Horror movie history is littered with the corpses, not just of onscreen victims, but over-contrived would-be iconic monsters that just didn't catch on. For every Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees, there's the Trickster from "Brainscan," or Horace Pinker in "Shocker." Filmmakers can try to engineer a hit horror character, but they don't always catch on.
Art the Clown, from writer/director and makeup maestro Damien Leone's "Terrifier" films, is the latest one who has become popular with audiences, but he wasn't necessarily intended that way. Beginning as a mere supporting character in a short film that was meant to lead to an altogether different feature, he initially seized the spotlight as a supernatural being, rebooted as a more conventional slasher, then took a larger step into a much crazier and more epic universe. Along the way he somehow became a mass-marketed commodity as a result of being famous for nauseating people.
Art the Clown, from writer/director and makeup maestro Damien Leone's "Terrifier" films, is the latest one who has become popular with audiences, but he wasn't necessarily intended that way. Beginning as a mere supporting character in a short film that was meant to lead to an altogether different feature, he initially seized the spotlight as a supernatural being, rebooted as a more conventional slasher, then took a larger step into a much crazier and more epic universe. Along the way he somehow became a mass-marketed commodity as a result of being famous for nauseating people.
- 7/14/2024
- by Luke Y. Thompson
- Slash Film
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