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Then why did it take so long to release after announcing it just a few months ago?
Incredibly violent schlock, distributors called it too risky
Yeah, and with the consolidation that was happening at the time only middle of the road stuff or sequels to recent stuff was getting picked up.
It's less violent than Terrifier but they had already gotten picked up. But adding schlock (which is how much of Troma is billed) was a bridge too far. Cineverse (who distributed Terrifier 3) is out there taking chances a lot of folks won't take anymore. They've got some garbage streaming TV, some fun (to me) streaming stuff, a couple of movies no one else wanted to touch, and a couple of upcoming movies that would be difficult to touch through the big distributors.
I'm still confused about why Troma didn't choose to distribute it but my gut feeling is they would have to go straight to VOD and either there was some contract stuff about that or they really wanted to try to get it in theaters.
It kinda makes sense. It's got Peter Dinklage, Kevin Bacon, and Elijah Wood, and it's got a health-care theme. So they probably figured it had a chance at making some money in theaters, or at least getting a better deal in streaming even if the theater run isn't that long.