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  • Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
  • Just when you thought it couldn’t get any sillier, here comes this clown. This joker. Today we’re talking about Terrifier 2 and whether or not it has cemented itself as a staple of low art horror as the correct response to Elevated Horror. Who knows? Who cares? Art the clown’s back everybody.
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  • @possqueenvivvie
    @possqueenvivvie 2 дні тому +310

    i'm convinced the terrifier series is more of a showcase of practical gore effects than it is a film franchise

    • @AlextheAlchemist
      @AlextheAlchemist 2 дні тому +24

      Damien Leone was primarily an SFX artist before directing Terrifier so that pretty much sums up the franchise (and is the reason why I love it)

    • @tylerattwood9392
      @tylerattwood9392 2 дні тому +6

      And I'm down for that

    • @jasperwisecarver
      @jasperwisecarver День тому

      that's actually so real because that's literally my favorite part

    • @TheWrestlingful
      @TheWrestlingful День тому +3

      Its one of the millions of reasons I love it and kinda am more hyped for Terrifier 3 than MaXXXine in ways. Both are the 3rd movie. Both are movies I love prior to going in. I love both its predecessors prior. Why am I more excited for a Terrfier 3 than a MaXXXine (despite still being excited for it)? Movies like MaXXXine (elevated high brow artsy fartsy) is always gonna come around. Ooooooh girl has hard time in society in a slasher movie with social commentary! Wow. Thats every ELEVATED movie. Terrifier? I am all in with its stupidity and the practical effects!! A demon clown and girl demon clown that has zero relations or sense other than because?! Thats so cool! Oh a scary clown is gonna be dressed up as Samta Claus and brutally kill someone?! Count me in! Oh girl is gonna be a sword and sandals peotagonist who fights killer clown?! Fuck yeah thats dope, I'm in!! Sure, MaXXXine will probably be a very good movie and tie everytging together with a neat little bow and sprinkles of a social commentary about something that all the Nyx Fear's or Thomas Flights or every film essayist who only ever do videos on A24 (and Marvel movies) channels will endlessly love and pronounce how deep and philosophical like Plato. Terrifier? I have zero clue where this storyline is headed but I am all in! Why is Chris Jericho a nurse?! How does the previous final girl giving birth have any relevance?! Idk and I don't care!!!

    • @okyep
      @okyep День тому

      ​@@AlextheAlchemistwhy do the effects look like complete dog shit. Stretch Armstrong gets dismembered

  • @RivenLove
    @RivenLove 2 дні тому +371

    I had no idea what "the scene" was going to be but I breathed a sigh of relief when I found out it didn't include SA

    • @markalexander3659
      @markalexander3659 2 дні тому +60

      There's no SA in either Terrifier film :)

    • @wormathy
      @wormathy 2 дні тому

      @@markalexander3659 forgive me for being crass but i mean i'd say hacksawing a woman from the vagina in terrifier 1, even if not overtly sexual in presentation, has a certain je ne sais quoi that i dont think people against SA would be super into

    • @TheGrayEsteban
      @TheGrayEsteban 2 дні тому

      Woah there! Give Art the Clown some respect. We're talking about a deranged sadistic force of evil over here, not some sick pervert 🤨

    • @andrxwh
      @andrxwh 2 дні тому +74

      @@markalexander3659I would still mention that some have argued a lot of its most intense violence is misogynistic as it often involves female nudity. But that's nothing new for splatter horror, regardless of how you would consider it.

    • @blandface9957
      @blandface9957 2 дні тому +148

      ​@@andrxwh I actually agree with the misogyny take low-key. When I originally watched both films I didn't really have any qualms until I found out that the actor who played Art the Clown pitched an idea to the director in the second film that he cut the dude's (the one who got killed by the truck around the end of the movie) private area off and then blow it up and turn it into a balloon animal. The director turned it down because that was "too painful" like they didn't have all these extremely gruesome deaths for female characters in both films.

  • @ChrisMeadows1992
    @ChrisMeadows1992 2 дні тому +297

    Terrifier 2 is shocking and sadistic, but it's executed at such a playful, cartoonish level that I think it's just asking the audience to let go and have fun. Art the Clown is, to me, the Bugs Bunny of the slasher villains and I'm certain Damien Leone is very aware of that.

    • @cnvrgnt
      @cnvrgnt 2 дні тому +16

      Art the Clown is the Bugs Bunny of horror villains

    • @timk6181
      @timk6181 2 дні тому +22

      This. T2 isn't bleak, it's sort of joyful, it's like a kid who wants to show you all the gross things they've made.
      Which is why it's an instant classic, one of the few recent horror movies that will stick around for a long time.

    • @GmodPlusWoW
      @GmodPlusWoW 2 дні тому +9

      Honestly, Art the Clown is kinda like what happened to Freddy Krueger in later films, except dialled up to a Looney Tunes level of wacky. Or, as another commenter said, "Happy Tree Friends".
      Granted, I've never seen Happy Tree Friends, since it wasn't quite my thing, but I have seen some of the creator's other videos. And by some, I meant most of their Doctor Tran videos, including the "30-second spot" for Roybertito's.

    • @McSquiddington
      @McSquiddington 2 дні тому +4

      This. If you're looking to approach Terrifier and its sequels as anything close to highbrow horror à la A24, you'll probably be disappointed. It's empty. It's vapid. It has nothing to say. It isn't Midsommar or X or even John Carpenter's Vampires. Art the Clown is the grossly gleeful kid who shows up with handfuls of wriggling earthworms and thinks that's cool.
      Just, you know - with baroque executions that make you think "Damn, Art sure has a lot of time on his hands to plan all of this, doesn't he?" And yes, this stil qualifies as art.

