“Terrifier 2” has grossed over $5 million on a $250k budget & limited release

Ugh, while it's not terrible I have to say it's a mega gross out movie with some really (and I'm not exaggerating) really disturbing scenes.

I just watched the first one yesterday and it was a total bore after the first 15 minutes.

I read this as a new slasher film called Terriers. I was concerned. But having gotten straightened out, I think I might go see this.

R3 would that be a horror film about killer dogs, or dogs being killed by a psycho? Either way, both films would be disturbing

R2- Agree, and I love gore and I love horror movies. The first one was terrible- on every level.

Most slasher films give me a headache. I can’t lose myself because most of the choices the victims make are illogical. I’m not joking. I get a big headache.

Even some of the movies I love, like the original Halloween give me a headache at times because Laurie is so stupid. Every time she knocks Michael down, she stops to breathe and rest. Rewatch it. It drives me nuts. You either beat his head in while he’s down or you at least run out of the house and escape to get help. Nope. She always stops to rest.

The original Scream may be one of the few where the characters don’t all seem like complete fucking morons, minus Tatum trying to fit through that tiny dog door.

I tried watching it. I love horror but Terrifier is really just about evisceration, I don't recall a plot.

Sounds like SAW r7

The first Terrifier was pretty scary. It’s doesn’t have a lot of substance but Art the Clown is scary as hell.

I’m watching the first one now on Tubi.

The clown is scary.

The word is "The Terrifier 2" is making people in the audience vomit and faint. I suppose that will make more people want to see it.

Art the Clown would be a very scary Halloween costume. I'm sure there will be a lot of Art the Clowns lurking about this Halloween.

R11 because it’s so gory and violent. Some people can’t handle that.

The director of this movie is super hot

Umm, no he isn't.

The director has Tweeted all the claims of people getting sick, fainting, leaving the theater were never meant to be part of the marketing for this movie. I kind of believe him to be honest. I think part of the hype over this movie was that it got picked up by some daytime talk shows discussing it.

All the other movies made prior to this featuring Art the Clown (All Hallows Eve, Terrifier) mostly stayed under the radar and didn't get much mention outside of die hard horror fans.

I was finally able to watch it this evening and it's a definite improvement over it's predecessors despite still only having a relatively limited budget. The overall production value has improved a lot, the casting was pretty good, and the special effects are fantastic if you're into gore and violent shit. If anything, I was a bit surprised this movie managed to get an R rating. It was also rather ballsy to have the main characters be young teens.

I thought it was much better than Halloween Ends, personally.

OP are you a studio executive? Who the fuck cares how profitable a movie is. What a weird way to talk about art.

Never heard of it and I won't see it. Sounds incredibly awful and boring.

R16 this film isn’t art…. and why do you care? Just scroll by. We are adults here.

R15 all the other movies are straight to streaming.

R18 you still haven't explained why anyone should care about how profitable a movie is. You may as well tell us about the lighting director's dental plan. All movies are art.

After hearing about how people were supposedly fainting and vomiting at this movie I thought I'd better check this Art the Clown character out. I watched "All Hallows Eve" and "The Terrifier." The clown is a scary sight. But the movies were typical for slasher films: gory and repetitive. In both movies young women go to a public play; a gas station, a pizza place. In both places Art is lurking; he causes a disturbance and gets thrown out by the proprietor of the place. In both he goes into the men's room and smears his shit all over the place, writing his name in shit on the wall. Wanna guess what happens to the guy at the gas station and the pizza place after they forcibly eject Art from the premises? Maybe I'll see "Terrifier 2" just to see what the fuss was about. But my guess it that it will be a lot like "All Hallows Eve" and "The Terrifier."

R20 there are two All Hollows Eve movies, and both were anthology films. All Hollows Eve is two kids telling the stories that feature Art the Clown. Terrifier is not told as an urban legend but it’s set in reality.

Art the clown is scarier than any monster out there

It's the bedroom scene that is apparently making people vomit. I'm generally a gore-hound but I had to ff thru most of the scene or watched it through my fingers. It was that fucking bad. I can see how it would make people physically ill.

