Damien Leone directs Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton and Elliott Fullam in this horror sequel where Art the Clown returns to terrorize a teenage girl and her younger brother on Halloween night.

If you embrace that this is both long for a horror flick and extreme for even a horror flick then Terrifier 2 has so much to offer. Unfathomable resurrections. Unbelievably nasty kills with gloopy physical FX, animatronics and CGI. Nightmare On Elm Street inspired dream sequences. The same quicksand sense of reality as the high points of that series. Who exactly is The Pale Girl and why can people who aren’t Art The Clown see her? And David Howard Thornton committed take as new slasher icon really finds its groove here. It is unpredictable, silly, shocking… and… well… terrifying. You never know what iteration of the silent Art we are going to get shot from shot. In this sequel he is matched by final girl Lauren LaVera. Likeable, undeniably sexy and convincingly vulnerable, her conversion to battling hero is a stand out. There’s a touch of the mythic to all this, to some wider, not quite fully defined, ambition. As revivals of VHS-era nasty nights in go, the Terrifier series just gets better and better. Only Rob Zombie and Leone are making blood soaked love letters with this level of craft and care.

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Perfect Double Bill: Terrifier (2016)

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