Terrifier 2

Terrifier 2

After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County where he must hunt down and destroy a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 138 minutes
  • Genre: Horror
  • Stars: David Howard Thornton, Lauren LaVera, Samantha Scaffidi, Casey Hartnett, Griffin Santopietro, Felissa Rose, Sarah Grace Sanders, Elliott Fullam, Tamara Glynn, Devon Roth, Charlie McElveen, Darsh Gandhi, Jenna Kanell, Catherine Corcoran, Katie Maguire, Jackie Adragna, Sarah Voigt, Amelie McLain, Michael Leavy, Rick Styczynski
  • Director: Damien Leone
 Comments
  • masonfisk - 17 June 2024
    TOO MUCH OF A BAD THING...!
    A sequel that no one wanted but still got from last year. After 2016's last entry where we thought the titular clown named Art (played by David Howard Thornton) was offed, he somehow manages to come back from the dead & makes victims of the living. Focusing on a sister & brother, Lauren LaVera & Elliott Fullam, who seem to be touched w/insight into Art as visions of him plague them & their deceased father, an illustrator, seemed to presage his carnage in sketchbook pages he left behind. Art, not really having any plan of action, mows his way through countless souls leaving a gory wake as he finally comes upon LaVera (who he ran into at a costume shop) in a final showdown at a disused carnival (I mean where else?). Made on a shoestring budget much like its predecessor (which was budgeted @ 30K!), this entry definitely has spent the money where it counts adding an additional hour of run time as well but the joy (if you can call it that!) of the original was its leanness in presentation but here w/its additional intimations of a supernatural lineage, we get a lot of gobbledygook acting as a door-stopper for storytelling w/the over the top gore overstaying its welcome almost immediately.
  • sonnymikhail - 17 March 2024
    gore is all this movie is!!
    They really tried to one up the last movie with the kills and gore, and they did. With the 3rd sequel coming out october 2024 and the director stating they will go even crazier with the kills, i cant see how its possible without it feeling damn near illegal to watch the film! The kills are insane in this movie, had to look away. The characters are a step up from the previous film, but still are mediocre. Where this movie falls flat unfortunately is the storyline. Its terrible. And the ending of this movie was so dragged on. There was at least 30 minutes of the movie that wasnt needed and made this bloodbath of a movie way longer than it needed to be. I would recommend this movie to somebody that enjoys horror, but not to someone who wants a good story, because this film lacks just that.
  • ldm-72293 - 7 February 2024
    It was fine. Liked the ending.
    I didn't really enjoy the original - it's an unoriginal horror with cheap callbacks to other iconic horrors with a predictable plot, disastrous acting, and unrealistic gore. However, the few positives walking away from the first one is that it had ambitious creative kills, and of course the wonderful performance by the man playing Art The Clown himself. Overall, didn't understand the hype.

    The sequel however, while not perfect, was a fun over the top whacky horror that I genuinely enjoyed watching. It has flaws, but overall is an interesting piece of on screen theatre that I thoroughly enjoyed from a viewing experience. Art's performance was stellar as ever, and the gore looked slightly better. Nice stuff. Enjoyed the ending visually.

    Also...Chris Jericho! Can't wait for Chris to add Art to "The List!" and go head to head with him in a Mimosa Mayhem Match in T3!
  • DarthVoorhees - 8 January 2023
    'Terrifier 2' is a masterclass in the horror hype machine building up a listless product
    We are living in a pretty good era for the Horror genre. There's a variety and respectability to the genre that has never seemed to exist in all my years as a fan. But as much as I love a good A24 thematic dissection I get the desire for a good old fashion sleaze fest. 'Terrifier 2' fought its way to be on your radar through good old fashioned word of mouth and embellishment. It did the trick I went and sought it out despite the fact that I really didn't know if I wanted to...

