#A mad artoon movie
#A mad artoon full

#A mad artoon movie

On Across the Movie Aisle this week, Peter, Alyssa, and I bid a (not that) fond farewell to Nikki Finke and dragged Amsterdam. (There’s a reason all four spawned multiple sequels.) And while none of the scary pictures in theaters now are likely to reach those lofty heights, a paucity of new releases combined with the eternal desire to share a cheap thrill with a group of strangers in the dark means that horror flicks will keep chugging along, delivering a decent ROI to any studio smart enough to cut a modest check.Īnd since I had Geoff on the show again, I will once again ask you to read his tour de force profile of Norm Macdonald. Meanwhile, Smile ( budget: $17 million ) not only opened with $22.6 million, it declined a microscopic-for-horror (or, really, anything) 18.3 percent in its second weekend there’s a decent chance it gets to $100 million domestic.Īnd, of course, Halloween Ends hits theaters this weekend in his newsletter, Matthew Belloni says it’s tracking around $55 million, which would easily be the biggest opening since Thor: Love and Thunder dropped three months ago.Īs anyone with any awareness of box office history will tell you, cheap horror has always been a low cost, high reward affair: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Halloween, The Blair Witch Project, and Paranormal Activity are all in any conversation about most profitable films of all time, at least in terms of percent return on investment. Barbarian ( budget: $4 million ) earned a surprisingly robust $10.5 million in its opening frame and will roughly quadruple that by the time its run ends. The Black Phone ( budget: $16 million ) earned $23 million in its opening weekend and legged out to nearly $90 million domestic. One of the few bright spots in the post- Top Gun: Maverick doldrums at the box office has been the performance of horror flicks. Terrifier 2 is a low-key manifestation of an eternal Hollywood truth: cheap horror movies either make you decent money or lose you so little it doesn’t matter. But if you want to watch an unrepentantly nasty movie with a crowd of degenerates like yours truly, I’ve got good news for you: you can! It’s still in theaters, a solid per-screen average leading to additional showings. I can’t in good conscience recommend Terrifier 2 to most of the readers of this email: It is not for the faint of heart, and while I would not presume to insult you by suggesting you are prone to cardiac distress, I also imagine few of you will cackle as I did when a victim thought to be dead gasped for air in front of her screaming mother while Art joyously clapped his hands at their shared trauma.

(There’s one scene in particular that, while watching, I wondered, “Man, what was their squib budget on this?” Looks like the answer was “ some not-insubstantial percentage of $215,000. Terrifier 2 surprised box office watchers last weekend with a four-day gross of $1.2 million on around 800 screens, not bad for an indie film that raised part of its budget on Indiegogo. This is but one of many gory and ghoulish sights to litter Terrifier 2, Damien Leone’s unadulterated, unfettered, and unrated vision of terror. Is the snickering a defense mechanism? A way to combat the waves of disgust? Or just an absurdity, a live-action cartoon, an adult Tom and Jerry moment brought to life?

#A mad artoon full

There’s nothing quite like a room full of people tittering as a creepily grinning clown hands out Halloween candy stored in a cavity scooped from a recently decapitated woman’s head to a handful of neighborhood kids.