“Joker” destroyed at the box office by low-budget slasher about a different clown
Not only is “Joker: Folie à Deux” not the biggest movie at the box office, but it’s not even the biggest clown movie.
Instead, “Terrifier 3” is the top movie in the US after its debut. The movie’s about a sadistic clown terrorizing a small town — one of its pivotal scenes involves a chainsaw and a victim’s rear end. The flick, which cost just $2 million to make, raked in over $18 million this weekend, soundly beating out Hollywood’s $200 million flop, “Joker: Folie à Deux,” which made just $7 million.
While audiences are walking out of “Joker” because they hate it, people are sprinting out of “Terrifier 3” to puke. That’s by design: the movie’s main attraction is its extreme gore and violence, and that’s how the three-quel built its reputation and slowly upped its budget across three movies.
The first “Terrifier” movie came out in 2008 and made 10 times its $35,000 budget. The second movie cost $250,000 to make in 2022 and raked in more than 60 times its budget.
“Terrifier 3” has broken into the mainstream as audiences signal to Hollywood that they prefer killer clowns that don’t perform show tunes.
While audiences are walking out of “Joker” because they hate it, people are sprinting out of “Terrifier 3” to puke. That’s by design: the movie’s main attraction is its extreme gore and violence, and that’s how the three-quel built its reputation and slowly upped its budget across three movies.
The first “Terrifier” movie came out in 2008 and made 10 times its $35,000 budget. The second movie cost $250,000 to make in 2022 and raked in more than 60 times its budget.
“Terrifier 3” has broken into the mainstream as audiences signal to Hollywood that they prefer killer clowns that don’t perform show tunes.
