With the release of Terrifier 3 today I thought it would be a wise idea to… go and watch the first two, again like all movies I went blind, and now I wish I was blind.

For those of you who have been following my blog, first of all thank you much appreciated, secondly you’ll all know how much I hate gore.

Well I mean I can take it, it’s just I have limits, Evil Dead Rise yes I did watch half of that movie through my fingers, yes I did enjoy it, regardless.

That’s the level of gore I can take, I mean sure give me a medical drama like Grey’s Anatomy and Chicago Med I can take that.

But sometimes a film comes along that I just cannot stomach.

Clown… you know the one where a killer clown eats loads of innocent little kids? Yeah that one, couldn’t take it.

A Serbian Film… I still question who the fuck made that movie but as I said… couldn’t stomach it.

Terrifier…. Now this ladies and gentleman is an absolute doozy.

Damien Leone… man I’d love to sit with this guy and just ask… where the fuck did you come up with an idea like this? It’s like he watched Pennywise and said “yeah that’s great Pennywise imma let ya finish but have ya met my mate Art the Clown”

It’s gross.

But…

He’s now become this cult phenomenon.

Art the clown has become this new slasher villain, and people have gone batshit crazy for him.

Now as I said I can take gore, but the level of gore in this flick is that of spinal tap where the amps go to eleven, Terrifier takes the gore and ramps it to eleven.

Now I can’t necessarily say the first is tame compared to the second one, because it’s not, it so isn’t tame.

We’ll get on to the second one in just a moment, I want to talk about one scene In particular in the first Terrifier.

And that scene is… the hacksaw scene.

I have never had to leave my living room when watching a film, I’ve never had to block my ears before, but that scene… my god, that scene scarred me.

I’ve never felt sorry for a character as much as Tara in this, poor girl didn’t deserve to go out that way.

Let me set the scene (squeamish readers look away now!) Art ties her up, gags her and hangs her upside down, and with the hacksaw… proceeds to cut her in half…

I’m now of course going to let your mind wander as to whereabouts he cuts her in half… to drop a subtle hint on you, as a man even I felt pain down there.

Terrifier 2 is pretty much the same, only this time my god the gore is worse!

The bedroom scene… I think I can safely say this was the only movie that made me physically ill, I’ve never gagged at a movie before but this… this was not only gory to watch it was also very very disturbing as well.

The lengths Art goes to as he tortures this poor girl, I’m not going in to detail but this particular kill involves dismemberment and loads of bleach and salt.

While Art the clown may have established himself as a slasher movie icon, but the level of gratuitous violence is just completely and utterly unwarranted.

Hardcore horror fans will love it, hardcore fans of gore will love it, as I said there’s literally no reason for Art to go that far with his kills, some of these make you so uncomfortable and whether that was Damien Leone’s intention he definitely has succeeded in that.

I recently watched the trailer for the third, and yes you guessed it, it looks to be even gorier.

There’s a certain scene where Art is dressed up as a department store Santa, a group of kids come running up to him, I don’t really want to know what happens next, and to be quite honest I don’t want to watch it too find out.

Now that I’m working with children as well as volunteering with them, I can’t stand to see kids die in horror movies at all.

I watch scenes like that and think “some poor mother has lost a child”

The first Halloween movie directed by David Gordon Green had a child die at the hands of Michael Myers, couldn’t watch it.

If you love hardcore horror and OTT gore then Terrifier is for you, if not then stay well away because it really isn’t for you, and you definitely need a strong stomach to watch these two films.

Terrifier 1 and 2 gets a 3/10 it’s gory but Art the clown is… quite a good villain I’m not going to lie.

Anyway as always guys… catch ya later! 🙂