Slasher nightmare chaining references, Terrifiing 2 is especially the occasion for his director Damien Leone "whurling – between two bloodsheds – his love of horrific cinema. After technical test of the celest wolf, back on this horror movie out of the ordinary while he just dragged his bloody carcass to the catalog of Shadowz.
Wake up in the morgue
A funny entity comes to awaken Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) at the morgue, the opportunity for the medical examiner to spend a dirty quarter hour... But if the Clown doesn't forget his coquetry by making a hook by the laundry, he will quickly cross the road of a teenager, Sienna (Lauren LaVera), and his little brother. One year after the previous butchery of Art the Clown, here he brings back his high carcass back to the streets of Miles County for a Halloween that promises to be more bloody than ever.
Damien Leone did not fall into horror by chance! Her mother herself was an unconditional fan of the genre – until she called Damien because of the little child of Curse – and his makeup profession allowed him to infiltrate the world of cinema. Yet his cinema impulses push him to make short films: first The 9th Circle (2008) and Terrifiing (2011), both of which are combined in a long format called All Hallows Eve also available on Shadowz.
It will launch crowdfunding to turn the first Terrifiing long-format version, but the audience remains shy... It is therefore a producer who will finance the $35,000 needed to shoot the film. A micro-budget for an American film... Scream VI Another recent rather medium and comparatively ungenerous slasher, cost no less than $35 million!). Terrifiing ends up producing a box office of more than 10 times its initial budget and quickly acquired a status of cult film in the horrific sphere: nothing better to launch on the tracks a project in a row...
Except that contrary to Hollywood trading logic, Leone does not sacrifice its work: the budget is still very modest (250,000). $), it keeps control of the main posts and retains the same tone of bis gore, sometimes inconclusive, sometimes very generous, but always radical.
On the other side of the wrong side...
And Leone is going to focus on taking everything that mainstream horrific cinema currently offers us, and turning it around like a glove. First of all, getting rid of the Hollywood financing system that saturates the market for medium or dispensable horror films allows Leone to develop a film by keeping its immoderate taste of handcraft and craftsmanship.
Then he also plays with the slasher rules. Where plethora of these films enjoys the game of massacre of deprecated protagonists, Terrifiing 2 Inversely, by choosing victims to whom the viewer had time to return in empathy, the sadistic crimes of Art the Clown are all the more unbearable. And on the other hand, when the executioner himself ends up being the victim, that's where the blood and tripals spills become all the more enjoyable for the viewer. Finally, choosing to keep a purely fantastic pan gives to Terrifiing 2 Dropping nightmares absolutely delicious!
Drop on by the clown coffee...
Sung in the scene proposed below, Terrifiing 2 offers a rhyme at least as stubborn as Freddy's, and it's not there (far away) the only reference to the corpus of horrific cinema...
The Freddy, Massacre with chainsaw 1 and 2, obviously The Night of Masks, the seminal Psychosis, Rob Zombie's cinema, etc. Definitely, Terrifiing 2 quotes by shovel without ever losing his particular DNA, which allows this film to detach itself from the enormous mass of the slashers. Perhaps it is due to this uncomplicated tone, daring as much adolescent frivolity as serious jokes (Just the tip!). Perhaps also thanks to his mutic boogeyman, almost instantly entering the Pantheon of the best villains of horror films. More surely a wise mixture of all this, coupled with the desire of the hands that transforms this Terrifiing 2 a true feast of matter.
Anyway, you'll get it. Terrifiing 2 is a good surprise for the horrific spectator with a well hung heart! Between her vibes old school, her clown almost as terrifying as Pennywise (book version) and her tripotée of make-up and practical gore effects to wish, it is definitely a success of the current cinema bis. And if he's clumsy in many aspects, we don't see the 2h20 (!) of the feature film... In short, a very nice surprise that should make us wait until the exit of Terrifiing 3 (where Art should trade his Halloween costume against Santa's) scheduled for October 2024!
The film is now available on Shadowz, with a make-of and several interviews with Damien Leone.
I need to find the courage to look at him.
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