Anonymous
10/17/2025, 6:15:33 AM
No.542960135
Terrifier (2016) is a genuinely awful film
I have a couple friends that love the Terrifier franchise to the point where one of them has two tattoos of Art the Clown. They wanted to do a rewatch so I joined them recently having never seen any of them, knowing only what I heard through them and the Internet; they're gory, fun films.
So we watched the first Terrifier from 2016. And to my extreme disappointment, it was genuinely awful. I watch a lot of movies across genres, and my opinions are usually fairly lenient, but this was actually terrible.
The gore was pretty great, obviously. Damien Leone's talents are clearly in practical effects, and David Thornton does an extremely memorable job with Art. I can understand fan's appreciation for the character and the gore. What I don't get is the love for this film as a whole because everything besides the gore is incompetent.
My main problem is that the gore is, at most, only 20 minutes worth of runtime so there's at least another hour where nothing happens, with borderline porno-tier acting by characters who are incredibly annoying, with terrible lighting and uninspired camerawork. So much of the movie is boring because you're just waiting for the next person to get killed and in between those moments I'm left almost falling asleep because nothing is going on.
And despite being directed by someone with clear talent in practical effects, if the gore is only 20 minutes of the runtime then what's the point of watching the whole thing? If I want to see Dawn get sawed in half again, I'll just watch it on Youtube and not submit myself to watching characters I don't care about at all act like they were just given the script 10 minutes before the camera turns on. And I read that the sequel is an hour longer? NTY
I'm glad Damien is seeing success and I'm glad an indie franchise is seeing money, but this just wasn't for me. I judge movies based on all their aspects, not just one thing that I liked, and most of this film was bad
I have a couple friends that love the Terrifier franchise to the point where one of them has two tattoos of Art the Clown. They wanted to do a rewatch so I joined them recently having never seen any of them, knowing only what I heard through them and the Internet; they're gory, fun films.
So we watched the first Terrifier from 2016. And to my extreme disappointment, it was genuinely awful. I watch a lot of movies across genres, and my opinions are usually fairly lenient, but this was actually terrible.
The gore was pretty great, obviously. Damien Leone's talents are clearly in practical effects, and David Thornton does an extremely memorable job with Art. I can understand fan's appreciation for the character and the gore. What I don't get is the love for this film as a whole because everything besides the gore is incompetent.
My main problem is that the gore is, at most, only 20 minutes worth of runtime so there's at least another hour where nothing happens, with borderline porno-tier acting by characters who are incredibly annoying, with terrible lighting and uninspired camerawork. So much of the movie is boring because you're just waiting for the next person to get killed and in between those moments I'm left almost falling asleep because nothing is going on.
And despite being directed by someone with clear talent in practical effects, if the gore is only 20 minutes of the runtime then what's the point of watching the whole thing? If I want to see Dawn get sawed in half again, I'll just watch it on Youtube and not submit myself to watching characters I don't care about at all act like they were just given the script 10 minutes before the camera turns on. And I read that the sequel is an hour longer? NTY
I'm glad Damien is seeing success and I'm glad an indie franchise is seeing money, but this just wasn't for me. I judge movies based on all their aspects, not just one thing that I liked, and most of this film was bad