Is the Terrifier trilogy the John Wick saga of gore?

While Terrifier 3 is a box office phenomenon, let's take a look back at the first two parts of the trilogy with Art the Clown.

Terrify 3 exceeded 279,000 French admissions in one week of operation: put in the spotlight thanks to its ban on under-18s by the CNCthis extremely gory horror film is a real box office phenomenon, relayed by social networks. We can absolutely see this without having previously watched the first two films: precisely, with Halloween approaching, how can we see them and have a little bloody marathon? The box set of the first two Terrify offered by ESC Films is out of stock: the distributor already offers to pre-order a trilogy box set (with a vomit bag as a goodie) which will be on sale in February 2025. Otherwise, the first two films are currently visible in legal streaming on the Shadowz platform, with the addition All Hallow's Evea 2013 sketch film by the same director, Damien Leone, in which Art the Clown appears for the first time.

Terrifier 3 is truly madness for two [critique]

You have obviously guessed that we strongly advise you to see the two previous Terrifiers: the first film lasts only 1 hour 25 minutes, while the second lasts an hour longer (for a total of 2 hours 18 minutes). Terrify is a slasher shot between a pizzeria and a warehouse, Terrify 2 is much broader, sketching a mythology around the terrifying Art the Clown and his macabre works, giving it a cinematic dimension between Freddy Krueger and Mime Marceau, in an atmosphere like Lucio Fulci… And all punctuated by mind-blowing gore sessions , Of course. In two films, Damien Leone and his friends have gone from broke and hungry gore to dreamlike horror film ready for the big screen. Sacred upgrade.

Basically, the saga Terrify looks a bit like that of John Wick. A short first part, reduced to the essentials, made by craftsmen specializing in the genre. A second film started thanks to the unexpected success of the first, but much more developed, which develops the lore of the franchise and opens up some narrative potential – minor, OK, but certain. And a third film finally crowning all these efforts, shaping up to be the biggest hit of the series in terms of box office. Art the Clown, Baba Yaga, same fight. Obviously, there is a lack of Terrify an ex-superstar of the genre who is reborn to life in front of the camera (the other issue of John Wick : the resurrection of Keanu Reeves), even if they timidly begin to penetrate into Terrify : we meet good old Tom Savini (the makeup artist of George A. Romero, aka Sex Machine in A night in hell) In Terrify 3. but it at least allows us to theorize about a possible Terrify 4 : a 2h50 fresco, without forgetting a prequel TV series set in the 70s and a spin-off on a female character?

Forget that: it would be like thinking like a big studio executive, and we are very satisfied that Terrify remains the playground of Damien Leone and his heroes Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi and David Howard Thorton. Leone has already promised Variety that “really, really crazy things will happen” In Terrify 4. It remains to measure the industrial impact of Terrify -namely when the big mainstream studios will get their hands on them to devour them and spit them out into much more harmless products, between cloning and reappropriation, as we saw tons of John Wick-like films come after Baba Yaga. How will Art the Clown take the chainsaw to Blumhouse? This will perhaps be the subject of Terrify 4notice.