We chat with Terrifier2 director damienleone about bringing Art the Clown back in a sequel that raises the horror bar from the original. Spoilers ahead!
Warning: This Interview Contains SPOILERS for Terrifier 2Director Damien Leone scored a cult horror hit in 2016 with Terrifier, and now he's back with Terrifier 2. Centered on the demonic Art the Clown , Terrifier 2 ups the blood, gore, and mayhem as Art targets Sienna , a teenager who has a secret of her own in the town of Miles County.
I just had this idea about a clown terrorizing this woman on a city bus. And then I wound up turning him into Art physically. But when I made that short, there were demons, there were creatures, monsters, all kinds of crazy stuff. Everybody left that short just talking about Art the Clown, and he's only in the beginning. He's in it for like two minutes. And they just said, "Dude, you have to keep doing something with that clown. I want to see more of him.
So I think part of it is the way he looks, especially his personality. And then when you put David Howard Thornton in the costume, and he brings his skillset to it, and all that theatricality and those beautiful mannerisms and idiosyncrasies, that's very charismatic, and that that brings them to another level. And I think the third thing is, you have to really deliver the goods with a slasher in terms of the violence and what they do to their victims.
We're a really small, tight-knit group of people. I mean, this budget is very low. I don't know if we can really talk about it. But it is. I would say it's a lot smaller than anybody would imagine. But we have such an amazingly talented group of dedicated filmmakers who were just with me, in the trenches for years, literally years, to make this.
Damien Leone: Lauren is a godsend. And I tell her all the time. I told her while we were shooting [that] once this movie comes out, you're gone. I just sent her rocketship emojis. Because she's that talented. She really is. I've never had an actor care more about a character that I wrote, even more than me.
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