I’m sure there’s mixed opinions here on the Terrifier movies, but the fandom is full of fucking freaks.
Or they’re a loud minority, but there’s something wrong with these people.
I guess it’s just people who are wayyy to into slashers and blood and dead women.
Thread tax: every appearance of Art the Clown.
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The Terrifier franchise is maybe the only horror franchise that earns a pass in that it makes next to no sense when you take a moment to think about what you're seeing. But hey, you could argue that the director is paying homage to his Eyetalian origins and keeping with tradition.
Argento's Suspiria and Inferno are good examples of adding backstory and explanation later on. If you look at just the original then not very much is explained. We just know there's this dance hall ran by witches who are killing and/or sacrificing people either out of pure malice or to preserve the secret that it's ran by witches. Inferno gave us the back story of the 3 mothers, the buildings were constructed by an architect with ties to Freemasonry/Illuminati shit, and the goal of the witches is to spread horror and misery and kill the world that way. All of which is fine. But this was all explained in movie 2 in Argento's trilogy, we are now movie 4 in the Terrifier franchise and we still have more questions than answers.
All Hallow's Eve/Short films: this is debatable just how cannon exactly it is due to it being an anthology movie and Art's role being ambiguous. And deliberately so. The 2nd segment (and the worst segment of the movie with a scuba diving suit somehow is supposed to look like an alien) hints at supernatural shit with the work of art of Art but the movie never really confirms it.
TBH I consider just the short film version of Terrifier to be cannon. Unlike
SOME people.
Then
Terrifier (2016) happens which adds the supernatural lore to the character but it's done ambiguously enough. Surprise, Art is a demi-god after shooting himself in the head during a police stand off. It's a great little twist and serves it's purpose but by the end we kind of forget about the final girl going insane and murdering a journo (justifiable homicide of course). The conclusion with Victoria is ambiguous enough in the first movie where you can say she simply went insane and okay, that's fair. But then...
Terrifier 2 (2022): the most cluster-fucked of all the movies when it comes to the plot. The writer/director decides to answer our questions with even more questions:
What is Art's motive? Answer: No reason, he does it for the lulz.
Why does Art only go on a killing spree once a year (preferably Halloween)? Not explained.
How is Art a demi-god and what is his connection to Vicky? Answer: Not explained until movie 3 and we get a quick line that he's a demon possessing a human.
How can Art regenerate himself via Vicky's cunt? Does he need a human host to do this? What happens if there's no living host, is it like Jason Goes to Hell and a spermworm of Art crawls into Vicky's dead cunt and emerges in full clown regalia?
Why is it called Terrifier? Answer: it's a reference to an amusement park ride with the same name where a little girl -presumably the little pale girl- was murdered by Art (?) or something. What is the significance of the theme park ride? Not explained.
What is Art's connection to this family, why did the father have visions of Art and then kill himself? Not explained.
Why can Sienna kill him? How did this random sword you'd find at a pawn shop have this mystical ability to kill demons? Not explained.
All of which, made it a frustrating first watch because while I enjoy 2 it is a bit overlong and it feels like it was made to be longer just to add these confusing elements to the story.
Terrifier 3 (2024): We get some answers but not nearly enough. We now know Art is a demon possessing a human and presumably Vicky as well? How did Vicky get possessed? Not explained.
Why is Art now going on a killing spree during Xmas? No reason.
How is Art able to travel cross-country to find this family? No reason.
Why did the gateway to Hell suddenly open and take the little girl? No reason.
Why did Sienna act like a retard and hold the sword by the blade and offered the handle to the little girl instead of grabbing literally anything around her to properly lift her out of... The gateway to Hell. NO. REASON.
Plus there's more questions like have the feds noticed Art yet? How did a terrorist attack go off in a mall slaughtering a dozen kids and there's no terror alert, lock downs, police and feds everywhere? This isn't a nitpick but I'm just saying that the filmmakers are fully justified taking this into Jason Goes to Hell territory with the feds going after Art. The next movie needs to have a Ben Tramer moment where cops waste a look-alike Art and the country bans clown makeup as a reaction.
That all said, the movies are still highly entertaining but you have to look at them like Friday the 13th part 2 in that there's no reason given why Jason is still alive and fully grown adult who has superhuman retard strength who is constantly and conveniently somehow resurrected.
Also, to theory-fag, my take is that Art is some kind of prank demon or an ultra-violent interpretation of mischief night. Because if you notice almost every time before he kills he has to do some kind of prank or humiliation shit to his victims.
