moodboard: Extreme slasher flick, loses its Number 1 spot at the box office, as disney kid movie overtakes it. Statistical rumour: Teenages bought disney movie tickets to sneak into an adult gorefest movie.

This movie is gaining far too much hype and publicity for what it is, an extreme version of a video nasty/grindhouse slasher flick, using the late Wes Craven's 1985 'Nightmare on Elm Street' storyline premise (seemingly invincible and unstoppable, devil possessed killer), with Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 misogynistic slasher gore fest ala 'American Psycho' of 1980s yuppie excesses (before we all became yuppies in the 21st Century) of how many creative ways you can destroy a woman.  Cue Ellis's rodent inside a tube, inserted into an orifice infamously written sequence from American Psycho, now redux in 2024 on the cinematic screen.   As a youtube commentator pointed out that this movie, obviously fueled by pent up frustrations from the director/writer (what script?), with its extended torture and kill sequences of female victims by a campy looking clown on Youtube, yet showing a woman's breast and nipple, the clip is removed.  Very much a residual of American puritanical laced exceptionalism of adoring violence, but prudish with sexuality.  Hyperreal dichotomy at its most tedious.

Although this is amusing, if it's actually factual, via Hollywood Reporter

"The Hollywood Reporter has learned that theaters carrying the film, including the three biggest circuits (AMC, Cinemark and Regal), are treating Terrifier 3 as if it were an R-rated film, and trying to turn away anyone who is 17 or younger if they aren’t accompanied by a parent or guardian. Two distribution sources noted over the weekend that DreamWorks Animation and Universal’s The Wild Robot saw a noticeable bump, and speculate that teenagers and tweens bought tickets to that film and then sneaked into Terrifier 3. The same trend continued on Monday’s Indigenous Peoples Day holiday."