{"id":3979,"date":"2024-09-13T02:31:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T02:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2024-10-13T19:26:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T23:26:29","slug":"terrifier-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2024\/09\/13\/terrifier-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifier 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Terrifier 2 <\/strong>(2022)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Bloody Disgusting\/Horror\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 138 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No MPAA rating (extremely graphic bloody violence and gore, language, brief nudity, drug use)\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: October 6, 2022 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Kailey Hyman, Casey Hartnett, Amelie McLain, Chris Jericho, Leah Voysey, Johnathan Davis, Charlie McElveen, Samantha Scaffidi, Felissa Rose, Tamara Glynn.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Box Office: $10.9M (US)\/$15.3M (World)<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: *** \u00bd<\/p>\n

\u00a0I certainly hope writer-director Damien Leone hired more than one guy to mop up at the end of each day\u2019s shooting for Terrifier 2<\/strong>. It\u2019ll take a whole team of mop jockeys to clean up the bloody mess left behind by Art the Clown, the sadistic killer first introduced to the world in the 2013 anthology horror film All Hallows\u2019 Eve. He returned three years later in his own movie Terrifier which gained notoriety for its gruesome OTT kill scenes. Due to that film\u2019s popularity among horror fans, Leone has resurrected Art for another go-around. He outdoes himself with this super-sized sequel. If you thought the first Terrifier was super-gory, wait until you get a gander at Terrifier 2<\/strong>. This movie is freaking INSANE!<\/p>\n

\u00a0As cool as the first movie is, there\u2019s no denying it\u2019s lacking when it comes to plot (threadbare at best) and character development (none at all). Leone fixes these things in Terrifier 2<\/strong> by giving us a story with some substance and characters that aren\u2019t just lambs for the slaughter. We actually get to know a little bit about some of the characters before they meet their fate at the hands of Art. That\u2019s especially true of the heroine of the piece, a troubled teen named Sienna (LaVera). She\u2019s still recovering from her father\u2019s death the year before. It hit her hard because they were close. The other members of her family have issues too. Younger brother Jonathan (Fullam) is obsessed with serial killers while the mother\u2019s (Voigt) behavior towards her children borders on abusive. I wouldn\u2019t quite call them dysfunctional, but they\u2019d definitely benefit from a few family therapy sessions.<\/p>\n

\u00a0As with any great horror movie killer, Art (Thornton) isn\u2019t content to stay dead. In the opening scene, he comes back to life in the coroner\u2019s office and smashes the medical examiner\u2019s head open with a skull hammer. He then takes himself to the laundromat and puts his bloodstained costume in the wash. While waiting, he interacts with a creepy little clown girl (McLain) best described as his Mini-Me. When he\u2019s done there, he drops out of sight for a year. He reappears the next Halloween to terrorize a new group of victims. That, of course, would be Sienna and her friends and family.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0Obviously, the events of Terrifier 2<\/strong> lead to a final, bloody confrontation (in an abandoned funhouse at a closed-down carnival!) between Art and Sienna. It\u2019s just one of many cool things about this awesome sequel. Leone doesn\u2019t clown around. He goes completely balls-out bonkers in every respect. Tell me, what comes after over the top? What term tops OTT? Whatever it is, that\u2019s how I\u2019d describe the kill scenes. WOWSER! Are they ever nasty! We get to witness stabbings, beheadings, dismemberments, scalpings, whippings, eyes being ripped from skulls and a mass shooting. ALSO, a woman\u2019s face is shot off and another is burned with acid. One poor dope is repeatedly stabbed in the groin by Art who then proceeds to rip his dick off. The topper is an extended scene of a girl being mutilated beyond recognition. Art really goes to town on her. His predilection for repurposing severed heads continues as well. This time, he uses one to hold candy that he hands out to trick-or-treaters that come knocking at a victim\u2019s door.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Once again, Leone goes old school with the FX. There\u2019s no CGI to be seen in Terrifier 2<\/strong>. It\u2019s all practical effects! We\u2019re talking latex, prosthetics and gallons of fake blood. Alana Rose, a true artist, does it the way it used to be done, the way it ought to be done. Her incredible work helps give the movie a real 80s vibe. It\u2019s obvious that\u2019s what Leone is going for here. One might even say Terrifier 2<\/strong> is a salute to 80s horror movies with its many nods to classic titles of the genre. An extended dream sequence is right out of a Nightmare on Elm Street flick. The party scene is like the one in Halloween 5. There\u2019s a mid-credits hospital scene reminiscent of Halloween II. That\u2019s right, a mid-credits scene, so don\u2019t just up and leave when the end credits start.<\/p>\n

One could also argue that Terrifier 2<\/strong> is an epic (of sorts) with a running time of two hours and eighteen minutes when compared to the original\u2019s RT of 84 minutes. Although a few scenes run too long, the movie itself doesn\u2019t feel long. Leone successfully holds the viewer\u2019s interest by fleshing out the story of Art the Clown and his apparent nemesis in movies to come. He also lets his imagination run hog wild by introducing a supernatural element (i.e. a magic sword) to the narrative. I hope I\u2019m not dropping a spoiler in telling you there is a lot more story to tell. Leone leaves a few things like the creepy like clown girl and the dead father\u2019s connection to Art unexplained.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I can\u2019t call the acting in Terrifier 2<\/strong> Oscar-level work, but it\u2019ll do. We\u2019re talking about a splatter flick here, not high drama. Thornton is perfect as Art, a wordless boogeyman whose funny antics and gestures make his killer tendencies even scarier. LaVera does fine work as Sienna, a girl worried for the little brother that wants to dress as Art the Clown for Halloween, not knowing she will soon face off against the real deal. That is, after Art dispatches her friends. NOT a spoiler, that\u2019s the way it always happens in slashers. BTW, look for cameos by 80s horror stars Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp) and Tamara Glynn (Halloween 5).<\/p>\n

\u00a0It looks like I\u2019ll have to add Terrifier 2<\/strong> to the list of great 2022 horror movies. It\u2019s FREAKING AWESOME! It\u2019s a total bloodbath that gets crazy super-weird in the final act. I don\u2019t how Leone will ever top it, but I\u2019m sure he\u2019ll try. He might even succeed. Either way, I can\u2019t wait to see what\u2019s next for Art the Clown.\"\"<\/p>\n

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