{"id":45220,"date":"2023-04-21T05:35:57","date_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=45220"},"modified":"2023-04-21T05:35:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-21T05:35:58","slug":"pop-culture-terrifier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/pop-culture-terrifier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop culture: Terrifier 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about pop culture: the tutor mentions a curiosity.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI was in the room when <em>Terrifier 2<\/em> was being watched on TV. My back was to it, but I could hear it well enough follow along, more or less. It was graphic and gross, but not really scary, I thought. I&#8217;ve heard movies that were much harder to listen to.<\/p>\n<p>\nWhat amazes me is that, even in 2022, the same types of follies seem to ensnare the characters as back in the 70s. <em>Terrifier 2<\/em> references one or more of those classic horror films with varying subtlety. It has a rampage-style plot, with gory attacks on unsuspecting characters, etc. From what I could tell, it&#8217;s the movie&#8217;s particular type of gory action that seems to sell it, plus the dubious personality of the clown (Art?).<\/p>\n<p>\nSell, it indeed does. <em>Terrifier 2<\/em>, from a budget of $250,000, had made more than three times that within a few days of its release. It would go on to make more than 30 times its budget within a month.<\/p>\n<p>I guess some things never get old, eh?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cinemablend.com\/movies\/terrifier-2-keeps-making-more-money-at-the-box-office-and-is-a-giant-profit-on-its-minimal-budget\">cinemablend.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC. \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about pop culture: the tutor mentions a curiosity. I was in the room when Terrifier 2 was being watched on TV. My back was to it, but I could hear it well enough follow along, more or less. It &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/pop-culture-terrifier-2\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pop culture: Terrifier 2<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45222,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45220\/revisions\/45222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}