    It's good to remember that none of the claims surrounding 'Terrifier 2' are unique. People supposedly puked when they saw 'Night of the Living Dead' in the 60's. I'll say what I said about the infamous 'Human Centipede' movies...'Terrifer 2' needs to be seen with a like minded audience in a theatre. It needs to feed on the adrenaline of a Horror fan crowd because otherwise 'Terrifier' is a very boring film. The gore and sleaze which might titillate a crowd at a midnight screening just becomes redundant and gross especially with the bloated run time. My opinion of the movie is colored by the fact that I saw it on Blu-Ray alone. There's something that separates the Wes Craven's from the Damien Leone's and the 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre' from 'Terrifier 2'. The heights of this genre that stand above their exploitive value are reached because a creep hacking up people is only as interesting as the ambiance and story surrounding it. 'Terrifer 2' is entirely a face value blood fest...

    And those scenes are technically impressive. I mean I guess I can appreciate the effort and craftsmanship needed to create Art the Clown's handiwork. There's no CGI here and that is praiseworthy. But there's something to be said about leaving them wanting more. By over exploiting the gore you see the artifice of it. I found myself thinking about Monty Python's gory bits a lot because 'Terrifier 2' plays like a feature length Black Knight bit.

    In the end 'Terrifier 2' is kind of review proof. It knows its audience and it has found it. Any trashing the movie gets Art the Clown will wear with reverence honor. The whole thing seems like the answer to Siskel and Ebert's infamous 'Women in Peril' take down of slasher films and okay If the movie was designed to make Roger Ebert roll over in his grave it is a masterpiece of epic proportions. It already seems to be heralded as a classic and the horror conventions are lining up to market Art the Clown as Freddy's heir. I'm sure with the overwhelming success 'Terrifier 3' is inevitable but I won't be rushing to see it. I guess I've become the old man shaking his fist at the kids...

    But who knows? The hype train might lure me back. I'll say this though I kept my lunch in.
  • vengeance20 - 31 December 2022
    Overly Long But An Improvement Over The First
    Was very skeptical when I heard about this one given that the first wasn't much cop. I actually though this film was going to be a chore to watch and was going to a longer and more over bloated version of the first. However, I was suprised after seeing this.

    The film follows Art the clown and his usual raine of terror, this time a young lad and his sister finds themelves being stalked by the killer clown who terrorises the neighbourhood and kills nearly anyone he comes into contact with.

    I found the film to be a definite improvment of the first. This one actually had a plot and a story unlike the first film which while gory and violent had zilch of a plot to speak of.

    The gore and violence were top notch, though I was expecting it to be a bit more violent given the things I'd heard from others. The runtime is the downer here, as with the pacing which while for the first 90 minutes, begins to out stay its welcome in the finale 35 minutes. Maybe, learn about consistency to whom ever edited this...

    As with the intense gore, violence and action, there was some eye candy especially with the lead actress who was hot btw. Art the Clown was good in this and as creepy as ever.

    Overall, an improvement over the first Terrifier for sure. Though what that film lacked in plot, this film lacked in consistency. It's as gory and as violent as the first, but not as gory and as voilent as others have made out. With some eye candy and some intense scares. This one was good.

