SPOOPYWEEN DAY 13 TERRIFIER 2!!!!

Day 13

Terrifier 2

Oh joy of joys!

Seriously, this movie put in my head, forcibly and thankfully the Ren and Stimpy song Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy.

The original short was fun, different and shocking. The movie was a continuation from that, and went absolutely fucking insane in the best possible ways a horror film could without really labeling itself a sequel, and now we have Terrifier 2. A movie that if you remember the last film. Seems entirely, horribly impossible a thing. But these beautiful bastards found a way to not only continue from where the first left off in great fashion. They managed to make a huge theatrical explosion of their film making hug bucks.

This became one of the most talked about gross out films. Not even sequel. Just. FILMS. In ages. Where you had stories of people throwing up, leaving the theaters. People offended, grossed out and unable to believe they were seeing what they saw on the screen.

And now we can look forward to a part 3. SOMEHOW

But we will get into all that,  oh yes. We will. For now. We are going to talk about the beautiful anal birthed beast that is Art the Clowns return, in Terrifier 2

Welcome to my happy place.

The Film

SO, for those who skipped the first film.

Go back and watch it. Not just because it will catch you up on the film, but mostly because well. If you can watch all of that, and make it through? You’ll be good to go for part 2. Though in some regards, and I say this with the smallest of caveats. The sequel may not be as shocking as the first one. Because the director found comically beautiful new ways to be shocking in this one. So yes watch the first one.

If you did and still need a refresher well, lets do it.

Art the clown was having a nice evening about town. He painted the walls of a pizzeria bathroom in feces, he took a pic with a friendly lady, fell in love even. Had a small get together with a homeless mother and her baby, put on an amazing show for a captivated audience involving a volunteer from the crowd, some chains and a handsaw.

At the end of his fun filled evening, there was a mild misunderstanding with law enforcement and a displeased attendee for his show, and Art the clown ended up eating a bullet, splattering his clown brains all over the place and ending his life. Forever.

Part 2 begins with Art waking up in the morgue, slightly puzzled but none the less happy to be alive, even if his brains are leaking out of his skull. He’s not really concerned, so much as easily accepting that this is life and he’s allowed a second chance. Even with an eye that’s blasted out from a gun shot wound, nothing will hamper this mans happy return. In fact when noting his skull is ever so slightly exposed and dripping brains and blood out. He simply uses the blood to write his name on the mirror. Introducing us all once more to the loveable Art.

Of course his return can’t be marked simply with the joy of being alive again. Oh no. We’ve gotta be reassured that this will be the same Art the clown some of us know and love. Which we are given, with our films first death. The poor mortician who’s throat he slit when first resurrected. The man isn’t dead yet. He’s just having a really tough night and bleeding out. So Art is going to help him. In the best way possible.

With the help of bashing repeatedly into his skull a bone hammer. But it’s not just done for the sake of gore. That would be exploitative gore. No. This has purpose. See Art bashes his head open so he can gather one of the mans eyes. You know. To tare out of his head and shove into his own eye socket to replace the eye shot out from his execution. He’s so thrilled the eye is a perfect fit he does shows it off to the mortician in a “Tada! What do ya think?” motion. The mans teeth are scattered on the ground, head mostly caved in, mostly. So he isn’t very appreciative.

Well that won’t stop Art from having fun. Instead he just finishes bashing the mans head in. reaching down and with both hands rips open the mans skull so he can collect the loot from his mini boss fight. The morticians brain.

With his first cool since returning to the land of the living now under his belt. It’s time to do as Art does. Which is get himself a nice strong trash back and fill it with everything you can think of that possibly will work as a weapon, or trade item. Art the clown is basically your character in Skyrim, killing a shop owner and looting every single possible item, for no reason. But all the reasons.

But you can’t have a full on return to form, without showing off the new you. So to say. So we are going to the best place ever, A laundry mat. It’s the funniest goddamn thing and we absolutely need this scene. Not just because we get to see Art sitting naked reading and laughing silently at tragic news headlines while his laundry spins. But also to help us establish his return, and new friend.

It’s a demon

It’s an entity

It’s the goth girls new favorite Halloween costume.

We are introduced to a eternally smiling, crazy eyed Styrofoam cup for a hair braid wearing, pale little girl demon. Who are they? Don’t know. Do we learn? No. What we do get, is more of what we began with. Silent acting and storytelling.

As Art is sitting and enjoying himself he looks over with displeasure, sensing someone watching him. He locks eyes with the wide eyed evil looking girl who simply smiles and waves at him excitedly. His growling face turns to happy and he waves back.

And then the girl….pisses blood….or experiences incredibly bad IBS.

You be the judge.

Why does this happen? Don’t know. Is there reason for it? The thing with Terrifier films is that, nothing makes sense, but it all makes sense. So we don’t know why it happened or the reason for it happening. But it makes sense to these two and that’s good enough for me. This entity is the one responsible for bringing Art back to life. She will be his companion, whom no one can see but Art. She will help him with his murder spree this time around. Which is a partnership sealed with a polite game of patty cake.

Which would look incredibly interesting seeing these two doing so. But for the only other soul in a laundry mat, it’s just a bloody weirdo sitting naked playing patty cake by himself and clapping his hands on his thighs.

YES THERE IS A POINT TO ALL OF THIS!

We get to see Art in his now cleaned up, blood free clothes, ready for more murder after a year of silence. He mops up the floor after the demon……..relieved itself, and the blood puddle from the dumb guy that decided to stick around there after seeing the naked clown playing patty cake. Covered in blood. Let’s be honest if you stuck around after that, you either work there and really needed the paycheck, or you just had to see where things go. Eitherway. The man ended up dying with half a mop stick down his throat.

And with that, we get our title sequence, and what has to be the best I’d be willing to bet, homage to the Nightmare on Elm Street 3 opening sequence. But instead of building the house belonging to the son of a a hundred maniacs, we are greeted to the making of cosplay armor and our new leading lady. Sienna.

Honestly I love all of this. This all happens in the span of just 10 minutes, and within that time we got the resurrection of our villain, his bloody stamp put on the world again and a great intro. Leading right into a fun credit sequence that really does, every time I see it make me think of Nightmare on Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors. The montage of the suit building, the music. The unspoken introduction to Sienna. It’s just great and carries that vibe. Not to mention her outfit looks pretty goddamn amazing. I love cosplay, and prop building. One of the happiest moments in my sad life was finally making myself a Freddy glove, I researched the gloves. What was used to make them. Each piece. And where I could obtain these, if not the originals, then the closest possible.

It lead me to a good friendship with a site owner and glove maker who sells the forged knife blades, I learned to cut and shape metal by hand, and how to dye and weather leather. Having the thing actually made and putting the glove on? It’s surreal. I love it and randomly put the glove on because. It’s Freddy’s glove man. I love it, and I made it. I’m also eventually making a part three glove. For sentimental reasons. Sienna however here, is making her own Halloween outfit, based off her own O.C.

Which is even more geeky and cool. Seriously from the time I came from and how home made costumes have evolved? Holy shit.

Thus we are introduced to our family, as Sienna navigates through the kitchen of Cooking and Mom’s home office at the moment, in search of cloth measuring tape before dinner. Our last family member, and I kind of want to say the one that gives me strong Corey vibes from Friday the 13th The Final Chapter. Which is a good thing. That movie and its behind the scenes makeup features was one of two films to drive my desire to become a special makeup effects artist. Thankfully with Sienna’s brother, Jonathan. We are not going to get a super awkward bed bouncing watch the neighbor undress scene like we did with Corey.

Instead, we are getting a fun dinner conversation concerning the do’s and don’t of Halloween. Which still crack me up and make me sad.

Halloween is the one time of year you can dress however the fuck you want and call it a costume. You can be funny, sexy, spooky, anything you want. But you can’t be offensive anymore, or use real  figures for costumes, because that might upset people. Fuck that shit. Be offensive and be fucked up. Go as Cenobite Jesus and trick or treat at the church.

However, Jonathan is not that free. While his sister is able to make herself into a Valkyrie angel, and somewhere some guy is going as Dahmer likely. Poor Jonathan is told he can’t follow through with his idea, of going as Art the Clown, aka The Miles County Clown.

His sister knows this is a bad idea, his mother thinks its disrespectful to the community and the public at large. I can see their arguments. But I shall raise them a counter argument of, why in the name of Zeus’s BUTTHOLE didn’t they think to bring this up BEFORE HALLOWEEN WAS RIGHT AROUND THE GODDAMN CORNER?!

