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‘Terrifier 3’ Review: Art the Clown Is Back in the Latest and (If It’s Even Possible) Sickest Entry Yet in the Gruesomely Inventive Franchise
In Damien Leone's latest gruesomely inventive gore opera, Art the silent psycho puts on a Santa suit and completes his elevation to slasher icon.
The character is played, in all three “Terrifier” movies, by David Howard Thornton, an actor who disappears into his costume: white make-up and hook nose and bald clown head cover, black-lipsticked mouth, dirty rotten licorice teeth that look like they were borrowed from the Nun, all capped off by his tiny top hat, which is cocked just so. And the flashbacks in which Art the Clown, who was decapitated at the end of the last film, gets weirdly reconstituted by Victoria (Samantha Scaffidi), who becomes his one-eyed rotting-and-walking-corpse assistant, play like a highlight reel of scenes from “Re-Animator” shown out of order. But “Terrifier 3” puts the “E” in Extreme, and it has an ace gimmick, one that simultaneously winks at and fulfills franchise expectations, when it sets up Art the Clown as a fake Santa Claus who unleashes his mayhem at Christmastime.
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