Terrifier 3 was a huge success (it's actually the highest-grossing unrated movie of all time), so a fourth movie always seemed likely. Director Damien Leone has previously indicated that he plans to return to finish the story with one final instalment, and has now made it official.
The filmmaker shared a photo of the first page of the completed script to social media, promising to deliver an "epic, thrilling, nasty, horrifying, emotional and utterly satisfying conclusion," while also revealing the no-doubt shocking and disturbing origin of the demented mime known as Art the Clown.
Will Terrifier 4 manage to up the ante when it comes to the sickening depravity on display? It might be a tall order!
The recent threequel came under first for several scenes, with the sequence that came in for the most backlash showing the aftermath of a child (maybe 9 or 10) being hacked to pieces by Art.
"Mark my words," Leone said of the scene in question during a recent interview. "I guarantee you the first five minutes of this movie is going to be very controversial. But that's not even the big kill scene. So that's why I was like, I need to just make this movie on my own, because it's too insane If you thought Art the Clown's reign of terror in part two was extreme, you haven't seen anything yet."
"I got to meet with studios, like legit Hollywood studios, who wanted to make Terrifier 3. But before I even had a script, just having meetings and getting the feel that I was going to have eyes over my shoulders, and they were concerned about the levels of gore and this and that," he added.
"After surviving Art the Clown's Halloween massacre, Sienna and her brother struggle to rebuild their shattered lives. As the holiday season approaches, they try to embrace the Christmas spirit and leave the horrors of the past behind. However, just when they think they're safe, Art returns, determined to turn their holiday cheer into a new nightmare."