Low Budget Horror Movie Terrifier 3 Decimates Joker 2 At Box Office
Via Deadline:
Cineverse’s under $5M investment, Terrifier 3, is screaming to an estimated $17M-$18M+ 3-day after an $8.2M Friday. There’s even a school of thought that this movie could go way higher than that after a B CinemaScore, which is very high for a horror movie by that moviegoer pollster.
Warner Bros’ second weekend of Joker: Folie à Deux is posting a -82% freefall with around $6.7M-$7M per industry estimates — that’s the absolute worst hold for a DC character movie in the history of the brand on the big screen. The Joaquin Phoenix-Lady Gaga R-rated musical is even getting kicked out of No. 2 by a cartoon robot, DreamWorks Animation/Universal’s Wild Robot ($13.5M third weekend) and also out of third by Warner Bros’ own Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (estimated $7.3M sixth weekend).
As I think I’ve already said 50,000 times, Joker is one of the worst movies of all time, so it’s great to see the director and Phoenix failing so miserably with one of the biggest bombs in movie history. Hey, at least it’ll be remembered for something.
As far as Terrifier 3, I wasted about 10 minutes trying to watch the first one a few years ago, but it was a silly and disgusting mess that wasn’t at all scary or clever, which is what a good horror movie needs to be. Maybe the sequels have “improved,” but I doubt it, and I don’t care. The trailer for the new one:
For what it’s worth, last year’s Thanksgiving was pretty good:
