Terrifier 2, rising from it's prequel and now cult hit Terrifier 1, Terrifier 2 is only here to give more of the same, and show no growth whatsoever or ambition into becoming a real movie. This has to be the most boring horror movie I've seen in a year or so. And I've seen a lot.
Art the Clown is a good design, and the main reason the first movie had a good impact and following, and of course, the one crazy kill. But it was appropriately amateur and poorly executed in many places. But it still had the decency to provide a mystery and some kind of suspense. I wish the director had the guts to just make T2 all about clown, his perspective and not add a normal person plot to the whole movie which is irredeemably bad. From the weird son and sorry.. No one in that family can act. It shows because to hope for any kind of flow in scenes between them they just put some music under it making it all feel extremely cheap.
That takes me right into the use of music and sound which was an immediate telltale sign that this director and the movie has not increased in quality (except gore) since T1. So many conversations that are just...awful, so poorly written and acted. And they last foreeeeverr. Combined with the blunt poorly mixed in music it's just a slog to get through.
Gore/what you're here for. It's plenty, it's good. If anything huge respect to all the make up artist, production designers and vfx artists because they're kind of only the great part of this whole series. There's some crazy stuff here and it's convincing but absurd as well so never really disturbing I guess. It's bordering comical absurdity, which this movie is really wanting to be outside of it's kill scenes.
The color grading improved thankfully but still insist on looking muddy and incohesive. Making everything dinghy and grainy doesn't always elevate horror, and this is the proof.
Story/etc, utterly lackluster. No point in caring. Another noticeable note is the movie's indulgence with Art, the dream sequence at the start is a showcase of how poorly it's paced and how much the movie is in love with itself, in a bad way.
Wish this movie was going to be the needed step up in all facets.. sadly it wasn't.
Art the Clown is a good design, and the main reason the first movie had a good impact and following, and of course, the one crazy kill. But it was appropriately amateur and poorly executed in many places. But it still had the decency to provide a mystery and some kind of suspense. I wish the director had the guts to just make T2 all about clown, his perspective and not add a normal person plot to the whole movie which is irredeemably bad. From the weird son and sorry.. No one in that family can act. It shows because to hope for any kind of flow in scenes between them they just put some music under it making it all feel extremely cheap.
That takes me right into the use of music and sound which was an immediate telltale sign that this director and the movie has not increased in quality (except gore) since T1. So many conversations that are just...awful, so poorly written and acted. And they last foreeeeverr. Combined with the blunt poorly mixed in music it's just a slog to get through.
Gore/what you're here for. It's plenty, it's good. If anything huge respect to all the make up artist, production designers and vfx artists because they're kind of only the great part of this whole series. There's some crazy stuff here and it's convincing but absurd as well so never really disturbing I guess. It's bordering comical absurdity, which this movie is really wanting to be outside of it's kill scenes.
The color grading improved thankfully but still insist on looking muddy and incohesive. Making everything dinghy and grainy doesn't always elevate horror, and this is the proof.
Story/etc, utterly lackluster. No point in caring. Another noticeable note is the movie's indulgence with Art, the dream sequence at the start is a showcase of how poorly it's paced and how much the movie is in love with itself, in a bad way.
Wish this movie was going to be the needed step up in all facets.. sadly it wasn't.