Terrifier

Just got done watching Terrifier (2011) and this might be my favorite horror short movie of all time. I watched this short movie on YouTube via reaction video.

Positives for Terrifier (2011): While The 9th Circle (2008) was our introduction to Art the Clown, Terrifier (2011) showed the world what this horror icon is capable of doing to his victims and it is glorious. Mike Giannelli did a fantastic job as Art the Clown in this short movie. Damien Leone's gore effects are awesome and these effects would only get better with every movie that he would do later on.

Overall, Terrifier (2011) is the best horror short movie that I've ever seen in my life and that is saying a lot.

I had already seen Terrifier, which was an hour and a half long, so I tried this short film, which was made a few years earlier. I was very satisfied. Since it's only 20 minutes or so, there wasn't room for any story, so Terrifier from 2011 didn't have to worry about that and went straight into it and then showed us some brutal scenes, which is what he did best here and in the 2016 version anyway. So was this short film better than the long version? I honestly don't think so. They both offered us brutal scenes full of blood, only here it was over in a moment, while in the full film we had plenty of time, only that time could have been filled with a little deeper plot, and by that I mean why the clown is doing what he's doing. How it came to be what it is and just some originality would have been nice. Maybe that's the goal of the script and they don't want to reveal too much about the character and leave questions unanswered and maybe nobody cares either. I'm just saying what I found lacking in the longer film, whereas here it wasn't a problem and that's why I'll give the 2011 version a better rating. For me, a good horror short that I recommend to horror fans.

A young female motorist is terrorised by a crazed, murderous clown after she stops for fuel at a gas station. This 20 minute short was later used as one of the segments of the excellent All Hallows' Eve (2013) anthology and features Art the Clown, who then went on to star in another feature length move, Terrifier (2017). Despite the low budget everything about this short impressed me. Art, in my opinion, is the scariest clown in horror history (sorry Mr King!). He really is sick. The film makers don't hold back on the gore and violence, which is well done despite a low budget. Acting is good. This film shows a great passion for the slasher sub genre and there is real talent here.

If you love scary, eeevil clowns, then you should love TERRIFIER. Director Damien Leone's Art the Clown is absolutely horrifying! He stalks a woman who simply pulls into a gas station on her way home, resulting in gruesome murder and a supernatural nightmare.

Filmed in a gritty, low-budget style that actually helps the material, this movie helped to launch Mr. Leone's full-length film version, and the sequels. With Art, the Director has made a memorable, jaw-dropping icon of grisly, brutal death, using practical gore effects like DaVinci uses paint!

If you enjoy a good old-fashioned, short splatter movie, look no further...

My friend Daniel Rodas let me watch this film recently (He played the 'Man in Car').

And I was very impressed. The film had me engaged from beginning to end, which is not easy to do in a span of only 18 minutes.

The acting was strong, the make up was gruesomely realistic, the deaths were highly creative, and the 'Clown' was very creepy.

The story is very simple and traditional. A young woman's car runs out of gas, on Halloween night. She stops by a deserted gas station. Witnesses a brutal murder and then what follows is a horrific night of survival as the Killer (dressed in a hideous Clown costume) hunts her down to finish her off. Slaughtering anyone and everyone who gets in his way.

The attention to detail for classic B Exploitation was wonderful and quite refreshing. Everything from the grainy camera quality to the credit font to the closing shot. You see Damien Leone's passion for horror in this film quite intensely.

This film is far better than 70 percent of those stupid 'Safe' horror movies Hollywood is spitting out these days. Nice to see that Exploitation is still very much alive.

I recommend this short film to anyone who LOVES horror. And if you love Exploitation horror... then this film is DEFINITELY for you.

Bravo.