Terrifier 3

Me and my wife both enjoy the terrifier movies. We finally had some time to watch the third tonight, it was not as good as I was hoping. I'll start with the positives. The first is this movies budget must've been the most by far, and it shows. It had some very creative horror scenes. The acting was great as well. I also enjoyed the run time, I thought that 2 hours was a good amount of time. Now for some negatives in my opinion. I thought that it was odd that terrifier didn't have the little girl in this movie and they decided to go with the other girl. I also personally don't like Christmas movies. The third act seemed very rushed. I may be in the minority here, but I feel as though the second movie was the best out of the three. This one had great shock value but the story was not up to par.

Let's start this off by saying, I liked the first two. The first one was ROUGH, and showed off its low budget and humbleness. Second one was great, was striking that perfect balance of shock, gore, and comedy. Third one... Too much shock, for shock sake, and not as much comedy.

The major issue here is weirdly too much backstory and "LORE", they're trying to add rules and logic to everything, while also being cheeky fun. The lore is convoluted and confusing. You can't be like; eh don't think too much about it, and then dedicate a quarter of this film to the logic behind the Art Demon.

Then there's the "SHOCK VALUE" of this one which was more TEENAGE REBELLION than genuine shock. "Isn't it crazy the melted face lady is masturbating with a shard of glass?" "Am I pushing your buttons Christians with this ham-fisted blasphemous JESUS symbolism?" Eh, just lost the tastefulness and subtly. There was shock, in the other two, for sure, but it was never so juvenile and basic.

Everything else was fine, not great. The gore was way better, they remembered humans have layers inside of them, and you don't see as much hollow cavities with really floppy and rubbery shells like in the first two.

If you missed it in theaters, not that big of a deal.

If scary movies aren't your thing, chances are that you are likely going to hate this thin, blood-soaked piece of independed cinema. But if you are a fan of traditional slasher flicks with creative kills and satisfying performances, this might just become your favourite one so far.

There isn't too much going on in the film plot-wise. In fact, a description of Terrifier 3's plot wouldn't be much longer than a summary of one Friends episode. Instead of answering the questions from the previous installment, the movie just brings up even more questions for the now-confirmed sequel, which may unsatisfy some fans, but at the same time already creates hype for Terrifier 4.

Production values are miles ahead of the previous films and it is pleasing to se Damien Leone improve so much in his craft.

As for the period before the release of the film, I personally think some of the marketing choices were a bit over-the-top, such as the release of an official hot-line, but that doesn't diminish the quality of the movie itself.

Overall, the movie is an improvement over the previous installments and it will definetely satisfy you if you are a Terrifier/slasher fan.

While the dialogue has never been top notch, and does 't have to be, especially the dialogues with Jonathan were beyond cringe this time around.

The movie delivered on the mindless slasher trope but I can't shake the feeling the extra budget went to marketing instead of actually trying to make a better movie.

The second movie had a scene that crossed a certain boundary and I was expecting the third installment to do at least the same, or more. It did add new things to Art's repertoire but it didn't have the same effect on me.

A lot more happened off screen that diminished the "in your face" attitude the first two movies had. And I'm not talking about a certain scene that went amiss towards the end, that was most likely the only bit of actual storytelling that took place and left the audience guessing.

No, probably budget cuts to.... Leave more money on the table for marketing.

Listen: I'm not traditionally a gore guy. So when my girlfriend asked me to watch the first two Terrifiers to get ready for this one, I was not too excited. Turns out I love ALL of them. But this one, Terrifier 3, is special. I mean it when I say I haven't laughed that hard in a theater in a long time. Leave it to art the clown's deviant ridiculousness to make me smile! It is so over the top, so batshit, to the point that the kills become some creative and intentionally hilarious that I can't hold it in anymore. He's a truly special villain because he's as scary as he is funny. That's very hard to do. And Damien Leone struck gold with art the clown. He's the 2020's slasher hero no questions asked. And this franchise will go down as one of horror's greatest. If you're a horror fan you definitely need to watch all of them. They each have their own identity. The 3rd one is my favorite even though the second might be the best and has the most classic scenes. So so fun!