha Chatterjee( Sengupta).
Ray prepared a script for it in the 1940s, long before he made his first film" Pather Panchali".
It deals with a subject that has often appeared in Ray's work: the emancipation of women and what it does to them and to the men who love them.
The film was in competition for the Palme d' Or at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival.
At the 32nd National Film Awards, it won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali.
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray( 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, lyricist and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of all time.
Ray was born in Calcutta into a Bengali family which was prominent in the field of arts and literature.
Starting his career as a commercial artist, Ray was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film" Bicycle Thieves"( 1948) during a visit to London.
Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts.
He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic.
He authored several short stories and novels, meant primarily for young children and teenagers.
Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him.
He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University.
Ray's first film," Pather Panchali"( 1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
This film, along with" Aparajito"( 1956) and" Apur Sansar The World of Apu")( 1959), form" The Apu Trilogy".
Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material.
Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992.
The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
Ray had received many noticeable awards and gained a prestigious position over his life time.
In 2004, Ray was ranked number 13 in BBC's poll of the Greatest Bengali of all time.

Question: Are the directors of films Ghare Baire (Film) and Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger Iv both from the same country?
Answer: no