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Interview with the director. (SPOILERS for T2).

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https://variety.com/2022/film/news/terrifier-2-sequel-ending-deleted-penis-scene-1235416008/

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What are the lines you won’t cross?

Art the Clown likes to play with people’s entrails. 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.”

Now I have to know what some of those ideas were

Possibly making a balloon animal out of it, or something like that. But we absolutely can’t do that. It was actually [Art the Clown actor] Dave’s suggestion. We’re always trying to one-up each other and come up with sick things, but that was too far for me.

I honestly lost count. It had to be somewhere around 20 gallons of blood throughout the movie. We use a lot of real meat. You can’t get any better than the real thing — nothing says slimy or moves the way real fat moves.

Everything in the movie is 99% practical effects, but there are little things you can do with digital effects to bring life to these dummies. One of them was digitally putting the actress’ real eyeball on the dummy, so when she wakes up the eye opens. When Art is decapitating the guy in the costume shop, we digitally put his face onto the fake head that we built, so when it’s getting decapitated, you see him blinking and twitching and his mouth opening and closing.

I had a “Part 3” in mind when writing “Part 2.” There are so many questions brought up in “Part 2” that are not answered, and that was part of the design because I know I’m going into a “Part 3.” I pretty much have the entire treatment ready for “Part 3,” but it’s getting so big that it could potentially split into a “Part 4” because I wouldn’t want to make another 2 hour 20 minute movie.

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That’s one of the major criticisms the first “Terrifier” gets. It didn’t really have protagonists that you can get behind who were compelling. It was really just a showcase for the villain, but that was sort of the point. It was setting up Art as a villain and showing that no character is safe.

There’s something very interesting that’s going to happen with the pale girl in “Part 3.” That’s all I can say right now. Sienna is crucial to the franchise moving forward. There are a lot of interesting things that are going to be brought up with that character and her trajectory. I know there were a lot of things thrown at the audience in this movie and it sort of unravels like a nightmare, but nothing was thrown in just arbitrarily for the sake of being weird. Everything means something, and it’s all going to make sense, for sure. I kind of regret doing this, but I recorded a director’s commentary for the Blu-ray and I actually did explain a lot of stuff that I shouldn’t have. People might want to check that out because they’ll definitely get some spoilers as to what’s going on on.

I don’t want to go too far into that supernatural, mystical element. But if there’s a supernatural evil that’s so powerful driving Art the Clown, how are you going to combat that? There should be a supernatural good in this reality as well. That’s what excited me most about this film, seeing Sienna uncover that element and understand her destiny becoming Art’s nemesis. Art blew his brains out with a gun at the end of “Terrifier,” so why would a butcher knife suddenly be able to take him out? It has to be much more complicated, deeper and supernatural. There has to be a lot more going on in this world. I love exploring the supernatural, but I don’t want to have it overshadow the tone of the movie. Moving forward, I think it’s really important to stay grounded in terms of being a grindhouse slasher at its core.