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Increasingly Popular by Damien Leone Terrifying the franchise upped the killer ante with the well-rated Terrifying 3which may have surpassed its predecessors when it comes to the blood spilled by Art the Clown. Terrifying 3Box office totals surpassed most expectations, and a big part of the reason is the film’s tendency to encourage word-of-mouth recommendations. The extreme violence of the franchise and the intensity of some of its scenes, including Terrifying 3the controversial opening scene of , which left audiences queasy at its screenings; Naturally, these incidents went viral and further piqued the general interest of viewers.
Although the franchise’s famous (and meme-able) Art the Clown was shockingly brutal in the original Terrifyinghe reached new heights, or depths, of depravity in Terrifying 2. Creator Damien Leone sought to surpass all other Art the Clown films with Terrifying 3, both in narrative and pure blood, and in many ways he succeeds in this endeavor. With three chapters of Terrifying saga now out, it’s worth re-examining all three films to determine which of Art’s infamous death scenes is actually the bloodiest.
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Art’s Pizza Shop Massacre
Terrifying
After the long meeting at the pizzeria between Dawn, Tara and Art at the beginning of TerrifyingArt performs his first kills of the franchise on the two pizzeria workers. The owner, Steve, angrily kicks Art out after he smears feces all over the bathroom and, shortly after, has his decapitated head turned into a jack-o’-lantern. While this death happens off-screen, the next one doesn’t; Art cuts off the fingers of the other employee, Ramone, as he tries to call for help. He starts stabbing Ramone in the face many times, making it more bloody brain mush than a skull.
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Ricky gets fed up with art at the Halloween store
Terrifying 2
Art’s trash bag full of mysterious weapons (and other assorted items, like loose change) is always bad news for whoever sees it open and for the first person to try it. Terrifying 2 It’s Ricky, the clerk at the Halloween store. After playfully chasing Sienna around the store, Art tries to buy a bicycle horn from Ricky and searches his trash bag for money. While looking for a few cents, Art places several other items on the counter, including a glass bottle, a chain, and a cleaver..
Terrifying Key Franchise Details |
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Film |
Release date |
Budget |
Gross box office |
RT Tomatometer Score |
RT Popcorn Meter Score |
Terrifying |
2016 |
$35,000 to $55,000 |
$416,000 |
60% |
53% |
Terrifying 2 |
2022 |
$250,000 |
US$15.7 million |
86% |
80% |
Terrifying 3 |
2024 |
US$2 million |
$49.8 million (and counting) |
76% |
86% |
A frustrated Ricky attacks Art, which causes Art to smash his face with the bottle. He then stabs Ricky in the eye with the broken bottle cap and spins it around, and in the process pulls him over the counter and throws him to the floor. Art then takes the cleaver to Ricky’s skull.killing him instantly before continuing to chop off his head until he completely decapitates him. Art makes additional use of Ricky’s head by posing with it in the window, scaring a child trying to enter the store.
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The coroner finds the new art
Terrifying 2
Terrifying 2 wastes no time in proving to its audience that the bar has been raised since the original Terrifying. The newly resurrected Art begins the film by brutally massacring the first person he encounters: the coroner, Seth Bolton. After his resurrection at the hands of the demonic entity that now possesses Art, the distorted clown slits the coroner’s throatalthough he manages to crawl to a phone to call for help before Art gets to him again.
Art throws the coroner to the ground and rips open his head, ripping out one of his eyes by the roots so he can place it in his own head to replace the one he lost in his suicide at the end of Terrifying. As soon as you leave, Art smashes the coroner’s face with a hammer before completely dismantling his head to recover his brain. It’s a breathtakingly brutal scene and sets the perfect tone for Terrifying 2.
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Demo Workers discover art and Vicky
Terrifying 3
The two demo workers who enter Art’s house at the beginning Terrifying 3 may have really revealed Art’s story with a joke, but they didn’t last much longer than that. The two men discover and awaken Art and Vicky, who brutally kill them. The former escapes relatively easily, as Vicky stabs him in the neck with a piece of broken glass. Your partner isn’t so lucky; Art stabs him with a stake and bites his fingers off. then cuts off its head with a small knife so he can peel all the skin off the entire face.
While this is happening, Vicky enjoys the act by masturbating with a piece of glasscausing blood to gush from the wounds it opens. It’s a disturbing and bloody addition to the scene, and it’s a nod to The Exorcistin which Regan, possessed by the devil, does something similar with a cross. It’s an indicator that Vicky’s body is inhabited by something hellish, and ultimately makes this one of the most disturbing scenes ever. Terrifying 3.
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Brooke and Jeff at the carnival
Terrifying 2
Art is responsible for an enormous amount of pain and suffering in all Terrifying movies, but Sienna’s friends seem to make the situation worse than most. Her friend Brooke and her boyfriend Jeff accompany Sienna to the carnival that includes the Terrifier funhouse, and after Sienna gets out of the car to meet her brother, Jeff gets out of the car to relieve himself. Unfortunately, Art is waiting for him, and he stabs Jeff in the groin many times before tearing off his genitals and smearing them on the car window in a twisted irony given Jeff’s “Just the Tip” shirt gag.