I’m not a parent, and that’s apparent. But still. If you got a kid who spends all their time between Reddit shitpost and 4chan creepypasta threads. You might want to ask ahead of time about costumes. Otherwise you could end up with Gay Hitler or a kid wearing womens lingerie and a noose calling themselves David Carradine.

I’m just saying, be involved.

But also yeah my parents would be the same and strongly disagree with me going as Charles Manson or Pogo the clown.  Well maybe the first but be slightly okay with the last. But I digress.

This is important! Because we’re going to start world building bitches.

The movie ain’t an hour and 25 minutes. This is a long beefy ride and they are making the most of it, with multiple ideas and backstory. It’s what happens when you make a true sequel that builds on the character you established and want to draw a broader picture.

It also means more kills and some of the hardest I’ve laughed since the first Terrifier film.

I like Jonathan though, he’s a respectable little shit that enjoys pushing some buttons for reactions. But it’s also a fun character, and I like what they do with him.

The fact he spends his time online researching Art for his costume, the random facts he brings up to shock and get reactions from his family. It’s stuff you’d do as an edgy 20 something, and not kids do thanks to the internet. It’s fairly innocent, but serves as enough to cause concern for Sienna over her brother and what he does. She expresses concern over her little bro and his internet activities, and mom writes it off as he’s simply just an odd kid. You could take it as the film trying to say something but I honestly feel it’s both misleading if you feel the film is making a commentary, and I feel it goes a bit deeper. Which we’ll get into later.

Because right now it’s time for one of the films well known and recited scenes.

We’re headed into Sienna’s dreams which. For some reason include her brothers obsessive figure, Art.

It’s played off like a Nightmare sequence from a Freddy film as Sienna finds herself shocked and wondering why, of all things. She’s dreaming of seeing herself dressed in pigtails and a jumper, along side a bunch of other 20 somethings dressed as little kids.

It’s time, for The Clown Café.

Sure it includes a great musical number that’ll stick in your brain forever and fester there. But its far more, and the basis of a few fun fan theories.

The Clown Café is a kids tv show set, featuring Art the clown as a special guest. Complete with his signature trash back of goodies. Which all the kids are grateful to receive a gift from. All except for Sienna.

In fact once she gets over her shock at this surprise dream sequence, she’s now faced with a new reason to shit herself. Art. For some reason seeing Art the clown as he appears and everyone cheers, she begins hyperventilating and seems on the verge of a full on panic attack.

Well the scene quickly grows from a fun childrens show musical and fun snack time with Art. Into an absolutely beautiful tommy gun massacre courtesy of Art and his sack of surprises.

It’s honestly well done and orchestrated chaos. There’s some quick shot squibs exploding and a few scenes of face ripping bullet action. Seriously the director has a very specific vision and it’s wonderfully composed.

As Art runs out of bullets however, he opts to dig around for an even better toy, his trusty torch. As Art wreaks havoc however, Sienna crawls off for a box of cereal, which I may own and have on my bookshelf. The cereal box is full of needles, glass, bugs and terrible horrible very bad no good things. It turns into her own pain box and much like Paul Atreides, she must learn to master her fear, for it IS the mind killer. Art spotting her descents on her with his torch and as he’s about to torch our hero, she pulls from the cereal box….a sword.

A short single hand sword that, by coincidence her father got for her on one of his business trips and she had displayed on her dresser.

Just as the blade meets arts dragon fire, Sienna wakes. Returning to the land of the living, and a bedroom now on fire.

HER ROOM IS ON FIRE!

How did it start? Who can say.

Her mom seems to believe it’s the fact that Sienna, like my sister, and every friend of hers in High School. Has a dozen candles on her dresser she lights just directly below her custom made wings like a cosplay alter. Or it could be supernatural.

Honestly it’s really hard to tell because there is a very awkward time in I want to say most every girls life where they reach a spiritual phase and one day your listening to music sorting your Anne of Green Gables books, the next your listening to My Chemical Romance and burning pieces of paper with your ex boyfriends name on it while chanting and burning incense in your black light reactive room.

At any rate, Siennas wings are destroyed. Her room almost burned down, and even though her candles were NOT lit. Her mom isn’t going to buy a story about bringing things through the dream world into the real world.

Really it’s a well done scene and bit of setup that ultimately is going one way for this films story, but is also setting up a lot more further down the road. Why was Sienna shocked by what she was pulled into? Why did seeing Art send her into a panic? She has no history with him, they didn’t grow up near the carnival he worked at before rampaging, and as far as we know they have no association with any of Arts victims. But it is setting up that for better or worse, she is somehow linked to him, and him to her. It's a fun bit of building and I like that it’s creating something of a supernatural bond, or myth with Art.

In the first film he was just a deranged homicidal clown. He took joy in torturing and killing both kids and adults. When faced with prison at the end of the first film, he gnawed off the face of our films only survivor and shot himself in the head. But now he’s resurrected by a demon who wants to see him go further. He’s now aware his supernatural status and. We are expanding on it now.

By a fuckton.

Both these films may hit some people as just meaningless violence with no story. There IS a story there, and Art, as well as those around him unfold that story in both the first film, and now this one. It’s one of the things I love with Art, that his subtle actions and him just. Being him. It’s a lot like Jason in his little dilapidated cabin in the sequel to the first Friday. The man never says a word, but everything he does, whats around him. It all says something and is leading you somewhere.

Mostly for art though its leading to him enjoying what he brings to the table, and introducing him into the role he’s given by this demon entity.

Cuz you can’t have the dark without the light.

But Sienna isn’t the only one having some interesting moments involving Art. We also get Jonathan on his way to the Middle School of Horror.

Not only do we see that Jonathan’s friends are more fucked up than he is when they show off a dead gutted possum they found behind a school dumpster. But we find out the school has hired the great camper slasher and best motivational camp counselor of all time, Angela Baker!

Or you know, Felissa Rose. A wonderful icon of horror and mommy rappers. Google it, it’s worth it.

So as Jonathan is enjoying the start of his nightmarish day, looking at a dead possum with friends, who trick a poor girl in the laziest way into believing there’s a cat who gave birth to kittens behind the dumpster. Jonathan gets blamed for this. Guilt by association. Which sucks for the kid, he does seem to genuinely not like that they upset this girl, whom he may have a slight crush on. And it sucks when you already feel like an odd kid, and now someone at school thinks your morbid. It’s building a rep that High School is absolutely going to love.

That is if Jonathan survives long enough to attend High School. As he’s roaming the hallway he happens to catch a glimpse of. Well. Our pale demon clown girl. So of course he has to follow her. I mean it makes sense. In the same way that a lot of us would like to see a UFO. We’d absolutely shit ourselves and fight for our sanity realizing these things exist in our world, it’d be terrifying in all reality. But we’d still like to see it. Humans are funny creatures.

Jonathan decides to check on this uninvited visitor only to find her cradling the corpse of the dead possum like a baby, smiling wide eyed. Not at Jonathan. But at Art. Who is sat beside her with a poking stick. Poking at the dead creature.

Our boy has the immediate and correct reaction to drop a shit in his pants. Only his brain crossed a wire and instead of dropping a turd, he dropped his hallpass bathroom key. Alerting these two black and white friends to his presence. Do they attack him? God no, he’s a kid. That’ll come later. Instead they toss the carcass at him. Splattering Jonathan in blood and guts. Which honestly. That’s not really too bad? Considering Art and the girl were digging out and eating the creatures rotted guts. But still. Icky.

With pants filled to capacity, Jonathan runs only to bump into the principle, tossing out a fun callback to A Nightmare on Elm Street, Kids don’t respect the value of yelling screw your hall pass to others. You damn hippies.

But enough about poor Jonathan and his struggles to just be a normal kid in Middle School, now believed to be a psychopath painting the halls and himself in possum guts and blood. We have another great sequence coming up, which not only is in my top three for this movie, and favorite movie moments in general. But its one that I had to text my sister

“You have to see Terrifier 2, There’s a scene it…it has strong you vibes. Well okay US vibes.”

With Sienna now without her wings, and her room smelling like a bbq shack. We need to get a new pair of wings. Which means its time to hit the local knockoff Spirit Halloween store.

I know there’s a……………………good deal wrong with me, possibly. Or not at all. I’m just odd. But the entire sequence in the Halloween shop is pitch perfect, comedy gold, and a great example of just how perfect Art the clown is at being, whatever unholy thing he is.

Sienna and a friend are at the shop and her friend is the first once to encounter Art on her way out the shop. He’s rather cordial to her and even raises his little hat to her as she passes by. It’s worth noting mostly because well, no one gets a greeting from Art without a follow through visit. Again, he’s a very cordial menacing clown.

