But its success quickly guaranteed a sequel.
When we think of the terrifying clown par excellence, Pennywise, the villain of the iconic movie, always comes to mind. Item by Stephen King that has already been brought to the big screen twice (and one of them with a sequel included), but not long ago Art The Clown became the protagonist of the nightmares of some horror fans who went to movie theaters to see Terrifier 2the sequel to the slasher film Terrifier directed by Damien Leone in 2016.
Now turned into a film saga that is already filming its third installment, Terrifier It began with the creation of a character: a very violent killer clown who only kills on Halloween night and whose creator, also an expert in makeup and visual effects Damien Leone, presented for the first time in a short also called Terrifier and later made him the main antagonist of his debut film Halloween Eve in 2013. Later, in 2016, Leone produced with $35,000 – after a failed patronage campaign that did not reach the goal – the official Art The Clown film, also called Terrifierwhich went down quite well among some fans of the genre who made it a cult film, but which, in general, did not make too much noise in its limited run in movie theaters.
However, the opposite happened with its sequel, Terrifier 2that in 2022 it went viral due to the reactions it generated among many of those who went to see it on the big screen. Coinciding with its premiere in the United States, several users began to share on social networks that they had witnessed shocking scenes in movie theaters or had directly starred in them: The film was so gore that it caused nausea, dizziness, vomiting and even fainting among some of the viewers.
People are vomiting and fainting in movie theaters: is it the most disturbing horror movie of the year?
“My friend fainted and the cinema called an ambulance. Highly recommended,” can be read in one of the posts on X – then Twitter – about the film. “I just saw Terrifier 2. It’s an incredible bloody mess. “The guy behind me passed out and crashed into my chair, another guy left because he wasn’t feeling well, I heard him say, and as I walked out the door of the theater I heard a guy throw up loud and loud in the bathroom,” he said. other.
And of course, my favorite: “Terrorifier 2 “It’s so bloody that I threw up in my popcorn.”
With a surprising running time of 138 minutes, in Terrifier 2 Art (David Howard Thornton), who they had finished with in the first film, is resurrected in a sinister morgue and violently murders the doctor who is performing his autopsy. Now he is targeting a teenager with whom he seems to have a strange connection, Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera), whose brother is obsessed with Art’s crimes and plans to dress up as him on Halloween, the killer clown’s star night.
With a much better reception than the first film, Terrifier 2 It grossed $15.7 million against its $250,000 budget and had much better reviews. “A product for die-hards of unabashedly wild horror: a madness that lasts almost two hours and twenty minutes and does not disappoint fans,” says Tomás Andrés in his 3.5/5 star review for SensaCine.
In fact, there is already a third film in progress that, for the moment, is causing havoc among its own actors. Terrifier 3 It will arrive in movie theaters in October 2024.
