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Released
1990 · FILM

The Exorcist III

Police Lieutenant Kinderman races to uncover a satanic serial killer haunting his city, where each brutal murder mirrors an ancient ritual, before the unseen evil claims its next victim.

“Do you dare walk these steps again?”

Directed by
William Peter Blatty
Written by
William Peter Blatty
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
110 min
DramaHorrorMystery
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

On the fifteenth anniversary of the exorcism that resulted in Father Damien Karras' death, Police Lieutenant Kinderman's life is disrupted again when a boy is discovered decapitated and brutally crucified.

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The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 22

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Peter Lee ThompsonShot by Gerry FisherScored by Barry De VorzonDesigned by Leslie Dilley

Box Office

1990 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.2× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$39.0M

Budget$9.3M
Worldwide gross$39.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $26.1M — 67% of worldwide · International: $12.9M (33%)

Opening weekend: $9.3M — 36% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $13.0M — 50% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,288 theaters

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Also known as

  • Der Exorzist IIIde
  • Der Exozist IIIde
  • The Exorcist 3de
  • El Exorcista IIIes
  • L'Exorciste, la suitefr
  • L'esorcista IIIit

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