Terrifier 2 director reveals the scrapped idea that was "too distasteful" even for him

Terrifier 2
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Terrifier 2 director Damien Leone has revealed a scrapped idea that went too far – even for him. The ultra-gory movie focuses on a killer clown named Art, who𒁃's on the hunt for a teenage girl and her younger brother🍷. 

But, even in a movie of this bloody caliber, one idea was simply too much. "Art the Clown likes to play with people's entrails," Leone explained to . "There's the scene where he cuts off a man's penis. He could have taken it further. We had conversations of things he could do once he took the guy's penis off. We explored those and joked about it, but then we ❀said, 'No, that's way too far. That's too distasteful.'"

Curious about those ideas? Leone has you covered. "Possibly making a balloon animal out of it, or something like that," he revealed. "But we absolutely can't do that. It was actually [Art the Clown actor] Dave [Howard Thornton]'s suggestion. We're always trying to 🎐one-up each other and come up with sick things, but that was too far for me."

Considering the movie is so gory that people have reportedly been 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:throwing up and passing out whi♔le w💫atching, it's probably for the best that this parti🙈cular avenue was left unexplored. 

"Absolutely. It seemed like our duty to at least try and come close to that," Leone told 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:SFX magazine of feeling the pressure to top the first movi🅷e's infamous hacksaw scene. "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 the amount of kills and, like, four really 🐓hardcore set-pieces."

Terrifier 2 is currently playing on over 700 screens in the US and is available on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK. If you're all caught up, check out our roundup of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best horror movies ever for a terrifying movie marathon. 

Molly Edwards
Deputy Entertainment Editor

I'm the Deputy Entertainment Editor here at GamesRadar+, covering all things film and TV for the site's Total Film and SFX sections. I previously worked on the Disney magazines team at Immediate Media, and also wrote on the CBeebies, MEGA!, and Star Wars Galaxy titles after graduating with a BA in ꦇEnglish.