As bad as it may seem, Brooke’s death is much more bloody and painful. Art chases her into the carnival and manages to corner her in the bathroom, and appears ready to beat her with his custom-made baton. However, he first throws acid in her face, causing her skin to melt off as she screams in agony. At this point, he moves forward with the bat, destroying Brooke’s arms and legs before striking her chest and stomach. As soon as she dies, he reaches into her open chest cavity, rips out her heart, and takes a healthy bite out of it.
5
Art returns at dawn
Terrifying
Art is subjected to Dawn’s drunken antics at the pizzeria when the audience first meets him. Terrifyingand it doesn’t take long for him to take revenge for her annoyances. After chasing Dawn and Tara into an abandoned building, Art captures Dawn off-screen. After he also subdues Tara, she wakes up to find a naked Dawn suspended by her ankles. Art then takes a saw to the young womandividing it from the groin to the head. It’s the defining death of the original Terrifyingand is among the bloodiest deaths in the series.
4
The mall explosion
Terrifying 3
After Santa Art uses liquid nitrogen and a hammer to steal a holly costume from the man Art treats as the real Santa Claus, he goes to a shopping mall so he can play Santa Claus for himself. Art sits in Santa’s seat and reveals a series of wrapped gifts that he hands out to children waiting for Santa at the mall. The tension increases and it is extremely obvious that there is something disturbing inside the packages.
At least one of them contains a bomb, which explodes and kills all the children in the area. Slow reveal shows mutilated piece of children’s bodiesand blood…is…everywhere. It’s perhaps the most shocking moment in the entire series, based on the fact that Art kills multiple children, and he does it en masse rather than one at a time.
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Santa’s Art Visits for Christmas
Terrifying 3
Terrifying 2 shook the horror world with its viral violence and was kicked off by the Coroner’s revelatory death. Terrifying 3 had the challenge of somehow raising the bar to that level of shocking violence, and Damien Leone found a way in the opening scene. The film begins with Art visiting a sleeping family a few nights before Christmas, dressed as Santa Claus, but with an ax instead of a bag full of presents.
Art takes the ax to each family memberkilling the father in his bed next to the sleeping mother, who wakes up to the carnage and manages to at least make it downstairs before Art cuts off her arm and stabs her in the stomach. The far more disturbing part of the entire case is the murder of their son, Timmy. Leone gracefully prevents the audience from seeing Art rip apart a child, but they can hear it, which is equally unpleasant. The copious blood and violence set the tone for the entire film.
2
The bedroom scene
Terrifying 2
Although it is in second place on this list, the highly disturbing “bedroom scene” is probably still considered the “worst” of Art’s many deathseven if it’s not technically the bloodiest. The scene, which many people find difficult to watch, is marked by unrestrained cruelty and prolonged suffering. Art takes so much pleasure in Allie’s pain that it’s truly disturbing, even for the most seasoned horror fans. As bad as the dismemberment is, the fact that Allie remains alive for so long is the worst part of the entire extended scene.
Art cuts out Allie’s eye before literally ripping off one of her arms and then splitting the other in half and tearing it apart. He then cuts and stabs her back, spraying blood everywhere. After a pause in the scene, the audience returns to find Art pouring bleach and rubbing salt into Allie’s open wounds. purely as a way to exacerbate your pain. When Allie’s mother finally enters her room, she finds Allie’s nearly ruined body sitting on the bed, the walls completely covered in a layer of blood, and surprisingly, Allie is still alive.
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Art interrupts Cole and Mia in the shower
Terrifying 3
The bedroom scene was what made audiences sick during screenings of Terrifying 2but Damien Leone created a scene that blew everything up in terms of bloodshed for Terrifying 3. Art shows a young couple (Jonathan’s roommate and his real crime-obsessed girlfriend) doing what college students do in a dorm shower, and he pays his own homage to the work of Alfred Hitchcock Psychopath, albeit with a chainsaw and not a kitchen knife.
There is so much blood from both bodies on the floor that Art is able to literally make a “blood angel” out of the carnage.
Mia could take the title of whole blood drained from a human body in Terrifying franchiseas Art cuts her in half and continues stabbing her body until there’s not much left but a mass of flesh, bone, and blood. Her boyfriend Cole, however, is somehow worse off. The audience is treated to a detailed and harrowing view of Art’s chainsaw slicing through Cole’s back and groin, then moving up the rest of his body.
There is so much blood from both bodies on the floor that Art is able to literally make a “blood angel” out of the carnage. While Allie’s torture and murder in the bedroom scene may be the most disturbing death, there is only one person’s blood in her room. There are two in the shower scene, which makes the scene bloodier than ever. Terrifying 3and all Terrifying franchise (so far).