Terrifier

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.

My friend Daniel Rodas let me watch this film recently (He played the 'Man in Car').

And I was very impressed. The film had me engaged from beginning to end, which is not easy to do in a span of only 18 minutes.

The acting was strong, the make up was gruesomely realistic, the deaths were highly creative, and the 'Clown' was very creepy.

The story is very simple and traditional. A young woman's car runs out of gas, on Halloween night. She stops by a deserted gas station. Witnesses a brutal murder and then what follows is a horrific night of survival as the Killer (dressed in a hideous Clown costume) hunts her down to finish her off. Slaughtering anyone and everyone who gets in his way.

The attention to detail for classic B Exploitation was wonderful and quite refreshing. Everything from the grainy camera quality to the credit font to the closing shot. You see Damien Leone's passion for horror in this film quite intensely.

This film is far better than 70 percent of those stupid 'Safe' horror movies Hollywood is spitting out these days. Nice to see that Exploitation is still very much alive.

I recommend this short film to anyone who LOVES horror. And if you love Exploitation horror... then this film is DEFINITELY for you.

Bravo.

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...

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.

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