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Released
1989 · FILM

The Toxic Avenger Part II

“The first Super-Hero from New Jersey is Back!”

Directed by
Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Written by
Gay Partington Terry, Lloyd Kaufman
Runtime
95 min
ActionComedyHorror

Synopsis

Melvin Junko was a nerdy weakling until he fell into a vat of toxic waste, turning him into the first ever superhuman creature from New Jersey. This time, he takes on Tokyo.

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Principal cast & crew: 20

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 Michael SchweitzerShot by James A LebovitzScored by Barrie GuardDesigned by Alexis Grey

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.3× 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

$793K

Budget$2.5M
Worldwide gross$793K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $29K — 4% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 15 theaters

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Also known as

  • Atomic Hero 2de
  • The Toxic Avenger, Part IIfr
  • Il vendicatore tossico 2it

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