Sienna is on her own in the shop trying on a pair of wings which, though her creative mind is finding a few dozen flaws with it, she’s also finding a few ways to improve it so, these are worth the purchase. However her mild retreat into her own thoughts is interrupted when she looks over and finds the man of and from her dreams, standing there, leaning against the doorframe. Arms crossed, and waggling his brow at her with a great big smile.

I love the moment between them, not just because Art being art is just hilariously menacing to me, but it’s the recognition from both of them. This was the man in her dream that tried to kill her in her dream, set fire to her room, now standing in front of her. She knows its him and she can’t believe he’s actually there. She’s terrified, and Art. Art has the same recognition. He knows exactly who that is, he knows she fears him and he’s going to play that up. There’s a curious dance between the two that’s not spoken so much as it is beautifully played out. Between Sienna trying to deal with this fear he’s throwing at her, and Art trying to hold that intimidation while testing her, sort of an ‘what’s so special about you?”

She braves walking past him and rushes up to the counter of the store. Processing what just happened and gets pulled back to reality with the realization she almost got tackled and tazed for not paying for her wings. I mean I’m sure they wouldn’t tackle a customer for not paying. But they absolutely would taze her ass.

I’m sorry but, you rob Spirit Halloween, they’ll rob 10 years off your life with a few thousand volts up your ass. If your gonna steal, go to Spencer’s gift like every other mallrat.

Sienna is just not having a fun day. Aside friends joking at her school over the mauling of a news anchor by the survivor from the first film who also had her face gnaws off by Art, she now has to deal with the fact she almost stole a pair of wings, and now forgot her wallet. Which is in her bag. Which is back in the room she left Art in.

BUT!!

Thank Pazuzu for the hearts of good Samaritans! Art slams her bag onto the counter, startling the jesus back into her life, before he takes off to investigate their props and sunglasses.

It’s a fun moment that calls back to earlier Art antics, especially.

ESPECIALLY.

When we get the celebrity guest appearance of Arts bike horn.

I know I said I require you to watch the first film, technically the first film is, well the FIRST feature film, but All Hallows Eve is the first Art the clown story. Art has some great little comical and weird moments, and the bike horn is prominent in these. No matter how many times I’ve seen this film it always makes me laugh waiting for it to happen. But when Art discovers the bell and his eyes grow wild with joy. The next thing we see is Sienna, doing her best to ignore the source of her terror beside her. Now holding and aiming his bike horn in her direction with a wide grin. She is barely holding things together and murmurs out a plea of “Please, don’t”.

Well yeah of course he is. And its great. He honks his horn gleefully, she jumps out of her skin, and art is happy to begin serenading her with the song of his people.

At least until the desk clerk arrives and tells Art to silence his clown antics.

So Sienna is able to escape, with wings bought and paid for, her life still in tact, but her sanity tested in ways she was not prepared for. She is not ready to fight this evil.

What really earns the creepy points and brings you back to remembering who Art is, and what he does. Because you can’t go loving the villain as cute and funny. It’s time for a brutal, memorable kill.

The way its setup too is damn near perfect.

Art watched Sienna exit the store, you think he’s going to follow her or her friend. Instead, he looks at the open/closed sign, notes the closing time on it and flips the sign around. He also locks the door. It’s great just in what it conveys to the audience about Art. The guy isn’t just a thoughtless killer acting out randomly in the moment. You simply encounter him, and you’ll die. How you die is, Arts choice. But he absolutely knows what he’s doing, and that no one can walk away. Not without his say so.

He walks up to the counter and wishes to purchase his bike horn. Which cost 8 bucks.

That is way to fucking much.

For a goddamn bike horn.

I mean granted that is some Spirit Halloween pricing right there for a cheap piece of plastic and rubber, but goddamn man.

It’s a great gag as Art silently mimes having no money and decides to begin going through his trash bag. The store clerk should absolutely be worried and shitting himself, but he thinks its all a gag. Which I mean, I can’t really blame the guy. Except for the fact every random item Art pulls out, is him sorting out and deciding how he’s going to kill this guy.  He pulls out a chain, nail pullers, butchers knife, a bottle. A blade. BUT he does manage to locate some bloody dollar bills and change.

But the store clerk tells him to fuck off and Art decides to go with the bottle.

One thing I will grant this movie and it truly deserves recognition for this. There are very few horror films out there which have a really good. Talented. Effects group and specialization. It’s something if I recall Tom Savini even talked about. Like you have some people who just do really exceptional old age makeup, Monster suits, corpses etc.

These guys really love facial mutilations and it’s done to a level of appreciation that reminds me of the grotesque beauty that is Hellraiser. There’s an art to that kind of makeup and these people do it to a point that, well as you’ve hard from stories online. People left the theater throwing up and shocked so.

But it’s also so SO much fun. When you see Art break the bottle and just ram it right into the man Ricky’s eye socket. Then the puffed up bloody flesh around the pulp of his eye. It’s really fucked up. It isn’t until Art goes to use his butcher’s knife to cleave the skull that it turns comical when we can see the practical effects head. Which even then it’s don’t just right. Like right at that peak of what makes things like Jason taking a machete to the side of his face looking horrific, to the moment he hits the floor and we see the prop head opening and closing its mouth as the blade slowly sinks through it.

Not trying to be science man but, that’s what created this beautiful 80’s horror reaction of repulsion and laughter, “OOOOOOOOOH HO HO HOOO”

It’s something a lot of horror directors can’t really recreate or seem to forget and just go with ‘insane death’ thinking it’ll get a cheer. Which it might but. This type of shit in this series? It just shows the director really nailed what he wanted and knew what to do. Kudos to the effects group.

There’s a fun bookend to the kill as well, when Art cuts Ricky’s head off. A mother and her son come up to the door only to find it locked and we hear her tell her son they have to go elsewhere now. As the boy peers inside he points out Art, holding the mans severed bloody head. Smiling at the kid. The mom isn’t paying any attention and the kid thinks its cool as hell. As they walk off we get one of my favorite reactions from Art. He goes from smiling happily with his prize, pretending to be a prop himself. To grimacing and tossing the head aside with a roll of his eyes.

Art isn’t here for our entertainment. He’s here for his own.

So why did I have to text my sister about that scene and saying it reminded me of her, of us?

Because we ARE the people who would hang out in Halloween shops and spencer’s fucking around with mask, glasses and doing dumb shit to entertain each other. I still remember when we went to a Hollywood Video and we hears Spiderwebs by Garbage playing, and we both began chuckling doing the WIDE step dancing they did in the music video, and this mom pulling her kid closer to her and away from the two giggling completely sober siblings.

We never needed drugs to act like idiots and have fun. We grew up on Beavis and Butthead together and that’s who we are. So this movie has a fond little spot in my heart for that.

But anywho…

We now have two troubled sibling in the film. Both have had an unwanted and unforgettable encounter with Art, and Jonathan got lucky enough to see the little dead girl as well. Both managed to walk away unharmed for the moment. But Jonathan isn’t going to sit idly and wait for hell to come to his door. He’s off on a mission to google search his ass off and look for answers. Which introduces us to something that is both. Very interesting, a little hm…uneven, and something that raises a WHOLE ton of questions.

Jonathan is in deep shit. He’s been suspended, sent home, his mom told about the dead animal and her son being blamed for painting the halls with its blood. Only furthering her thoughts that her odd boy might in fact be a super fucked up killer in training.

The only person he can turn to, is his big sister. Now. You’d think. Between the two of them having seen the same guy, and both being harassed by him. They’d bond over this, or begin to question what’s going on. That’s unfortunately not really the case.

Sienna is still trying to convince herself that this is, some random guy, dressed up freaking people out and being purposely creepy. This is how she’s going to logic it out and keep her sanity. But Jonathan says fuck that noise!

He then pulls out the lore book. Get ready for this one.

From Sienna’s reaction, we can tell this book is very important to her, to all of them. So much so that it shifts her entire focus and thinking about Art and who, what he really is. And turns it entirely around on Jonathan and where the hell he found their late father’s sketch book.

Apparently her and her mom had been searching for this book ever since he had died. We aren’t really told why that is, and that just adds to a lot of the mystery not just about the book itself, but their father, as well as how they may possibly be intertwined with Art and his murders.

Within the sketch book we have random sketches of beautiful things, demons, horrible creatures, a cyclops and. Interestingly enough. Sketches of some of Arts victims from the first film. Including a very beautiful portrait of Art himself, and lastly, of all things in the sketch book. Is a drawing of Sienna, in her costume holding a sword, and a severed devil head.

