![]() She set up a business supplying seasonal decorations to the Hollywood elite. Being a realist, and tiring of a monotonous diet of cheap pasta, Staron examined the Hollywood food chain and realised there were better ways to avoid starvation. She appeared in Divorce Court and had an uncredited role as a policewoman in Internal Affairs and a bit part in Boiling Point. In one shot, there'd be a huge sign outside the video store. Staron remembers the experience fondly but says: 'I'm a Virgo, and I kept noticing the lack of continuity. 'But it was a rough day, even for a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength.' When all is done, Staron, dressed in an aerobics bra and short skirt, clings to him and says: 'Thank you, Toxie! You saved us!' 'Yeah,' he replies. Mostly, though, she cowers and screams as Toxie drags the intestines from one villain and uses them as a skipping rope, then rams his mop through the head of another. ![]() In the latter film, she performed a stunt: 'I threw myself over a woman who was even more scantily clad than I was,' says Staron, smiling, as we meet for lunch at a shopping mall. When Toxie announces he has taken a job as a concierge 'to make ends meet', he adds: 'And Claire had the kind of end that you really wanted to meet.' Cue a shot of Claire bending over.īut back to Debi Staron, who plays 'a happy employee of Tromaville' in The Toxic Avenger II, and a video store customer in The Toxic Avenger III. She inspires much so-bad-it's-almost-good innuendo. Whenever corporate corrupters or criminal syndicates threaten to destroy life in the small town of Tromaville, Toxie is there to wreak revenge: 'The Toxic Avenger: his only weapon was a mop!' as the posters say.īesides bowel-loosening violence, the appeal of the films is mild titillation, much of it generated by Toxie's blind girlfriend, Claire, a pneumatic blonde who serves dinner in a buttock-skimming skirt and minute bustier. The premise is this: 90lb weakling Melvin Junko falls into a vat of chemical waste and emerges as Toxie, New Jersey's first superhero. In the late Eighties, she landed featured roles in two of the Toxic Avenger films, considered by many to be Kaufman's finest B-movies. Oliver Stone got a break in a Troma film ( Sugar Cookie ), as did Kevin Costner (Sizzle Beach), so, at a push, you could say Kaufman's movies have been a stepping stone to the Oscars.īut not for Debi Staron. Then again, you wouldn't call them total trash - they're a bit too clever, a bit too funny for that. You wouldn't call them edifying - they have titles like A Nymphoid Barbarian in Dinosaur Hell, Throw Stephanie in the Incinerator and Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town. Llloyd Kaufman's Troma movies are difficult to categorise.
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