Warning: This article contains spoilers for Terrifier 3 (2024)
This article includes detailed descriptions of fictional torture and murder, including child death.
While Terrifying 3 Is full of cruel, cruel death, not all the decisions of the slasher sequel are as brutal as each other. Art the Clown movies are not for the faint of heart. To misquote Christopher Walken’s Man on fire Character, art The clown’s art is dead, and he has painted many gory masterpieces over the terrifying Franchise. Although Art the Clown’s worst kill ever arrived in 2016’s terrifying, Terrifying 3s higher body count ups the ante for the series. Terrifying 3The cliffhanger ending leaves the fate of two characters unclear, but it takes some brutal deaths to get there.
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each of Terrifying 3The main death scene is notable, whether it’s for its brevity, its dark humor, its shock factor or its sheer nastiness. Throughout the movie, Art the Clown and his accomplice, terrifyings now-villainous original final girl Victoria, kill around 22 people. Some of the victims receive sudden deaths that are shocking precisely because they are so unexpected, while others receive drawn-out deaths that would leave anyone begging for a quick exit. total, Terrifying 3The character deaths are some of the most violent, and understandably divisive, delights the horror genre has to offer in 2024.
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Corey and the four-time victims
Terrifier 3’s poor excited child opened a bomb in the mall
One of the big questions around Terrifying 3 Would Art the Clown break a major taboo that the villain hasn’t revisited since 2013’s anthology horror movie All Hail’s Eve. Although his appearances in terrifying And Terrifying 2 made him a cult icon among horror viewers, Art the clown didn’t kill any children in the first two terrifying Movies. That certainly changes in Terrifying 3Whose goofiest death scene sees Art pose as a mall Santa and give a young boy a gift that turns out to be a bomb, which promptly explodes and kills four other shoppers.
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Eddie and Smokey
The bartender takes a merciful sudden death
Although Terrifying 3 Killing off child characters is technically shocking, Cory’s death at the mall feels more like a tasteless comedic hit than a genuine scare. This moment is played for laughs, making it the least brutal death of the sequel. The second most merciful deaths in the movie are shared by bartender Eddie and Clint Howard’s barfly SmokeyBoth of whom are shot in the head by art and die instantly. Although they are hardly fun, these deaths are comparatively lucky because their quick deaths guarantee that no character endures a brutally slow, torturous death, unlike many less fortunate victims.
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Unnamed: Exterminator
The destroyer suffered a relatively quick death
one of Terrifying 3The most painfully slow death was suffered by Dennis, the exterminator who had the bad luck to find art in the attic of a seemingly abandoned house. in contrast, Dennis’s unnamed colleague takes it relatively lightly. Exploring the basement of the same building, the exterminator encounters Victoria’s lifeless body. Not realizing that he was dealing with a supernatural creature, the cultivator approached her, only to be felled by a sledgehammer. Glass. A huge neck wound means the Exterminator’s exit is quick, if hardly painless, as he bleeds out in seconds.
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The opening scene’s name is Father and Son
Terrifier 3’s off-screen deaths are at least quick
Speaking of quick but painful deaths, It is important to note that all the remaining deaths in Terrifying 3 are extremely violent. As such, time spent dying on screen is really the only metric left to determine which characters suffer more than others. So, it is worth saying that Terrifying 3The movie’s second and third deaths only take a moment, compared to most of the movie’s kills. The unnamed son who is dissembled by art off-screen never makes a sound, meaning he may have died sleeping. His father is less fortunate, but still seems to die within seconds of his attack.
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The opening scene’s name is Mother
The victim of Art’s opening scene loses an arm (and her life)
While her husband and son are submitted to their wounds without even getting out of bed, the mother in Terrifying 3s opening scene is not so lucky. Terrifying 3His first drawn-out death comes courtesy of the unfortunate motherwho is stabbed several times before he cuts off her arm and finally splits her head in two with an axe. With a long chase sequence following her through the house, various brutal blows before the killing blow, and a completely unnecessary arm amputation, this kill caused some more sensitive viewers to walk out of Terrifying 3s opening scene.
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Charles Johnson
Santa’s death owes its inspiration to Jason Voorhees
The audience members left after the unnamed mother’s pre-title card death are due to evacuate early, as Terrifying 3 It just gets disgusting from that moment on. Although Eddie and Smokey are blessed with pretty quick deaths after Art messes with them in a quiet bar, the Mall Santa who presents Art with his suit and beard suffers a much worse fate. The mall Santa was tied to a chair, pleading for his life and telling Art his real name. Art takes inspiration from Jason Xs Jason Voorhees when he ruthlessly doses Santa in liquid nitrogen Before Break his still alive body into pieces.
