{"id":433997,"date":"2025-12-08T20:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433997\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T20:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T20:13:14","slug":"a-free-one-day-rage-room-is-coming-to-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/433997\/","title":{"rendered":"A Free One-Day Rage Room Is Coming to Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If the holidays have ever made you want to drop-kick a gift box or smash an ornament into festive oblivion, this is your moment. Pluto TV, Paramount\u2019s free streaming service, is bringing its nationwide <a href=\"https:\/\/plutotv-theholidaysarebrutal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cHolidays Are Brutal\u201d<\/a> tour to the city and with it comes a free, one-day-only pop-up rage room built for anyone nursing seasonal stress. (You can thank them later, once you\u2019re done pulverizing a wreath.)<\/p>\n<p>This Thursday, December 11, from 1pm to 10pm, the Angry Cactus Lounge at 2525 North Elston Avenue will transform into a holiday battlefield where you\u2019re encouraged to unleash inner action-hero energy. The setup is inspired by Pluto TV\u2019s new \u201cHolidays Are Brutal\u201d movie collection, a lineup of 70-plus action hits streamed for free, including Charlie\u2019s Angels, Bad Boys, Rush Hour, The Expendables, Gladiator and more. Think of it as the anti-Hallmark holiday season, with fewer carols and more cinematic chaos.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Inside the pop-up, participants can step into themed smash bays that look like cheerful holiday scenes. You can \u201cdeck\u201d the halls in the most literal sense by pounding on decorations, shattering ornaments, drop-kicking wrapping-paper disasters and generally behaving like you\u2019re inside your own blockbuster fight sequence. The whole thing is Pluto TV\u2019s tongue-in-cheek answer to the stresses of year-end travel, high prices and family dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>The experience is part of a multicity rollout hitting New York, L.A., D.C., Dallas\u2013Fort Worth, Houston, Atlanta, Raleigh\u2013Durham, Philadelphia and Phoenix on the same day. But Chicago gets one of the prime setups and slots are expected to go fast.<\/p>\n<p>The best part is that it\u2019s entirely free, no smashing surcharge required. Anyone looking to claim a spot <a href=\"http:\/\/plutotv-theholidaysarebrutal.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">can sign up now<\/a>. And, hey, if your seasonal frustrations don\u2019t fully resolve after you obliterate a plastic reindeer, you can always head home and stream a few car chases for good measure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the holidays have ever made you want to drop-kick a gift box or smash an ornament into&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":433998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[10336,960,5386,1818,18632,1072],"class_list":{"0":"post-433997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-categories-things-to-do","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-news-events-festivals","13":"tag-things-to-do"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115685779437131938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}