Now what makes this so interesting is all the possibilities this book is laying out for us here.

First we have a further connection showing us that, Art and Sienna WILL have to face one another. The Valkyrie warrior will have to fight a demon, or devil.

More so, we have a book detailing not just sketches of the murders and murderer, but news paper clippings of Arts rise to killer status. From his killing of children at a carnival, to his murder spree the previous year.

It looks like their father was, either clairvoyant and drew out these ghastly visions he had, tracking this killer, possibly even going insane from it.

Or…

Or the other theory bouncing around. The possibility of, what if their father, was Art.

It seems a bit far out there, but there are people that really do think this is the case. I mean why would some random person collect all this history of Art, AND draw these terrible things.

For me, I’m more in the camp of their father foretold what was to come, and it drove him mad. Madness is a reoccurring theme in this film series, and oh does it ever love its madness.

Unfortunately for Jonathan. No one cares about his findings. Sienna is more upset that her little brother had and was hiding an important book from her, while their mom is losing her shit over the fact her son researches serial killers and Hitler online, bathes in animal blood and runs through the halls painting lockers in blood at school.

I have to take Jonathan’s side here. Mostly because the dude is trying. But really, it’s because he has a mother fucking King Diamond poster on his wall, from one of the first albums of his I picked up, and absolutely love singing at random inappropriate moments, Voodoo.

Seriously that album is the fucking shit, and Operatic metal is rad as hell.

It’s an interesting scene with all that is laid out there, but it felt a little uneven somehow.

It’s not the fault of the actors or what’s being presented. It just feels a little like, there was a jump in the scene. Like you can see what they were going for and setup? But how it played out seemed a little wonky. It doesn’t ruin anything, by any means. It just hits kind of odd is all. Maybe it’s just everyone’s overall reaction to things being said and how it played out. But you get why Sienna is acting how she is. She was very close to their father and, I can get the whole wanting to learn more about someone when you’ve lost them. Me and my sister have been that way about our Grandfather after he passed, and especially our own father when he passed 3 years ago. It’s kind of hard to explain because, you ‘knew’ them, but you still want to know them, if that makes sense.

It's also why I have a secret grimoire in my house that I fill out with things none of you bastards need to know or hear until I’m dead and gone. Mostly its Deez Nuts jokes, but it also has a lot of life stories in there to help give whoever reads it a look into the real me.

I may actually request to be buried with it. If someone wants to read it, they’ll have to work for it. Like any proper horror film.

But I digress.

What I guess struck me odd about it, is after the mother and daughter confront Jonathan on his ownership of the book, and the mom vents to Sienna about Jonathan and his, odd interest. Sienna shows some sympathy for her bro, she knows she talked shit on him the other night about his browsing history, but seeing him genuinely shaken over what happened, and knowing deny it all she wants. They both did have an encounter with someone fucked up.

It's a weird swirl of emotional turns, is what I’m getting at, but again. Doesn’t ruin anything. Just kinda felt odd.

What isn’t odd however, and I really pray I’m not projecting super hard with saying this. But I REALLY do hope the director was paying homage to A Nightmare on Elm Street 4 Dream Master. Because Sienna is going out, even if her little brother thinks she’ll get killed.

YES THERE IS A SHOWER SCENE BUT WHO FUCKING CARES!

We get an awesome score of synth backing up a montage of Sienna adorning her self made armor, inspired off her fathers design from the sketchbook. She’s suiting up for a party yeah, but also a date with destiny and it’s fucking rad as hell. It just really reminds me of the scene in Dream Master where Alice is grabbing all the artifacts from her fallen friends, readying herself to face Freddy and take down the Dream Master for good. Even if it isn’t a homage, it’s just so fucking good.

But we have some unfinished business now.

As Sienna debated the lack of coverage from her costume with her mom, Sienna’s friend from earlier that Art let pass, is getting visited by Art.

I really. Really love this movie, and in the same way that I do Pirates XXX Stagnetti’s Revenge.  It’s a fucking classic film, well done, well written, well acted, funny as all fuck. But when you want to recommend it to your friends, you suddenly remember “Oh yeah..this is a 2 and a half hour porno with an $8 million dollar budget” So you kinda, don’t recommend porn to your friends.

This film I want every person I know to see it, but then this scene comes along, and I remember “Oh yeah…I’m into really fucked up shit’  so I hesitate lol.

If you did not watch the first film, or the short from All Hallows Eve, and this is your first film with Art.

And you made it this far, thinking yeah it’s a bit gross but not that bad. Welcome to as lord Meatloaf stoically said, when the rubber meets the road.

Yes her friend is likely going to die.

Yes it’s a very brutal encounter.

So wait, why is she only ‘likely’ to die, and not just fucking dead?

We’ll get to that.

Allie is about to have the worst Halloween of her teenage life, and it begs the question. When a homicidal clown comes to your home and says they’ll leave if you give them candy? Give them candy nicely. Don’t be a dick.

Allie feels Art is too old for candy, so she turns him away. This only upsets Art, mildly. He just wants some candy.

Well, she had her chance. Now she has to deal with Art breaking into her home for a glass of water. He needs to stay hydrated for what’s going to come.

Well Allie is, not pleased by this. She’s terrified and does the smart thing you’re supposed to. She bolts from the kitchen and rushes for the door. Only Art beats her there, wielding a pair of surgical scissors and a scalpel waving in greeting. She turns and runs up the stairs, but for a man in huge clown shoes. That man can run like hell.

Okay to be fair the guy has demon powers now so. Yeah. Well maybe. We never specifically get told this but eh. It’s fun to imagine superman Art. Until Annie finds herself with nowhere to run.

Remember what I said about this film team really knowing their shit when it comes to practical effects and head trauma?

Art raises his scalpel and brings it down straight across the left side of Allie’s face. Right through her fucking eye, down her cheek.

It’s one of the better more horrific gags, but we are just getting started.

From there she gets tossed down and makes her way to her vanity. Where Art, scalps her with his surgical scissors. Something about it just cringes me, and it’s specifically to do with a shot where. You see that the actor is just feverishly and brutally cutting through the latex prop. But he missed a small part. He does not stop. He digs those scissors past that little bit of flesh and just carries on cutting. Before ripping her scalp right off her head.

Just something about it is so visceral, and real that. Again, gotta give kudos to them. This is honestly one of the main kills in the film that felt the most brutal, and near life like.

I say that. Because what happens next is, a test for taste in horror and gore.

Art does something, I always talked to friends about in my 20’s when I’d fuck with them about making a horror film, or how all cooks would make great murderers. Not because of our barely manageable rage. But because we know how to pop joints and cut around them to remove limbs on animals and that would come in handy for body disposal.

Art actually fucking does it. Exactly what you would do when separating a chicken thigh from the carcass. You grip and pull. Popping the bone from the joint, then pull again. NORMALLY. You’d cut around the flesh of the chicken to remove it. But sometimes, and in the case with Art now. You manage to just rip the fucking thing right off.

And he does that. To Allie’s arm. He also skins her back, and the left side of her face. He also grabs hold of her pinky and ring finger in one hand, her middle and index in the other. And splits her arm like a wishbone.

The part where I start laughing, and my sister called, laughing when she saw it. Was when Art just stops everything and skips out of the room.

Allie, sobbing and bleeding out, tries making one last attempt to flee, dragging herself on the ground. Only for Art to come running back in the room. With a container of bleach in one hand, and a large container of salt in the other.

He’s pouring bleach all over her, and yes. Pouring salt on every open fleshless wound. He even does the meme of sprinkling it over her, because taking a fist full and hammering it, rubbing it into her exposed back.

But we’re not done.

Allie’s mom has come home, calling out to her daughter and getting no answer. She decides to go upstairs and check on her.

There’s no real way to…safely, or accurately paint the scene for you. Other than Holy fuck. Really. But let’s try!

On her daughters bed. Is the mostly skinless face of Allie, her nipples cut off. Parts of her chest cut off, one arm carved of all flesh. Her thighs cut into large chunks, some parts missing entire muscle mass right down to the bone. Her mother is screaming bloody murder, but that’s not the cherry on top. Oh no, no.

Allie slowly raises her head, and slurs out “mommy”

The look on her mothers face. It’s that exact moment when your mind reached its peak limit of what it could except, and just snapped over the edge into insanity. Seeing this mauled crudely dissected thing that was her daughter. Still somehow alive, and calling out to her.

