Review of Terrifier 2 (2022) by Brickwall_ — 01 May 2023
It is downright criminal for something this schlocky and stupid to be this long. This **** is only 7 minutes shorter than GOODFELLAS and for no reason at all.
The over-the-top gore is super fun but whenever the clown isn't on screen this thing grinds to a halt. I spent about half of the movie trying to figure out if the acting, dialogue, and cinematography were all terrible on purpose. The film is certainly intentionally campy in ways and seems totally self-aware at some moments but it also takes itself way too seriously at other moments, and all the melodramatic family stuff should have been left on the cutting room floor.
My viewing experience was a cycle of being totally checked out and hating the characters, then being won back over by some wild moment with the clown, rinse and repeat. But even the clown and the crazy violence grew tiring long before the end. There is a tipping point where the gratuitous torture can stop being fun and just feel gross and nihilistic, and Terrifier 2 crossed that line in a couple of scenes. It almost even feels a little misogynistic since the victims are mostly innocent young women but the movie clearly wants you to be rooting for the clown and reveling in his sadistic violence against them. Seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of why the best slasher movies work.
This review of Terrifier 2 (2022) was written by Brickwall_ on 01 May 2023.
Terrifier 2 has generally received positive reviews.
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