High schooler Allie, crawls across the bloodied carpet, her body shiny with her own blood, her scalp discarded somewhere across the room along with her torn limb. How she has managed to survive such twisted torture is a mystery. But the clown who did this is nowhere to be seen. She reaches for her phone to call for help…
But he’s back, yanking on the remainder of her hair. He won’t let her get away. He wants her to be in indescribable pain, a pain not even found in hell. His name is Art the Clown, and he loves it, he wants more of it. He wants to rub salt in the wound. Literally.
It is a sight that makes the body shiver, the stomach go queasy, palms quenched and sweaty. It’s difficult to watch and even more difficult to look away. Please stop, please make it end, no more, just die already. All you can do is hide behind your hands, peeking, and hope for it to be over, for her sake and yours.
This level of bloodshed is what director Damien Leone does best.
His first film Terrifier was released in 2016. Being a short, independent film and made with only a budget of $35,000, it came with a few drawbacks with its dialogue, acting and character development, and Leone made sure to fix this in Terrifier 2.
After being resurrected Art the Clown, unforgiving and dressed in monochrome attire appears on Halloween and gets up to his usual murdering business, but this time it’s high schooler Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan that receive all the attention from the clown.
With Lauren LaVera who plays protagonist Sienna as a heroic, sword-wielding warrior with enough power to start a fight with the indestructible clown, and David Howard Thornton back to his usual miming and smiling clown excellence, the cast and acting show a strong growth and development.
The added change with characters meant however that backstories became confusing and a dream sequence, curtesy of Sienna’s fear of Art the Clown, dragged on for longer than it needed to, and provided no real value to the story or to LaVera’s character.
The positives and negatives that clash within this film would not put it on anyone’s top horror film list, but it has improved from the first film, and it has potential.
Art the Clown steals the show and makes it memorable. It would be difficult to forget such a sadistic motiveless massacring clown with a tiny hat and tricycle to boot, and with this guy as the movie mascot, Terrifier could become an infamous horror film franchise, and with talks of more films on the way, this is becoming more likely. Everyone should wait in anticipation for what the clown will do next.
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