What’s Next for Terrifier 3 The Sequel’s Wild Ending, Detailed by Director: “It’s Disgusting and Hysterical”

As anticipation grows for the killer’s return following the recent re-release, writer-director Damien Leone teases how it will play out Terrorist 3 will continue the wild ending of its predecessor. In the second film in the horror franchise, set a year after the original, Art the Clown hunted a group of new young adults on Halloween night, and Lauren LeVara’s Sienna Shaw had to step up to try to save her friends and family. His crowdfunding campaign and gruesome murders made him a viral sensation. Terrorist 2 was the surprise commercial and critical horror hit of 2022, and Leone soon made plans for a third film.

During an interview with for Terrorist 2After the restart, Leone looked ahead to 2024. Terrorist 3 and shared some details about the third sequel. When asked how the upcoming film will deal with the wild ending of its predecessor, and especially the desire to return to the grindhouse aesthetic of the original, the writer-director admitted that it is still “many supernatural things“in the third part and joked that it would continue”front.” Check out what Leone shared below:

Pun intended, direct. [Laughs] No, there will still be a lot of supernatural stuff, that’s inevitable in part 3. Like I said, I’m not ignoring the groundwork that’s been laid, but there’s an artistic approach that isn’t so obvious. Some things will just strike you, but when you see them you will understand that many of them are justified. But yeah, I’m excited, you’ll see, and it’s disgusting and hysterical how he recovers and how Art gets out of this situation, if I say so myself. Maybe this is a minor spoiler, but it’s just as interesting to see how Victoria’s character, Art, helps the clown on this journey.

And I’m glad people see that too. There are a lot of new and fresh elements in this movie, there’s a lot of what I call a ‘safety net’, just a lot of Art the Clown doing his thing, everything you love about this franchise is there. to see, you will definitely understand. I will always deliver this, you will see the big kills and Art the Clown as his quirky, charming, sadistic self. But there’s the other 30% where I allow myself to take really bold risks and just bring in new ideas and things that make something new.

I don’t think there’s any point in recycling the same film over and over again, that doesn’t interest me as a storyteller, so what always excites me the most is just seeing how the audience will react. about these new elements I added to the film, and there are many.

Terrifier 2’s Wild Ending Explained (and What It Means for 3)

After apparently killing Sienna and leaving her in a strange alternate dimension Terrorist 2 saw his last girl resurrected and Art beheaded the clown with a sword forged by his late father in time to save his brother, with the mysterious clown known as The Little Pale Girl taking his head with him. The end credits later reveal that Victoria Hayes, the survivor from the original film, is currently locked up in a mental institution and is fiercely devoted to art, writing his name on the wall along with hers and other obscenities. with your blood. This is taken a step further when she gives birth to Art’s living head, much to her delight and the horror of a nurse on duty.

Since only the head has been born, it is not yet clear how Art will assemble the rest of the body next year. Terrorist 3, but it’s clear that Victoria will be a key character in the third sequel. Leone himself previously expressed his desire to give the final girl from the original film a bigger role in the next film, as he enjoyed his time working with actress Samantha Scaffidi and created Sienna due to the regret of becoming Victoria in the original, which was left behind. . Photos from the set of the upcoming film already showed a Christmas setting and Art recovered his entire body, although how he recovered it remains a mystery.

It will be interesting to see how Terrorist 3 explores the relationship not only between Art and Victoria, but also between Victoria and The Pale Little Girl. The survivor appears to be madly in love with her almost-killer, causing her to become overprotective of Art, to the point of alienating the girl or even endangering herself when the killer clown decides to side with the killer. the mysterious girl Leone also has ideas for a potential Terrorist 4There’s a lot of interesting stuff to discuss in fleshing out the mysterious nature of Art and his relationships with the various characters.