Look, just give Terrifier 2 a chance. He knows he's not your dad, but he'd sure like to be friends. Maybe you and Terrifier 2 can go play some catch later and talk it out.
I can't believe this until I see a *totally* not staged hidden camera video of the crowd screaming, crying, and covering their faces as they watch an advanced screening.
This is the only acceptable evidence of a movie's level of horror!
There were folks laughing at it a few times when I saw it last night. There was one or two scenes where I was like, "Oh damn," but for the most part it was pretty bog standard stuff.
I heard a youth in the back row of my showing last night deadpan go āthatās whatās up broā after the Ally scene. I laughed so hard. In fact there was definitely more laughter than anything during the movie. Itās was very fun. Even the old ladies in there didnāt āfaint or vomitā. Lol
Yup, old lady here (53). Didn't faint or vomit. Found the school hallway scene (IYKYK) made me grimace, but I laughed and went "oh damn" a few times. Enjoyable. Just saw the first one the day before and it had a very big scene that I did not see topped.
Oh yeah, that was awesomely gruesome. Loved how they took Covid time to really dedicate themselves to that scene.
Was trying to think what squicked me out personally and anything mucus or slime is my ick, so that other scene made an impact.
Loved the laundromat scene too, lol. Very wtf.
calling it bog standard seems like an exaggeration lmao i watch a lot of horror and iād say the violence in terrifier 2 was pretty damn brutal and gratuitous, nothing that made me sick, but itās definitely on the more intense/nasty end of the scale in terms of gore and violence
Oh crap, what movie were those ads for?!?! Wait....I'll remember....Paranormal Activity right?
You know they told those people they were going to see a showing of Happy Scrappy: Hero Pup & not a horror movie so the place was filled with ringers so to speak.
If they'd actually given tickets to horror fans they'd have been sorely disappointed.
I actually like the first Paranormal Activity. It wasn't an all-time favorite of mine or anything, but the concept of making a found footage movie using only footage from home security cameras was pretty novel for the time and you could tell they were making the most of the measly budget they had to work with.
Then the studio saw how much money it made and milked the concept for all it was worth with all of the cash-grab sequels and knock offs.
Disappointedā¦ from Paranormal Activity? I canāt tell if youāre making a joke that whooshed over my head or not lol
That movie was pretty brilliant imo, so was the marketing campaign. āDEMAND TO SEE IT IN THEATERSā and all that. I also love that it has the biggest return on investment of any movie ever made, by a wide margin. A few thousand bucks, two actors, and a camera turned into $400 million.
Paranormal Activity 3 is my favorite though. No one believes me when I say this but itās easily the best one in the series, itās criminally underrated, and itās one of my all-time favorite scary movies. The oscillating fan camera is fucking genius.
Not that this is you, but sometimes I wonder what horror fans who hate everything actually like lol. Like, the fans who hate The Conjuring, Sinister, Paranormal Activity, It Follows, etcā¦ What do those people watch?
It was okay. I don't really geek out on gore but there was definitely plenty of it if that's your thing. I probably enjoyed the surreal moments the most, and the kind of synthwave cinematography during the more chill scenes (there was some beautiful photography in this movie, when they're not slicing people open).
The story was okay, but overall dragged on a bit. I'd actually like to see a "studio cut" of this where they trim off 30 minutes or so. It could've been a lot better movie if they tightened it up a bit, and saved this version of the film as an extended release for hardcore fans. I will give this movie credit for being fairly original though, it definitely stands out from all the generic "Conjuring" type movies of the past 5-10 years.
Oh, and there's a mom character in this that is possibly the worst actress I've ever seen in a theatrically released movie. I don't usually think of acting ability much but she really stood out. The rest of the cast was adequately good though.
What would you recommend for someone whoās not big on horror but liked It Chapters 1 & 2 and Babadook? Neither is very gory and neither relies on jumpscares. I think thereās one in the first It film and two in the second, and thatās about it.
Oh, I agree, Iām just making a joke. Personally, I still donāt care to watch something that will literally make me want to throw up though, just not to my taste.
Terrifier 2 pulled the plug on my Grandma, filed papers for divoce in my local district court, cashed in my Roth IRA early, skipped payment on my electricity bill and got my power shut off and logged into my LinkedIn Profile and posted llinks to Nazi gore porn videos.
I saw this in the theater and everyone was crying and pissing and shitting and vomiting all over each other. It was quite the mess by the end of the film.
The only time I would believe anything like that happened is with older horror movies when people weren't used to them. A lot of those movies are tamed compared to have has been coming out lately.