    • @GmodPlusWoW
      @GmodPlusWoW 2 дні тому +3

      @@McSquiddington Indeed. With how creative Art is with some of his kills, particularly in THAT SCENE, his grisly handiwork is, in its own twisted way, art.

  • @lrjcsmmt
    @lrjcsmmt 3 дні тому +257

    I liked Terrifier 2 a lot more when I realized it’s not a horror film-it’s demented vaudeville.

    • @hadenplouffe3976
      @hadenplouffe3976 2 дні тому +21

      Seeing characters so cut up that they resemble all those viral "actually cake" (most notably That Scene) was the point where it crossed over to just, cartoonish and funny for me. I've got so many complex feelings on the movie, which is funny because the film truly doesn't have any interest in being experienced nearly as complexly as I (or May) think about it, lol

    • @TheQuietTyper
      @TheQuietTyper 7 годин тому

      I think the first one is like that as well. Everything he does is in service of a joke only he finds funny.

    • @hunterv9259
      @hunterv9259 7 годин тому

      i was just calling it gory slapstick lol, but "demented vaudeville" is a near perfect description

  • @Takumi_Did_Nothing_Wrong
    @Takumi_Did_Nothing_Wrong 2 дні тому +94

    These movies are the very definition of Cross the Line Twice. They're so cartoonishly extreme in their depictions of violence and gore that they come off as more darkly hilarious than scary. It helps that David Howard Thornton really sells his role as Art the Clown. He's a genuinely fantastic actor and the main reason I look forward to these movies.

    • @TheGrayEsteban
      @TheGrayEsteban 2 дні тому +5

      The dude is genuinely funny without speaking a single word. I'm talking Buster Keaton levels of physical comedy (actually, even then, both are a different breed of silent humor).

  • @shanewinter14
    @shanewinter14 2 дні тому +64

    Aren’t you missing that the actor playing Art is the reason for the movies success? He’s tremendous, brings way too much personality than the character is worth even. Leprechaun had like 5 sequels because of Warwick Davis. It didn’t deserve a single one.

    • @OctopusOwl
      @OctopusOwl День тому +10

      Sometimes you just have an amazing character actor/mask actor/creature actor that carries a movie. Art has IT.

    • @gracex3217
      @gracex3217 День тому +2

      he’s incredible and seems like such a likable guy!! the videos of him at conventions honking his horn at people are gold.

    • @ianbyrne465
      @ianbyrne465 День тому +2

      ​@@OctopusOwl Hellraiser moment

  • @aandromaliuss
    @aandromaliuss 2 дні тому +102

    Terrifier 2 reminded me a lot of Happy Tree Friends while i was watching it for the first and only time

    • @TheQuietTyper
      @TheQuietTyper 7 годин тому

      Now that I think of it, that must be why I didn't feel as extreme a reaction as she described the audence having. The last time I felt sick at extreme gore was Happy Tree Friends.

  • @somasatori9117
    @somasatori9117 2 дні тому +30

    "Wow, what do you call it?"
    "The Aristocrats!" - Damien Leone

  • @marreco6347
    @marreco6347 2 дні тому +35

    I think this movie was massively popular because there's always room for that one gross out experience. It was the human centipede, before it was Saw, and before the grindhouse. While an A24 film is a movie that you want to watch a home, then go discussing online, this is the movie you call your friends to laugh at each other's reaction.
    There's good pepper then there's "the nuclear hole destructor from hell", there's Mozart and then there's Whiz Khalifa, there's good whisky and there's that gas station special. It's not about quality alone, it's about what the occasion calls for too.

    • @TheWrestlingful
      @TheWrestlingful День тому +1

      This is exactly why I love Terrifier! I love high brow stuff but sometimes its nice to have a movie like Terrifier put us all in check!

  • @NovaNocturnus
    @NovaNocturnus 2 дні тому +100

    Warning us about the runtime of this video is a joke to me given the number of video essays I’ve watched that pass the one hour mark 😂 You’re all good girl, I’m strapped in.

    • @21Handguns
      @21Handguns 2 дні тому +3

      Longest essay vid I watched literally hit the 13 hour mark. The run time he wanted to flex isn't shit 😂😂😂

    • @xx_3m0j1n_xx
      @xx_3m0j1n_xx 2 дні тому +3

      @@21Handguns quinton reviews? because same lmao

    • @NovaNocturnus
      @NovaNocturnus 2 дні тому

      @@xx_3m0j1n_xx I was gonna mention him 😂😂😭😭😭

    • @21Handguns
      @21Handguns День тому

      @@xx_3m0j1n_xx no,funny enough I never heard of that guy lel

  • @AtomicTopher
    @AtomicTopher 2 дні тому +75

    a new May video is a REAL EVENT

  • @PufferTube
    @PufferTube 2 дні тому +27

    It’s a shame that In Praise of Shadows torpedoed his own video on conservative horror with ill advised UA-cam beef, because a central part of what he was getting at was really on point. The schism between viewers who will view horror through a social, political lens, and those who are almost uncritically just looking for horror to be “cool”, with “good kills”, and often railing about “woke shit.” I’ve been thinking a lot about this recently, so where you arrived in the later part of this video really resonated. It feels like you’re speaking to an important aspect of this dichotomy.

    • @Jetsetlemming
      @Jetsetlemming 10 годин тому

      Yeah that video was really directionless but had some very important things to say in there between talking about youtubers I've literally never heard of and do not care about

    • @MrGameSecrets
      @MrGameSecrets 3 години тому +2

      I really feel his frustration about wendigoon though im not even going to lie. He is one of the most obvious crypto fascists on the platform but he has an expertly crafted facade so that anyone that isnt very plugged in to that sphere thinks he's a "normal nice guy :)". I think i would go insane if I had to share an online subgenre with him.

