![]() The two flee and call 9-1-1, but Art recovers and kills Mike. Art catches up to her and attacks her with a makeshift cat o' nine tails, but a recovered Mike knocks Art unconscious. Art chases down Vicky, who briefly escapes him but stops upon finding her sister's corpse. Art chases and corners her into a locker, but turns his attention to Mike's co-worker Will, and decapitates him. Vicky arrives to take Tara and Dawn home, but is lured into the basement, where she discovers Art, who has severely mutilated the Cat Lady and is wearing her scalp and breasts. The Cat Lady soon discovers Art cradling her doll, and in a plea for the return of her "child", attempts to show motherly compassion to Art by cradling him. Art attacks Mike, knocking him unconscious with a hammer. The Cat Lady witnesses this and seeks out Mike for help, only to be dismissed. Tara escapes and strikes Art with a 2x4, but he produces a gun and shoots her to death. Art forces Tara to watch as he saws Dawn in half with a hacksaw. Tara awakens, bound to a chair, to see Art has Dawn suspended upside-down. Art eventually subdues her with a sedative. Meanwhile, Art attacks Dawn while waiting in her car and chases down Tara inside the apartment building. There, she encounters the Cat Lady, a deluded squatter, who believes the doll she carries is her infant child. While waiting, Tara asks a pest control worker, Mike, to be let into the apartment building he's working in to use the restroom. Meanwhile Art returns to the pizzeria, killing and mutilating two workers. The girls leave the pizzeria to discover that one of Dawn's car tires has been slashed, and Tara calls her sister Vicky to come pick them up. There, Art makes advances at Tara, unnerving her, before being kicked out by the restaurant owner for smearing his feces over the bathroom walls. On Halloween night, two friends, Tara and Dawn, drunkenly leave a party, encountering Art, who follows them to a pizzeria. The disfigured woman, who'd been eavesdropping, attacks Monica and gouges out her eyes, laughing maniacally. Later in her dressing room, Monica talks to her partner on the phone, making disparaging remarks about the interviewee's appearance. ![]() He changes into costume and fills a garbage bag with various weapons and knives. When the disfigured woman insists she saw him die, a man watching the program, revealed to be Art, destroys his TV. Brown mentions that the body of the mysterious killer, known only as "Art the Clown", disappeared from the morgue, suggesting he is still alive. On her show, talk show host Monica Brown interviews a severely disfigured woman, the sole survivor of a massacre that took place the previous Halloween. A sequel, Terrifier 2, was released on October 6, 2022. The film received mixed reviews, with praise directed towards the special effects and the portrayals of Kanell and Thornton, while the writing was subject to criticism. It premiered at the Telluride Horror Show Film Festival in October 2016 before being picked up by Dread Central Presents and Epic Pictures for a limited theatrical release in March 2018. ![]() Mike Giannelli, who portrayed all prior incarnations of Art, retired from acting before production began, and Thornton replaced him as Art. It had an Indiegogo campaign, although it ultimately did not reach its goal. Leone filmed Terrifier on a low-budget of $35k. Leone has expressed regret for leaving the protagonists underdeveloped. Leone wrote the film specifically as a means of showcasing the character of Art and his practical effects work-such as the controversial hacksaw death scene. It is the first film centered on Art the Clown, second-feature-length film to include the character (after the anthology film All Hallows' Eve), fourth film and fifth installment overall (following two short films and anthology installments) in the Terrifier franchise. The plot centers on partygoer Tara Heyes (Kanell) and her sister Victoria (Scaffidi), who become targets of the enigmatic serial killer only known as Art the Clown (Thornton) on Halloween night. The film stars Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, David Howard Thornton, and Catherine Corcoran. ![]() Terrifier is a 2016 American slasher film written and directed by Damien Leone. ![]()
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