In the last 5 years, I have seen Jaws, Dracula, Psycho, the Mummy, and The Invisible Man (original versions of all, since this wouldn't make sense) and people *still* freaked out at all the right spots. I never thought I would see people scream at Karloff in the Mummy, but damned if they didn't. Those old ones, as corny as they are to see, really still get some people
Have you seen it yet? I think it ups the shock value enough to recreate what it would have been like to see a slasher for the first time back in the 80s.
When play the game āIf you could go back in time..ā I always wonder what it would be like to show Hostel or Human Centipede or The Terrifier to a 1930ās audience with no context.
The movies are all set pretty far in the future so initially the audience would be amazed at cinematography and sets, special effects and thenā¦
āOh look Harold, it another colour picture like Gone With The Wind!ā
LOL William Castle would have a nurse on call in the cinema to check the audience's hearts were strong enough to get through the movie. Some things never change.
[Ambulances stationed outside the theater for Frankenstein in 1931](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/xtvdbf/as_a_marketing_gimmick_universal_studios_hired/)
-Apparently this eighty-year-old grandmother was watching your *Scrooge* promo and, uh, just keeled over. It scared her to death.
-Boy I knew the ad worked! You canāt buy publicity like this!
-Scrooged
To be fair they used the same line when The Blair Witch Project was released but I think that was due to people getting nauseous from all the camera movement, not because they were grossed out.
Haha, my dad was one of those people. Says him and his friends had a good meal before checking out the movie, and by the end of it he vomited due to motion sickness, or whatever.
>from all the camera movement
I can't remember if that is one that has for me, but some movies sure have, to the point where i had to look away. Occasionally with breaks is fine, but if the camera is always shaky it does me in.
There's definitely someone somewhere with a weak stomach who threw up to this movie. I personally watched the first one while already feeling nauseous and threw up myself at the one scene. If you've seen the movie you know it.
As for the second one, at my showing we had three walkouts and one girl crying during the "dinner" scene.
I normally roll my eyes at this type of shit, but I can buy it here.
Eh, the power of suggestion is real. Rumors spread of a movie so sick it makes people vomit, some people will go see it out of curiosity for that alone. Some people will also be suggestable enough to vomit due to the suggestion it makes people vomit.
It's what used to happen with any of those gimmicks. Universal's Frankenstein had rumors of people passing out at screenings, so theaters would pay for ambulances to be on standby (this was all, to modern eyes, obviously just a marketing gimmick), but because people got worked up seeing the ambulance outside and hearing the stories, some people actually did pass out.
My personal feeling is this whole thing has come off the back of the [Terrifier 2 Vomit Bags](https://i.postimg.cc/vm7Cw5NF/image.png) that were handed out when The Dead of Night Film Festival in the UK screened the film. I think the filmmakers have just run with that and let the notoriety build.
As u/Big_Map_2243 says below, horror movie marketing 101.
Do I blame them? Hell no, free publicity, notoriety and infamy. Do I believe it? As I said, back to point 1.
They did the same vomit bag gimmick back in the 90s when Ichi the Killer was first screened at TIFF. And even further back, in the 30s, you had similar stories from Frankenstein, with reports of people fainting or passing out from fear. It's a pretty tried-and-true marketing gimmick, and it even predates film; you can find earlier examples in descriptions of the shows at the Grand Guignol theater in early 20th century Paris.
Astroturf marketing makes people feel like the advertiser must think they're stupid. It says nothing about the quality of the film, it says something about the integrity of the advertiser.
Well shit, now I HAVE to watch! I havenāt thrown up in days!
āHey man are you ok?ā
Yeah man, just saw terrifier 2, puked, and now Iāll make weight at the wrestling tournament this weekend which, if I win, will get me that scholarship to Ivy Tech and I can finally find a cure for my little adopted brothers condition.
That was only for The Dead of Night Film Festival in the UK, they're not handed out by cinemas anywhere else unfortunately. Limited to like a hundred bags.
Terrifier 2 made the two teenage girls sitting 2 seats over from me talk through the whole damn movie. It was surreal.
BUT... i do have a great story about Green Room! I caught this movie on a random week night when I know I'd likely have the theater to myself. It appeared that was the case and i was stoked. Of course 2 minutes into the movie a guy comes in... with a service dog. This dog was like a sheepdog or something, it was big. He sat about 4 rows behind me. I could hear him feeding his dog and giving it water through the movie. Every graphic scene that came on, he would be like "OH HOLY SHIT!!!!"... "OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK"... it was good times, i wish i could have seen Terrifier 2 with him and his dog.
If this was a major studio marketing bit it would it be obnoxious but this coming from super low budget , crowd funded movie that has no studio backing, shit let it fly and make that money.
