Terrifier Is Terrifically Terrifying

Director: Damien Leone Writer: Damien Leone Stars: Jenna Kanell, Catherine Corcoran, David Howard Thornton Official Sites: Official Facebook | Official Twitter Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 28 October 2017 (UK)

The last couple of months this face kept popping up on my dashboard increasingly often. Whatever social media, vlogs and blogs I follow I kept seeing this head starring back at me! It looked at me once, twice, it didn't took me long to give in to this beautiful smile and these seductive, playful eyes before I said to my self "fuck it, let's do this". I cracked open an ice cold Innis & Gunn and made my self some haggis with black pudding for a snack because all the clotted blood, heart, liver and lungs thats this flick had to offer me wasn't enough! A little something extra on top of this movie's daring delicacies, to add some more repulsion to the already repulsive viewing (it's a good thing) of the TERRIFIER!

(This face)

I've never had a thing for clowns, I always thought of them as a bad joke. They looked kinda sad to me, except in movies were they just seemed ridiculous. When I watched IT as a kid I barely remembered it, and when I watched it (ha!) again as an adult I thought it was just bad. As for Tim Curry's praised Pennywise let's say that it's the only funny clown I've ever seen. Don't get me wrong, Tim is a great actor but I will always remember him as the Darkness in Legend. When I watched IT's remake sometime ago I really enjoyed it (even though the bad CGI) but not so much as a horror film, more like as a dark tale for kids, Del Toro's style. Having said that, Terrifier looks like the IT for adults, but for the poor adults. Poor budget, poor script, poor acting, but rich sentiments for the good old slasher films we all loved during our childhood, where the hero of the story was always the schizomaniacal killer. Most of the attention has been given to what really matters on films like this, to practical effects (grandpa's traditional handmade gore recipes) and the creation of a loveable sadisturbing, spine-chilling creepfest of a psycho killer who will make you shit your pants (from dread, or from laughs, doesn't matter, shitting your pants is the evaluation measure). Even himself takes a dump at some point of the movie (seriously)!

(Street artist)

The story is very simple (less is more), so simple that Damien Leone (director/writer) could have written it on a pack of smokes (not bad, that's how Bukowski started), "a guy is after a girl", it has it all, romance, suspense and drama. But let's get into it a bit more (from a pack of smokes to a napkin). Two lassies completely wasted after a Halloween night out are staggering down the road looking for a chippy to sober up with grease before they drive safely straight into a car crash. On their way to the Kebab place they stumble across another Halloween geek, dressed as a clown/mime/harlequin something, standing there like a creepy perv, with his mouth watering, gawking at their tits. Boys will be boys, and girls will be girls, so they don't have a second thought before they start teasing the poor fella who looks like a deranged sex offender child molester at least. Probably he is just a jack o' lantern pumpkin fucker freak. What can he do? I mean except his overwhelmingly respond to their flirting by following them into Ali's Chippy & Kebab and buying them burgers, donner and ribs, not of a lamb's but of any poor man's had the misfortune to be passing by.

(Tonight's special, freshly carved flamed head)

From that point on we are watching a repetitive hide and seek between the clown and the girls, which could have been boring if there weren't any more passersby at the right place at the right time to amuse the clown and ourselves with their gory deaths, and if the clown himself wasn't such a captivating sight to behold. Thankfully Terrifier is a one man's show, so the clown has plenty of screen time .

"Can't get enough of me"

The creator of Art the clown (yeah, that's his "stage" name) is working on this monsterpiece for sometime now. His first try was the short film Terrifier, and then the horror anthology All Hallows' Eve in which the short film is part of it, plus some extra scenes. The clown wasn't as good as it is in Terrifier and generally I didn't enjoy All Hallows' Eve so much. Except one scene that I really liked where two little children lose their heads! For some reason it's a rare thing in horror films to watch kids and pets been tortured and killed, so when it happens I really appreciate it. Terrifier might not have kids and dogs but it has a scene worthy of an Oscar nomination, which is similar to another Oscar worthy scene from Bone Tomahawk. If you've watched it you probably know which scene I'm talking about.

(That's what I'm talking about)

Long story short, I really enjoyed this flick and I'm hoping for a sequel. Art the clown is the scariest clown I've seen on screen, and if you're into clowns (in any way) you should definitely give this a watch, but have in mind that it's not meant for the mainstream horror fan. It's a splatter b-movie VHS looking film that has some really good moments but some really cheesy ones too.

(Terrifying trailer)

(This one goes for the DVD cover)

(This one goes up the wall!)

"It's a selfie, why don't you smile for a sec? What kind of a clown are you?"

"I'm not a clown but I can smile for you all night long"

"I loved it"