Gore == Horror

If you can stomach the bedroom scene, the rest of the movie will be tolerable. All of the kills are pretty gory, but the bedroom scene involves some very brutal torture, which is pretty disturbing. I read a couple of interviews with David Howard Thornton, who plays Art the Clown, and he thinks that scene is the worst and most brutal (it is). Not much of a plot to the movie, but gore hounds rejoice!

My #2 movie was far more terrifying

Michelle Pfeiffer

Tarantino is either gnashing his teeth or fapping away.

The first one was enjoyable. That clown is way more terrifying than it! It helps that the writer and director is also a makeup artist. He brought his vision to life.

I'm a horror fanatic and have seen it all and the bedroom scene disturbed even me. It's FUCKED UP.

New horror isn’t horror. It’s just gore.

I don’t want to see truly horrifying gore.

I want to smell it.

Actually, gore fell out of favor for a good 15 years after the backlash to the "torture porn" of the mid-aughts (Hostel, Cabin Fever, et al). This may bring it back.

I'd blow the guy who plays Art. He's pretty cute.

Total BDF.

He is totally adorable.

He’s adorable in an adorkable way

How many actors have played Art the Clown? I think several different ones have played him.

Different actor for All Hallow's Eve and this guy for the two Terrifier films.

Just watched All Hollows Eve and the story is nothing like the first Terrifier… what is that user talking about?

Going to the 10pm showing. Can't wait to see it.

Loved it. Barfed all over a young couple out for date night.

[quote] Just watched All Hollows Eve and the story is nothing like the first Terrifier… what is that user talking about?

Contains SPOILERS:

In All Hallows Eve, a young woman is alone at night driving, and gets lost. She stops at a gas station to ask directions and gas up. She sees...a clown. The gas station attendant comes out to help her. He's screaming at the clown; seems the clown used the restroom and smeared his shit all around in it, so the gas station guy is mad. He's talking to the girl and assumes the clown guy is gone but he hears a noise so he goes to investigate. He doesn't come back so the girl investigates. She finds the clown who has, in a space of a few minutes, managed to saw the gas station guy into pieces. Then the clown comes after her.

In "The Terrifier" two young girls have been partying it up and are both a little drunk. Before driving they figure they should get something to eat to help them sober up. They go to a pizza place and encounter...a clown. The owner of the place and his assistant are the only other ones there. The angry owner throws the clown out because the clown went in the restroom and smeared his shit everywhere. The girls leave. The assistant is working in back and calls for the owner to help him but he doesn't come. He goes to find him and encounters his head, which is somehow been carved into a jack o lantern. The clown then attacks him and cuts him to pieces. Then the clown comes after the girls.

The two scenarios sound pretty similar to me.

Well, when you put it like that…

No. They were not alike outside of basic details r42.

Also, All Hollows Eve has three segments. Not one movie.

The first segment features a young woman named Casey, who is drugged and kidnapped by Art the Clown while waiting for a train. She awakens to find herself chained in a room with two other women, Kristen and Sara. When Sara is dragged away by her chain, Casey and Kristen decide to follow where their chains lead. Upon reaching the end of the chains, Casey attempts to break the chains with a large rock but is interrupted by a deformed humanoid who dismembers Kristen with a cleaver. The humanoid unwittingly frees Casey by severing her chains with the cleaver, but she soon is tied down and surrounded by hooded figures. After watching the figures remove a fetus from the womb of a restrained pregnant woman, Casey is raped by Satan. After the segment ends, Sarah sends Tia and Timmy to bed and decides to continue watching the VHS tape by herself.

The second segment features Caroline, a woman who has just moved into a new countryside home. A bright object crashes near the house at night, and a power outage occurs. Caroline finds that her phone and car are malfunctioning and suspects that someone other than herself is in the house. She suddenly receives a call from her husband, John, a painter, but the connection soon breaks. She discovers that she is being stalked by an alien, and after managing to disorient it, she hides in a small room under a staircase. There, her phone rings again, alerting the alien to her location. As the alien drags her off, she pulls a sheet off of one of John's paintings, revealing an image of Art the Clown.

