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#8,936 All-time worldwide
#111 1988 releases

Movie profile

Hero and the Terror

1988 · 96 min · Golan Globus Productions

Drama Action Thriller Crime Romance
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Box office snapshot

Financial performance

Reference figures based on available reported data.
Worldwide gross $6.0M
Budget —
Gross minus budget —
ROI —

Domestic gross

$3.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

International gross

$3.0M

Estimated from worldwide gross

Opening weekend

$540,000

Estimated from worldwide gross

Ranking context

Where Hero and the Terror ranks

Positioned across the all-time chart, release year, studio, franchise and genre indexes where enough mapped data exists.
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All-time worldwide #8,936 All-time chart position of 12,922 titles Compared with every rankable movie in the current worldwide dataset. 1988 releases #111 Release-year chart position of 248 titles Ranked against movies released in 1988. Studio / company #11 Golan Globus Productions of 19 titles Position inside the mapped Golan Globus Productions movie set. Primary genre #3,808 Drama of 5,859 titles Genre context based on the first mapped genre on this profile.

Nearby worldwide ranks

Comparable titles immediately around this movie by reported worldwide gross.

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Quick answer

How did Hero and the Terror (1988) perform at the box office?

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Hero and the Terror (1988) has a reported worldwide box office gross of $6.0M. In this database it currently ranks #8,936 in the current all-time worldwide chart set and #111 among 1988 releases.

Worldwide gross
$6,000,000
Budget
Not available
Gross minus budget
Not available
ROI
Not available
Source: TMDb. Last updated: Jul 13, 2026. View source Gross-minus-budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and later home/streaming revenue.

Synopsis

Story

Danny O'Brien is back in action fighting the notorious Simon Moon, also known as The Terror. Three years earlier O'Brien had single-handedly captured The Terror and was called Hero by the people of L.A. Now Simon has escaped and has started killing women again, and O'Brien is the only man who can stop him.

Movie facts

Production details

Release date
Aug 26, 1988
Production
Golan-Globus Productions, The Cannon Group
Countries
US

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Studio / production companyGolan Globus Productions Release year chart1988 box office Genre chartDrama Genre chartAction Genre chartThriller Genre chartCrime

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Why this movie matters

Released in 1988, Hero and the Terror is positioned in this dataset as a Drama, Action, Thriller title from Golan-Globus Productions. Its box office profile shows that available worldwide gross is $6.0M. For comparison, it currently sits #8,936 all-time in the current chart set and #111 among 1988 releases. Streaming availability should be checked against the selected United States region because provider rights can change.

AI-generated contextual summary based on available movie, genre, ranking and box office data. It does not replace official distributor notes or financial reporting.
Data noteGross minus budget is not studio net profit. It excludes marketing, distribution fees, revenue splits, tax incentives and downstream revenue. Domestic, international and opening weekend figures marked as estimated are modelled estimates.