Terrifier 3 is smashing records left right and centre as Art the Clown is rising to horror icon status alongside the greats including Freddy Krueger, Jason, Michael Myers, Chucky and Ghostface. The funniest thing is, it’s terrible!

After surviving Art the Clown’s Halloween massacre, Sienna and her brother struggle to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. However, just when they think they’re safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare.
Yes, on multiple occasions I wanted to walk out of the cinema watching Terrifier 3 as this gore-for-the-sake-of-gore movie had zero storyline of its own merely just dragging on after the second instalment weak plot and it just got stupider and stupider as the film went on.
Brain cells were evaporating from my brain with every frame watched but that’s what makes Terrifier so great. It’s a switch-your-brain-off type of movie where you just embrace the insanity and stupidity of it all.
I don’t have to invest in the plot or the characters, I don’t have to dissect some Christopher Nolan narrative that turns my brain into congested cognitive mush, I simply sip my drink, eat my popcorn and indulge in the world of Art and his ability to push cinematic boundaries in the most gloriously gory way possible.
The Terrifier films can’t be reviewed as movies, just like the golden age of 80s slasher movies. They’re character profiles and showreels of practical FX that are stitched together with some loose plot to make a movie.
Filmmakers of these kinds of movies must have an absolute blast making these types of films, it’s just a gory good time and whilst I feel as though they’ll no doubt milk the franchise for another one or two more movies it’s just a horror box office throwback that grips our attention.
 
A genuinely gruesome display from start to finish but still three movies in we have zero motive or origins of Art the Clown. Why he does what he does? Why he randomly went dormant with his psychotic side-kick to the point where he was growing cobwebs? Nothing is explained in Terrifier 3 and whilst this surface-level audience investment racks up box office numbers it would be nice to understand the main character a little bit more.
Freddy, Jason and Chucky all have a backstory that allows you to connect with the character in a deeper and more meaningful way whereas Art is simply just there to serve as a bringer of death and for me as an audience member, I just can’t connect to a character who’s merely just thrust upon me with no explanation or justification as to why I’m witnessing the things he’s doing.
Reviewing Terrifier 3 as a movie is a pointless task, it fails in every single department of how I’d normally dissect and evaluate a film but Terrifier 3 has a horror heart that beats strongly, some amazing practical special FX and whilst the kills aren’t imaginative as they were in other instalments they still deliver in the gore department.
With winks and nods to films such as The Shining (the axe scene in the beginning) and even Jason X (liquid nitrogen scene) there’s lots for horror fans to get on board with.
UK audiences are about the most boring audiences you can watch a film with. When I was in the States watching a horror film, people cheered and clapped when characters were killed, the bad guy was rooted for and the cinema became a colosseum of horror fans hungry for their next blood fix.
Terrifier 3 is designed for those audiences and settings and I’m absolutely here for it so whilst I may give the film 2.5 out of 5 stars from a film aspect, take nothing away from the fact that the movie itself is wonderful.
It’s terrible, but it works! 

Our Rating

Summary
Terrifier 3 is terrible in every story, plot, and directional aspect that I’d usually discuss within a standard film review but the film breaks the mould as a gory good time, there’s something about this movie that has made it a box office success. It’s so bad that it’s good, it’s terrible but it just works!