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Released
1989 · FILM

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

“The REAL American superhero!”

Directed by
Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman
Written by
Gay Partington Terry, Lloyd Kaufman
Runtime
102 min
ActionComedyFantasy
Streaming on
  • Prime Video

Synopsis

Desperate to raise money for an experimental surgery that could restore his blind fiancée's eyesight, Toxie accepts a lucrative job with the evil multinational conglomerate Apocalypse Inc.

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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 Joseph McgirrShot by James A LebovitzScored by Christopher De MarcoDesigned by Alexis Grey

Box Office

1989 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.7× 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

$364K

Budget$500K
Worldwide gross$364K
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $52K — 14% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Peak 40 theaters

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Also known as

  • Toxie's letzte Schlachtde
  • El vengador tóxico 3es
  • Il vendicatore tossico 3it

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