Art is absolutely loving every minute of this, and as far as we know? Allie may be dead, dying, or show up as the worst mutilated survivor in part 3. As for her mom? Well, how can you win your audience back after a brutal fucking job like that?

With laughter! Cuz you can’t have slaughter without laughter!

Kids knock on the home of Allie and her mom, greeted by Art. Giving out candy to the boys and girls. In the severed topless head of Allie’s mother. And the man is absolutely just loving Halloween and well behaved kids.

Except for a fat kid who tried taking more candy. ONLY ONE PIECE KID!!!

So with Halloween going strong and blood shed just a house away. It’s time for our siblings to begin their night of fun. Or terror. Both? Both.

First up we have poor Jonathan who is grounded for what he didn’t do at the school. His mother is one glass of scotch away from beating his ass into next century, because he’s a little odd. But dang nabbit he is going to try and safe people tonight! OR at the very least, you know. Clear his name.

So as our little Jean Valjean readies his appeal to mother court, it’s officially round two not just for his poor ass, but also. THE LORE!! I told you this movie was full of it and building up to something, down the pipeline, maybe. Who knows. So Mom is trying to be, a little nice on him, But absolutely reminding him its his own fault. He whips out the fabled sketch book of their father the grand seer! Foretelling of all events that would unfold and have come to pass!

But mom is in no mood. It isn’t just the whiskey, or the scotch, or the box wine talking. It’s the fact she’s still trying to hold a family together on her own, with a son she assumes is acting out because of the loss of his father, and she also REALLY would rather her son not make things harder, by bringing up the man . Apparently he was very sick when he, went away. He wasn’t himself and he became something. Not. Himself.

As prisoner 24601 readies to call up Matpat from Game Theory to help prove his case, mom snatches his lore book away and with the strength of mom she tares the shit out of that book. Crushing her son completely as the one possession he kept from them that was his fathers is now torn, broken, and tossed to the floor.

He crumbles to the ground sniffling and on the verge of a spastic shit, and with all the strength he can muster he looks up at his mom, and says the greatest line most kids have thought to themselves, but few have ever lived to actually say, “You’re such a bitch!”

With the power of Grayskull, the fury of the Amazons, and the strength of the autoboots. Mom brings down the hand of God across his face and slaps her son back in time until he de-ages into something that will never talk back like that again. So Jonathan gets up, cries and runs out.

Mom needs a drink.

YES ANOTHER DRINK!

Do remember in E.T. the mom dressed up as a cougar and we have NO idea how her night went, but she came home early and popped a few of the beers E.T. did NOT get into so. My joke has ground to stand!

Well as the night progresses mom decides to chill out in the garage. Sometimes as an adult you just gotta sit in your car and cry, or treat the inside of the car like your own personal chamber escaping the world so you can have just one place that isn’t full of insanity.

At least that was her plan. Until she finds her car covered in toilet paper, a huge smashed pumpkin and windows painted in shaving cream, with a very eloquently written ‘Bitch’ on the windshield.

Seriously whoever did that? You obviously paid attention in class and got to write on the chalkboard. Fucking outstanding lettering.

Her car now pranked, and a pumpkin being the only thing getting smashed this evening, Mom is ready to explode and declares Jonathan’s death sentence. She even calls up Sienna to formerly address the issue and declare she will be a lone sibling soon.

Meanwhile Jonathan, innocent of these crimes against him. Having escaped the prison called home after being slapped by his jailer Javert, is skulking around the streets grumpy with the world and hating life. The kid is ready for High School now. But as he sings about stealing a loaf of bread and being innocent of any crimes. He has stumbled onto the one thing you wouldn’t care to that night. A blacked out van.

There is no one inside though, no one offering candy or to give him a ride, no. There is only a seriously fucked up glowing orange eyed demon little girl.

But before we go any further with that. What of Sienna you say?

Well she’s living her best life, with the shittiest friend. See Allie was a friend who actually has your back and looks out for you. She’ll come over if things are shitty, and she’ll sympathize with you and lift you up. Brooke is the friend who will shove a random hot guy your way and tell you to fuck the pain away.

She’s still a good homie just, on a different level.

Also she gave Sienna Molly while out dancing. She spiked her friends drink without telling her, so she’d have a fun evening, forget about all the stuff she’s been worrying about, and just have fun.

BUT! But. She also took molly herself. So that it’s cool because they’ll both be on molly and that means they can look out for each other, and her horned up boyfriend will totally watch over them.

Normally, Sienna would be hyper pissed. I mean most people should be if not mildly miffed, they should be moderately tiffed, if a friend drugs you as their way of saying ‘relax and chill out bitch’. But she is high as a mother fucker right now, she can only look shocked, smile and giggle about what a bitch her friend is, that she’s legit pissed at her and wants to rip her tits off. But drugs are drugs and she can’t do much about it now except ride out the storm. Which is her friends advice. Just keep partying and it’ll all be cool.

But her partying is interrupted when mom calls her to announce her brothers death sentence. By now though, Sienna has resolved to go with the molly and is thinking pretty much what all of us should be. A little toilet paper and shaving cream on your car is hardly warranting the death penalty. Mom and her mom senses can smell the alcohol through the phone and demands to know if her daughter is drunk. She lies telling her she isn’t and hadn’t been drinking. But mom is now adding Sienna to the death row list.

To be fair. It’s best to go out with your mom thinking you were drunk versus high as fuck. The outcome of the later one would severely out weight the first by more than you could care to imagine.

But ultimately mom figures, fuck it. It’s one night of the year. I can’t go back to prison again and serve life for killing both my kids. So she decides to beat Jonathan with a sack of soap bars during the night, and let Sienna vomit up her regrets later. This however is just the start of Sienna’s problems. She navigated talking to her mom while high as fuck, so good on her. But she can’t navigate her eyes away from seeing the demon little girl now at the dance club, smiling at her. This can only bode well. Though it does beg the question. What’s Art up to? Well, Art has his own Halloween mission.

Unfortunately it leads to one of our first inner circle deaths, and a worthy addition into the exploding head hall of fame.

Yep. Mom is about to meet Art as she’s cleaning her desecrated soccer mom car. As she wipes clean the driver side window, we find Art sitting inside the car, greeting a shocked mom with, the shortest sawed off shotgun ever. Which if Art were human it would’ve destroyed his ears firing that off inside the car. But fortunately for him he’s a demon spawn now, and the only thing destroyed hearing wise is moms hearing. As her entire fucking face explodes and top of her head hits the wall.

It's going to matter soon, trust me. They didn’t just explode her face for no reason other than giving Scanners and Chopping Mall something to talk about.

Now, notice I said explode her face. That’s a very specific thing.

Jonathan is returning home, scared and screaming for a mom who is no longer among the living. He wants to save her, get in the car, find Sienna and save them all. But that’s not going to happen. As he enters the dining room, he finds his mother, sat at the head of the table, with a glass of wine. Which is normal. Out side of the fact her skull is shattered and a mass of ground meat, with her ‘face’ hanging off the sides of her head.

It's….beautiful and fucked up. I love it. About this time though, Our cook comes in with a casserole. Ringing his cutest dinner bell, wearing a fantastic apron. Jonathan might be in absolute shock seeing the inside of his mothers skull sure. But Art can change that for him. He grabs a handful of mashed potatoes and just crams it right into moms face hole. Which is. Her whole face now.

It’s a great “See? She’s just fine!” moment, capped off with Art presenting Jonathan with the next step in his dinner show. A large syringe. And I do mean a large ass syringe.

Art is not a medically approved doctor. So we can’t fault him for not having proper equipment. But goddamn do you absolutely not want to have whatever is in that thing injected into you. Especially when it’s a FULL SYRINGE of liquid!

Thankfully, Jonathan is still alive. He’s just had a huge needle jammed into his neck and he’s knocked out. The worst thing however though. Is that Jonathan attempted to run and hide in Sienna’s room, which lead Art to finding her sword. The same sword from their shared dream that stopped his fire from harming her. So obviously he’s adding this to his bag of tricks. It’s a short sword I mean come on. Who wouldn’t.

Things are getting heated, and we are headed toward a final battle folks. But we still have miles to go. Sienna and her spider senses are going insane. She can sense her bro is in danger, and something has happened to mom. Or it’s the combination of molly, hard liquor and seeing a disturbing demon at a dance club. But she’s having another panic attack and her friend is forced to drive her home.

Leading to a fine discussion between friends about. Who is really to blame. When you give a friend molly without their knowing, with hard liquor, unaware that person also took Xanax before hand. But who cares about that! I mean obviously the person who could’ve died sure. But we have bigger fish to fry!