The third and final segment features a costume designer driving down an isolated road. Stopping at a gas station, she finds the attendant furiously kicking out Art, who had apparently smeared feces on the gas station's bathroom walls. The attendant fills her tank and hears a noise from inside the gas station while giving the costume designer directions. He goes inside to investigate, and when he does not return, the costume designer enters the building and sees Art chopping up the attendant's body with a hacksaw. She flees, and a chase ensues. Art eventually appears behind her seat in her car and attempts to suffocate her with cellophane. She slams on the brakes and escapes, barricading herself inside a large shed. Art digs his way into the shed and slashes her with a makeshift whip composed of sharp instruments. She stabs Art in the eye with a scalpel and in the back with a knife. She escapes again and is picked up by a man who tries to drive her to a nearby police station. Art follows them in a car and shoots the man in the head with a handgun, causing their car to crash into a tree. After some time, the costume designer regains consciousness on a crude operating table and finds that Art has amputated her limbs and breasts and carved misogynistic obscenities into her body.

Segment 3 is what is similar to Terrifier, but neither play out the same at all.

Did they show Art the Clown’s dick in the first Terrifier film? He was nude but it was tough to make out.

No. R45. And he had tits

The actor that plays Art the Clown is kinda cute. Like John Krasinsky's awkward brother

But then again, I'm partial to nerds.

Wonder if he's family?

He definitely has a cute ass on him. The laundry mat scene was hilarious.

What is a laundry mat, DEAR?

[quote]What is a laundry mat, DEAR?

Never heard of Google, either?

Yes, R50, and if you weren't so selective in the article you cite (the ONLY one that mentions it) you would see that even they say it's incorrect.

[quote] A laundry mat is a coin operated commercial laundry facility. The term, laundry mat, is the incorrect form of the word, laundromat

Did a shill start this thread?R16 is right, who cares how much it made. Also, I doubt any movie is too gory for me, but yes, you made your point, we all have to watch the bedroom scene. This movie sounds gratuitous and torture porny and the clown shit has been done to death. Pearl and X weren't the best but I better they're better than this.

Anything is better than a Ti West-directed film.

Really R53? I am loving his films.. Hmm.

You're certainly not the only one, R54. I just happen to think he's got zero talent and I've never seen a movie of his I haven't either been bored to death by or actively hated, and I remember the first film of his I ever saw- Trigger Man- which played at the LA Film Festival in 2007. I'd never heard of him before (and it was only his 2nd feature) and I walked out thinking I'd never hear of him again.

And the only reason I've see more of his films (a handful, but certainly not all of them) is because every time one of them comes out that gets that bullshit hype that so many horror films these days get about being a new horror classic, I say to myself, well, maybe this time. Nope. If nothing else, he's consistent.

I don’t think I’ll ever watch this. I absolutely love horror films but I watched the first one with a friend and we turned it off when he started sawing the woman in half from the bottom up. That was just too much and crossed a line for me.

I am curious as to what happens in the “bedroom scene” though. Someone spoil it for me because I’ll never watch it. I think horror should have an element of fun to it. I don’t want to watch gross and fucked up stuff for the sake of being gross and fucked up.

Wow, we have managed to go 56 comments without saying something like 'if you really want scary, go to a MAGA meeting', or something else about the GOP.

R56 You asked. This looks to me like the American Psycho book where he tortured Bethany I think it was, and cut off her arms. So it's kinda been done already.

I think Martyrs was the only good torture porn reason. The torture had a reason and a story to it. This is just for gratuity and to make people "puke and fain" which I still can't believe.

The thing about the bedroom scene is that the movie has at this point made us like the girl who's getting brutally tortured. She's a friend of the lead, and she's totally nice and funny and sweet.

Art the Clown breaks into her house, chases her into her bedroom, and immediately slices her face straight down her eye. Then he scalps her with a small pair of scissors. Then he slices up her back and stabs her a bunch. He flays part of her back. Then he breaks her arm, twisting it around until he can rip it off her body. Then he tears her hand in half. Then he slashes her some more, we see blood flying around, we think he's done. He leaves.

