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\"\"Terrifier <\/strong>(2016)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dread Central\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 85 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (extremely graphic bloody violence and gore, sexual references, nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Damien Leone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Damien Leone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Paul Wiley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: George Steuber\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 15, 2018 (US, limited)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, David Howard Thornton, Catherine Corcoran, Pooya Mohseni, Matt McAllister, Michael Leavy, Katie Maguire, Gino Cafarelli, Erick Zamora, Cory Duvall, Jason Leavy, Steven Della Salla.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Body Count: 9<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0I don\u2019t know why I put off watching the horror movie Terrifier<\/strong> for so long. I guess it\u2019s because I didn\u2019t think it would live up to the hype it\u2019s been getting from fans of the genre. I finally broke down and watched it today and all I can say is HOLY CRAP!!! Don\u2019t worry, this is a positive exclamation. It\u2019s not a great film by any stretch of the imagination, but it is gory as hell. I\u2019d say it\u2019s approximately waist deep in blood. Plus, it doesn\u2019t appear to be CGI gore. It looks real (i.e. practical effects) to me. Needless to say, it makes this gorehound very happy.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Written and directed by Damien Leone (All Hallows\u2019 Eve), Terrifier<\/strong> centers on the murderous exploits of Art the Clown (Thornton), a sadistic killer clown who never utters so much as a sound. He\u2019s like a mime in that he employs broad, comedic gestures when pursuing or torturing his victims. He is one sick MF! His hunting ground this Halloween night is a derelict building where he traps two drunken teenage girls, Tara (Kanell) and Dawn (Corcoran), trying to get home after a party. They first spot Art on the street near their car while they argue about who\u2019s sober enough to drive. He follows them to a nearby pizzeria where Dawn takes a selfie with him despite the fact he looks deranged and acts strangely. Soon after, the owner ejects the clown for smearing fecal matter all over the rest room.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The girls return to the car to find one of the tires slashed. Tara calls her sister Victoria (Scaffidi) for a ride. While waiting for her, Tara needs to pee. She convinces pest control guy Mike (McAllister) to let her into the building to use the bathroom. Of course, he lets her. Who can say no to a pretty girl? It never once occurs to her that she might never leave. Sure enough, she soon finds herself being hunted by Art. So do a few other victims-to-be. The end result is one of the bloodiest messes I\u2019ve seen in a long time.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Terrifier<\/strong> is a blend of slasher flick and torture porn. It exists solely to feed the collective bloodlust of the target audience. It succeeds in spades on that count. The body count might not exceed single digits, but Leone makes the kill scenes count by taking the violence to extremes not taken in mainstream horrors. They\u2019re both messy and creative. The gore effects by Alana Rose are disturbingly and disgustingly realistic. The piece de resistance<\/em> has to be when Art hangs a girl by her ankles and cuts her in half lengthwise with a hacksaw. The blood flows freely. Her guts hit the ground with a nice splat. Now that\u2019s what I call a cool kill scene! It\u2019s not the only great one either. In another scene, Art uses a female victim\u2019s scalp and skin (her breasts!) as a disguise in what has to be a nod to splatter classics like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Maniac and The Silence of the Lambs. Other highlights include a man\u2019s head being stomped to a bloody pulp (by clown shoes, no less!), a woman\u2019s eyes being gouged out and two decapitations. One of the heads is turned into a jack-o\u2019-lantern.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Art the Clown is a terrifying creation thanks to Rose\u2019s superb makeup design. He looks like an evil harlequin. Clad in black and white, he has this horrifying grin bound to unsettle even the most ardent horror aficionado. This clown almost makes Pennywise look like Bozo. Thornton is positively disquieting in the role. As someone with a pre-existing fear of clowns (they\u2019re f***ing creepy!), I was completely creeped out by Art. The way he gleefully dances around while mutilating his victims is reason enough for me to continue my active avoidance of circuses.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Made for just $35K, Terrifier<\/strong> is every bit a low-budget movie with its amateurish acting and production values. The dialogue is pretty bad too. HOWEVER, I did like Kanell. She\u2019s like a cross between Neve Campbell and Danielle Harris, two of the greatest scream queens EVER! Terrifier <\/strong>also skimps on character development. I\u2019m not even sure you can call them characters. They\u2019re more like lambs lined up for the slaughter. One of the victims doesn\u2019t even have a name; she\u2019s referred to in the credits as \u201cCat Lady\u201d even though I didn\u2019t see a single feline in the entire picture. They are plenty of rats though. It is an abandoned building after all. Most of the action takes place there. It\u2019s a good setting for this tale of terror. It\u2019s dark, dirty and dangerous not to mention ugly. Plus, it probably didn\u2019t cost the makers too much to shoot there.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Well, I didn\u2019t expect Terrifier<\/strong> to be Citizen Kane and it\u2019s NOT! It is a good horror movie in its own right. It delivers where it counts. It has plenty of splatter and a terrifying killer clown. The girls are hot and everybody is an idiot. That\u2019s exactly as it should be in a slasher flick. The only thing missing is gratuitous nudity (i.e. BOOBS!) and sex. Maybe they\u2019ll have some in the upcoming sequel.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terrifier (2016)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Dread Central\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 85 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (extremely graphic bloody violence and gore, sexual references, nudity, language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Damien Leone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Damien Leone\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Paul Wiley\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: George Steuber\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: March 15, 2018 (US, limited)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, David Howard Thornton, Catherine Corcoran, Pooya Mohseni, Matt McAllister, Michael Leavy, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scary-gory-wild-i-love-it"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Terrifier-PIC.jpg?fit=620%2C348&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3977"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5353,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3977\/revisions\/5353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}