  • @pepperypeppers2755
    @pepperypeppers2755 2 дні тому +25

    Weirdly it reads as comedy to me, but that's the dissociation speaking

  • @KimFromTheCrypt
    @KimFromTheCrypt 2 дні тому +32

    i fucking love Terrifier 2
    showed it to everyone that was up for it, which werent that many

    • @Milo-it1tf
      @Milo-it1tf 2 дні тому +2

      I showed the film to my cousin who loves horror movies, she never wanted to watch the film again 😂

    • @Kevo6492
      @Kevo6492 2 дні тому

      @@Milo-it1tfThat’s crazy. Terrifier 2 is tame compared to a lot of other movies

    • @missanonymousvr8346
      @missanonymousvr8346 2 дні тому +1

      @@Kevo6492 Terrifier 3 isnt out yet.

    • @Kevo6492
      @Kevo6492 2 дні тому

      @@missanonymousvr8346 Meant to put Terrifier 2

    • @KimFromTheCrypt
      @KimFromTheCrypt День тому +1

      @@Kevo6492 it has plenty of extreme, graphic kills but is easier to watch due to Art being killer and comic relief at the same time, and putting in weird supernatural stuff (a kinda contested decision which i really vibe with). also it goes for this campy retro tone which is just really fun. i fully believe Damien Leonie didnt intend to shock some people as badly as he did.

  • @grayrainbow100
    @grayrainbow100 2 дні тому +36

    "40 MIN NYX FEARS TERRIFIER VIDEO YAYAYAYAYAYYYY"

    • @Pinkgobi
      @Pinkgobi 2 дні тому +10

      So I don't know if I didn't attend the meeting but do all trans dudes HAVE to love horror or is that just a coincidence among almost every tdude

    • @rocklobster590
      @rocklobster590 День тому

      @@Pinkgobiit's either evil manipulative tboy that crotchets and listens to bedroom pop or The Scariest Guy You've Ever Met

  • @chrisvisser-fee2631
    @chrisvisser-fee2631 2 дні тому +5

    Long have I joked about how much I would enjoy a Mr Bean horror film. The look of manic glee in his eyes as he slit your throat would make for an interesting tone. Watching Art the Clowns face and little jumps for joy he does as he dumps salt and bleach onto a flayed woman pitifully trying to crawl away, I've realised this IS that film...

    • @MsPurji313
      @MsPurji313 15 годин тому

      YES! Thank you! I had a nagging feeling that I was reminded of something/someone with Art and have kind of waffled about it since I saw the first one on and off whenever someone mentioned it. You, kind commenter, have made that connection for me! Thank you! Art is a behind the looking glass Mr. Bean.

  • @TheNerindil
    @TheNerindil 2 дні тому +12

    I’m like 5 minutes in so I don’t know if you say this May, but I liked the Terrifier movies for basically one reason: It’s the only time an evil clown has actually been good at being a clown. Art is a ton of fun. The rest of the movie is filler, but when art is on screen being a Silly Boy, it’s legitimately entertaining.

  • @millejohn
    @millejohn 2 дні тому +24

    So needed some Nyx Fears. So therapeutic. But, like, I don't get the torture porn and never have. At all. I am totally on board for gore fests as one might find in, say, Dead Alive. Or, From Beyond, which I don't know if I'd call it gory but yes, delightfully f'ed up, which is what we're here for, right? Right?. But I struggle to find the point and entertainment in the unhinged wantonness of the violence in this sort of film. Also, I have raised two children so little girls voiding themselves on the floor really ain't no biggie. Truly, one cannot comprehend the poo-horrors one faces as a parent of a helpless, tiny poo machine. I swear, there's like an inter-dimensional rift in baby bowels that just endlessly generates the most foul feces one can imagine. I am going to stop talking now. I am triggering myself.

    • @TheGrayEsteban
      @TheGrayEsteban 2 дні тому +3

      You kind of just triggered ME 😂 I'm pretty tolerant to gore, but what YOU described is closer to what my idea of a nightmare is (that's also why M. Night's The Visit left such an impression on me).

  • @TheDrLeviathan
    @TheDrLeviathan День тому +4

    As someone who's read both Girl Parts and Fluids, I'm now having my own crisis watching that author having a crisis over this movie.

  • @ActionYakPolice
    @ActionYakPolice 2 дні тому +7

    my brother (her uncle not her dad) let our 12 year old niece watch the first one. we learned this when she picked the sequel as the movie she wanted to watch. he's dead now so I can't ask him why the fuck he did that.

  • @pasta6243
    @pasta6243 День тому +2

    The music change joke at 7:46 was pure genius. Made me spit out my drink. Huge props to you for thinking of that 😂😂😂

  • @callum6123
    @callum6123 2 дні тому +44

    I never fully bought the idea that horror is anti-woman (the first horror writers were mostly women). Seeing this I was like oh…Watching this movie I felt like what Andrea Dworkin must have felt watching Friday the 13th

    • @Milo-it1tf
      @Milo-it1tf 2 дні тому +1

      It’s not anti women, there’s movies were women are the survivors, Jamie Lee Curtis is literally one of them most popular actress in any horror franchise because her character survived through each of the Halloween films, she even kills Michael Myers in the last film, mind you that last film was poorly executed and really saddened a lot of fans of the franchise, but I digress, hell there’s two women characters who survived the remake of evil dead, and evil dead rise

    • @Kevo6492
      @Kevo6492 2 дні тому +17

      @@Milo-it1tfIt’s more complicated than saying Horror is anti women or pro women. Like any form of art in the west since like the 20th century, it’s had its ups and downs with how women are represented. Women are protagonists more so than other genres that’s true but it’s in large part because of us being taught to be more fearful for a woman being threatened than a man being threatened. And while you have fantastic representation like Alien or even The Witch you can’t also forget things like Grindhouse films which were solely about exploitation.

