'Terrifier 3' Star Reveals Art the Clown's Best Kill in New Film

With all its slicing, dicing, stabbing, slashing, gutting and skewering More terrible Films are not for the faint of heart. But for David Howard Thornton, who plays the films' big bad, Art the Clown, the release of horror 3 is a happy occasion to add to the list a frightening new method of mutilation – freezing.

When asked in a recent interview which kill from the new film was his favorite, he replied: “Mine is definitely the bar scene with Santa Claus.” In the middle of the Christmas set horror 3Thornton's jubilant psychopath creates a new instrument of torture, a tank of liquid nitrogen equipped with a projectile funnel. He successfully tests it on a rat and then heads to a bar to wreak frosty mayhem.

“It made me feel like a Batman villain,” Thornton continued. “I love the idea of ​​a freeze gun, especially when he just cuts off someone's body parts and dismembers them that way. I thought that was really cool.”

The full murder scene begins with Art hanging out at a local bar with some regulars, including a man in a Santa Claus costume. As Art puts the Santa hat on the man, a patron calls out, “Hey Santa, it looks like you have some competition. It's Clowney Claus!” Then Art sits on the man's lap like a little boy and warns him not to “get it dirty and remember to give it back” so he doesn't “end up on Santa's naughty list.”

Art quickly destroys the festive spirit by spraying a shot of alcohol in Santa's face and urinating on his lap. The patrons' disgust is reason enough for art to rain destruction upon it. He shoots the bartender and a customer and ties Santa Claus to a chair. It's time for the freeze gun.

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With agonizing slowness and joy, Art freezes parts of the man's body so he can smash them with the blunt end of a pickaxe. Finally, he removes half his face and places a snowman carrot where the man's nose used to be. “Really cool,” actually.

horror 3 begins after the surreal finale of the fabulist Horror 2. The film mainly alternates between Art's brutal beating and the final girl, Sienna (Lauren LaVera), dealing with her trauma from the events of the previous film. The Christmas-themed setting allows Art to experiment with all sorts of holiday-themed horror toys, including the freezer gun.

When asked about her favorite murder, LaVera chose the one that opens the film: an unusually respectful murder of a little boy that occurs off-camera. “It’s all sound design and it’s silent. It disturbed me more than anything I could see and it was definitely a nice example of less is more and you get more of everything in this film, but it was different than the others,” she said.

Horror 2 became something of a box office miracle in 2022, grossing $1 million in its opening weekend on a meager budget of $250,000. Writer and director Damian Leone described the film's success as: Weekly entertainment as “overwhelming” and said: “Every morning I wake up, it’s like Christmas morning. The hype has been building ever since it hit theaters, so it’s really exciting.”

horror 3 opened in theaters nationwide today. From the Christmas morning feeling to the Christmas morning murder: If the third film is successful, Leone and Co. might wake up every morning feeling like it's Halloween.