dudalb Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 9 hours ago, Taylor said: Damn. The trailers looked good! There are film editors in Hollywood who make a good living because they can make just about any movie, no matter how crappy, look good. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 19 hours ago, JB33 said: God damn it! It looked so good though, at least to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudalb Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) 19 hours ago, JB33 said: God damn it! It looked so good though, at least to me. I would say this is a textbook case of the marketing being much,much more creative then the movie. I sort of liked the hair bit. Classic William Castle sleaze. But never forget that their ability to make ANYTHING look good is why people in marketing and advertising pull down the big bucks. Edited January 4, 2020 by dudalb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze Heatnix Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 49 minutes ago, dudalb said: And what is scary is that horror movie audiences are usually pretty forgiving of flaws...…... Yeah, it seems something happened to this Grudge movie. I've seen some posters comparing the ending to The Devil Inside. Some are also saying scenes from the trailer weren't in the movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB33 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 46 minutes ago, dudalb said: I would say this is a textbook case of the marketing being much,much more creative then the movie. I sort of liked the hair bit. Classic William Castle sleaze. But never forget that their ability to make ANYTHING look good is why people in marketing and advertising pull down the big bucks. Yeah....but you always hope it's that good. After all, the trailers are all we have to go by. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MovieGuyKyle17 Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 I see the tradition of terrible horror movies being released the first week of January is continuing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
75Live Posted January 4, 2020 Share Posted January 4, 2020 (edited) I guess I should have stuck with my initial feeling that the trailers looked awful so I thought it would do bad. But something got into me thinking it's the first horror film of the year and people may be interested. Boy was I wrong Edited January 4, 2020 by 75Live Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJohn Posted January 5, 2020 Author Share Posted January 5, 2020 17 hours ago, MovieGuyKyle17 said: I see the tradition of terrible horror movies being released the first week of January is continuing. Escape Room was kinda awesome and fun tho. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a2k Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 56 minutes ago, 75Live said: I guess I should have stuck with my initial feeling that the trailers looked awful so I thought it would do bad. But something got into me thinking it's the first horror film of the year and people may be interested. Boy was I wrong 5.35 od is not that bad. People were interested. With ok wom could have done 12.5 ow, 30 dom. Thought that would be about the floor. For a 10 prod budget movie it's at least something. But looking at 10 ow barely and mid-high teens dom. The Boy 2016 - non IP + strong wom Date Rank Gross % Change Theaters Per Theater Total Gross Week Jan 22, 2016 5 $10,778,392 2,671 $4,035 $10,778,392 1 Jan 29, 2016 7 $7,551,388 -30% 2,671 $2,827 $21,185,304 2 Feb 5, 2016 9 $4,083,822 -46% 2,214 $1,845 $26,881,506 3 Feb 12, 2016 10 $3,140,355 -23% 1,450 $2,166 $31,005,942 4 Feb 19, 2016 14 $1,436,592 -54% 977 $1,470 $33,360,570 5 Feb 26, 2016 17 $891,992 -38% 672 $1,327 $34,544,271 6 Mar 4, 2016 23 $401,212 -55% 339 $1,184 $35,129,770 7 Mar 11, 2016 27 $245,859 -39% 216 $1,138 $35,480,562 8 Mar 18, 2016 39 $125,952 -49% 132 $954 $35,696,125 9 Mar 25, 2016 39 $58,090 -54% 78 $745 $35,794,166 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB33 Posted January 5, 2020 Share Posted January 5, 2020 Saw this tonight. Not nearly as bad as I was expecting. It was just a very different movie than what the trailer presented. It ultimately wasn't a conventional horror flick and that clearly turned a ton of people off. I'm honestly not sure what I just watched though.... Comments later. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JB33 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 $11,404,113 OW for The Grudge. With the toxic word of mouth it has. have to think it drops around 65% next weekend ($3.99M) and disappears pretty fast after that. Too bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