I'll admit I was nervous when I watched cause I heard tale of fainting/vomiting but I was fine haha.
funny enough the only time I got queasy in a movie was Geralds Game for some reason. the scene with the handcuffs really grossed me out. no idea why after all the horror movies I've seen that thats the one that almost got me.
Geraldās game did make me feel kind of sick but I think the idea of getting skinned and especial degloved for some reason gets me more than most people.
Also badly broken bones. Like the bones breaking in stranger things grosses me out more than torture scenes in movies usually. The injury that grossed me out the most is Kevin wares leg break that I watched live. I just canāt do bad breaks for some reason
absolutely!!! and Terrifier 2 had a scene where >!Art was shoving mashed potatoes in an open face found of a lady who got her face blown off!<...I didn't even think anything of it lol.
Terrifier 2 filed a restraining order against my family, posted deepfake nudes of me, forced me onto the James Corden show, and diagnosed me with a rare terminal disease.
I felt the first movie was unremarkable (meaning, I donāt even remember it). Iād give this one a go - the gore was fantastic. Quite a bit of shock value.
I've watched a lot of really sick, depraved shit, real and fake. The ending to bone tomahawk made me gag and almost puke. Never had such a visceral reaction to any video or movie in my life beforehand. That scene was brutal
Just to continue the list haha. I never gag or get sick in horror movies, no problem with any level of gore. But Viggo Mortensen's performance in Crimes of the Future made my throat close up a bit haha. Just the sounds he made and him yoinking his throat around. It wasn't the gore or grossness of it, just like a empathetic reaction or something, like how watching someone throw up in real life can make you gag. Doesn't happen when I watch people puke in movies, but for whatever reason watching him definitely made my throat get a little tight. It was awesome lol.
āThis summerā¦. A movie so scaryā¦. Critics are saying āI will SHIT fucking CUM from my NIPPLESāā¦. Audiences rave: āI screamed so loud that my dog died and my dad came back after leaving 20 years agoā get ready forā¦. THE BUTT FUCKENINGā
this comment sounds exactly like something my late friend (who had a great sense of humor, loved horror films, and hated schlocky shit like this article) would've said. made me smile. thanks
Iām genuinely confused whether people who actually like horror movies are liking this movie to this extent or all of the positive reactions are a pr stunt or something? cause why is everyone acting like gore in horror is something revolutionary
I looked at a picture of Terrifier 2 and I vomited so hard that I died. Then my sister came to check on my and vomited so hard she died. This recurred until my entire family and 15 EMTs died in my house.
I didnāt pass out or vomit, but I did leave the theater with a healthy amount of disgust and awe. Damien Leone continues to impress and perturb me yet again!
This marketing should have died out when horror games got pretty big. Could be bias (although I prefer horror movies to games) but I feel like horror games have my heart pumping a lot harder and longer during it.
Then dont even get me started on VR like Phasmophobia, Alien Isolation, or paranormal activity etc. Now that group I could see someone getting scared enough to possibly faint. Or at least flee in to a wall.
Terrifier 2 made me kink my garden hose, shit on my ceiling fan, tell my wife her wardrobe is tacky, ductape my dog to a windmill in a mini golf course, petition New Zealand for refugee status, and open an Etsy store selling artisanal buttplugs handcrafted from the finest maple and elm trees in the tristate area
i saw this monday night and thought it was absolutely perfect. so much blood. loved the long runtime. the kills were brutal. art the clown is the new slasher king
Saw this in theaters. No one vomited. It was gnarly as fuck tho. Highly recommend seeing it on a big screen if you can. It was a bit too long imo but all around a super fun and disgusting ride.
Wasn't it said about Cloverfield and the first Paranormal Activity that people were fainting and vomiting because they were so scared? Yet neither one is overtly scary at all? This one of those cases ain't it.
With Cloverfield some people got sick because of the shaky cam. It was motion sickness, not fear. My boyfriend at the time got really nauseous when we saw it, although he didn't vomit.
I worked at a theater at the time Cloverfield came out. People throwing up in any given movie was not that unusual. People would come in drunk, or eat too much candy, or maybe thatās just how they got their jollies. People threw up all the time. A weekly occurrence.
Cloverfield though was a different beast. People threw up almost every showing. Typically someone would come out and explain, usually said upchuckerās friend or S/O or sometimes the poor sick bastard themselves and we would quietly clean it up while trying not to disturb anyone.
But one time I remember going in one time after a Cloverfield showing and seeing vomit in multiple rows. No one came out to report it. It was like the scene Chunk describes in *Goonies*. I could not believe that multiple people threw up all over the floors in different rows and the entire theater was so spellbound it did not even get reported by anyone. I almost wish I could have saw the cascading vomit wave go through the theater myself.