Sienna is getting a mysterious call on her cellphone from, her brother. Who is knocked out in Art’s van. However the demon girl is the one calling Sienna and using her brothers voice. Telling her he’s in trouble and needs help, at the old abandoned amusement park. Famed stomping ground of Scooby and his happy band of mystery solvers.

Oh things are only going to get more insane, and amazing from here on out.

Because her friend and friends boyfriend have to take her to that theme park. So we’ve got bodies coming in for Art, and a rescue mission for Sienna.

Is there a change her friends will live? Absolutely not.

Do the kills get calmer? Absolutely not.

It’s like that moment when you’re going at it with your partner and suddenly, right at the end of things. They inform you, they aren’t done with you yet. “I don’t know what you did, but you started something” are those famous words, and these kills mirror that. We’re going from nuts to butts and headed right to fuck town.

I am not sorry for that comparison. If you think I’m horrible, do yourself a favor and google “Harry Knowles Blade 2 review” THAT…that man creature. Wrote a legendary perverted review of internet legend for that film. Which defies good taste, and likens his experience watching the film, to being a giddy girl on prom night getting fingered so.

Your welcome, I’m not the worst thing out there.

Also Harry scammed fans out of thousands of dollars, and faced multiple assault charges. I just eat tacos and tell stories about ex’s to better your life.

Anyway….

It’s time to kill, and have sex. Also do more drugs. Because that’s what Halloween is all about, for people about to die.

Brooke is getting hot and heavy with her boyfriend as Sienna wonders the amusement park on her own. He decides that, sure the make out is pretty hot. But wouldn’t it be better to do some cocaine AND make out? His logic checks out and Brooke is not going to turn down her man wanting to get high before power pounding for 3 minutes and then crying after for 10 minutes.

However he needs to take a peepee. His words, not mine. So he steps out and has the best piss of his life. I mean standing out in the middle of the night, in an empty parking lot, high on cocaine with a whiskey buzz. That’s a manly piss right there. So his eyes closed, dick in both hands, he lets loose.

Now. In the first film. Well no. In the original short film with Art. The leading lady in that, had her limbs hacked, body mutilated and a lot of bad names written into her flesh, with full frontal nudity.

In the second film, the first Terrifier and full Art film. The film had the infamous scene of a woman bound upside down butt naked. A hand saw wriggled and guided between her folds, and sawed in half.

Needless to say this offended a few, and people wondered if Art was, maybe a little misogynistic. I think he’s just a demented fuck, and like Michael when he killed a gay couple living in his home. He wasn’t asking about their sequel preference. He was just fucking stabbing people.

But fair is fair, and we get a new controversial kill. Which is controversial for all the wrong reasons.

Brooke’s boyfriend, while taking a piss. Gets stabbed in the cock. And balls. Repeatedly. Art, Rips off the guys dick. Which we see, in full glorious detail. Not since Street Trash have we gotten a full on dick ripping on screen and it’s magical. He’s left screaming, bleeding out and dies dickless.

The scene offended. Many a man. Who can’t stomach to watch the scene. Of a kitchen knife being stabbed right into a guys junk, repeatedly, and a killer they cheered for, now ripping his dick off.

Instead? We got dickheads claiming this made the film woke. Because god forbid they not mutilate another chick from slit to throat, or show him making a change purse out of some girls tits. Guys legit were pissed about this because they felt the film setup this trend of extreme body violence and expected them to top sawing an upside down woman in half.

You kinda top that with Allie, but you also make a strong argument for fucked up kill when you show a guys dick getting fucking ripped off.  But no. Some guys still gotta piss and moan. Because a man got dick ripped, and a woman didn’t. It’s fucking stupid, but they also make the same argument that Sienna didn’t do any nudity in the film so again, modern horror ruining a good genre.

Apparently seeing someone’s tits and bush is your requirement to become a scream Queen.

That’s an entire rant of its own, and I’ll shorten it down to just saying no. It is not a requirement. Also dick ripping is barely seen in movies anymore. We need more of it.

So with her boyfriend now done pissing and instead pissing blood, Brooke is running for her life. Only to find the cleanest bathroom in all of the park. I mean its dirty as sin but. At least there’s no rats. Well Brooke may be scared for her life and high as fuck. But she won’t go down without a fight. She picks up a chunk of wood and challenges Art. But Art is always prepared, and he has two weapons with him. First the most amazing and menacing Purge night table leg ever. A table leg with steak knifes, butter knifes, forks, bolts and razors hammered and jammed into it. And in the other hand he as a bottle of acid.

Which Brooke takes right to the face. But Art is not going to waste this. He didn’t use the acid as a distraction. Oh hell no. He wanted the joy of seeing someones face melt off as they scream in agony. It’s the little things in life. But Art has a full night ahead of him. So as Brooke is melting before our eyes. He bashes in her leg. Bashes the side of her face, and as she falls to the floor. He just goes to town smashing in her chest until it turns to mush, allowing him to rip her heart out and eat it. As was the style of the time.

But Art isn’t going anywhere. He’s cracking her wide open and leaving one hell of a display, for Sienna. Because we’re entering our final battle, and this guy is still holding all the terror cards, so he can’t let her get one up on him.

Sure enough Sienna stumbles onto the bathroom and sees what’s left of her friend. Finding Art looming in the doorway. It’s go time.

This has to be one of the best, most brutal and damn near realistic fights with a serial killer you could ask for or ever hope to see.

It’s a lot like Heath Ledger’s Joker, how he just picked up a rocket launcher and fired it, never having used or held one in his life. Doing the same with every weapon he comes across. It was all just tools to do what he needed. The same goes for this fight with Art. Sienna is in self defense mode for her and her brother, and she doesn’t want to die. She’s swinging for the fences at Art, she picks up the club he made and killed her friend with. Using it to attack him. But for every blow she lands, Art wildly swings himself around, scalpel in hand and lands a slice himself.

The reactions from both Sienna and her brother are what’s genuine, and help to sell the realism of this fight.

These people are not super heroes. They aren’t trained for this. Despite Patrick Swayze telling us pain don’t hurt. It fucking hurts a lot. That’s why it’s called pain. The average person gets cut with a knife or razor on accident. You kinda flip out. Getting that from someone else actually out to kill you? You aren’t going to nevermind it and start throwing haymakers. You are going to recoil and bleed. Someone like Art that’s severely mentally fucked up and already been beaten down and attacked before? He’s no stranger to the pain. He can deal with it and attack. These kids are no match for his madness and no matter what they do. They are out matched in every way.

Jonathan is flogged by Art with a self made cat of nine tails. Alternating between slashing across Jonathan’s back and slashing at Sienna, until he tosses her over a table to the ground. What’s sad in this is how as beat as Sienna is, and this girl is bleeding head to toe, flesh torn and slashed from scalpel and cat of nine tails. She still crawls over to her brother to lay over him and protect him.

Taking the blunt of all the attacks from Art. Until she chances a defensive arm, and catches hold of the weapon. She jerks it from Art and in that moment finds her courage. She stands up and begins attacking Art like he was Jesus Christ and she was a Roman on holiday. Just wailing away into him.

Finally the tables are turning!

As her confidence grows and strength finds her. She winds up getting the cat of nine tails stuck into Arts face. But she’s not done. She’s out for a new weapon. Digging out from a nearby display a piece of rebar and jamming it right through the top of his head. About a solid foot and a half through his head in fact.

But it isn’t enough to slow a good clown down. Shit, even Jonathan tries to get in on the hero action and help his sister as Art begins to choke the life out of her. He finds Art’s palm sized shotgun and uses it to blast a hole into Art!

BUT EVEN THAT.

WON’T

STOP HIM!

The man slaps Jonathan into next year, and he’s back to choking Sienna, who defiantly near death spits out a ‘fuck you’ at him. This is mildly upsetting to Art, so he tosses her through the floor into a hellish basement. And I do mean hell.

I can’t explain to you, nor try to explain what the fuck it is under this abandoned amusement park. But it is some straight up Adam West Batman villain shit.

Sienna is in a rock filled room with a large ominous red glowing passage in the ground, surrounded by lights. As interesting as that might be, she has a brother to safe! So she turns to head out of this pit, only to find Art staring her in the face and. Stabbing her right through the stomach with her very own sword. It’s just one of those days. With that, Art withdraws the sword, shoves her off into the mysterious red hole and says farewell to the would be warrior princess. Leaving him alone with a passed out Jonathan, whom he decides to wake up by idly nomming on the kids wrist.