    • @callum6123
      @callum6123 2 дні тому +12

      No yeah I don’t think horror is anti-woman but I think terrifier kinda is lol

    • @Milo-it1tf
      @Milo-it1tf 2 дні тому

      @kevo6492 fair enough, I don’t know about grind house so I have no opinion on that, to me though it doesn’t really offend me cause I’ve seen films that have guys getting killed, I do have a limit to what I want in a horror movie, I’m not phased by gore, I’m not phased by animal abuse, I’m not even phased by a kid getting murderd in a film, what draws the line for me is if the said film shows a SA scene, but outside of that no horror film really offends me, it would take a lot to offend me

    • @korvapuustit
      @korvapuustit День тому

      ​@@Milo-it1tfthe final girl trope can still be steeped in misogyny. you ever notice how the sole surviving girl is never the slutty cheerleader character?

  • @ShelbyTaylorExists
    @ShelbyTaylorExists 2 дні тому +6

    How did I watch 30 minutes of this video only to realize that YOU wrote Fluids. That's in my Kindle library as we speak, and I've been saving it for later because I've heard exclusively great things about it.

  • @KristianTKenwood
    @KristianTKenwood 2 дні тому +8

    I love these movies. they're so confidently unhinged, pure spectacle. not many other movies do you see a death that's basically 10 kills in one

  • @annethropophagy
    @annethropophagy 2 дні тому +6

    I saw terrifier 2 in theaters and was given a barf bag. It was a Dutch horror night event by the theater chain kinopolis, which was for some reason a monstervenergydrink crossover event. I'd picked up a copy of the first film in a bargain bin the year before and was excited to see the sequel.

  • @meghan______669
    @meghan______669 2 дні тому +8

    This is mostly unrelated but I recently lost my freak card. I was so excited for Kinds of Kindness and I told anybody who would listen that I was going to see some iconic freak cinema. And it was only 60% freaky. Terrifier2 might redeem me, but I don't think it's worth it.

  • @cough6167
    @cough6167 День тому +4

    i watched neon demon in the cinema with my very catholic aunt... glad she walked out before the scene u described
    rly takes me back though

  • @sickeny
    @sickeny 2 дні тому +3

    As someone who isn't a huge fan of gore (thanks for talking about these things to save my eyes and brains the trauma) I feel like there is, in some weird way a point to the "pointlessness" of the gore.
    Art has been shown before to be almost immune to any sort of fighting back, and just seems to do horrible awful things for the funny. I think that actually spooks a lot of people just because "Thing is so much more powerful than you, can brutalise you, WILL brutalise you, and there isn't anything you can do" is naturally horrifying.
    But to actually go the extra mile in the over-the top gore and unnecessary pain really hammers it home, because often in more mainstream or even just more story-driven movies they'll go out of the way to show "why" the killer does it or that they at least have "some standards" which helps the viewer sleep at night.
    This movie just seems to want to put that fear of pain and helplessness straight into the viewer. No holding back because this isn't that kind of horror movie, you have no control over the situation and that's what makes it terrifying.
    Anyway love your videos and I hope youuuuu are doing well!

  • @cheyennecartwright7244
    @cheyennecartwright7244 2 дні тому +3

    Put it on my "watch later" but then couldn't turn away for the full 40 minutes, honestly, this video felt vital and honest and smart. Just so many damn thoughts I've got, but without writing my own essay or trying to have a two way conversation with a (well edited and produced) video, I think I have only one thought worth bringing up in the comments: This review and exploration, the work to situate Terrifier 2 among it's "peers" and in the broader culture, a sort of mapping of its rough edges, is basically the perfect companion piece and like a photo negative of the film itself. I don't think anyone could really enjoy the movie AS a movie either, but as an event it makes PERFECT SENSE, but the event is so much more than the 2 hours in a theater. It's the gofundme, the online debates, it's the horror conventions, the dress up, it's all of that, and criticisms like this here are also part of the event. I comment too much as is, but like, well, hell, if nothing else, you've convinced me to get off my high horse and finally see it (which you no doubt never intended), and also see Pearl (which the way people talk about it I shouldn't need convincing of). Now the question will be, which surprise am I in store for? Will Terrifier 2 be the movie that finally crosses my gore line, or will Pearl finally convince me that no it's ok to let Ti West keep making movies, he does have at least one good movie in him?

  • @HallowIsSmol
    @HallowIsSmol 2 дні тому +5

    honestly, its extremely comforting to know that Nyx doesnt like that scene despite being so invested in the more fucked up horror scene. im also super into it and that scene was… too much for me. it made me squirm.

  • @jane_gorelove
    @jane_gorelove 2 дні тому +14

    great video as always May!!
    also who woulda guessed, extremely violent movie in which the main attraction is a woman being tortured, what a surprise, how transgressive of the director /s

    • @spencerw4160
      @spencerw4160 2 дні тому +2

      Ye :/

    • @MaddCrazyMee
      @MaddCrazyMee День тому +3

      if i had a dollar for how many books and movies have this shit, I be a super rich

  • @charleslipscomb2567
    @charleslipscomb2567 2 дні тому +3

    You made me remember a scene in The Blair Witch Project where Josh tells Heather "Now I know why you like looking through this camera,......It's not quite reality!"