Then we see she's not dead, she's crawling across the floor, an arm missing, her head scalped. Her cell is ringing, she is trying to answer it for help. Then suddenly Art pops back in with a bottle of bleach and a box of salt. He dumps them both into her wounds and rubs it in. Mashes it in. And then he tears half her face off.

We think it's done, we cut away to her mother coming home. It's just like the opening scene in Scream where the parents come home just a second too late to save Drew Barrymore. Her mother sees the house smashed up. She runs up to her daughter's bedroom. And Art is sitting on the bed carving up her daughter's corpse. Slicing little pieces off the legs. She's basically a pile of flesh. Everything is covered in blood. Art is laughing hysterically, covered in blood. The mother is screaming, just losing her mind frozen.

And then the body of the girl starts to move. She's not dead. The body is so mangled I think it's played by an animatronic body now? So it moves all jerky and looks all wrong. Half bloody skeleton, twitching. And the daughter manages to raspily gasp out, "Mommmm..." All while Art laughs hysterically.

It is a lot!

It sounds like a bit too much.

Yes I would say so. "Too much" is the point though. I have to say when he pops in the door with the salt it becomes so over the top that I got the comedy of it, even while still being horrified

That doesn’t sound horrifying to me. That sounds like it would make my eyes roll and I would look down because there’s no need for such graphic violence.

He chases her around the house, leading to the bedroom – and this is the start of her inevitable demise. Art begins by scalping her as blood gushes down her face. He then twists her arm and rips it out of her body, then chops her breasts off. What makes this an uncomfortable watch is that you hear Allie’s agonizing screams throughout the entire scene, and you feel exactly what she’s going through. The scene continues with Art proceeding to break the bones of her legs and crush her feet, then seemingly leaves the room.

With the brief moment alone that she has, Allie tries her best to crawl over to her dresser to grab her phone to call for help. The scene makes you really root for her, and she’s merely fingertips away from her phone before Art barges into the room once more. This time, however, he pours a generous amount of salt onto his hands and rubs it into the bleeding, exposed flesh of Allie. And he doesn’t stop there, either. He proceeds to pour some bleach on her. Later that night, Allie’s mother comes home, only to find her precious daughter skinned, mutilated, and displayed on the bed like an exhibition piece by Art the Clown.

Why are you posting what happens again?

Today’s society craves this. It’s where we are. Dami hits a bullseye. Go see it and make up your own mind.

It does sound a lot like Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho book, shocked he didn't put a hungry rat up her twat.

I rewatched All Hallows’ Eve and the cute guy is a much better Art the clown

Gore at the colosseum before the collapse of the empire.

I saw all three of these Art the Clown movies: "All Hallows Eve", "The Terrifier" and "The Terrifier 2." They're all ok, if you're into this kind of horror movie. The gore is plentiful but cartoonish.

Could it be musicalized for Broadway?

I love horror films and prefer the gorier ones.

This was so over the top that it borders on a comedy.

The acting was far better in this one than the last, I liked the main girl, the bedroom scene is one for the record books. I I thought the creative use of the "trick or treat" bowl right after with the mother was really creative and funny.

The movie was way overlong, and by the 90 minute mark I really had seen enough. It became repetitive because there is no psychological or dramatic arc to the entire thing.

6/10.

none of what r42 and r44 describe seems like anything worth making or watching. I'll never get the appeal of this kind of movie, but obviously they do make money, and are of course cheap to make cause pretty much no thought or effort goes into them.

There are two All Hallows’ Eve movies. Not one.

R74 I don’t think “thought” is what costs movies a lot to make.

Horror films have always been known to be cheap to make. Look at the original Halloween

Both one and two were still better than any of the Marvel crap.

"Terrifiier 3" is in the works! Of course it would be. How they intend to resurrect him remains to be seen, but he'll be back. As long as people want to see these gore fests there will be always be an Art the Clown.

This is way better than that Pennywise shit.

lol.

