Horror Movie Villains: Art the Clown

 

Clowns were always supposed to be funny and make people laugh with their atrocious makeup and hair, oversized clothes and shoes, and exaggerated mannerisms.

But it's no surprise that some can find people in too much make-up actually scary. Depends on how you do your make-up, isn’t it?

That's when horror movies began to use clowns as villains, as maniac entities who are only interested in slaughter and not laughter.

Over the years we have seen many clowns stalking unsuspecting victims in movies, but do you know about another hideous murder— Art the Clown?

Art the clown made his introduction in a short movie before being featured in the movie All Hallows' Eve.

The character's popularity grew and soon a movie featuring him as the antagonist was announced. TERRIFIER.

Art the Clown is part mime and part monstrous clown. Unlike other clowns who love color, Art prefers black and white. He doesn’t speak although he does mime anger, shock and amusement.

He also seems to choose women as his victims.

When TERRIFIER was released in 2016, it didn't exactly get rave reviews, but Art the Clown was seen as a proper horror villain, and the actor who played him, David Howard Thronton, was praised for his portrayal of the murderous clown.

TERRIFIER 2 was shortly announced and this time when the movie was released, it was an instant hit and received good reviews from the critics.

However, there were reports of people vomiting and passing out while watching the movie.

Turns out that Terrifer 2 is a pretty gory movie and those who have a weak stomach should best avoid it.

Terrifier 2 was released on 6th October.

Following the success of the movie Terrifier 3 and Terrifier 4 has also been announced.