  • @underworld-USA
    @underworld-USA День тому +1

    Wonderful video! Thanks for all the hard work you do to bring us quality review content like this, love your channel

  • @SylvesterLazarus
    @SylvesterLazarus 2 дні тому +8

    I have to write a comment before watching this because I know any critical look will shatter everything I know about Terrifier.
    I literally saw both a few days ago (+ All Hollow's Eve (2013) which was the first feature film with Art) and I immediately said "I wonder what May would say about this.."
    i honestly thought if these movies were for made for nothing but violence, then unfortunately they were not violet enough.. but also I saw way too many things online, including casually referencing real.. Cartel videos of you-know-what-kind to make horror art, so I'm pretty deep into not being able to be disturbed.
    I feel the best of both movies were seeing how much fun everyone was having from the makeup department and designs (I love the unapologetic Vallejo/Bell like costume of Sienna from the 2nd movie) to the practical effects and acting. If many movies are masterpieces made out of trash and duct tape, then Terrifier movies are trash made out of the best pieces of handmade craft that someone pieced together by DIY superglue that was made by melting a plastic bottle with an Axe spray and a lighter.
    I'm still thinking what Terrifier 2 would've felt like if they edited it non-linearly where the carnival part is cut apart and inserted into the movie every 20-ish minutes. I'd love to see that edit.

    • @Kevo6492
      @Kevo6492 2 дні тому

      Even compared to other fictional media, the Terrifier films are tame. Like yeah they’re more violent than anything from the major studios or even the lower tiered studios but that doesn’t mean they’re like this height of disturbing films.

  • @MxBNatural
    @MxBNatural 2 дні тому +7

    Bad Ben fandom rise up

  • @kiplinkaldahl1298
    @kiplinkaldahl1298 День тому +1

    Nyx, you articulate complicated feelings about horror (that I share in) with such clarity. So rad, thanks for what you do!

  • @bunnybabe3601
    @bunnybabe3601 2 дні тому +25

    my only complaint is that i wish the most sadistic kills werent ONLY saved for female characters bc i know some loser is jorking it to that shit and it makes me really sad

  • @lightningbugtriathol
    @lightningbugtriathol День тому +1

    I saw Terrifier 2 in the theater; I was by myself... It felt more special that I was alone enjoying it.

  • @MysticMinis-ol3co
    @MysticMinis-ol3co День тому +1

    I loved these movies. They were a silly goose time, made me laugh heaps, and I absolutely love practical effects so it was just a blast.
    As always, love hearing your perspective.
    Also my spouse tried to make me get rid of your book Fluids after we read it aloud together when it first came out and we hit your own ‘the scene’ 😂🙌🏽

  • @lilithsenesca2535
    @lilithsenesca2535 2 дні тому +4

    Pleeeease do audiobook versions of Girl Flesh and Rosaline(hopefully that's the correct spelling). I love the audiobook version of Fluids which I still listen to all the way through all the time. So I would very much love to have audiobook versions of your other books. Love all your content and stuff so keep doing the good things!

  • @Matrim42
    @Matrim42 3 дні тому +28

    I honestly don’t know how I feel about Terrifier 2. I don’t know what it says about me, but it failed to shock me at any point. My biggest feeling during “the scene” was primarily…tedium I guess? I wasn’t bored, but it felt more like a chore than something that was viscerally challenging. The violence was so over the top that it crossed the line into parody. It was basically a cartoon.
    I don’t know, I can’t really articulate why these films just don’t hit right for me. The actor who plays Art gives a fine performance, but the character does nothing for me. The plot doesn’t really matter all that much, for all that I can tell, so when the goofy violence shit doesn’t hit I’m not really left with anything to care about.

    • @planetoffkey4337
      @planetoffkey4337 2 дні тому +1

      thank you

    • @brandi598
      @brandi598 2 дні тому +5

      Agreed. I have no idea what the appeal of this really is. I find even that graphic scene very underwhelming, like you said it's just so over the top it's silly. There's nothing horrifying about it, I feel nothing when I watch the movie. I wish more people in the genre understood that horror is a lot more psychological than just this silly gorey nonsense. And that's not to say the film isn't "art." I agree it's art, but art can still be pointless and boring LMAO

    • @xXxzAAa0aAAzxXx
      @xXxzAAa0aAAzxXx 2 дні тому +3

      @@brandi598 I mean, silly gorey nonsense has its place, the thing is that the Terrifier movies accomplish NOTHING. I am into horror comedy, I absolutely LOVE some horror movies that do not scare or disturb me even a bit, because they're fun and/or interesting, but the Terrifier movies just are not.

    • @Kevo6492
      @Kevo6492 2 дні тому +2

      I would say because there’s nothing to Art the Clown besides violence and being playful. There’s no ethos to his character. There is nothing driving him to be violent nor is there a metaphorical representation he invokes within the context of the story. Like even though Michael and Jason are silent like he is, Michael is the embodiment of pure evil coming back in the suburbs to show how white flight was mistaken. Even Chucky represents corporations marketing to kids in the 80’s. What’s Art to any of that? Nothing really.

    • @rayortiz313
      @rayortiz313 2 дні тому +4

      Dude.... like a lot of horror fans you're noticing that the movie is just....OK. It delivers the gore the teenage horror fans want (that "dare you to watch it" thing), it has just enough of that indie-horror dream logic to trick some horror fans into thinking it's edgy and artsy. But at the end of the day its not that funny, it's not really that suspenseful, you don't really care that much about the characters, and Art the Clown is not interesting beyond being a "creepy clown" cliche.The movie isn't bad enough to complain about but it's far from a masterpiece.

