Terrifier (2018)

This is a movie without any purpose or coherent story: it's just about killing again and again, in the most cruel and gruesome ways, visualized as graphic as modern special effects can produce. If you are into gore, you'll have a real ball, but if you appreciate at least some background or characterization you will be disappointed. The first say twenty minutes were promising enough, the way the clown was teasing both women was very inventive: funny and extremely creepy at the same time. And surely: this must be one of the nastiest, scariest looking horror-clowns ever, I grant them that! But when the cat-and-mouse game turns into a killing-spree, it's a fast down-hill ride: characters are not important anymore, there are no dialogues whatsoever apart from the screaming, and the feeling of repetition prevails. It's hard to judge any acting abilities: although both girls do an adequate job in the introduction, they are soon reduced to crawling and screaming victims. But the clown is great in his own weird and scary way, his mimics are top of the notch. So just for him and the special effects I still rank it 4 out of 10.

This is my first film review, and unfortunately its not a positive one-The first 10 minutes of this film i was enjoying the story and pacing, being a horror fan, however the longer the film went on the more i wanted to switch it to something else. The acting is subpar and at times the attacks were not even convincing with bad editing and lazy movements, 2 *'s instead of 1* the only redeemable features are the clown having a unique style that could of worked in another film that had a good story, some of the shots are semi-decent and I appreciate the use of real gore effects over CGI. The script lacks anything unique overall this movie is awfully predictable and i want my time back.

This 2017 horror film is basically a spin-off to "All Hallows Eve" featuring a murderous clown, Art who brings bloody mayhem to anyone in his way on Halloween night. This is a good throwback to splatter/gore flicks of the 70's & 80's with some "Saw" elements as well. It features a very creepy killer, bloody/gruesome make-up effects and a chilling score. Horror/slasher fans should give this a view at least once.

I grudgingly give this film a 5 for it's opening 1/2 hour or so and some fairly creepy moments, but it all goes downhill from there in my opinion as most films of this kind do. Ok yes, the clown is pretty creepy and yes there are some downright gruesome scenes. At first, him being a mime lends to the creepiness, but as the movie goes on it tends to take away from the creepiness in my opinion as he just makes funny faces and bloody teeth smiles, not to mention giving the finger to one of his attackers!! But the movie contains many if not most of the tired cliche's we are used to in these kinds of slasher films. This includes the OFT repeated phrase "Hello, is there anybody here?".....great for letting the killer know your whereabouts of course. Having the killer dead to rights flat on his face, stabbing him once in the back, and then stabbing him 20 more times till dead...right???....NOOO how about running off!! And of the course the "indestructible villain", who continues to live after being stabbed multiple times in different parts of his body and bashed in the head HARD numerous times with 2x4's and several other different objects. Isn't this just a guy in a clown outfit?? AND OF COURSE coming back to life at the morgue after blowing his brains out in the previous scene. I don't think any of this lends to the films feel or creepiness, which at times does work and makes one squirm. The acting is passable, especially in the first 1/2 hour or so...fairly engaging and believable. But some characters who appear later just don't make much sense and the acting regresses to B-movie fare. Those working and living in the what is seemingly an abandoned or shut-down warehous include a seemingly homeless woman who caresses and carries around a doll acting as if it is her real child?? Ummm, why?? An exterminator who happens to be working in the wee hours on halloween exterminating rats in said warehouse?? He is pretty much only there to allow access to the warehouse bathroom (and the domain of the killer clown) for our main female character to relieve herself after a hard night of partying with her flirtatious and fairly mindless companion. A companion who oddly seems to take a shine to the creepy clown (shooting selfies with him in the restaurant towards the start of the film), as opposed to being repulsed by his leering and creepy ways. How about a cliche' scene where said exterminator is wearing ear-buds listening to music as our protagonist SCREAMS LOUDLY for help as she is being whisked away by Art the Clown?? Convenient noise cancelling on those headphones...lol!! To me, the film really goes downhill once the action turns to the warehouse. The killer clown who finds his victims no matter how far they run from him or how well they hide, the nonsensical addition of the crazy homeless woman, the bumbling exterminator's boss who comes to try and rescue him after getting a distress call on his cellphone, and the sister of our main character who sets out to come to their rescue when the car they are driving receives the obligatory flat tire. She obviously gets roped into the creepiness at the warehouse after the clown himself texts for her "to come around the back, your sister is sick". She lives to tell the tale even though her scalp and breasts are skinned and worn by the clown in one of his more creepy scenes. She then is revealed as the horribly disfigured girl shown in the opening scene, who is being interviewed by a female journalist and being labelled the "only survivor of the massacre". Very good first half- hour to 45 minutes give the film a real chance, but the director seems to fall into the same old horror tropes and types no matter how gruesome the blood and gore gets. Watchable, but don't expect any ground-breaking ideas or outcome!!