34/42
This is what won him the role
Scenario
A maniac named Art the Clown terrorizes two friends on Halloween and anyone else who gets in his way. David Howard Thornton was the sixth person to audition for Art The Clown after Mike Giannelli retired from the role and acting altogether. During the audition, he began miming tasting the blood of his decapitated victim, but later added salt to it to enhance its flavor. In the shots where Tara is gagged with tape, the tape clearly makes no contact with her lower mouth in some earlier shots, while it is tightly wrapped around both of her lips in other shots.
everything else is a piece of cake
EMT Roman: How can you eat a greasy croissant while you’re cutting up corpses? Coroner: Honey, I’ve been doing this twenty-two years, okay? Once you’ve seen an eight-month-old baby die in the microwave… There is a heavily edited version on YouTube that removes the graphic violence and gore as well as the nudity.
Edited into Terrifier 2 (2022)
I’ll give it a try Written and performed by Thanks. A brutal, barbaric, bestial horror packed with gut-wrenching deaths and senseless savagery, Terrifier is completely devoid of basic narrative underpinnings and exists solely to shock, disturb, unsettle and disgust its viewers with its endless gore and no-holds-barred carnage, but for those with a taste for the extreme, this indie slasher may prove to be a welcome thrill-ride and death ride. Written, produced, edited and directed by Damien Leone, the plot is merely a rough outline with nothing of value brewing underneath and only exists as an excuse for the filmmaker to indulge in old-school tricks that propel the violence and makeup. The special effects and makeup are noteworthy, but with an absent narrative and no characters to support it, the film doesn’t cover much distance.
However, David Howard Thornton impresses in his role and is disgusting to watch
Another hurdle that hinders the ride is the shoddy dialogue and awful acting, not to mention that it also lacks tension and is quite predictable and repetitive. The cardboard characters keep making idiotic decisions throughout the film that only diminish our interest in their fate, if there ever was one. Overall, Terrifier is as disgusting and repulsive as it is crude and merciless and often gets carried away with its scenes of torture and terror. While there is an audience for this kind of cinematic offering, the film remains a forgettable ride for the most part.
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Still, Art the Clown shows promise and potential to become an icon of the horror franchise, but his character and mythology needs to be better developed than it is here. Art the Clown, Pennywise, and Killer Klowns are just a few of the comical creatures that give us the creeps.