    7/10.
  • tatmanlulu-49193 - 20 December 2022
    Better just to watch hyenas eating on National Geographic than this film
    The Terrifier films went from one of my most favorite horror films in Terrifier 1 to one of my least favorite horror films in Terrifier 2. Terrifier 2 was just a bunch of disgusting and nauseating gore stuff, nothing scary at all. If I wanted to watch a bunch of blood and guts, I could watch National Geographic lion, hyena or crocodile specials. I don't have to watch a circus act of a horror movie for that and in what was mega-fake looking. Those clearly mannequin with the heads taken off and ketchup gushing out and the eyeballs pulled was more like a disgusting dissection biology class than any scary horror movie. Can't believe I have been sitting around hyping up this film coming out for the last umpteen years because of how scared I was of the first. Horror writers have to avoid sequels because they ruin it. Horror writing these days just does not know the meaning of subtle. Not only wasn't this scary but the plot where the actors were only thinking about the killer from jump wasn't natural either. Our main character protagonist girl apparently has super powers, through a sword, all along that she doesn't know about it, so this horror transforms into a sci-fi film. Wtf!!! I didn't get any of it. Also, are we now to believe that Art the clown also has supernatural powers since he got up from a gun shot amid all the blood splattering and guts from being stabbed as well like nothing ever happened. I thought he was represented as some old creep in a warehouse in the first one. Where did the supernatural sci-fi stuff come into play? Waste of money.
  • drewvogelaar - 12 December 2022
    The Goriest Movie of All Time
    Ah yes, Terrifier 2 the "highly anticipated" sequel to one of the nastiest films of all time. All jokes aside, Terrifier 2 was a movie that I was very excited to watch. The original Terrifier was a gruesome film that Introduced a possible horror icon in Art the Clown. I never imagined a sequel would be made since Art dies in the original. When they announced; there would be a sequel with a budget seven times the original, the horror fan in me squealed with delight. Then reports came out that people were throwing up and passing out in the theater, with some needing to be taken to hospitals. After hearing that I was worried maybe the film was too much, it was but in such a perfect way.

    Terrifier 2 far succeeded my expectations. I was imagining a sloppy sequel to a film I enjoyed dearly. What we actually got was a bloodbath. Two hours and twenty minutes of non-stop horror and violence would make even the manliest of men sick to their stomachs. I'm not squeamish when It comes to horror movies, but the death of Sienna's first friend was enough to make me pause the film and take a break. Lauren LaVera gives an excellent performance as the film's heroine Sienna. Unlike many horror villains, Art's bag of kills must be infinite because he always seems to have something creative cooking up for each one of his victims. This film's only detractors are its run time and acting. A 2:20-minute movie does not necessarily mean it is terrible. For a horror movie with no real story, it does feel like it drags. The acting also reminds you of something you would have seen in a sleazy 80's horror movie.

    8.5/10 A horrific blood bath with scenes of exceptional gore and creative kills with acting reminiscent of 1980s B movie horror.
  • samslaydon - 6 December 2022
    Creepy, But No Way Scary
    The hype for this movie had it being the scariest bit of cinema in the last decade. It was not scary. Gory, yes...creepy, yes; but that does not equal scary. I mean the story was ridiculous in that some psycho clown is walking around slicing people up with impunity while somehow not getting shot. Yes...I realize it's a horror movie, but if the events took place in some sort of alternate reality or dreamscape, I would have found it more plausible. But no, he's walking around in a clown costume carrying a black trashbag in broad daylight and no one takes notice...whatever. I know some people who are into the gore and slasher stuff probably think it was on par, "...that's how it's supposed to be, bruh." I guess I don't get it because I thought it was a low-budget, ridiculous tale and excuse to use buckets of fake blood.
  • crysjhoff - 26 November 2022
    Absolute drivel
    I dont write reviews often. But this one deserves it. After the first movie I felt a follow up "may" be warranted and was curious. But severely disappointed. The beginning started ok, despite weak acting, but after about 45 minutes I was done. The plot totally fell apart and got messier than the gory death scenes. The storyline felt like what happens in a "choose your own adventure" book. Does she fight back, pick A or B. Does the kid try an escape door or go down the dark hallway hoping to leave by the same route the took (for to sky in that example it was option A.). But seriously. I'm a big horror fan and this was an utter waste of my time and intellect. Riding in on the coat tails of the original, this film not only failed to deliver, it was the second most astonishing piece of trash I've ever endured. Nonsense.
  • johnn-51 - 21 November 2022
    Boring
    The acting is ok, everything else is bad. This movie is boring, stupid. Two and a half hours with nothing to do. The plot of the movie does not exist. Murder after murder, absolutely bad.nothing is worth watching, I don't know what else to write. Boring, confusing without plot, the story doesn't exist.

    The acting is ok, everything else is bad. This movie is boring, stupid. Two and a half hours with nothing to do. The plot of the movie does not exist. Murder after murder, absolutely bad.nothing is worth watching, I don't know what else to write. Boring, confusing without plot, the story doesn't exist.