Some nine years after he first hacked and slashed his way onto cinema screens, serial killer Art the Clown (embodied with maniacal glee by David Howard Thornton) is back. In Terrifier 2 he has returned to stalk and slash his way through the town of Miles County once more in director Damien Leone’s bigger, bolder, and altogether bloodier sequel –just ask the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史🌟查询:audience members "vomit🌃ing" after screenings.

This return should come as no surprise to fans who saw Art unnaturally spring back to life in the closing moments of the first film. "I figured that it’s sort of inevitable that if we’re going to continue making these films that Art would eventually have to become supernatural," Leone tells SFX in the new issue of the magazine, . "All of the great slashers eventually do. You can’t get to part eight of a series, or whatever, without having sustained several death blows! So I thought, instead of waiting for that, let’s jump🅠 into it."

But why is the killer clown back and what does he want? "This time he’s targeting this girl named Sienna [Lauren LaVera] and her younger brother Jonathan [Elliott Fullam], who has become obsessed with Art. There’s a supernatural entity, this force that’s sort of driving Art toward the 🅺siblings – but there’s a supernatural force that’s kind of aiding them as well, especially Sienna."

Terrifier 2 takes everything that fans loved about the first film (and its gruesome 201꧃3 predecessor All Hallows’ Eve) and dials it up by an insane degree. This is a staggeringly violent movie. We ask if Leone felt any pressure to top the infamous scene from Terrifier where a character is graphically bisected with a haဣcksaw.

"Absolutely. It seemed like our duty to at least try and come close to that. When we were making the first film, I knew that it might get lost in a sea of thousands of other films. I thought, ‘We have to show things that Hollywood may not necessarily have♏ the balls to do!’ And now people have tattoos of that scene! For Terrifier 2, it was a little nerve-wracking. There are only so many ways you can dissect a human being! But we really did swing for the fences. There’s maybe triple ꦛthe amount of kills and, like, four really hardcore set-pieces."

Making these elaborately gnarly scenes is a personal passion for Leone, who has been creating make-up effects from a young age. "My producer Phil Falcone and I did 99% of the effects in the whole film," he says. "I’ve been doing effects sincဣe I was 12, but Phil’s just got into it and he’s really good! So it was mostly us b⛄uilding everything."

That includes Art’s make-up, which Leone personally still applies to David Howard Thornton every day. "We’ve got it down pretty fast now. 🌞It used to take me around three hours, but now we’ve switched up the material. Towards the end of this I was able to do it in half the time. So that’s been excellent."

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