Literally, he goes from trying to snap fingers near the kid to wake him, clapping in his face to just straight up chewing on his wrist. I mean its an odd choice, but it works. Jonathan is up, screaming for a sister who won’t come, and is trying to out run a demon clown that can’t seem to be stopped.

As for Sienna. I mean she’s still alive. Sort of. You don’t die immediately from a wound like that, it’ll take some time. However she’s in a very weird. Place. Right now.

We’ll just call it hell. Because whatever pit she was pushed into, has landed her in a magicians water box, and there is a tentacle creature holding her inside under the water. All around her is the set of the Clown Café, complete with dead kids singing the song as a still on fire singing banjo player keeps the tunes rolling. We get to watch Sienna struggle and fight to survive and free herself. Only, to sadly drown, and bleed out inside this water trap.

Does she has a savior? Does mom come to her? No mom’s dead and her heads gone. No her dad doesn’t save her, NO ONE is going to hell to save her.

And she doesn’t really save herself either with a last ditched effort.

No. Instead. Her sword. Her fathers odd gift for her, and the final piece of her attire. Begins to glow and flash red. Somewhere in my mind I could hear the majestic voice of Dwight David, synth piano playing, a bell chiming and the theme song from Berry Gordy’s The Last Dragon plays.

I am not fucking joking with you. If you take that song and play it in its full seven and a half minutes during Sienna’s rebirth and resurrection, it just hits different and moves from movie masterpiece. To fucking epic cinema. Try it. I fucking dare you. Be brave and play it. You’ll see I’m right!

I know I’m right.

So yes. Sienna is the last dragon. She had the power within herself to become, the one. Her wound is healing and life returns to her body. She tares herself free from the tentacle creature holding her there and emerges from hells water, reborn, renewed and ready to kick devil ass as the Valkyrie warrior Sienna.

And thank Xenu for that, because poor Jonathan is getting gnaws on by Art all over his leg, his arms. This kid is just. Really having the worst Halloween ever.

Art is not ready for this. For once. Sienna charges behind him and with a Xena scream lodges her swords blade into the back of his neck. He’s completely caught off guard and for once actually looks hurt. He gets up and tries escaping for once. But she is on his ass and ready to carve up clown steak. She starts hacking and stabbing away at the devil beast until he falls to his feet. She steps behind him and slices his throat. This fucker is going down.

And it couldn’t happen in a more beautiful way.

Which just adds to the oddness that makes this movie work. I mean you have mystical powers at play, Good and Evil battling, and magical resurrection. You have heroic music coming through as Sienna finds everything the character her father drew her as and told her she would become. She has crippled Art. He is kneeled defeated, and glaring at her with pure hatred. He is seriously growling and pissed off, as she stands defiantly above him, sword raised ready to strike down on him. The two stare each other down, and as his own last act of defiance. Art gives a final smile, and tilts his head to the side, offering his neck to Sienna in a “I fucking dare you” motion.

And she delivers. It’s a great moment because Right as she gives in and readies to kill Art. The music just stops. All of the theatrics are gone. The good vs evil, all of it. It’s silent and all we have is Sienna hacking away like a maniac at Arts neck until his head severs and rolls from the body.

It’s like a sudden dose of reality hitting and I dig the hell out of it. Sort of like those reality moments when you walk into a club and you try doing a cool slow walk, picturing how cool you look in slow motion and the club moving around you. When in reality your just moving super slow, posing and you look weird as fuck. But in your mind there’s music, nods of approval and you look fly as fuck.

Sienna is beheading the maniac that killed her friends and mother, there’s nothing glamorous about it, it’s not triumphant. It’s a fucking brutal beheading. Deserved and amazing yes. But its just a great shot and edited kill with no music and just the visceral sound of the hacking.

With that, Sister and brother hug one another, and watch as the demon girl glares at them, picking up Arts severed head and whispering happily to it. Taking off with his head, and fading to black for the credits.

But.

That’s not the end, oh no, no, no.

We get a credit sequence, with the one and only most talented wrestler, with a list you never want to be on, who always brings down the walls around him. Chris Jericho. Fucking legend of a guy.

We get Chris as ward security Burke, working the late shift with the nurse currently tending to a woman we heard about in the background and caught a glimpse of once during the film. Our survivor from the first film Vicky, who appeared on a talk show and, later that same day. Attacked and mauled the show host. Sienna and her friends talked about it at school, and we saw the report on the television while Art was crafting his weapons. The two talk about her attack on the host and how she’s been in her cell all night just humming the clown café song.

Which leads us to one more gross out because we NEED IT DAMNIT!

We get Vicky in her sell, writing with blood, fresh from her vagina, all over the walls. Everything she’s writing was what had been written across the torso of the first victim from Arts initial appearance in All Hallows Eve. Shes throwing up, giggling and even writes out a giant heart on the wall with her and Art’s name. For reasons.

Also she’s pregnant.

Like REALLY pregnant.

She begins moaning and screaming, and as the night nurse goes to check on her. We are greeted to a final scene. Of Vicky having given birth to, and now holding.

NOT BABY ART.

But the clowns goddamn severed head.

That woman’s coochie will NEVER be the same, and that my friends, is where our film ends. With Arts head being birthed, smiling happily and Vicky giggling in absolute madness as her eye glows.

The End.

I love it all.

This film, its creators. Everyone involved from the start. They deserve the praise. It’s the simplest most straight forward horror, done in perfect harmony with exactly how a film and its follow ups should. It’s not just rehashing, its expanding. It’s building and separating itself from the original and giving you something more to latch onto. It isn’t throwing Arts backstory at us. We aren’t delving into what made him what he is. He just simply. Is.

The film is absolutely not for everyone. Which is sad, because it’s just so damn good. The story is good, the characters are great. Especially in this one. The All Hallows Eve short, and the first Terrifier were all encounters with Art. Horrible, terrible life shattering encounters. They never ended how you expected and they all went full on off the rails.  This film was more traditionally structured, while maintaining its core. Which is beautiful. It really reminds me of two films done similarly, but with different results.

Terrifier 2 is the Desperado of Damien Leone’s El Mariachi the first Terrifier.

It’s not exactly a remake, It’s not entirely a follow up. It’s a chance to introduce mainstream audiences to a story and character you made and having it explode on the big screen. El Mariachi has a lot of memorable moments and scenes in it. Loved the actors in that and the story. Desperado carries the same thing but different actors, fleshed out scenes and took its time. This feels similar in that way. That the director had the chance to not only continue his legacy creation, but introduce them on a bigger screen, while improving on some aspects and absolutely upping the bar all across. It’s weird how so many people loved this thing, and how many absolutely couldn’t stand it, passed out, vomited, walked out, protested. I mean it’s funny to me, but any time this happens with a film, It only means good press and more asses in seats to see it for themselves. Hollywood tries to fake this sometimes and it fails. But every now and then, you get an Exorcist experience where people legit aren’t over hyping and they actually have cinema altering experiences.

I kinda want to imagine there were clowns that saw this film and they all have Saving Private Ryan like PTSD while watching the movie. But that’s also just me.

The movie also reminds me of another fucked up fun series, that had, different results with its follow up.

Thankskilling. And its sequel. Thankskilling 3.

The first film was funny, low budget and stupid fucked up joy. The sequel was, an entirely different creation. If you were expecting more of the foul mouthed turkey killing people and wearing their faces as disguises. You were doomed. This sequel told its own original story, while continuing elements of the first. It was its own thing which, some people dug and got what the director was saying with sequels. But others absolutely hated it and the new characters.

But it has a similar draw and story as Terrifier 2. Just told with less a poke at sequels, and more a lets make something out of this. Which is now leading them to making a Terrifier 3. I have no idea what the hell it will be about. If Sienna and Jonathan will return, if we’ll expand on their father and Art. Or if we simply will have the demon girl tossing Arts head at people and have him chewing their throats and balls off. Or just decapitating people and attaching his head to random bodies he can control.

I just like what they’ve done with the series, and for themselves. They made a modestly low budgeted sequel, and it exploded into a box office success, and now these people get to make another one, with more cash and…I am genuinely curious.

And as for Thankskilling 3, I am not saying it failed where Diablo succeeded. I am saying though they achieved the same but on a different level. There’s was more out of fun and mockery, while being obscene. It still was entertaining just, different results. And like this film it introduced a savior character meant to battle the evil Turkey. Not saying Art is as EVIL as Turkey, or IS turkey.

But I am saying his nose does oddly look like a beak and, well it’s all right there.