Bitch should have given him his Halloween candy!

Felissa Rose, from “Sleepaway Camp” has a cameo in this.

I love the 80s slasher vibe to this and the casting, with the exception of the brother, was stellar. Even the actresses remind me of the ones who would be cast back in the 90s. They don’t look like prepubescent kids. The score is great too.

[quote] Felissa Rose, from “Sleepaway Camp” has a cameo in this.

I thought that was her. She played the teacher that busted two boys and the brother for playing with that dead possum.

WWF wrestler Chris Jericho has a cameo as a security guard.

Does Chris Jericho still wrestle? I knew a chick who was fucking him back around 2010. He was married with kids. A major cheat.

[quote]How they intend to resurrect him remains to be seen, but he'll be back.

Did you not see the film?

Vicky birthed his head in the psych ward.

[quote]How they intend to resurrect him remains to be seen, but he'll be back.

Did you not see the film?

Vicky birthed his head in the psych ward.

[quote] Vicky birthed his head in the psych ward.

Which isn't terribly practical unless Vicky becomes his arms and legs. He either has to regenerate a full body or his head needs to be grafted on somebody else's.

Saw it this weekend. The crowd was cheering and laughing at some of the gore scenes.

That mashed potato scene at the dinner table was so wrong and hilarious at the same time.

Have Siskel and Ebert weighed in on this one yet?

R89, considering they're both dead - I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for that...

Psychopath thread alert

[quote]or his head needs to be grafted on somebody else's.

Not a good idea, r87...

I fucking love that movie R92! And thanks for reminding me, it's almost time for MST3K turkey day marathon and "Santa vs. the Martians."

Art shot itself in the head with a gun and remained alive and well, like it healed itself. I assume Art can’t be killed.

I started watching it on Screambox but turned it off when Art started killing people with a machine gun in the clown cafe. I can deal with the rest of it but this just made me think about the reality of people getting blown apart irl. I might ff thru it just to see how I feel about the bedroom scene.

Art does have a cute butt though.

[quote] Did you not see the film?

Yeah, I saw it. The girl with the mutilated face gave birth to his HEAD. A head. How is a head going to hack up and torture future victims? My guess is that Terrifier 3 will ignore the nonsensical ending of T2 and show Art in all his creepy clown glory, head and body intact. No need for an explanation. I suppose he just grew a new body. That's really stupid.

Art can’t die.

T2 showed him being killed (his head cut off) and reborn as a head. Is he going to regenerate his body in T3? I guess so. That would be really dumb. Anyway, I heard T3 is going to include a backstory telling the viewer more about Art and his past. Maybe he's some kind space being that was dropped on the earth (like Pennywise) and is some kind of indestructible killing machine. At any rate, these movies are turning out to be nothing more than repetitive torture porn.

I don't mind the Terrifiers, they're not trying too hard - we've gone through a cycle of horror movies taking themselves incredibly seriously and I think people just need to let their ids run wild for a bit. I love serious artful horror movies don't get me wrong, but there's room for all types and these things are cyclical. The person who said "these movies take no effort" is way off base -- the skill put into all that gore is real, you can't just pop a tomato open and call it an exploding head. I love seeing practical (non-CG) gore, seeing what those technicians can come up with, how they one-up each other. And it really is a skill, editing such sequences into a rhythm that is convincing, funny, creepy. These are not artless (pun not intended)

Where is my barf bag?

Finally something great So sick of this slow burn horror shit

R101- Its NOT that. You have to see this for the bedroom scene alone. And the actors were quite likable.

The bedroom scene sounds ridiculous dude. Nothing to see.

[quote] I’m watching the first one now on Tubi.

Is it five minutes long?

What is really ridiculous about these movies is that the victims live way, way longer than anyone would with those kind of traumatic injuries. They're sliced and diced, their heads caved in, ;they've lost blood in rivers and they're STILL jerking around and screaming and moaning. It's silly. Gory, but silly.

[quote] Gore at the colosseum before the collapse of the empire.

Tell us what those colosseum games were like, eldergay.

