I'm calling bullshit. IMO this is pretty clearly just guerilla marketing, which is especially evident by the fact they even created specially branded barf bags for it at a recent horror film festival.
Agreed. Just some smart, William Castle style marketing. I've not heard a single person mention that this movie is super scary or gory. If people made it through the Evil Dead remake in theaters,...
Agreed. Just some smart, William Castle style marketing.
I've not heard a single person mention that this movie is super scary or gory. If people made it through the Evil Dead remake in theaters, I doubt this one is enough to make people barf.
Watching the trailer immediately put me off any desire I had to watch either movie. I like gory horror movies, but this one looks pretty awful to me... although slashers are admittedly my least...
Watching the trailer immediately put me off any desire I had to watch either movie. I like gory horror movies, but this one looks pretty awful to me... although slashers are admittedly my least favorite subgenre so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But hey, different strokes for different folks, and if that's your kinda thing, no shame in that.
Well, the budget was only $250,000 so that’s not a whole lot. (That’s not to denigrate the film…the first one was even lower budget and was a relative success.)
Well, the budget was only $250,000 so that’s not a whole lot.
(That’s not to denigrate the film…the first one was even lower budget and was a relative success.)
In terms of raw numbers it’s not a lot. But the ceiling for this type of film is quite low, it’s already niche and it’s only playing in a couple of hundred theaters. It also increased from last...
In terms of raw numbers it’s not a lot. But the ceiling for this type of film is quite low, it’s already niche and it’s only playing in a couple of hundred theaters. It also increased from last week despite losing 100+ theaters.
Every single time I've heard this about a movie it ended up being a completely underwhelming experience; I just watched Raw (2016) where people supposedly fainted at the cinema and it was a really...
Every single time I've heard this about a movie it ended up being a completely underwhelming experience; I just watched Raw (2016) where people supposedly fainted at the cinema and it was a really mild movie, not bad but definitively not distubring.
I'm calling bullshit. IMO this is pretty clearly just guerilla marketing, which is especially evident by the fact they even created specially branded barf bags for it at a recent horror film festival.
Agreed. Just some smart, William Castle style marketing.
I've not heard a single person mention that this movie is super scary or gory. If people made it through the Evil Dead remake in theaters, I doubt this one is enough to make people barf.
Marketing is working pretty well. Already made four times its budget. Got my interest to watch the first one at least.
Watching the trailer immediately put me off any desire I had to watch either movie. I like gory horror movies, but this one looks pretty awful to me... although slashers are admittedly my least favorite subgenre so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. But hey, different strokes for different folks, and if that's your kinda thing, no shame in that.
Well, the budget was only $250,000 so that’s not a whole lot.
(That’s not to denigrate the film…the first one was even lower budget and was a relative success.)
In terms of raw numbers it’s not a lot. But the ceiling for this type of film is quite low, it’s already niche and it’s only playing in a couple of hundred theaters. It also increased from last week despite losing 100+ theaters.
Every single time I've heard this about a movie it ended up being a completely underwhelming experience; I just watched Raw (2016) where people supposedly fainted at the cinema and it was a really mild movie, not bad but definitively not distubring.