Terrifier 3has passed a domestic milestone as its grosses continue to inflate. The gory slasher sequel follows Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) as he returns to continue his murderous rampage during the Christmas season five years after the previous movie, with survivors Sienna Shaw (Laurn LaVera) and her brother Jonathan (Elliott Fullam) still in his sights. TheTerrifier 3box officerun kicked off with an $18.9 million opening weekend that saw the movie take No. 1 over the holdover comic book movieJoker: Folie à Deuxin a surprise upset.
PerDeadline, as of Saturday morning,Terrifier 3is projected to earn a 3-day total of $4.5 million during its third weekend at the domestic box office, bringing its cumulative domestic total to $44.3 million. This makes itthe 35th movie to pass the $40 million domestic milestone in 2024. This news comes during the same weekend thatit has passed the $50 million milestone worldwide, a total that more than triples the $15.7 million worldwide gross of the entire run of 2022’sTerrifier 2.
What This Means For Terrifier 3
The Movie Is A Smash Hit For 2024 Horror
In addition to being the 35th movie to pass this domestic milestone, theTerrifier 3releasehas become the 45th movie to cross the $50 million milestone worldwide in 2024. It has already outgrossed a number of the year’s other horror movies, includingTarot,The Strangers: Chapter 1,Abigail,Imaginary,Immaculate, andThe Substance. In fact, it is nowthe ninth highest-grossing horror movie of the year so far. Below, see a breakdown of the Top 10 highest-grossing 2024 horror movies worldwide:
#11
$350.7 million
#13
$261.8 million
#25
$108.9 million
#30
$97.9 million
#36
$75.7 million
#38
$56.3 million
#39
$54.8 million
#41
$53.8 million
~#45
~$50 million
#46
Tarot
$49.1 million
While the new Art the Clown slasher is trailing significantly behind blockbuster horror sequels likeA Quiet Place: Day OneandAlien: Romulus, it is performing outstandingly well on its own terms, potentially boosted by strongTerrifier 3reviewsthat earned the movie a Certified Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 76%. In addition to exceeding the theatrical gross of the previous installment by a wide margin, its minuscule $2 million budget means that it likely broke even when it passed the $5 million mark andhas already grossed more than 25 times its budgetjust three weekends into its run.
Our Take On The Terrifier 3 Box Office Milestones
The Movie Has Already Proven Itself
Ultimately, it seems unlikely that theTerrifier 3box office will climb much higher than its current record.General interest in horror movies can take a sharp dip in the weeks after Halloween, which this year takes place on a Thursday, just before the sequel’s fourth weekend in theaters. It could see its grosses shrink as the holiday season and awards season both begin to ramp up in earnest, but even if it never reaches more milestones, its current grosses are already majorly impressive.
Terrifier 3
Cast
Terrifier 3 follows Sienna and her brother as they attempt to move past the traumatic events of Art the Clown’s Halloween massacre. As they embrace the Christmas season, Art reemerges, intent on turning their holiday into a nightmare, continuing his reign of terror.