  • @nikiscor
    @nikiscor 2 дні тому +2

    I immensely appreciate the simplified cartoon of the “scene”. I could’ve used a warmup like that for American Guinea Pig BG&G. 😩 or any other NSFL content…

  • @kattoast5662
    @kattoast5662 2 дні тому +4

    When will Damien Leone read fluids

  • @PsychoSunshineMC
    @PsychoSunshineMC 2 дні тому +1

    I watched this movie with friends while we were all stoned at the theater and that bedroom scene sure did something to our psyche

  • @BeartoeConCarne
    @BeartoeConCarne День тому +1

    Im starting to miss covid when i watched all ur recommendations and had a blast not working for a month LOL

  • @cremeuxkraft9019
    @cremeuxkraft9019 2 дні тому +4

    😂 despite heavy editing, i just caught myself covering my eyes.

    • @Cyborcat
      @Cyborcat 8 годин тому

      Same! Still worried I might be able to make out what's happening just enough to traumatize me XD

  • @anonymousperson8211
    @anonymousperson8211 2 дні тому +1

    How can you be so consistently witty and entertaining??

  • @jacobwebster6445
    @jacobwebster6445 День тому +1

    I have yet to watch Terrifier 2, a film by Damien Leone and the sequel to Terrifier a film by Damien Leone, nore have I watched Terrifier, a film by Damien Leone, but I have seen images of Art the Clown, main antagonist of the Terrifier series by Damien Leone plastered everywhere. Now I know that this clown comes from the films Terrifier by Damien Leone and Terrifier 2 by Damien Leone. Thanks for clearing that up Nyx!

  • @els1f
    @els1f 2 дні тому +1

    I wonder what happened to McDonalds Toilet guy lol

  • @grayrainbow100
    @grayrainbow100 2 дні тому +4

    *Kisses your ring like da mob boss* Oh it’s been a long time since a movie review made me feel anything… or think… at all. I took nearly 1k words of notes while watching this, and now I’m going to try and gather them together for this comment no one will read or care about, but I will! I will care so much!!!!
    “Terrifier 2 is a movie that you can watch… if you want to.”
    My experience with Terrifiers 1 and 2 was simple and uninspired. I knew the reputation they had, I knew they were considered cinematic gauntlets of filth and gore, and as I’ve expanded my film appetite, thoroughly enjoying such titles as Salo and Aftermath, and turning my nose up at Tumbling Doll of Flesh because, frankly, it’s just fucking boring, in my mind, the Terrifiers were the holy grail. Surely, these would be my saving grace, the films to finally make me flinch. I never, ever intended to be a shockhound, but I guess stumbling on a beheading video as so many 15 year olds did way back when, that set me up for something I’m still chasing. Because, much to my disappointment, the Terrifiers weren’t it. I didn’t flinch, at all. I did enjoy them, and after watching all the BTS footage, I can say with certainty they are masterclasses of practical effects, but they are disappointing because they left me out. I wanted to throw up in my proverbial theatre seat. I wanted that so badly!
    For me, personally, I was left lacking whereas it seems the majority not only got the correct response out of it, but were tested beyond that, too. And I wanna get into the conventions of slashers and gore, here, a bit, to try and examine what that means. In my opinion, the movie does cross the correct line, certainly not the one culture wanted or expected, but the one it needed. Regarding the bedroom scene, specifically, it’s not about the characters, and it’s almost not even about the gore, at least the minutiae of it. It’s about us.
    This scene exists because everyone wanted it to. Maybe not to these exact specifications, but anyone who saw Terrifier 1 wanted the hacksaw scene put to shame. I think it’s silly for people to lose their minds over the bedroom scene when they specifically went to the theatre on the recommendation of people throwing up, and then when *they* throw up it’s like, let’s shit on the movie because it did the thing I knew it would do, but it did it *to me.* Finally, a slasher managed to viscerally affect the audience, and that’s a grave, grave cinematic sin. You watch slashers (and horror, in general) to appreciate what *isn’t* happening to you, but to someone else. So when you are suddenly made a victim because the movie decided “yeah, I’m going to victimize you, too, bitch, dance for me, monkey” that’s unacceptable. We’re supposed to be able to examine the film, but the film should never be able to examine us, back, but that’s what Terrifier does with these scenes, completely inverting audience/film relations. People want these movies only to hurt those contained in its own story, but Terrifier couldn’t give two shits what you want, because it wants to hurt you, too. And it did! It hurt you so fucking bad, you weenies! You want to see shock and gore? Okay, then, here you go, here’s one of the worst things you could never imagine on your own, and it sucks right? It sucks sooooo fucking bad? Yup! Contend with that, you sick, sick voyeurs.
    Am I really sad that wasn’t my experience? Yes, I am. Am I really grateful I get to instead enjoy the shockwaves of everyone else’s disdain and vomit? Yes, I am. Am I going to be first in line for Terrifier 3, salivating to see how Damien tops the bedroom scene and hoping, *praying* it metaphorically degloves me? Yes, yes I fucking am.

  • @lily_mcfarlin
    @lily_mcfarlin 2 дні тому +3

    One could argue that Art in this film serves as a metaphor for Sienna coming to terms with the monster her father was and the tragedy of all of her relationships crumbling (aka people dying) before she can cope with the trauma. Which doesn't make it a good film, to be fair. But as someone who's had a lot of ptsd nightmares, the tone and even pacing of the film work for me subjectively when viewed through that lense.

  • @Rocketboy1313
    @Rocketboy1313 2 дні тому +2

    I had forgotten that scene happened.

  • @bivolos9432
    @bivolos9432 День тому

    i dont keep up with most horror happenings myself so i enjoy seeing you review these things. however it does spark me to wonder just how bad stuff like That Scene is... i personally feel near nothing during other gross out watches except one specific squick i have that doesnt seem like its in this movie... if i ever do get around to watching it, i suppose ill come back here and re-write this with my thoughts. thank you for another great video may!!

