![]() Barbara then finds her car vandalized and while cleaning it she is killed by Art. After Barbara tears up the sketchbook and hits Jonathan, he runs away. Jonathan believes their father knew how to stop Art, but they do not believe him. Jonathan shows Sienna and their mother, Barbara, his father's sketchbook of Art, filled with newspaper clippings of killings connected to him, revealing that The Little Pale Girl was his first victim named Emily Crane, the daughter of circus performers whose body was discovered in a makeup trailer. Allie’s mother is killed when she discovers her daughter’s still-living body. Art kills the shop vendor and later breaks into Allie's home, where he brutally maims her. Sienna and Allie go to the costume shop to buy a replacement pair of wings, where they encounter Art. On Halloween, Jonathan sees Art and The Little Pale Girl at school playing with a dead opossum, while Sienna has a panic attack when her friends Allie and Brooke discuss Victoria Heyes's meltdown and mutilation of controversial talk show host Monica Brown. That night, Sienna has a nightmare where she encounters Art, and awakens to a fire on her dresser, while a sword that was a gift to her from her father remains unscathed. Sienna's brother Jonathan wants to dress as Art for Halloween and has become fixated on him since discovering sketches of him and his victims from the Miles County Massacre in their father's sketchbook. A lone patron sees Art interacting with the girl, who is invisible to him, before being killed by Art.Ī year later, teenager Sienna Shaw puts the finishing touches on her Halloween costume: an angel-warrior that was designed for her by her father, who recently passed away after a brain tumor. He goes to the laundromat to clean his blood-soaked garments, where he encounters The Little Pale Girl-a mysterious sinister entity in similar clown attire. A third film is in development.Īfter being resurrected by an unknown entity following the Miles County Massacre, Art the Clown brutally murders the coroner investigating his body with a hammer. Many critics considered the film to be an improvement over its predecessor. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, with particular praise for LaVera and Thornton's performances, though the film's runtime received some criticism. The film had its world premiere at the FrightFest on August 29, 2022, and was theatrically released in the United States on October 6, 2022, becoming a hit at the box office, grossing $15 million. It is one of the numerous films impacted by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic with principal photography coming to a halt mid-2020 due to the pandemic lockdowns. ![]() The campaign was a massive success, reaching over 430% of the initial goal with a total of $250k in donations. Leone secured finances from private investors before filming, and he launched an Indiegogo campaign with a $50k goal to film a practical effects-driven scene. Leone spent three months writing a character-driven screenplay following criticism of the first film's perceived lack of narrative.įunding for the film was exacting as the script was more ambitious than the first film and required a bigger budget. After the release of Terrifier (2016), Leone wanted to bring the heroine back -she would evolve into Sienna, someone Leone describes as the "heart and soul" of Terrifier 2. The concept of the planned film focused heavily on an angel-dressed heroine and ultimately fell apart. The film originates from a feature film concept Leone began developing shortly after filming his directorial debut short film The 9th Circle (2009). The story follows Art's resurrection and pursuit of Sienna Shaw (LaVera) and her younger brother Jonathan (Fullam) on Halloween night - a year after the events of the first film. It features the return of David Howard Thornton and Samantha Scaffidi, who respectively portrayed Art the Clown and Victoria Heyes in the first film, and stars Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Kailey Hyman, and Casey Hartnett. ![]() It is a sequel to Terrifier (2016), and is the third feature-length film to feature Art the Clown. Terrifier 2 is a 2022 American slasher film written, directed, edited, and produced by Damien Leone.
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