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Burke the hospital orderly
Art and Victoria’s first victim loses his face to them
Chris Jericho came out in Terrifying 3 Like BurkeA hulking orderly working in the psychiatric institution where Victoria is a patient. Burke’s fate is particularly nasty because he is the first character to be brutalized by both Art and Victoria. As Victoria tears off pieces of the Orderly’s face, Art the Clown’s headless body scalps him. Burke’s eventual death was left off-screen, but the parts viewers were previewed to were more than enough for it to merit inclusion as one of terrifying 3’s nastiest kills. Once reunited, Art’s head and body get up to some even more despicable antics.
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Mia
Art the Clown’s Psycho Homage is notably nasty
While Terrifying 3The reviews are positive, this shouldn’t be a big surprise for viewers who have been paying attention to the franchise. Despite their shortcomings, the terrifying Movies reveal a real love for the horror genre of their creator, director Damian Lyon. This shines through Terrifying 3s Psycho Homage, which sees Art attack and kill a canoodling couple as they shower. Terrifying 3The shower scene is far worse than Hitchcock’s famous sequenceWith Art using his chainsaw to melt the still-living couple as they try to escape.
Mia, a true-crime enthusiast who has previously confessed her obsession with Art the Clown, has her arms and hips cut off with the villain’s chainsaw as she stands in shock. Art then crouches down to stare into her despairing eyes as she dies, ironically echoing a comment she made earlier about wanting to look into the face of the Miles County Killer. Art adds insult to injury by adding a pair of novelty glasses to the victim’s corpse and cutting her cheek with the chainsaw as well, but it’s the initial slicing and dicing that makes the scene shocking.
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Jess
Sienna’s aunt is tortured by rats (and Art and Victoria)
Jess is arguably the most sympathetic new character in Terrifying 3Which makes her brutal fate even more nasty. Sienna’s sweet aunt reminisces with her about her late mother and defends her niece when Sienna is accused of lying about Art’s return. However, Jess also makes the literally fatal mistake of sleeping Sienna a sleeping aid while Jess’s husband goes to pick up Sienna’s little brother Jonathan. As a result, Sienna is fast asleep when Victoria and Art break into the house, take Jess’s daughter Gabby hostage and kill both her husband and Jonathan off-screen.
Jess’s gruesome ordeal is Terrifier 3’s longest torture scene and rivals Terrifier 2’s infamous bedroom scene in terms of its intensity.
Jonathan’s death could have been the most nasty in the movie if it wasn’t limited to the viewer’s imagination, as Victoria reveals that he was eaten alive by rats. However, Jess ensures that the audience gets a good idea of ​​what it looks like when Art crams a plastic tube into her mouth and feeds rats into it with a blowtorch. Jess’s cruel ordeal is Terrifying 3The longest scene of torture and rivalry Terrifying 2s infamous bedroom scene in terms of its intensity. Ironically, that’s not what kills Jess, as her throat is cut just moments after the rat torture ends.
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Dennis
The lucky exterminator is brutally scalped by Boxcutter
It would take a lot to overcome Jess’s bad luck, however one of Terrifying 3His first kill is arguably his most detailed and nastiest death. Dennis the Exterminator finds art in the attic of an abandoned home and, before he can comprehend what’s happening, what looks like a clown statue comes to life and throws him across the room. Impaled by the hand with a nail, Dennis is pinned to the floor as Art eats his finger and takes a box to his scalp. As if that wasn’t enough, Art then peels his head wholesale as the still-conscious Dennis screams.
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Cole
Art recreates his worst kill ever with Cole’s dismemberment
in terrifyingArt the Clown guaranteed himself a place in horror history with a boundary-pushing sequence where he cuts an unfortunate female victim in half. This sequence gets a comically over-the-top homage to Terrifying 3s worst death, the death of Cole. The other half of the aforementioned shower sex couple, Cole has his hand cut in two and his leg chainsawed by Art before crawling to freedom.
As a zany novelty song plays Terrifying 3the soundtrack, Art the Clown proceeds to Chainsaw Cole in half From the bottom up. Without getting too graphic, suffice it to say that none of Cole’s anatomy is spared in this gruesome process. It’s not clear how much of this happens while Cole is still alive or conscious, but what is clear is that Cole’s death is the most pure gory spectacle in the entire Terrifying 3It’s brutal, bloody runtime.