
Terrifier 2 is an upcoming American slasher film written and directed by Damien Leone. It is a direct sequel to Terrifier (2016) and is the second feature-length film in the franchise of the same name. It stars Lauren LaVera, Elliott Fullam, Sarah Voigt, Kailey Hyman, and Casey Hartnett. It features the return of David Howard Thornton as Art the Clown and Samantha Scaffidi as Victoria Heyes.
Following the cult success of Terrifier, Leone began developing a more character-focused and narrative-driven screenplay. The story follows siblings Sienna (LaVera) and Jonathon Shaw (Fullam) as they find themselves the targets of the sinister Art the Clown on Halloween night. Having already secured funding from private investors before filming, Leone launched an Indiegogo campaign with a $50k goal to film a practical effects-driven scene. The campaign was a massive success, reaching over 430% of the initial goal with a total of $250k donations.
Terrifier 2 is one of numerous films impacted by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic with principal photography coming to a halt due to the pandemic lockdowns. While a majority of the film was completed at the beginning of 2020, filming resumed in September of that year. Terrifier 2 is slated for a 2022 release.
Plot[]
After being resurrected by an unknown entity following the Miles County Massacre, Art the Clown brutally murders the coroner investigating his body with a hammer. He goes to the laundromat to clean his blood-soaked garments, where he encounters The Little Pale Girl—a mysterious sinister entity in similar clown attire. A lone patron sees Art interacting with the girl, who is invisible to him, before being killed.
A year later, teenager Sienna Shaw puts the finishing touches on her Halloween costume: an angel-warrior that was designed for her by her father, who recently passed away after a brain tumor. Sienna's brother Jonathan wants to dress as Art for Halloween and has become fixated on him since discovering sketches of him and his victims in their father's sketchbook. That night, Sienna has a nightmare where she encounters Art, and awakens to a fire on her dresser, while a sword that was a gift to her from her father remains unscathed.
On Halloween, Jonathan sees Art and The Little Pale Girl at school playing with a dead opossum, while Sienna has a panic attack when her friends Allie and Brooke discuss Victoria Heyes's meltdown and mutilation of controversial talk show host Monica Brown. Sienna and Allie go to the costume shop to buy a replacement pair of wings, where they encounter Art. Art kills the shop vendor and later breaks into Allie's home, where he theatrically mutilates her to death—slicing her eye, scalping her, breaking her arms, and pouring bleach and salt on her wounds. Allie’s mother is also killed when she later discovers her daughter’s body.
Jonathan shows Sienna and their mother, Barbara, his father's sketchbook of Art and his victims from the Miles County Massacre, along with newspaper clippings of killings connected to him, revealing that The Little Pale Girl was his first victim. Jonathan believes their father knew how to stop Art, but they do not believe him. After Barbara tears up the sketchbook and hits Jonathan, he runs away, and Art kills Barbara. Art chases after Jonathan who is drugged and kidnapped.
At a Halloween party, Brooke spikes Sienna's drink with molly in an attempt to calm her, but she has a panic attack when she sees The Little Pale Girl. Brooke and her boyfriend Jeff drive Sienna home, but the Little Pale Girl impersonates Jonathan and lures Sienna to The Terrifier haunted attraction at a defunct carnival. Art kills Jeff and chases Brooke into the haunted attraction before throwing acid on her face and bludgeoning her to death. Sienna discovers Brooke's corpse and fights Art until he knocks her unconscious. She awakes to find Art using a cat o' nine tails on her brother, overpowers Art and begins attacking him with his own weapon. She is killed with her father's sword and thrown into a water torture cell. As Art attempts to eat Jonathan, Sienna is mysteriously resurrected by the sword before decapitating Art, rescuing Jonathan. The Little Pale Girl takes Art's head and leaves without attacking Sienna and Jonathan.
In a mid-credits scene, an institutionalized Victoria is throwing up before writing "Vicky + Art" and obscenities on the wall with her blood. She gives birth to Art's living head, leaving the horrified nurse screaming.