The Texas Chainsaw Massacre2003
Overall6.0
Fear5.0
Atmos7.5
Gore7.6
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slasher
Terrifier
2018 · NR · 1h 24m
You never forget your first kill.
Seriously this clown is not for the faint of heart. You have been warned!
Art the Clown — silent, painted, and utterly without mercy — stalks two young women through an abandoned building on Halloween night. Shot on a shoestring budget with a commitment to old-school practical gore, Terrifier is an unapologetic throwback to the nastiest slashers of the early '80s. There is no twist, no message, no redemption arc — just Art, and what Art does.
horror
Tags
practical-effectshalloween-watchextreme-horror
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7.0
Overall
Fear5.0
Gore9.0
Atmosphere8.6
LanguageEnglish
RatingNR
Running time1h 24m
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On Halloween night, Tara Heyes (Jenna Kanell) and her friend Dawn encounter Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) at a diner after a party. He's clearly unhinged but they dismiss him as an eccentric. When their car is towed, they take shelter in a nearby abandoned building — the same one Art has claimed as his territory.
What follows is a methodical slaughter. Art hunts them through the building with gleeful, theatrical cruelty — dispatching Dawn early in one of the film's most notorious kills. A pest control worker, a pizza delivery man, and anyone else who wanders in is added to the count.
Tara's sister Victoria comes looking for her. Art captures Tara, tortures and mutilates her before killing her. Victoria discovers the carnage and is attacked — she survives but is left horribly disfigured, losing an eye and part of her face.
In the epilogue, an institutionalized Victoria receives a severed head in a box. The head opens its eyes. A post-credits scene shows her, transformed, giving birth to something. Art is not finished.
