Art the Clown returns and wreaks havoc again, this time on Christmas Eve.
What you sign up for is exactly what you get, and more. So, if you have not seen the previous ones or want to remind yourself how it all began and escalated, go through the following:
All Hallows’ Eve (2013): https://kaygazpro.com/all-hallows-eve-2013/
Terrifier (2016): https://kaygazpro.com/terrifier-2016/
Terrifier 2 (2022): https://kaygazpro.com/terrifier-2-2022/
As for Terrifier 3, a Christmas slasher released on Halloween, it’s more – as the opening credits state – bloody disgusting! It’s gory, vial, ridiculous, superficial, horrendous, masochistic, and so much more. Which is precisely why you paid for or will pay to watch. Writer/director Damien Leone pays tributes to numerous horror films of the 80s – at least he thinks he does – and creates once more a slasher where every death and unfathomable pain is fun for Art the Clown as much as it is for the masses. But is it? Fun?
Think about it… You pay money to see someone killing people most horrifically. So, what’s the difference between that and other classic slashers like Haute Tension (2003), The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), Halloween (1978), and Friday the 13th (1980)? In those films, you want the victims to survive. Do you see the difference? It is about their survival. The audience here pays money to see as many vicious murders as possible, no matter who the victim is. The audience wants to see Art exceed their expectations and even more brutally massacre his next victim. And more… and more…
That’s why the depravity is on a different level. The opening scene, the attic, the Santa, the shower, the mouse tube… are all sequences that are meant to make you throw popcorn in the air, scream and laugh at the same time and shout “awesome” afterwards. And then expect more! That kind of cinematic psychopathy should be straightforward as to where it positions the audience. Leone does that. Unfortunately, though, he makes the audience cheer for Art rather than the victims. When, as a filmmaker, your message is “Come and enjoy the funniest and most gruesome deaths you’ve ever seen”, making them crave for more, he changes the balances in ways I don’t think he or we fully understand. Especially, in the country with the highest mass shooting rates…
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