Terrifier 3 4K 2024 Ultra HD 2160p

Story Movie

Five years ago, the hellish maniacal clown Art rose from the dead, snatched Victoria from a mental institution, and fell asleep. And Sienna, after spending those years in an institution, is going to spend Christmas with her aunt's family. She adores her younger cousin and is happy to be in the circle of relatives, but terrible visions do not let the girl go. Just at this time, hapless workers awaken Art and the demon that has taken over Victoria's mutilated body, so the creatures of darkness set out to cause a Christmas ruckus among the unsuspecting residents of Miles County.

Review 4K Movie

Christmas Eve... It's been five years since Art the Clown attacked Sienna's family. A girl is released from a mental institution and tries to recover with her aunt's family, and the creepy clown comes out of hibernation - and now he has a partner...

Regardless of what I and others write about this movie, if you're a horror movie fan, you shouldn't miss the return of the Terrifier franchise to the big screens. This is a rare event indeed. While slobberburners and endless studio self-repeaters are chewed up on screens like stringy gum, true enthusiasts of their craft are literally creating a new franchise, a new movie universe, and a new iconic antagonist from scratch. And this is not a quick hype success, like the Winnie the Pooh killer franchise, made under the hype on a hyped character. It's years of hard work by Damien Leone on the image of Art the Clown - a mix of Pennywise, Freddy Krueger and... Mr. Bean.

A summary of the previous series - Art the Clown appeared as a minor character in Leone's 11-minute short film “The Ninth Circle” - about a girl who falls from an empty train station into a creepy underground world of hellish monsters. Art here is far from the main “boss” - rather a laughing gatekeeper, using instead of voice grimaces and klaxon. On the poster of “The Ninth Circle” you can barely make out his pale face in the upper left corner. What follows is more. In 2011, Art received his own short film “Terrifier” (“Carrying Terror”), in which he has already fully manifested his sadistic maniacal character, and in 2013, from the existing short films made an almanac horror film “All Saints' Eve”.

That was the point of no return. One by one Leone makes further trilogy, fully focused on the crazy clown Art - imperceptibly for the viewer there was also a replacement under the mask: actor Mike Giannelli for a skinnier David Howard Thornton. If the mime in the version of Giannelli more reminiscent of the infamous killer clown John Gacy, Thornton with his morbid thinness creates the ideal character of horror films - in every sense of the word sick character.

If the first full-length “Terrifier” (2016) developed the findings of short films and was a bright, but not perfect test of the pen, the second “Terrifier”, filmed shortly after the first, but released with a long delay only in 2022, raised the bar of expectations unimaginable heights. 2 hours and 18 minutes of sheer nightmare. The murders, from which wrinkled and closed their eyes long-standing fans of movie blood. All rules and prohibitions are broken. Here not salt is poured on wounds, but corrosive chemicals. Here beauty is turned into repulsive ugliness. Here the white clown costume is washed for one purpose - to get blood all over it again. And Art has an infernally creepy partner, a little clowness, forming a sick duet with Art in the vein of Leon (hehe) and Matilda.

The third installment's budget outstrips the sequel by a factor of 8 ($2 million vs. $250,000) - still pennies in terms of studio movies, but for a savvy filmmaker like Damien Leon, that's 8 times more opportunities and crazy ideas. There was simply nowhere for the triquel to jump higher.... And he, uh. he didn't.

Yes, Art the Clown continues to do what he always does - he kills everyone indiscriminately, enjoying the process and clearly winking at the audience, saying, you wanted blood? Get bloody, and don't say you didn't ask for it. The movie clings desperately to the plot of the previous ones - to remember who all these characters are, like ugly Vicky, you will have to remember the plot of both the first and the second movie. That's why for a good half of the film we follow not Art, but traumatized Sienna, who is a beautiful girl, but not as interesting for a horror fan as Art. Sienna's grown-up brother also moved to the threequel - and it's as if the director doesn't know how to deal with this character, although he would make a great “side-kick” in the spirit of all-knowing Randy from “Scream”. The clowness girl from the sequel, on the other hand, disappears from the story, and her place is taken by Vicky - a zombie girl, one of Art's past victims. This replacement is not equal - as a character Vicky is much less interesting, instead of Leon-Matilda pair we have now practically Bonnie-and-Clyde, and Vicky can talk, and she not just talks, but chats non-stop, practicing faking voices. Chatty maniacs in horror happen too, but Vicki breaks Art's silent aura.

Finally, Leone clearly overdosed on the supernatural. If in the first two installments it was implied that Art is not easy to kill and he can't be hurt, now he can walk around without his head, and his head can live separately from his body. I felt about the same frustration with the 9th installment of “Friday the 13th,” in which the unkillable Jason is finally turned into a blob of supernatural energy. I can literally see Leone enjoying the depth and scope of the world he's invented, which he's clearly going to drag the audience into in the inevitable fourth installment, but we didn't come for a “Lord of the Rings”-level epochal work. We came to see Art's follies. And they are there - in all disgusting details: the scene with the girl from the second part could not be overpowered, but here we have genital cutting with a chainsaw, freezing live, chopping with an axe into pieces and experiments with rats.

Wherever the heroes of the movie now go after Art, I wish Leone had not forgotten why we loved - I'm not afraid of this word - Art. Because he is stronger than any invented mythology. With one gesture, he can laugh at all of us - and our expectations - and do exactly what he wants to do. And Damien Leone should listen not to himself or his ambitions right now - but to Art. He knows better.