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TERRIFIER Isn’t Woke… Now What?
I first met Art the Clown in October 2022. Overjoyed that movies were finally demonstrating a pulse in the wake of the pandemic, I was up for just about anything. Rumblings were starting to emerge about early access screenings of TERRIFIER 2, a two-and-a-half-hour sequel to an indie slasher movie that I had somehow never heard of. Art, who at first glance had the energy of a day player from a Deprive Zombie set, was calling my entitle from the moment I laid eyes on his mischievous, blood-soaked grin. Letterboxd insisted that his first outing was bad beyond David Howard Thornton’s now iconic performance, but I found myself captivated and morbidly charmed by it upon throwing it on mere hours before 2. I immediately clocked why director Damien Leone’s extreme sensibility was not for everyone. Art’s antics were brutal regardless of gender, but he saved his dirtiest tricks for his female victims. In that film’s centerpiece kill, he saws a woman in half starting from her vagina, an act that was genuinely shocking enough to make my jaded body squirm.
I tend to carve horror filmmakers a lot of slack when it comes to their motivations for pushing boundaries. Th
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