The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie (1989)

Timing: 1:42 (102 min)

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Actors and characters

Release date

1989-11-24

Country

United States

Production

Troma Entertainment

Genre

Comedy, Horror, Action

Budget

$500 000

Revenue

$363 561

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Director

Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz

Actors

Ron Fazio, John Altamura, Rick Collins, Phoebe Legere, Lisa Gaye, Tsutomu Sekine, Jessica Dublin, Michael J. Kaplan, Traci Mann, Paul Borghese
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Lloyd Kaufman, Michael Herz

Operator

James A. Lebovitz

Composer

Christopher De Marco

Artist

Audition

Phil Rivo

Editing

Joseph McGirr
All team (12)

• The film includes many scenes shot for Michael Herz and Lloyd Kaufman's "Toxic Avenger Part II" (1989).
• Mark Torglu was offered to reprise his role as Melvin, but he was dissatisfied with the fee.
• According to Rick Collins, three children who had minor roles in the film were very afraid of him in his Devil makeup during filming. Once he managed to convince two of them that it was just makeup, that it could even be touched, and they stopped being afraid. However, he frightened the third child during a similar 'experiment,' which he later deeply regretted.
• One of the scenes was not filmed among sets on the soundstage, but inside a store that sold video cassettes.
• The second part of the film's title, 'The Last Temptation of Toxie,' is a reference to Martin Scorsese's drama 'The Last Temptation of Christ' (1988). The film's content is also a reference – Toxie is tempted by a job at a certain company for money, and there he has to face the Devil himself.
• The budget for the third film in the franchise was significantly lower than the budget for the second film (it was only one-fifth of the budget of a film from the same year), as a significant number of scenes, stunts, and special effects had already been paid for during the production of the second film, and they were filmed almost simultaneously. Troma Entertainment managed to release the third film with minimal costs.
• Melvin's father appears at the end of "The Toxic Avenger Part II", but does not reappear in the third film of the franchise and is not even mentioned once.