A maniacal clown named Art terrorizes three young women and everyone else who stands in his way on Halloween night.
Terrifier – Film Review
Published October 13, 2022
Movie Details
There is just something so inexplicably creepy about clowns, isn’t there? Even if you’re not technically “scared” by them, there’s still a good chance that you find them to be a little unnerving. Maybe it’s the strange, happy smile, maybe it’s the face paint, maybe it’s the big nose.
In the case of Art the Clown, it’s all of the above. And it doesn’t help the fact that he is a murderous clown with no sympathy for human life, killing people in the most gruesome and unforgiving ways possible. It’s what makes him one of the most iconic clowns in fictional history, despite the fact that Damien Leone‘s horror-slasher Terrifier is only six years old.
This is an extremely impressively crafted film that had so much care and effort put into it. It’s genuinely shocking that this movie had a budget of just $35,000 because, while some scenes look very amateurish in terms of the style and lighting, the amount of things that they are able to pull off here is astounding.
You should definitely come for the kills if nothing else, though, because there really isn’t much else Terrifier brings to the table. There are a good number of them scattered throughout the film and they are just as devilishly bloody as you were hoping they’d be.
David Howard Thornton delivers a truly unforgettable performance as the twisted and downright evil Art the Clown, who is made even more terrifying by the fact that we don’t know anything about his past here. He never even speaks once during the entire film, but don’t worry, his unsettling grin says more than any words of his ever could.
In terms of characters and development here… that’s a whole different story. The characters in this movie are genuinely awful, all of which feeling like disposable people who are only there to eventually be killed off by Art later on. There isn’t even one remotely interesting character here except for Art.
But as maddening as those aspects are, this is nevertheless an outrageously fun movie even if it suffers from its fair share of issues. If you are on the prowl for a bloody slasher that will make you wince more than once, then Terrifier is more than likely right up your alley.
It may lack any sort of character depth, but there’s no denying just how brutally twisted and outrageously fun Damien Leone’s Terrifier is.