The effects, I already praised to hell and back, and it’s all well earned. They know what they are doing, they do it well, and it looks stunning. As difficult as some of it may be to watch. You gotta watch and just admire the work they did. Like I mentioned, being able to really create and capture that whole scream and laugh combination reaction. That’s pure art right there, and they nailed it down.

I mean damn. The kills in this were great. They weren’t insanely elaborate. It wasn’t like one crazy thing after the other. It was just…well.

This is meant as a sincere compliment to all involved with this. The kills in this film felt and came off as perfectly organized random chaos.

What I mean to say is that, All of his kills. Though planned out and discussed, the gags worked out. When played out and filmed? They all came off like spastic spur of the moment kills. Whatever struck Art’s fancy in that moment. It was all so visceral and random. But so well organized and executed.

I mean, especially poor Allie. The shit that girl goes through. All of it when and while it happened. It was like a serial killer with extreme ADHD. Art couldn’t decide if he wanted to slice her up, debone her like a chicken, scalp her, gauge her eyes out or just stab her into a pulp of meat jelly. So he just went with the moment and did whatever he wanted. Which is scarier than anything. When a killer sets up an elaborate trap, it’s interesting. When they chain you up and show you their tools and intentions. It’s scary yeah.

But when you have an absolute lunatic who just goes with the moment and has no idea how he will kill you, but just knows they WILL kill you. Its unpredictable and fucking scary man. So knowing they planned out the kills and the stages. But having it still shot and played off as absolute chaos. Beautiful.

The acting. Damn man.

Top notch all around. Lauren LaVera(Sienna) is a great find and amazing talent. She played a strong lead and showcased a truly believable character arch. Seriously they really hit on Ripley vibes for me and that’s as good a compliment as you could hope for. Unfortunately even with more female lead films both in action and elsewhere. Strong female characters still seem shockingly difficult for some to write properly. They just create characters that are perfect, powerful and need no introduction, and expect you to cheer them on. But having a flawed character, someone forced to do something they were not meant to do and rise up to a challenge they themselves could never see them doing in a hundred lifetimes, and seeing that strength show, seeing them earn that confidence.

It's why a lot of people reference Ripley from the Alien films as a great female lead. She wasn’t a hero in the first film. She was a survivor and she had to find her courage to survive and get the hell away from that thing. The sequel showed us Ripley now with PTSD, nightmares and trying to recapture her life, gain control, forced to go back and deal with the source of her nightmares that she barely escaped before, and now has to go to a planet over flowing with them. That is when she became the badass and a hero. They continued her character ark over two films. Sienna had a full on transformation and literal rebirth in this film.

Even if it was laid out for you in the film, between her moments of being humble about her costuming and doing it as a tribute to her father based off his design of a character he made for her, when her friends try telling her she IS that character. That she is strong, courageous and a bad ass. She never believed it, until she dug down deep, and decided not to be the victim, She was going to survive that night and she did.

Same can be said of Elliott Fullam(Jonathan) No one listened to the poor kid. He was catching all the blame. I know Sienna gets talked a lot about in the film for her character, and it is deserved. But goddamn man. Elliott did outstanding too. He was absolutely believable as her little bro, and the kid who wants to fit in, but finds themselves shut into a corner and labeled a weirdo. He just wants to be liked and get through the day. He wanted to make a twisted costume and he liked the idea that people would be freaked out by it but also it entertained him the reactions he got from his family. He wasn’t offended by it, he just liked seeing them shake their heads. I get it. Instead of letting a title rule you, work it to your own benefit. Guy wasn’t weird. Just no one cared to listen to him and he was dealing with a lot. But what I really liked about him was the silent acting he did. The emotions he could show. It’s not always an easy thing believe me. It takes skill to express something without speaking.

The whole scene with the dead possum mixed with the context earlier at breakfast about the costumes. How his sister called him a weirdo for the stuff he looks up online and spouted, for his wanting to go dressed as a serial killer. When you see him at school, approaching his friends. He’s not exactly giving a serial killer gleeful smile when he sees the dead animal. He’s not poking a stick at its guts or picking it up and wearing it as a hat. It’s just kids curiosity. When the girl gets called over and his friends laugh when she runs off scared. He didn’t care for it. They were more fucked up than he was. But guilt by association got him lumped in with the others and trouble.

Later in the classroom when that girl looks over and glares at him. You genuinely can see he’s hurt by it and didn’t want her upset, he didn’t do it. You even get that from the girl. She looks at him and has that moment of, okay…you didn’t do that, your friends did. They are dicks but, your okay. I guess..

His whole unspoken interaction with her, just really well done and acted. It said a lot without ever saying something.

Same with his fallout with mom when she tore up the sketch book. The sketch book was important to Sienna, they’d tried finding it but Jonathan found it first and flipped through it. They never directly say it but you learn that this book is how and why he read up on Art and decided to go as him for Halloween. Seeing his father had clipped stories about him, the drawing he did. He connected with it, and this book became a source of truth for him, in that once things began happening. He felt their dad was on to something. That maybe he wasn’t crazy. Maybe he was having visions and wrote them all down, the horrible ones, and his foretelling of Sienna becoming the Valkyrie, defeating Art. He saw this within the book, it helped him to deal with and make sense of a beloved parent that unfortunately went insane. And the pain you get off of him when he’s trying to tell his family what it is HE saw, and HE read in this book, how it makes sense. But no one wanting to listen. Sienna more upset because the sketch book had special meaning for her as well, so she was upset he had it this whole time and never said anything. And now in this scene with his mom. It’s her not wanting to discuss the book, or what was inside. Because she didn’t want to be confronted again with her sick husband and what happened to him. How he’d transformed from a loving father, to something terrible and insane. Sarah Voigt(Barbara/mom) and Elliott did absolutely phenomenal with that scene. She had been holding on by a thread up to that moment, she just wanted all of that evening to be done and forgotten. But her son was scared. He wanted to save them, save his sister, and get his mom to actually hear him out and see he wasn’t a sicko like she thought. And that his dad, her husband maybe wasn’t crazy. But Barbara was done with all of it. She didn’t want to hear it, or his reasoning. She took it completely different, further going with how no one ever listened to the poor kid and she just. Snapped. Taring the book apart. Breaking her sons heart seeing what he held to as a bastion of hope and explanation. Now torn and tossed aside. Even though it was funny hearing him say “you are such a bitch.”, it was legitimately moving and he sold it. A hundred percent the guy sold it. He was at his lowest moment. No one would listen to him, no one ever listens to him. He tried telling Sienna, he tried telling mom. But every time he told mom anything. She just got in his face about it and wrote him off. The taring of the book was the final step and he just stopped holding back.

It was really well done and absolutely loved it.

Then we get to Damien Leone, this mother fucker…

The guy wrote, produced, directed, did special effects work on all the terrifier films. The man has a vision and knows how to get it across. Which is dangerously fucking amazing. What Tarantino did for pulp stories, Leone did for horror.

The guy knows his shit, he knows what he wants and he filmed it. It’s clear he has a story to tell with Art, and the fact he’s managed to take it from a short he shot and was asked to include in All Hallows Eve, brought Art back for bits on the sequel to that, Took the character and made a feature film. And now took Art to bigger and better things. It has that genuine feel of classic horror franchises.

I’m talking back in the first 6 films of Friday the 13th.

Where each one began with a recap of the previous film, and just acted as a continuing story. While bringing something new. Where as other sequels today, just go off of the bigger is better, we need ONE big moment to sell this cake. The rest is fodder.

This film is what happens when you get someone who understood the assignment, loves what they do, and has a story to tell, and one I hope he continues to tell.

I loved this film so much I bought it twice. That’s mostly true. I do love this film, but I accidentally bought it twice. At first the only way I could see it was to watch it online. So I ordered screambox to watch it. I loved it, preordered it and was happy. But because my movie collection is an unhinged mess, I forgot I had a physical copy of it and picked up another copy at Best Buy, came home and found out yep. Already owned it.

So if you want to see this film? I got a spare copy you can borrow.

Absolutely check it out. If you can stomach it. Like I said, watch the short, watch the first film. If you can get through it, you’ll be good. And its so worth the journey. Just like Pirates 2 XXX Stagnetti’s Revenge.

Just without all the hardcore fucking.

Thank god there was no Art fucking in this.

Until tomorrow, If you happen to visit a pizza place at night, and see a clown sitting at a table opposite you. Don’t go in the bathroom, seriously. The clown painted the walls with shit. Everywhere. Call yourself an Uber and go halfway across town to take a shit. Goodnight!