Terrifier

In Terrifier, a maniac named Art the Clown terrorizes two friends on Halloween and everyone who gets in his way.

Introduction

The premise of Terrifier is weak, there’s no backstory, no motive, no specific target victim, just pure gore fest and carnage rain down on whoever crosses his path.

“On Halloween night, sisters Tara and Victoria become the targets of Art the Clown, a sadistic, silent killer who delights in torture. After a disturbing encounter at a pizzeria, where he kills employees and abducts Tara’s friend, Art brutally kills Tara in an abandoned building. When Victoria arrives, she is relentlessly pursued and terrorized by Art, who murders several other people before running her over with a truck and biting off her face. Just as police arrive, Art kills himself, but he mysteriously resurrects at the morgue to continue his rampage, leaving Victoria as the disfigured survivor who is haunted by the experience. “

Characters

Jenna Kanell (as Tara) and Catherine Corcoran (as Dawn) plays as the 2 of the three main victims (there are others that unfortunately got mixed up) of Art the Clown, and they played it perfectly. It’s the classic playful blonde and the more serious and cautious brunette. Their screams were harrowing and gave me chills, together with those screams were their unfortunate, yet a work of art, untimely demise.

Samantha Scaffidi (as Victoria) was awesome, even with her late entry to Art’s world she made a mark in the franchise, or rather she got a mark (if you know what I mean).

David Howard Thornton (as Art the Clown) revived the classic “k1lling for fun” vibes. His playfulness was creepy and when his smile turns upside down, you’re in for a treat.

Art as a Character

This slasher-splatter reminds me of the VHS days of slasher films. It just oozes 80s-90s horror. Aside from the fact that we don’t know anything about “Art the Clown“, his character will grow on you. He’s more of a mime than a clown if you ask me. He wears his emotion on his face, and eerily conveys it to his victims; even when he gets stabbed at, he mimes his emotion away, you won’t here anything from him, and this is true throughout the whole film, he doesn’t even have a dialogue. That’s what makes him stand out from the rest of the masked serial killer characters.

Conclusion

There weren’t much jump scares in Terrifier actually, just the thought of an impending doom and how Art will do it. Like I said before, it’s a straight up gore fest of a film. Normally I wouldn’t be impressed as much if there weren’t any backstory to the character, or even a motive, just something to base everything on, but this one really had me going and it was one hell of a ride. Can’t wait to start watching Terrifier 2.

The reviews to this was conflicting, some say it lacked depth in the story, others were saying that they loved the mystery to the character. I agree with the latter.