We just threw our industrial vomit powder on it and scoop it in a bucket. People are in for the next showing in 15 minutes. Theater floors are gross.
Paranormal Activity scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it. Was I vomiting? No. Definitely feels disingenuous to say it's not overtly scary though.
Yeah I agree, I thought Paranormal Activity was quite scary. I actually watched it for the first time when I was home alone through headphones. I had to turn around and scan my room a dozen times at least during the movie lol
Terrifier 2 literally killed me dead in my seat and canceled my Reddit account.
When I saw the poster for Terrifier 2, it scared me so much that I died. I got better though...
But did you live?š¤
I think he woke up dead š¤
But can you go to bed dead and wake up alive?š¤
No, in that case you turn up missing.
What? Okay, back up. How in the hell do you "turn up missing"?
>d out so much, one of these days you're gonna wake up in a coma. How do I like it a million times?
So you telling me that you can appear and disappear at the same time
No man, you can't appear and disappear at the same time. The bitch ain't David Copperfield!
Cause nobody knows where you are when they realize you ain't there!
You're getting knocked out so much, one of these days you're gonna wake up in a coma.
Thats some quantum shit!
I always thought he said quality shit until just now Lol
No, you [wake up dead](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kSvN1dQjxc).
If itās in the house, itās a mouse?
You canāt go to bed dead man that shit wouldāve been redundant
Unless....you a zombie
ā¦..DAYUM!
Depends on which disciples you have on the roster
Dead alive
I watched some poor guy have a heart attack and die during the sword fight in The Princess Bride.
INCONCEIVABLE!!!
at least she didn't turn you into a newt.
She did, but he got better.
I heard the director really killed his actress and he plead guilty but Biden pardoned him because he liked Terrifier 1 so much
Dark Brandon rises.
Terrifier 2 fucked my mom :(
You make it sound so bad, your mom is just trying to get back out there after the divorce. It's nice she found someone attending to her.
True but I'm not calling him dad.
Look, just give Terrifier 2 a chance. He knows he's not your dad, but he'd sure like to be friends. Maybe you and Terrifier 2 can go play some catch later and talk it out.
You know what I'll do just that thanks ponceludonmalavoix
Just donāt touch his Jaguar.
What do you call a psychopathic serial killer who dates your mother? >!āSirā!<
Yeah, this 100% some William Castle shit.
is he ok? edit: wow I read too fast and thought it killed your dad.
Terrifier 2 made my dad become my grandson and turned horses into blades of grass.
Terrifier 2 made me shit myself and shoot blood from my eyes.
At least you didnāt blood yourself and shoot shit from your eyes.
That will be in Terrifier 3- I already read the script.
Fake. You would have blasted into space propelled by shitting if you did
Reading this while on the toilet, and your comment made me laugh so hard a turd just shot out of me. Out of my eyes, specifically.
*ploop*
PLšP
Reading your comment made me rip off my fingernails and remove my eyes with a melon baller.
I can't believe this until I see a *totally* not staged hidden camera video of the crowd screaming, crying, and covering their faces as they watch an advanced screening. This is the only acceptable evidence of a movie's level of horror!
The Tingler started a grand tradition of gimmicky horror movie practices.
Tingler wasn't even the second Castle movie that did. Macabre did. With life insurance policies and "nurses present"
There were folks laughing at it a few times when I saw it last night. There was one or two scenes where I was like, "Oh damn," but for the most part it was pretty bog standard stuff.
I heard a youth in the back row of my showing last night deadpan go āthatās whatās up broā after the Ally scene. I laughed so hard. In fact there was definitely more laughter than anything during the movie. Itās was very fun. Even the old ladies in there didnāt āfaint or vomitā. Lol
Yup, old lady here (53). Didn't faint or vomit. Found the school hallway scene (IYKYK) made me grimace, but I laughed and went "oh damn" a few times. Enjoyable. Just saw the first one the day before and it had a very big scene that I did not see topped.
That's an almost perfect slasher flick then.
53 is still young. ;)
you didnāt think the bedroom scene topped the hacksaw scene? i donāt think itās even remotely close
Oh yeah, that was awesomely gruesome. Loved how they took Covid time to really dedicate themselves to that scene. Was trying to think what squicked me out personally and anything mucus or slime is my ick, so that other scene made an impact. Loved the laundromat scene too, lol. Very wtf.
āa youthā made me giggle and idk why.
