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

Directed by

Michael Herz, Lloyd Kaufman

Genre

comedy horror

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

R

Rating

4.9 of 10 from 154 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The deformed superhero Toxie is sad because his girlfriend needs expensive surgery. He takes a job with a chemical company to get the money, but his new boss turns out to be the Devil challenging him to a strange video game fight.

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What happens

The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie is a 1989 American superhero comedy film and the third installment of The Toxic Avenger franchise. It was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and Michael Herz. The title is a play on that of the 1988 film The Last Temptation of Christ. In the film, the depressed Toxic Avenger needs to secure sufficient funds for his girlfriend's surgery. He agrees to work for a corrupt chemical corporation, and settles into a yuppie lifestyle, until he realizes that his boss is the Devil, who challenges him to a video game-inspired duel. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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