• News

AGFA and Troma bringing dozens of horror and cult films back to theaters

The Toxic Avenger and his cohorts will soon be returning to big screens.

The American Genre Film Archive (AGFA) has announced a new partnership with indie stalwart Troma Entertainment to give theatrical releases to 70 films from the latter’s library. Available immediately for bookings on DCP and, in some cases, 35mm, the flicks include the seminal TOXIC AVENGER trilogy, the James Gunn-scripted TROMEO AND JULIET, CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL from the creators of SOUTH PARK, DEF BY TEMPTATION co-starring Samuel L. Jackson and many others; the complete list can be seen below.

“From CLASS OF NUKE ’EM HIGH to COMBAT SHOCK, the Troma catalog is like a guidebook of essential genre film history from the past 40 years,” says AGFA Creative Director Joe Ziemba. “One of my fondest movie memories from childhood was renting THE TOXIC AVENGER on VHS at a sleepover and completely losing my mind–we’re grateful for the opportunity to replicate that feeling in theaters.”

The movies available for screening are:

  • BEG
  • BEWARE! CHILDREN AT PLAY
  • BLOOD HOOK
  • BLOODSUCKING FREAKS
  • BRIDE OF KILLER NERD
  • BUGGED!
  • CANNIBAL! THE MUSICAL
  • THE CHILDREN
  • CITIZEN TOXIE: THE TOXIC AVENGER PART IV
  • CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH
  • CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH 2: SUBHUMANOID MELTDOWN
  • CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH 3: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE SUBHUMANOID
  • COMBAT SHOCK
  • DANCE OR DIE
  • DEATH BY DIALOGUE
  • DEF BY TEMPTATION
  • FATHER’S DAY
  • FEROCIOUS FEMALE FREEDOM FIGHTERS
  • THE FIRST TURN ON!
  • FRIGHTMARE
  • FROSTBITER
  • GRADUATION DAY
  • HOLLOW GATE
  • THE HOUSE ON TOMBSTONE HILL
  • IGOR AND THE LUNATICS
  • KILLER NERD
  • KNEE DANCING
  • THE LAST HORROR FILM
  • LUST FOR FREEDOM
  • LUTHOR THE GEEK
  • MOMMY’S EPITAPH
  • MONSTER IN THE CLOSET
  • MOTHER’S DAY
  • MUTANT BLAST
  • NIGHTBEAST
  • NIGHTMARE WEEKEND
  • PIGS
  • PLAY DEAD
  • PLUTONIUM BABY
  • POULTRYGEIST: NIGHT OF THE CHICKEN DEAD
  • PREACHERMAN
  • RABID GRANNIES
  • REDNECK ZOMBIES
  • RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH VOLUME 1
  • RETURN TO NUKE ‘EM HIGH VOLUME 2
  • ROSE AND VIKTOR: NO MERCY
  • SCREAMPLAY
  • SGT. KABUKIMAN, N.Y.P.D.
  • THE SLASHENING
  • SQUEEZE PLAY!
  • THE STABILIZER
  • STORY OF A JUNKIE
  • STUCK ON YOU!
  • SUGAR COOKIES
  • SURF NAZIS MUST DIE!
  • TERROR FIRMER
  • THERE’S NOTHING OUT THERE
  • THE TOXIC AVENGER
  • THE TOXIC AVENGER PART 2
  • THE TOXIC AVENGER PART 3: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF TOXIE
  • TROMA’S WAR
  • TROMEO AND JULIET
  • VEGAS IN SPACE
  • WAITRESS!
  • WHEN NATURE CALLS
  • WITCHCRAFT

Read More

Get The Grim Reader.
Rue Morgue's free newsletter.
Editor's notes.
Cultural insight.
Curated horror across film, books, music, and art.
First looks.
Select previews.
No algorithms.
Join Free

Advertisement

In Print Since 1997

Issue 231

Rue Morgue #231 Jul/Aug 2026

Plus

Inside Rue Morgue #231 – Summer Slasher Issue FEATURES Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s TEENAGE SEX AND DEATH AT CAMP MIASMA guts the slasher formula from the inside out, turning it into a romance about the horror of becoming who you were always meant to be. Plus! GILLIAN ANDERSON and HANNAH EINBINDER unpack Schoenbrun’s radical dismemberment of…

Issue 230

Rue Morgue #230 May/Jun 2026 – RARE

Plus

Inside Rue Morgue #230 FEATURES Filmmaker Curry Barker transforms a simple wish into a spiralling nightmare of love, possession, and bloodshed in his breakout feature OBSESSION. Plus: The story of Barker’s found-footage shocker MILK & SERIAL, which turned a micro-budget experiment into a viral horror breakout. Hollywood made it a monster. History tells a different…

Issue 229

Rue Morgue #229 Mar/Apr 2026

Plus

Inside Rue Morgue #229! FEATURES A nerve-shredding found-footage thriller built around sound, UNDERTONE signals the arrival of a terrifying new voice in Canada’s booming independent horror scene. Plus! Meet the new breed of independent Canadian horror filmmakers behind DREAM EATER, SWEETNESS, HANGASHORE, THE LAND OF NOD and THE CURSE OF GHOST ISLAND. Part post-punk, part…

Issue 228

Rue Morgue #228 Jan/Feb 2026

Plus

Inside Rue Morgue #228! FEATURES He fascinated audiences in 2001 with the French period martial arts horror film BROTHERHOOD OF THE WOLF. Then he followed it up in 2006 by bringing the eerie world of SILENT HILL to cinematic life. Now, visionary director CHRISTOPHE GANS unleashes his latest nightmare with RETURN TO SILENT HILL. Plus!…