Maybe this will be of interest to some here...

I've been seeing a lot of buzz on this one and I'm kinda puzzled.

The first movie was a low-budget, mildly-decent, splatter fest slasher. This sequel is 2.5 hours long and getting a theatrical release on 800 screens starting tomorrow (with limited screening times).

Reviews on RT are at 100% (so far): https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/terrifier_2

From all the buzz circulating, watched the first a few days ago...and barely made it past 15 minutes before turning off.

Wondering the same thing OP.

I looked at the director’s other movies. Looks like this dude uses “Art the Clown” in almost all his movies.

I was hearing some buzz about this movie from some YouTubers I watch who saw it at Fantastic Fest. Was looking for a thread but didn’t even see one for the first film (other than a Horror Challenge thread).

I've heard mixed things about the first one and that it’s almost too much over the top violence with hardly any story. People seem to think the sequel is better. I’m curious.

I think Leone made a couple of short films with that character and then put the shorts together for his anthology film All Hallow's Eve. I wasn't a fan of that movie but quite liked Terrifier. Still, I can see how others would be turned off by it.

I can't believe the sequel runs for 2.5 hours (apparently it's 138 minutes with about 10 minutes of behind-the-scenes material tacked on). That's excessive for most films, let alone a horror movie. Can't say I'm not intrigued, though, since I'm a fan of the first film.

I haven't found any info about a Canadian theatrical release, which doesn't surprise me terribly. It might just go straight to streaming up here.

I made it about half way through the fist one. Very amature looking and acting etc.

It was terrible for what I saw.

I enjoyed Leone's initial short Terrifier (2011) and All Hallows Eve (2013) but I didn't care much for the full-length treatment of Terrifier (2016).

With that said, I'm using my Regal Unlimited Pass for this tonight

This thread got me interested. I had never heard of the Terrifier series before this but saw that the first movie is playing on the Roku Channel (w/ads) so I decided to check it out. It’s incredibly amateurish and wasn’t anything that we haven’t seen a million times before.

I know the filmmakers had to work with what they had but this certainly could have benefitted with better lighting, cinematography, acting, etc. pretty much all the way around. I got the sense that the producers were given permission to film in an old warehouse on the cheap and took it.

“Art the Clown” was decently effective and without a doubt the best prt of the movie. Although, it seems the filmmakers didn’t know the difference between a clown and a mime because he was more “Art the Mime” than he was a clown. They seemed to go out of their way to make sure he didn’t talk.

There’s a lot of marketing hype around part 2 - the typical BS viral marketing of people passing out and vomiting during screenings. I might check it out when I stumble upon it for free on some random streaming service.

I heard this is going straight to Screambox.

Yes, Screambox has the rights. They are supposed to announce the streaming date today. Probably some time in November.

I might use Screambox 7 day free trial once it lands on there.

I never saw the first movie, but I thought this sequel was a stylish and effective throwback to 1980's splatter flicks with some really over-the-top but inventive kills. I was expecting this to be a wall-to-wall gore-a-thon with cartoonishly-scripted victims getting knocked off left and right, but there's a lot of non-slashery storyline to get through (the movie is over two hours long!) and it's surprisingly well crafted with characters that actually felt quite genuine at times.

I usually can't stand obvious dream sequences in horror flicks, but there's a long one near the beginning that I thought had a cleverly surreal touch to it. While the plot gets a bit clunky as it tries to set up some bigger meaning to it all, there are a couple of interesting twists that take the narrative into unexpected directions. Some of the performances are uneven (the little brother sounded like a teenage version of Eddie Deezen), but Lauren Lavera is a standout as the lead and really provides the movie with a protagonist that you can genuinely root for.

How the hell is this an actual theater hit?

It’s not a hit like Smile. This only had $250K budget, so the $2mil+ and counting it has made is a success. Horror is usually pretty successful. Plus it has word of mouth and some press about “faintings” at screenings.

It is getting another push this weekend. Because of this, they are holding off on announcing the Screambox premiere date.

Couldn't make it past 5 minutes of the first one due to how lame it was.

I enjoyed the 1st film - it had a crude sense of humor and I thought the acting and the gore effects were nice as well. As for the 2nd one, 2.5 hrs is an unacceptable length for a horror movie. Proof that a bigger budget isn't always better. Anyone fainting or vomiting at either of these movies haven't seen enough horror movies.

The film definitely needed to be shorter. I felt like too much of the run-time was funneled into scene at the Halloween Party.

I'm not sure if this was similar to anyone else's screening but the one I attended had a lot of people who most likely bought a ticket because it was a new Horror film.

Quite a few people left throughout the film, especially once the kills got a bit more over the top.

At one point I thought, "it feels like it's coming up on the finale." I checked the time, and there was another 90 minutes left.

Despite the long runtime, I really enjoyed it. It was a big improvement on the original. But I think it would have been even better if they tightened it up and trimmed about 40 minutes.

Watched Terrorfier 2 and its a long gruesome movie. No one scene out did the scene from the first movie but they tried. They went all practical effects which were mostly good. A few scenes had obviously fake bodies. I did wonder if they made he dummies obvious on purpose. That didn't happen in the first movie and think this one has a higher budget.

I was never bored but man they could have cut 30 minutes from this movie. There isn't very much story just a clown walking around killing people. So many of the non killing scenes didn't really add much to the movie. For example there is a part at a dance hall where nothing meaningful happens. Then they drive for a bit where nothing meaningful happens except a phone call.

The kills are great. If you want over the top murder scenes and lots of them you will get it. This movie might be to cruel for people though.

I will give this 9 clowns from hell out of 10. Perfect Halloween movie. Makes Halloween Ends look like Cars 2, One of those movies I really like but would never recommend because it might be to much for a lot of people.

Okay so curiosity got the best of me and I watched Terrifier tonight. Honestly I can see why it’s divisive.

To me it wasn’t really very scary but was just more gross than anything. Also there really wasn’t a lot to it other than the kills and the tension between them. Not a lot of substance.

Art the Clown is a cool looking horror character and is creepy. That’s probably my biggest takeaway from the film. I could almost see him being a new icon like a Michael, Freddy, or Jason if he was in a better movie.

The movie's expanding to 1000+ theaters this weekend.

On Screambox on Halloween:https://bloody-disgusting.com/movie/...5raEYgW9yYeg00

Yeah, my local AMC is getting it. No way I'm going, but they're getting it.

The Bu-ray is up for pre-order on Amazon, as well. It's currently #1 in the Horror category.

^ I bit. I really was shocked that I enjoyed the first quite a bit. It was more sadistic than the popular Horror icons, but I was intrigued the whole time and while it wasn’t necessarily scary, Art is a creepy mofo.

I just liked how they killed people that would survive in other films. You don’t think everyone is going to die. Someone usually makes it out. The gore was good. Definitely imaginative kills, with the saw girl, being the most gruesome.

And even though I saw the gore, I still can’t get passed that her tits didn’t move, like they were total fakes. I mean, of course they were nice, but I was astounded by the lack of jiggle.