Fall in love with Art the Clown all over again when Damien Leone‘s record-breaking Terrifier 3 streams on SCREAMBOX February 14!
If you’re not already subscribed to the Bloody Disgusting-powered horror streaming service, this SCREAMBOX Starter Pack highlights ten terrifying titles to tide you over until Terrifier 3.
Project Wolf Hunting is a hyper-violent South Korean genre bender that packs action, sci-fi, horror, and thriller aspects into a gory mashup of Con Air, The Raid, and Resident Evil. According to writer-director Kim Hong-Sun, the production went through 2.5 tons of blood — enough to make Art the Clown blush.
The high-octane gorefest is set aboard a cargo ship transporting dangerous convicts who orchestrate an escape attempt against the heavily armed guards. But the fugitives aren’t the most dangerous thing aboard the ship, as below deck there lurks a superhuman killing machine dubbed Alpha.
For more hyper-violence, SCREAMBOX has Blood Feast, Headless, and Adam Chaplin.
Before Art the Clown came along, Victor Crowley from the Hatchet franchise was the closest thing modern horror had to a slasher icon in the tradition of Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, and Michael Myers. Writer-director Adam Green delivered over-the-top gore, laughs, and surprises across four movies in which the hulking killer claimed the lives of well over 50 victims — all with gleefully gory practical effects.
The most recent installment, Victor Crowley serves a soft reboot set 10 years after the original massacre. Horror icon Kane Hodder — who played Jason from Friday the 13th Parts VII to Jason X — stars as the titular killer, squaring off against the likes of Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp), Dave Sheridan (Scary Movie), Brian Quinn (“Impractical Jokers”), Jonah Ray (“Mystery Science Theater 3000”), and Tyler Mane (Michael Myers in Rob Zombie’s Halloween).
For more throwback slashers, SCREAMBOX has We Might Hurt Each Other, The Barn, and #AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead.
Wrestlers are no match for Art the Clown — just ask the legendary Chris Jericho, who plays mental institution orderly Burke in Terrifier 2 and 3 — but Here for Blood‘s Tom O’Bannon has the right combination of brawn and brains to put up a fight against forces of evil.
The SCREAMBOX Original horror-comedy is like if John Cena starred in an Evil Dead movie. Shawn Roberts (Resident Evil franchise) stars as a pro wrestler who reluctantly agrees to babysit a 10-year-old when the house is invaded by masked maniacs. Gory practical effects ensue, including a decapitated skull voiced by Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider.
For more gory horror-comedies, SCREAMBOX has Ghost Killers vs Bloody Mary, The Editor, and ThanksKilling.
Much like how Art the Clown’s origin is shrouded in mystery, so too is that of Frogman. Based on the local legend of Loveland, Ohio’s amphibious cryptid, director Anthony Cousins puts a Lovecraftian twist on the Blair Witch Project model.
Clocking in at a brisk 77 minutes, the found footage curio follows a trio of friends armed with an old camera in hopes of capturing proof of the elusive Frogman, only to find out that the croaks are no hoax — with a cosmic horror twist.
For more found footage freakouts, SCREAMBOX has The Outwaters, Hell House LLC, and Horror in the High Desert.
The importance of Night of the Living Dead to horror cinema cannot be overstated. Not only did it single-handedly create the modern zombie as we know it, but George A. Romero laid the groundwork for future independent filmmakers like Damien Leone to make movies on their own terms. Terrifier 3 even features a cameo from frequent Romero collaborator Tom Savini.
In the seminal 1968 film, a ragtag group of strangers barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to ward off flesh-eating corpses that have risen from the dead. A master of mixing horror and social commentary, Romero establishes fellow humans as just as much of a threat as the encroaching plague.
For more zombie mayhem, SCREAMBOX has The Dead Next Door, We Are Zombies, and The Beyond.
If you thought Art the Clown knew how to destroy a bathroom, wait until you see Street Trash. As the tagline says, “If you’ve never seen a melt movie before… be prepared!” In addition to the 1987 splatterfest, SCREAMBOX is the exclusive home of the new standalone sequel directed by Fried Barry‘s Ryan Kruger.
Both versions of Street Trash are depraved cocktails of vibrant practical effects, gritty sleaze, absurd humor, and social commentary. The original is about contaminated alcohol that reduces vagabonds to piles of neon slime on the streets of New York City, while the reboot transplants the madness to South Africa.
For more ’80s cult classics, SCREAMBOX has Sleepaway Camp, Chopping Mall, and The Slumber Party Massacre.
Not only has the Terrifier franchise established an all-time great villain in Art the Clown, but final girl Sienna Shaw — played with aplomb by Lauran LaVera — shows Leone’s penchant for writing strong women. Similarly, Argentinian filmmaker Pablo Parés covers his resolute female characters in copious gore in PussyCake.
The colorful splatterfest follows a struggling all-girl rock band that realizes that being forgotten by their fans is the least of their problems when they encounter ravenous monsters on tour. The result is like Evil Dead 2 meets Predator by way of Josie and the Pussycats.
For more goopy gore, SCREAMBOX has Demons, Brain Damage, and Deep Red.
Few killers take greater delight in toying with their victims than Art the Clown, but The Collector could give Art a run for his money. What else would you expect from a slasher/home invasion hybrid that was originally conceived as a Saw prequel detailing Jigsaw’s original story from Saw IV-VII writers Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan?
A heist turns deadly for an ex-con (Josh Stewart, “Criminal Minds”) when he discovers that another criminal has rigged the property with Rube Goldbergian booby traps. Bear traps, fish hooks, razor blades, knives, barbed wire, and cockroaches are deployed in the most sadistic ways imaginable with cringe-inducing special effects by Gary J. Tunnicliffe (Candyman, Scream 4).
For more ruthless barbarity, SCREAMBOX has Audition, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, and Found.
Art the Clown’s humble beginnings originated in short films — first 2008’s The 9th Circle then 2011’s Terrifier. Presented by Bloody Disgusting, SCREAMBOX’s top-rated Bloody Bites is a compilation of snack-sized frights that aims to spotlight more up-and-coming voices in the genre.
Horror fans will recognize many familiar faces across the 12 seasons, including Amanda Wyss (A Nightmare on Elm Street), Fiona Dourif (“Chucky”), Scout Taylor-Compton (Rob Zombie’s Halloween), Stacey Nelkin (Halloween III: Season of the Witch), and Georgina Campbell (Barbarian).
For more alarming anthologies, SCREAMBOX has Body Bags, Creepypasta, and Cryptids.
Not only does Terrifier 3 directly follow the characters and storylines established in its predecessor, but the unprecedented success of Terrifier 2 helped establish Art the Clown as a bona fide horror icon. Word-of-mouth buzz from the likes of Stephen King and Howard Stern to The New York Times and Forbes to “The Talk” and WWE provided a springboard to take the mega-slasher saga to the next level.
SCREAMBOX is also streaming Leone’s insightful Terrifier 2 director commentary.
Will Sienna prevail against Art? What will become of Victoria? Can Leone top Terrifier 2‘s infamous bedroom scene? Find out when Terrifier 3 streams on February 14!
For more killer clowns, SCREAMBOX has Stitches, The Funhouse Massacre, and Gags the Clown.
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