Terrifier

If you love scary, eeevil clowns, then you should love TERRIFIER. Director Damien Leone's Art the Clown is absolutely horrifying! He stalks a woman who simply pulls into a gas station on her way home, resulting in gruesome murder and a supernatural nightmare.

Filmed in a gritty, low-budget style that actually helps the material, this movie helped to launch Mr. Leone's full-length film version, and the sequels. With Art, the Director has made a memorable, jaw-dropping icon of grisly, brutal death, using practical gore effects like DaVinci uses paint!

If you enjoy a good old-fashioned, short splatter movie, look no further...

Just got done watching Terrifier (2011) and this might be my favorite horror short movie of all time. I watched this short movie on YouTube via reaction video.

Positives for Terrifier (2011): While The 9th Circle (2008) was our introduction to Art the Clown, Terrifier (2011) showed the world what this horror icon is capable of doing to his victims and it is glorious. Mike Giannelli did a fantastic job as Art the Clown in this short movie. Damien Leone's gore effects are awesome and these effects would only get better with every movie that he would do later on.

Overall, Terrifier (2011) is the best horror short movie that I've ever seen in my life and that is saying a lot.

Damien Leone's "Humble" beginnings, a short slasher film about Art the Clown that blossomed into a number of films including a feature movie of the same name. But how?

I haven't exactly been a fan of his works, All Hallows Eve (2013) got a 3/10 from me and it's sequel All Hallows Eve 2 (2015) a mere 4/10. I get what he was trying to do, I just don't think it was done very well.

Here we have a 20 minute short film about a young woman who witnesses a clown murder a gas station attendant. Fleeing she realizes that she's his next target.

Short entirely in the grindhouse fashion that immediately didn't sit right with me, I hate grindhouse! The lead actress was dire, Art the Clown seemed to have disappointingly little personality and the whole thing was unoriginal and very generic.

Sure the finale is shocking, but not exactly memorable stuff regardless.

I've seen many instances where a short film has been the stepping stone needed for a creator to get further in their career, but I don't understand how this underwhelming little nugget accomplished that.

The Good:

I do like clowns

The Bad:

Grindhouse style

Poor actress

Generic

A young female motorist is terrorised by a crazed, murderous clown after she stops for fuel at a gas station. This 20 minute short was later used as one of the segments of the excellent All Hallows' Eve (2013) anthology and features Art the Clown, who then went on to star in another feature length move, Terrifier (2017). Despite the low budget everything about this short impressed me. Art, in my opinion, is the scariest clown in horror history (sorry Mr King!). He really is sick. The film makers don't hold back on the gore and violence, which is well done despite a low budget. Acting is good. This film shows a great passion for the slasher sub genre and there is real talent here.

I had already seen Terrifier, which was an hour and a half long, so I tried this short film, which was made a few years earlier. I was very satisfied. Since it's only 20 minutes or so, there wasn't room for any story, so Terrifier from 2011 didn't have to worry about that and went straight into it and then showed us some brutal scenes, which is what he did best here and in the 2016 version anyway. So was this short film better than the long version? I honestly don't think so. They both offered us brutal scenes full of blood, only here it was over in a moment, while in the full film we had plenty of time, only that time could have been filled with a little deeper plot, and by that I mean why the clown is doing what he's doing. How it came to be what it is and just some originality would have been nice. Maybe that's the goal of the script and they don't want to reveal too much about the character and leave questions unanswered and maybe nobody cares either. I'm just saying what I found lacking in the longer film, whereas here it wasn't a problem and that's why I'll give the 2011 version a better rating. For me, a good horror short that I recommend to horror fans.