Terrifier
Terrifier
Named one of the scariest clowns on screen by BloodyDisgusting.com, Art The Clown returns and sets his sights on three young women, along with anyone else that gets in his way. Terrifier is based on a character from the successful horror anthology franchise All Hallows Eve.
cloudsrival reviewedFebruary 5, 2025
It's immediately clear at the beginning of the movie that Art the Clown is just a skinny human dude with no special skills or superpowers, but whenever a victim overpowers Art, they give him a lil slap and then run away screaming. Tara, for example, is initially depicted as capable and resourceful, and yet her MO is to disarm him and then run and hide. That lazy writing style extends a promising beginning into 40 minutes of skippable chase scenes with a splattering of extremely gruesome imagery. The movie takes place in NEW YORK, but not even the tough men in the movie are able to fight Art. Buddy, I've been to NYC pizza shops in the middle of the night, and there's no way one of those guys could be killed so easily.
Movies like this make me appreciate better-crafted slasher films like "You're Next" that much more. Not sure why it has such a cult following, other than that it has gore so extreme that it's sometimes funny. But Evil Dead still does that better.