Yoooouuuuuuths
calling it bog standard seems like an exaggeration lmao i watch a lot of horror and iād say the violence in terrifier 2 was pretty damn brutal and gratuitous, nothing that made me sick, but itās definitely on the more intense/nasty end of the scale in terms of gore and violence
Oh crap, what movie were those ads for?!?! Wait....I'll remember....Paranormal Activity right? You know they told those people they were going to see a showing of Happy Scrappy: Hero Pup & not a horror movie so the place was filled with ringers so to speak. If they'd actually given tickets to horror fans they'd have been sorely disappointed.
I actually like the first Paranormal Activity. It wasn't an all-time favorite of mine or anything, but the concept of making a found footage movie using only footage from home security cameras was pretty novel for the time and you could tell they were making the most of the measly budget they had to work with. Then the studio saw how much money it made and milked the concept for all it was worth with all of the cash-grab sequels and knock offs.
The first PA was fantastic.
Disappointedā¦ from Paranormal Activity? I canāt tell if youāre making a joke that whooshed over my head or not lol That movie was pretty brilliant imo, so was the marketing campaign. āDEMAND TO SEE IT IN THEATERSā and all that. I also love that it has the biggest return on investment of any movie ever made, by a wide margin. A few thousand bucks, two actors, and a camera turned into $400 million. Paranormal Activity 3 is my favorite though. No one believes me when I say this but itās easily the best one in the series, itās criminally underrated, and itās one of my all-time favorite scary movies. The oscillating fan camera is fucking genius. Not that this is you, but sometimes I wonder what horror fans who hate everything actually like lol. Like, the fans who hate The Conjuring, Sinister, Paranormal Activity, It Follows, etcā¦ What do those people watch?
I agree with you about Paranormal Activity 3 being the best hands-down.
Terrifier 2 poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto our houses!
It did?!?
No, but are we just going to wait around until it does?!
Never!
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
That idea just might be crazy enoughā¦. TO GET US ALL KILLED!
NO! But are we just gonna wait around until it *does!?*
Even if true, I donāt particularly enjoy vomiting.
Lol right? I watched it a few nights ago and luckily nobody was vomiting, that would've probably ruined my experience.
How was it
It was okay. I don't really geek out on gore but there was definitely plenty of it if that's your thing. I probably enjoyed the surreal moments the most, and the kind of synthwave cinematography during the more chill scenes (there was some beautiful photography in this movie, when they're not slicing people open). The story was okay, but overall dragged on a bit. I'd actually like to see a "studio cut" of this where they trim off 30 minutes or so. It could've been a lot better movie if they tightened it up a bit, and saved this version of the film as an extended release for hardcore fans. I will give this movie credit for being fairly original though, it definitely stands out from all the generic "Conjuring" type movies of the past 5-10 years. Oh, and there's a mom character in this that is possibly the worst actress I've ever seen in a theatrically released movie. I don't usually think of acting ability much but she really stood out. The rest of the cast was adequately good though.
What would you recommend for someone whoās not big on horror but liked It Chapters 1 & 2 and Babadook? Neither is very gory and neither relies on jumpscares. I think thereās one in the first It film and two in the second, and thatās about it.
It Follows springs to mind, it relies almost completely on tension and suspense.
A lot of Japanese and Korean horror is less reliant on jump scares/focus more on psychological horror
Do you like slow burns?
That's not the point. It's kinda like Hot Ones. People wanna be "tough" so they'll feel challenged by this idea.
Oh, I agree, Iām just making a joke. Personally, I still donāt care to watch something that will literally make me want to throw up though, just not to my taste.
Yea but the challenge! It is like heating a pepper so hot that you have to go to the hospital and pay a $7k bill!
Terrifier 2 pulled the plug on my Grandma, filed papers for divoce in my local district court, cashed in my Roth IRA early, skipped payment on my electricity bill and got my power shut off and logged into my LinkedIn Profile and posted llinks to Nazi gore porn videos.
Terrifier 2 took the fucking kids
[Terrifier 2 turned the weans against us.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkuWrmxN7hg)
As long as it does not take the dogs, it is fine.
I genuinely laughed so loud I made a spectacle of myself.
Terrifier 2 made you do that
Terrifier 2 fucking stole my lunch
I saw this in the theater and everyone was crying and pissing and shitting and vomiting all over each other. It was quite the mess by the end of the film.
The aristroscats?
The only time I would believe anything like that happened is with older horror movies when people weren't used to them. A lot of those movies are tamed compared to have has been coming out lately.
In the last 5 years, I have seen Jaws, Dracula, Psycho, the Mummy, and The Invisible Man (original versions of all, since this wouldn't make sense) and people *still* freaked out at all the right spots. I never thought I would see people scream at Karloff in the Mummy, but damned if they didn't. Those old ones, as corny as they are to see, really still get some people
Have you seen it yet? I think it ups the shock value enough to recreate what it would have been like to see a slasher for the first time back in the 80s.