  • @exotictoxics
    @exotictoxics День тому +2

    I can’t wait for the third but apparently there’s gonna be child death and idk if I can handle that like “the scene” of two was crazy but manageable but child death from this series might just turn me off of horror for awhile

  • @FlackooPretty
    @FlackooPretty 2 дні тому +3

    May, you are really good at doing this!

  • @julialena3150
    @julialena3150 2 дні тому +3

    Girl you are so funny you deserve more subs

  • @shadesofruin805
    @shadesofruin805 2 дні тому

    Love the new video! I really felt that at the end when you said you miss shitty horror movies

  • @timk6181
    @timk6181 2 дні тому +1

    Haha something actually freaked out May, I didn't think it was possible 😂😂

  • @OddoFelacio
    @OddoFelacio 2 дні тому +1

    half way in and i realized that i DID watch this movie and forgot

  • @Foundthottage
    @Foundthottage 2 дні тому +2

    100 Things about all hallows eve list part 1 -
    1 - The film is set in modern britain
    2 - It has a sequel, All Hallows' Eve 2 (unironically I remember liking one of the stories in this)
    3 - Kelsey Grammar
    4 - You learn about the values america has on chrismas eve
    4 - the clown dies but another clwon gets a remote and rewinds the film so that clown was never shot, allowing them to continue terrorising the Schober family
    6 - kindly miquella would abandon everything. his golden flesh, his blinding strength. even his fate.
    7 - the hit game is coming out in 8 years (it's gonna be like dead by daylight but infinitely worse. It will make a billion dollars.)
    8 - Art is generated via LLM and the hero of the movie simply turns off the server farm which hosts the AI making him, killing the clown instantly

  • @sarahzedig6501
    @sarahzedig6501 4 години тому

    fantastic work!!!

  • @tylerattwood9392
    @tylerattwood9392 2 дні тому

    Love your work May!!! ❤❤❤

  • @akisutahatter3245
    @akisutahatter3245 2 дні тому

    i was not expecting random shots of kings cross station in a nyx fears video but here we are

  • @markalexander3659
    @markalexander3659 2 дні тому +2

    0:04 - WAIT, are we really getting a sexy Billy the Puppet in Saw XI? Like, Billy the Daddy?

  • @ColeslawVariant
    @ColeslawVariant 2 дні тому +4

    Terry Crewsifier

  • @elliot_clover
    @elliot_clover 2 години тому

    watching this while high and when you said you were also high it gave me a nice assurance of camaraderie

    • @elliot_clover
      @elliot_clover 2 години тому

      this is the funniest thing I've ever watched

  • @doejersey
    @doejersey День тому

    Great video. Couldn’t agree more on the conclusion. 😂 I miss movies made on show string budgets.

  • @moresnqp
    @moresnqp 2 дні тому

    its crazy how quickly film is just turning into the music industry

  • @that.guy.fern.
    @that.guy.fern. 2 дні тому +2

    i had never been more pissed off watching a movie until i watched Terrifier 2. i liked the first one, but the second one? jesus christ, it pissed me off. i literally had to take a break from watching it to calm down before i bursted a blood vessel.

  • @Rocketboy1313
    @Rocketboy1313 2 дні тому +1

    I watched the first one before the second was even announced as in production. I had the reaction I bet a lot of people have, "huh, that was so much more gory than I was expecting, but the clown was kind of fun."
    Saw the second and thought, "Higher highs and lower lows, still shakes out to entertaining in my book, especially the dream sequences."
    Then I went back to that anthology movie Art first appears in... and "OH BOY do I understand why he was the break out element of that movie which was dragged down by an out of nowhere alien segment."

  • @Pinkgobi
    @Pinkgobi 2 дні тому +5

    YOUR COVER IS BY TREVOR HENDERSON?!?!?!!

  • @Squishy876
    @Squishy876 2 дні тому

    Every day May posts is a gift

  • @IHateDubstep
    @IHateDubstep 2 дні тому +17

    Clownsploitation peaked with Killer Klowns from Outer Space and there hasn't been a good one since then

    • @MyLoserBrain
      @MyLoserBrain 2 дні тому

      There is a really good clown horror movie called clown. Highly recommend.

  • @Veiled_Lepidoptera
    @Veiled_Lepidoptera 2 дні тому

    3:20 into this video and suddenly everything makes sense.... Also, you could've waited 1 more minute for that reveal and it would've been utter perfection.

  • @MistressUndead
    @MistressUndead 2 дні тому +2

    WHERE DID YOU FIND THAT BOOK STAND ART THE CLOWN OMG

  • @creationsylphfandom6256
    @creationsylphfandom6256 День тому

    NEW MAY VIDEO MOTHER FEEDS US ONCE AGAIN

  • @PhillipXJ9
    @PhillipXJ9 2 дні тому +1

    Nyx i always love your music choices.. do you have a spotify or anything i can follow!?

    • @nyxfears
      @nyxfears  2 дні тому +4

      All the music in this is my music, just look up May Leitz on Spotify

  • @grislyaddams9310
    @grislyaddams9310 День тому

    I'm just a dumb old man, but you make me laugh. You have a great sense of humor. Thank you.

