TERRIFIER
Part stalker, part slasher, part torture porn, and part supernatural injected evil entity, this 2016 low-budget effort owes a huge debt to Halloween and Friday the 13th, amongst other like-minded horror outings.
While the gore is splatterific, there just seems to be an inherent meanness to the film. The antagonist, Art the Clown, is creepy AF—imagine Marcel Marceau as a demonic butcher—but he’s also sadistic beyond reproach and comes off even more empty and evil than Michael Meyers, if you can believe that. The film definitely would have benefited from a bit more humor as much of the action just feels callous.
That said, I was pleasantly surprised by the acting, the production value is pretty damn bueno for such a cheaply made film, and the pre-title intro is wickedly weird (and voraciously violent in a packed-out 70s Italian horror kinda way).
Ultimately, however, this film is aimed squarely at gore hounds who favor violent onscreen kills over story and character development.
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