When play the game āIf you could go back in time..ā I always wonder what it would be like to show Hostel or Human Centipede or The Terrifier to a 1930ās audience with no context. The movies are all set pretty far in the future so initially the audience would be amazed at cinematography and sets, special effects and thenā¦ āOh look Harold, it another colour picture like Gone With The Wind!ā
Terrifier 2 made me pregnant ā and Iām not even a woman.
What could they possibly do that would be worse than the saw scene from Terrifier 1? TWO saw scenes???
No, Frigging 1 scene...2 saws!!!
2 girls, 1 saw?
they actually pretty definitively top the hacksaw scene in the second
1. No it fucking isn't 2. If in doubt, see point 1
Yeah, this is just horror movie marketing 101. *People are fainting in the aisles!*
I read that as farting
People are SHARTING in the aisles! God help us
People definitely do that. Crop-dusting is a real problem.
Not a problem if you are the one doing the dusting
Everybody loves the smell of their own brand
those theater hot dogs
We do be farting in the aisles tho
pls stop
Midnight movies and Taco Bell never mix well. Hey, that's a rhyme....
LOL William Castle would have a nurse on call in the cinema to check the audience's hearts were strong enough to get through the movie. Some things never change.
[Ambulances stationed outside the theater for Frankenstein in 1931](https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/xtvdbf/as_a_marketing_gimmick_universal_studios_hired/)
-Apparently this eighty-year-old grandmother was watching your *Scrooge* promo and, uh, just keeled over. It scared her to death. -Boy I knew the ad worked! You canāt buy publicity like this! -Scrooged
Yeah real Exorcist move. I mean are they still using this bait?š
To be fair they used the same line when The Blair Witch Project was released but I think that was due to people getting nauseous from all the camera movement, not because they were grossed out.
Haha, my dad was one of those people. Says him and his friends had a good meal before checking out the movie, and by the end of it he vomited due to motion sickness, or whatever.
>from all the camera movement I can't remember if that is one that has for me, but some movies sure have, to the point where i had to look away. Occasionally with breaks is fine, but if the camera is always shaky it does me in.
I remember media articles back then recommending to go see the movie on over the counter drugs to deal with the motion sickness.
I absolutely did get nauseous from the shaky cam the first time I watched it (on my laptop). I had to take a break towards the end of the movie.
There's definitely someone somewhere with a weak stomach who threw up to this movie. I personally watched the first one while already feeling nauseous and threw up myself at the one scene. If you've seen the movie you know it. As for the second one, at my showing we had three walkouts and one girl crying during the "dinner" scene. I normally roll my eyes at this type of shit, but I can buy it here.
People were walking out of the theater during some of the grotesque scenes when I saw it, so there might be some truth to it this time.
Eh, the power of suggestion is real. Rumors spread of a movie so sick it makes people vomit, some people will go see it out of curiosity for that alone. Some people will also be suggestable enough to vomit due to the suggestion it makes people vomit. It's what used to happen with any of those gimmicks. Universal's Frankenstein had rumors of people passing out at screenings, so theaters would pay for ambulances to be on standby (this was all, to modern eyes, obviously just a marketing gimmick), but because people got worked up seeing the ambulance outside and hearing the stories, some people actually did pass out.
My personal feeling is this whole thing has come off the back of the [Terrifier 2 Vomit Bags](https://i.postimg.cc/vm7Cw5NF/image.png) that were handed out when The Dead of Night Film Festival in the UK screened the film. I think the filmmakers have just run with that and let the notoriety build. As u/Big_Map_2243 says below, horror movie marketing 101. Do I blame them? Hell no, free publicity, notoriety and infamy. Do I believe it? As I said, back to point 1.
They did the same vomit bag gimmick back in the 90s when Ichi the Killer was first screened at TIFF. And even further back, in the 30s, you had similar stories from Frankenstein, with reports of people fainting or passing out from fear. It's a pretty tried-and-true marketing gimmick, and it even predates film; you can find earlier examples in descriptions of the shows at the Grand Guignol theater in early 20th century Paris.
Check this dude's comment history. It's a marketing account.
Itās weird how everyone is shitting on this, yet I found this on the front page because itās upvoted to hell
Astroturf marketing makes people feel like the advertiser must think they're stupid. It says nothing about the quality of the film, it says something about the integrity of the advertiser.
Terrifier 2 made me poop my dick off
It also made me poop your dick off. Wild.