OP How is this “the future?” Horror movies have been making a bundle with low budgets for 90 years.

Liked Terrifier 1 better. Terrifier 2 was ridiculously long, boring for long stretches, repetitive, and devolved into sci-fi supernatural shit at the end.

That said, "Jeff" was a hottie.

I've seen it, it's definitely super-gory, violent and fucking gross - like some have said, it's too long (2h20m I think -the first one was like 80m) and they try to throw in some weird mythology into it which for me doesn't really work at all.

There's a mid-credits scene, well actually a whole sequence, that is super gross and super dumb.

The 'bedroom scene' as has already been covered extensively is arguably the most extreme killing. Definitely WTF-levels of torture-porn. I read an article recently, not about this film specifically but extreme horror and how it can actually help build mental resilience for people and it used the covid pandemic as an example, people who were horror fans actually coped mentally with it better than people who haven't been 'exposed' to such content which I thought was an interesting concept.

R190 - 'build mental resilience" ... yes, that works the other way, too, so people won't mind so much when we start killing Jews and fag's by the millions.

^ fags, before some fucking genius corrects it.

R110 - Oh honey, compared to you EVERYONE is a fucking genius.

R112, right? I was wondering where post 190 was. R109 makes a good point, I actually said that years ago about Dexter, like they were trying to get us used to and okay with the killing of people deemed "bad" guys. If we cheer for someone who murders people, we'll be okay with carpet bombing entire lands of bad guys.

Also, the last 1/4 of this film was a derivative bore. It pretty much goes downhill after the mashed potato scene. The acid part is decent, but the rest is boring.

How are they going to resurrect Art? The ending was over the top weirdness and didn't make sense.

If Art can do all those metaphysical things in the movie, I’m sure his head can sprout a new body

This movie sure is getting a lot of online publicity, so much that actually watching it would be redundant. How much of its small budget is being spent on PR?Most of it?

I think it's actually an honest-to-goodness word-of-mouth thing

After reading the description of the bedroom scene in this one and the "saw the girl in half vertically starting at her vagina" scene from the first one, I really wonder how fucked up you have to be to enjoy watching this stuff.

Yes. I’ve never even seen a commercial or ad for this movie. It’s all about word of mouth.

My local suburban theaters went from one late night show when the stories of vomiting and fainting appeared, and now they have a full daily schedule

Wait what R119? That's fucking BEE shit, that's from American Psycho, the book. Yeah, this dude sucks. Also, the whole fucking cut his head off and he's fine thing is stupid and a cop out, it's like Stephen King's new and stupid crap where things can be explained away by aliens or some ridiculous paranormal stuff.

From the ending of Terrifier 2, I learned one thing: Vicky gives good head.

It will be streaming soon

It's on Tubi, my friend is trying to get me to watch it.

^ Unedited??? The Terrifier movies make Rob Zombie look like Walt Disney.

R126 yes it seems the movies are shown unedited (with commercial breaks) on Tubi. I started the firsr Terrifier on tubi and bailed when it got too graphic for me. I don’t get the appeal of watching screaming women being butchered.

Yeah Tubi is uncensored, just with commercial breaks. "All that Jazz" is on Tubi now so I think I'll just watch that instead.

Tubi has a lot of 80s B horror I love watching.

I liked the first one as a trashy halloween movie to watch, but didn't like the second. The first quarter was okay but then it got very boring.

SPOILER BELOW *******

I hated the whole "magic sword" BS and the boring backstory about the kids. You watch a movie like Terrifier for gore and scares, not for some stupid fantasy movie. The first worked because the storyline was so basic.

The director looks like he might be ripped.

Director (Damien Leone) is pretty hot

Anyone going to Monster Mania this weekend in Philly? They'll all be there.

I hope Art isn't in costume cause the actor is too cute to not show his face.

ISn't that how we all stopped being scared of Freddy Kreuger R133? That Englund showed his odd, dorky face and then no one could take that movie seriously anymore? They should not do that.

He'll do a personalized video for $50

Sometimes Art the clown goes to meet and greets in full costume as in this vid.

He never breaks character, lol.