Terrifier 3 (2024)

Plot of Terrifier 3. I’ll do my best with this, but it is evident that you have to have seen the previous film to actually know what is going on. A policemen investigates something in a dark cellar, coming across a decapitated body and is then attacked by the body and a clown suited person with the policeman’s head gets onto a metro train, and then in an asylum the clown discovers Victoria, a horrifyingly mutated woman, they kill the guards and escape to take refuge in an abandoned house. Later when the house is to be demolished the pair are revived and kill the demolition workers, when go on a killing spree, the clown carrying a sack from which he removes a variety or weapons. Meanwhile Sienna, a previous victim of the clown is released from rehab into the care of her uncle, but she is plagued by hallucinations and when visiting a mall is sure she has seen the clown. She has but she is not believed. But eventually she must face the clown again in a final showdown.

Content: There is no actual nudity, but young people are seen having sex in the shower, before being dismembered by the clown with a chain saw. Sienna and her brother are taking tablets due to their previous trauma. Just a bit of drinking in a bar where two old guys are killed by the clown, who is mute and acts out his emotions. At various times the clown kills people with different items pulled from his sack, a chain saw, a large axe, a pistol, a cylinder of nitrogen, a hammer, a mallet and more. I do not choose to describe the gory details, but there is a lot of dismemberment on screen. The camera never looks away so in the end I had to. I was horrified that this film was shown on Spanish TV. Apparently 9 people walked out during the first minutes of the first showing in the cinema and I initially was going to shut it down, but I realised that I do have a job, however limited, to advise people about cinema. So don’t watch this, and NEVER let your children do so.

A View. I realise that I have already expressed a view so I did not like it. However 122  critics seem to have thought it was OK. And despite its very moderate production cost it made $90 million at the box office. Apparently in order to keep the length of the film to less than 2 hours (without success), the writer just removed pages of the script which has resulted in a disjointed presentation, if you are interested in more than people being cut up. Oh, and there is a sequel!

Fun Fact (Maybe): Two people passed out during the screening of the film in Australia, and people in the UK have vomited during the opening scene.