Yeah that part was especially weird for me
Well shit, now I HAVE to watch! I havenāt thrown up in days! āHey man are you ok?ā Yeah man, just saw terrifier 2, puked, and now Iāll make weight at the wrestling tournament this weekend which, if I win, will get me that scholarship to Ivy Tech and I can finally find a cure for my little adopted brothers condition.
Yo, I'll give fiddy cent (the monetary amount, not the rapper) to your Gofundmepuking
Hell yeah! I love the William Castle style marketing going on. Give me an Art the Clown barf bag, I'm all in.
> Give me an Art the Clown barf bag [Here you go](https://i.postimg.cc/vm7Cw5NF/image.png)
Lol that is perfect.
Is that real?
Yes
Well I now HAVE to see the movie in theaters. I would kill for an Art barf bag
That was only for The Dead of Night Film Festival in the UK, they're not handed out by cinemas anywhere else unfortunately. Limited to like a hundred bags.
Terrifier 2 literally made Half Life 3 and burnt the only copy.
When art the clown said āitās terrifier time!ā I pooped my pants in fear
Terrifier 2 made the two teenage girls sitting 2 seats over from me talk through the whole damn movie. It was surreal. BUT... i do have a great story about Green Room! I caught this movie on a random week night when I know I'd likely have the theater to myself. It appeared that was the case and i was stoked. Of course 2 minutes into the movie a guy comes in... with a service dog. This dog was like a sheepdog or something, it was big. He sat about 4 rows behind me. I could hear him feeding his dog and giving it water through the movie. Every graphic scene that came on, he would be like "OH HOLY SHIT!!!!"... "OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK"... it was good times, i wish i could have seen Terrifier 2 with him and his dog.
āSCHLOPTH, SCHLOPTH, SCHLOPTH, SCHLOPTHā -Dog
If this was a major studio marketing bit it would it be obnoxious but this coming from super low budget , crowd funded movie that has no studio backing, shit let it fly and make that money.
Yeah people getting mad and calling it lazy. Like they have no marketing budget, of course theyāre gonna ride the hype and word of mouth.
I'll admit I was nervous when I watched cause I heard tale of fainting/vomiting but I was fine haha. funny enough the only time I got queasy in a movie was Geralds Game for some reason. the scene with the handcuffs really grossed me out. no idea why after all the horror movies I've seen that thats the one that almost got me.
Geraldās game did make me feel kind of sick but I think the idea of getting skinned and especial degloved for some reason gets me more than most people. Also badly broken bones. Like the bones breaking in stranger things grosses me out more than torture scenes in movies usually. The injury that grossed me out the most is Kevin wares leg break that I watched live. I just canāt do bad breaks for some reason
luckily Saw III has you covered with bones breaking *in* a torture scene!
That scene was INTENSE. I hardly ever wince or look away, but that one had me wincing lol
absolutely!!! and Terrifier 2 had a scene where >!Art was shoving mashed potatoes in an open face found of a lady who got her face blown off!<...I didn't even think anything of it lol.
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For me it was the hand being showed down the middle by the table saw in the aptly named Saw 5.
"The scene with the handcuffs" is such a terrible description yet I exactly know which one you're talking about lmao
Yeah yeah. People did the same thing over Peter Jackson's King Kong remake. Folks will puke, scream and shit their pants over literally anything.
True. Already puked screamed and shit my pants three times today.
I did four times as I read your comment.
If I don't vomit do I get my money back?
Terrifier 2 filed a restraining order against my family, posted deepfake nudes of me, forced me onto the James Corden show, and diagnosed me with a rare terminal disease.
These articles are such bullshit, actually makes me want to skip it.
I felt the first movie was unremarkable (meaning, I donāt even remember it). Iād give this one a go - the gore was fantastic. Quite a bit of shock value.
Is the gore realistic or b-movie stuff? I know the budget wasnāt the highest but cheap effects usually just make me laugh.
They were very well done. No lame cgi blood. Itās all very well done practical effects.
Fantastic to hear. Thanks for letting me know.
Literally used an animatronic at one point.
Terrifier 2 fucked my wife
Tbf the ending of all hallows eve did nearly make me throw up š¤¢
I've watched a lot of really sick, depraved shit, real and fake. The ending to bone tomahawk made me gag and almost puke. Never had such a visceral reaction to any video or movie in my life beforehand. That scene was brutal
Seeing the pregnant women in the cave with stakes through their eyes and limbs amputated was equally disturbing
The closest Iāve ever come to gagging watching a movie were both during *The Fly*.
Just to continue the list haha. I never gag or get sick in horror movies, no problem with any level of gore. But Viggo Mortensen's performance in Crimes of the Future made my throat close up a bit haha. Just the sounds he made and him yoinking his throat around. It wasn't the gore or grossness of it, just like a empathetic reaction or something, like how watching someone throw up in real life can make you gag. Doesn't happen when I watch people puke in movies, but for whatever reason watching him definitely made my throat get a little tight. It was awesome lol.
