Review — Terrifier 2017

Definitely one of my all time favourites! Sick, twisted and shockingly gory, “Terrifier" is the demented story of a psychotic clown on a rather creative killing spree, one Halloween night. Our killer, “Art the Clown" actually spun from another Halloween horror movie “All Hallows Eve" and most will agree that Art was by far the best part of that anthology. Well lucky us, Art is back and this one is all about him! ..and, man, does he give us a show! First, a strange intro sequence that does make sense later, but still isn’t the film’s strongest moment.. Then we meet two friends trying to decide what to do next on Halloween, they end up at a greasy little pizza place, as does our crazy clown killer. Art is quite taken with one friend and the other thinks it’s all a silly Halloween joke, but they manage to extricate themselves…this time. A little later, they’re listening to the radio in the car and hear that the pizza place is now the scene of a very grisly multiple murder and witnesses believe the killer to be a man in a clown costume. You get the idea, as the night progresses, Art finds more and more victims to mutilate and eviscerate in disturbingly creative and just stunningly graphic ways and we get to watch! I find Art very entertaining, his costume is truly terrifying, it’s pretty clear that he has no limits whatsoever and while he never speaks, his face is extremely expressive and, oftentimes, frighteningly telling. I certainly hope we see lots more of Art the Clown in future films!