  • @ceceghoul12514
    @ceceghoul12514 День тому

    I will never forget the feeling of seeing T2 in theaters when it first came out, i wish i could relive it. I was the only person at my showing and it was amazing!! I can't wait for T3

  • @polygonvvitch
    @polygonvvitch 2 дні тому

    Missed your uploads

  • @Jetsetlemming
    @Jetsetlemming 10 годин тому +1

    Felt sick just listening to the description of THAT scene, definitely not gonna see that movie. Like, I love horror, but extremely not the "do horrible things to woman" subgenre of horror. Like I know there's a lot of exhausting debates about "elevated horror" and shit like that but for me the good parts of the horror genre have ALWAYS been heady. Anatomy for me remains the single best piece of horror fiction ever made regardless of medium, because it's a perfect execution of the horror of an idea. It's not good because there's no violence or gore, you can have violence and gore on top the perfect execution of the horror of an idea (Signalis comes to mind as a good example of something with both gore and terrifying thoughts to think), but to have no thoughts head empty only cutting up a lady, then what are you even doing? Why's that even CALLED horror when there's nothing for the audience to be afraid of? Is there anything actually terrifying about Terrifier 2, except for the terror of watching deeply uncomfortable things while having to hear and smell someone near you throw up?

  • @illyriashade56
    @illyriashade56 День тому

    It was really, really funny watching Terrifier 2 explode like it did and it remains one of my favorite movie experiences ever because of that. I think the light in the cashier's eyes died a little when I came back to the theater to see it a second time (it was so insane to me that it was in ACTUAL MOVIE THEATERS that I had to see it again to make sure I hadn't dreamed it all)

  • @Lukasonthefloor
    @Lukasonthefloor День тому

    I brought my catholic sister to see this movie as a christmas gift
    it's made to showcase the special effects work in the same way the john wick movies are made to showcase the stunt work

  • @CERTAIND00M
    @CERTAIND00M 2 дні тому +1

    I actually really enjoyed All Hallows Eve (the middle segment is garbage but it's also the only one that doesn't feature Art, so...) I didn't dig Terrifier(1) but I had a good job at the time the filmmaker was raising funds to make a sequel. Which is my roundabout way of saying...
    I'm one of the absolute weirdos who backed that Indiegogo. Sorry, not sorry?

  • @joshdavis8381
    @joshdavis8381 День тому

    For some reason, I love it when horror movies are campy and dumb. Not a lot of them actually scare me, so it's another way to enjoy them

  • @mintchipp5463
    @mintchipp5463 День тому

    i love these movies because it never felt like 'gore for the sake of gore'. i think they know how far they need to push it for it to be INTENTIONAL. like for it to work it HAS to be too much and it's., SO much, and it works somehow. it reads like the world's most fucked up mime performance, they knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
    yeah i mean i'll NEVER watch it by myself at night again but i still love it

  • @BabyyiJustwanaDancee
    @BabyyiJustwanaDancee 2 дні тому +5

    I love the terrifier series

  • @kammhia397gaming9
    @kammhia397gaming9 2 дні тому

    Honestly, I'm probably the ONLY person who Found THAT scene to be absolutely hilarious because of how over the top it was.

  • @elimarshall680
    @elimarshall680 2 дні тому

    i so so so hope u talk abt i saw the tv glow soon❤️

  • @lucrezia5414
    @lucrezia5414 18 годин тому

    I know my limits and I'm more and more convinced there is not enough money in this word that would make me watch either Terrifier film

  • @howdylanky
    @howdylanky День тому +1

    did you just cover never gonna give you up...this is so fire. also historical art FRED 2 NIGHT OF THE LIVING FRED MENTIONED‼‼‼‼‼‼

  • @user-wz6uq2wu5l
    @user-wz6uq2wu5l День тому

    Whenever the last girl was left for Art in the first film, she was hiding out in a closet or something. I knew she was going to get out of the closet, so I kind of half thought it would be cool if the last little section followed Art trying to locate her. And it's just because he's the most interesting part of the film. It was also because i was just tired of having to watch the characters walking around and get to the action.
    It's almost like Damien Leone watched Funny Games, and then took the irony and made it literal.
    Just my personal theory, but Art is there to entertain you. Hes always performing, even if there isnt a character to witness him.

  • @Whatlander
    @Whatlander 2 дні тому +1

    I don't intend to watch any of these movies, but I guess I'm glad they exist? The design for Art is decent, and the actor seems to metaphorically kill it in this role, and I love it when horror gets a little silly. Still not going to watch it, tho.

  • @SilentEmilie
    @SilentEmilie 11 годин тому

    Totally agree about the lack of shitty horror movies. I'm nostalgic for times when me and my friends would watch the latest horror flick - just because it looked scary and fun, not because the reviews were great.

  • @TheAntiSanta
    @TheAntiSanta 2 дні тому +1

    I felt like all the lore dump and sacred holy sword and other nonsense really got in the way of what made the movie good. I'm sorry, but I'm going to be someone that prefers Terrifier 1 unless there's some kind of pay off for it in Terrifier 3 that makes it less bad.

  • @DinsRune
    @DinsRune 2 дні тому

    There can be, at times, a certain nobility to boundary-pushing.

  • @peakdelvalle197
    @peakdelvalle197 2 дні тому +1

    Fluids was amazing and I loved it, ergo you may be a monster but you're one of my favorite ones :)

  • @Kevo6492
    @Kevo6492 2 дні тому +1

    The Terrifier films are good but overrated for me personally. Art the Clown lacks an ethos for a slasher villain that even Jason has. Nevermind the first movie just being two young ladies attacked by him. They tried to give the protagonist an actual story this time but it made the film so much more bloated.

  • @mantispantis
    @mantispantis 8 годин тому

    I feel like no one went to see Terrifier 2 for the plot, we all went for Art the Clown.

  • @kblixt
    @kblixt 2 дні тому +3

    I love the Terrifier movies and I’m looking forward to the third one