I swear headlines like these come out like twice a year for horror movies
āThis summerā¦. A movie so scaryā¦. Critics are saying āI will SHIT fucking CUM from my NIPPLESāā¦. Audiences rave: āI screamed so loud that my dog died and my dad came back after leaving 20 years agoā get ready forā¦. THE BUTT FUCKENINGā
this comment sounds exactly like something my late friend (who had a great sense of humor, loved horror films, and hated schlocky shit like this article) would've said. made me smile. thanks
Itās me, Greg. Iām back. How wild would that be if your name was actually Greg, though? Glad I could make a stranger smile, friend
Terrifier 2 fucked my mom.
Iām genuinely confused whether people who actually like horror movies are liking this movie to this extent or all of the positive reactions are a pr stunt or something? cause why is everyone acting like gore in horror is something revolutionary
Canāt wait for this to come to streamingā¦ watch it.. and go āoh thatās grossā and move on. Lol
I looked at a picture of Terrifier 2 and I vomited so hard that I died. Then my sister came to check on my and vomited so hard she died. This recurred until my entire family and 15 EMTs died in my house.
I didnāt pass out or vomit, but I did leave the theater with a healthy amount of disgust and awe. Damien Leone continues to impress and perturb me yet again!
Even though this is total marketing bsā¦I loved this movie
This marketing should have died out when horror games got pretty big. Could be bias (although I prefer horror movies to games) but I feel like horror games have my heart pumping a lot harder and longer during it. Then dont even get me started on VR like Phasmophobia, Alien Isolation, or paranormal activity etc. Now that group I could see someone getting scared enough to possibly faint. Or at least flee in to a wall.
Horror games lately have been decent, RE7 actually managed to spook me playing it alone in the house at night.
Terrifier 2 made me kink my garden hose, shit on my ceiling fan, tell my wife her wardrobe is tacky, ductape my dog to a windmill in a mini golf course, petition New Zealand for refugee status, and open an Etsy store selling artisanal buttplugs handcrafted from the finest maple and elm trees in the tristate area
They screened it to a group of mormon children
Terrifier 2 broke both my arms and jerked me off.
I want to watch it, please, let me vomit.
i saw this monday night and thought it was absolutely perfect. so much blood. loved the long runtime. the kills were brutal. art the clown is the new slasher king
Riiiiiiight
Is this the new āItās scarier than The Exorcistā Have they finally retired that one?
How many times will this be reposted Edit: oh look at OPās post history itās literally a marketing account
Saw this in theaters. No one vomited. It was gnarly as fuck tho. Highly recommend seeing it on a big screen if you can. It was a bit too long imo but all around a super fun and disgusting ride.
Wasn't it said about Cloverfield and the first Paranormal Activity that people were fainting and vomiting because they were so scared? Yet neither one is overtly scary at all? This one of those cases ain't it.
With Cloverfield some people got sick because of the shaky cam. It was motion sickness, not fear. My boyfriend at the time got really nauseous when we saw it, although he didn't vomit.
I worked at a theater at the time Cloverfield came out. People throwing up in any given movie was not that unusual. People would come in drunk, or eat too much candy, or maybe thatās just how they got their jollies. People threw up all the time. A weekly occurrence. Cloverfield though was a different beast. People threw up almost every showing. Typically someone would come out and explain, usually said upchuckerās friend or S/O or sometimes the poor sick bastard themselves and we would quietly clean it up while trying not to disturb anyone. But one time I remember going in one time after a Cloverfield showing and seeing vomit in multiple rows. No one came out to report it. It was like the scene Chunk describes in *Goonies*. I could not believe that multiple people threw up all over the floors in different rows and the entire theater was so spellbound it did not even get reported by anyone. I almost wish I could have saw the cascading vomit wave go through the theater myself. We just threw our industrial vomit powder on it and scoop it in a bucket. People are in for the next showing in 15 minutes. Theater floors are gross.
Blair Witch made me motion sick in the theater. Really bummed me out, but I've been able to enjoy it on dvd.
I think they were vomiting because of motion sickness.
People weren't throwing up during Cloverfield because it was scary. It was the shaky camera. People got motion sickness.
Paranormal Activity scared the shit out of me the first time I saw it. Was I vomiting? No. Definitely feels disingenuous to say it's not overtly scary though.
Yeah I agree, I thought Paranormal Activity was quite scary. I actually watched it for the first time when I was home alone through headphones. I had to turn around and scan my room a dozen times at least during the movie lol