The Reel Rejects - It Doesn't Stop...TERRIFIER 2 (2022) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!

Episode Date: October 17, 2024

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Here we go. Terra Fire 2. So I'm on chat, GBT, right now. And I just asked it. Oh, Victoria was the sole survivor at the first film? Yeah, yeah. But I thought Tara was their survivor. Yeah, he just got the name wrong.

But isn't Tara the main girl? Yeah, Tara is the one who died. The Tara dies, though. and it was the sister who came to rescue her who survived yes yeah the sister who came to rescue her was vicky well i i thought when that movie ended that it was the sister who had been mutilated who came back i didn't realize it was a sister who came to get her no no no no yeah okay okay okay okay yeah so now you understand all of terror fire too now

no no i don't but at least that part people are gonna be pissed at me in the comments for that but i they they won't um okay Okay. So, okay. So the ending leaves questions like, what is Sienna's true connection to art and the supernatural? How was art able to survive or come back to life? Could there be a link between Sienna's family history and art's demonic nature? Who was the little girl? So was the little girl like his first victim? Who was the little pale girl? And how did Vicki then get art in her vagina? The little pal is a new character introduced to Terrifier to. She appears as a ghostly child. Okay, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Here's what we know about her.

The little pale girl seems to be a manifestation or a spirit that's directly tied to art. She often appears alongside him. We know that. But how can they see her? Yeah, yeah, we'll last that in a second. Film hints at a backstory that involves a tragic incident of carnival where a young girl named Emily Crane was murdered

and found wearing clown makeup. It's implied that this little pale girl now haunting and aiding art in his killing spree. However, exact nature is left ambiguous. She could be a ghost, a demon, or an extension of art's supernatural presence. Why are you being ambiguous? Spell it out for me. Invisible the most, but people, okay, yeah, we're just going to ask this thing.

Wait, invisible to most people, what's it say there? Siena and some others can't see the little pale girl, but people directly affected by art like her brother, Jonathan. Wait, but Sienna could see her. This suggests she may exist. Okay. So why can Sienna and Jonathan see the little pale girl? but others can't throughout the movies supplied CNN and Jonathan's family particularly their father might have had a connection to art the clown and his dark

powers their father was okay so I guess Terrifier 3 will answer these their father was haunted oh me so we have to watch it my visions of art even created sketches of him okay so we don't actually know why the the father had all these things So, okay, okay, what? This is good content. Oh, see what? I've gone mute and you're reading chat GPT. I don't know what, but it's funny.

So I was looking at articles. I hear in the bathroom. I'm like, this doesn't give me any answers. You don't like talk to this fucking name. I've literally gone mute and you are. And you talk to this AI. Falls deep in chat GPT. I know.

There's so much. explanation but it's also not explaining it anything so my my main questions are what and it's okay that they didn't answer this but what is art's connection to the father you know like the father who went crazy and how did art's head end up in vicky's vagina okay so all right all right so we don't know the connection all right how did victoria give birth to art's head exactly exactly why let me see if this freaking computer it's still explaining something else okay all right okay so so there's just some things that were not meant to know yet okay um heart has a way of infecting correct at the end of the first film okay yeah whatever

does the victoria has been possessed or profoundly affected by arts evil influence okay it's just some like symbolic thing of the act of giving birth to the head may represent the idea that arts influence is a parasite using Victoria as a means to regenerate himself the disturbing twist could indicate that anyone touched by art is at risk of becoming a host for his return suggesting that his spirit

or essence can transfer and remanifist in horrific oh we're meant to theorize we're meant to like trying to understand what's going on it's meant to be ambiguous for sure but it's there's so many parts that are so ambiguous it's like It's like, I need a couple of things spelled out. Right, right, right, totally, totally. Like, the first movie was so contained.

It was such as, like, a straightforward. Yeah, but then the ending, you know, when he comes back to life, it's like, oh, there's a hint of supernatural. This one was like, there is... Questions, questions, questions. Yeah, like, we went to hell. She's in a pool. There's a birthday party. A birth was given to a head.

Yeah. Like, yeah. And then even in this one, they said that the reporter was still, like, you know, live like hanging on to dear life and then we didn't get that answered um i have so many questions let me ask you this and i'm sure you don't know the exact answer to this yet but did you like the movie i did yeah i did like the movie um surprisingly i i did because i was invested in the mystery me too and as much as there's a lot of things not answered um because i'm used to movies telling me stuff by the end of it you know especially when you have a runtime of this length

I just I guess I expect out of if this was like terrifier one then I would be a little bit more like oh it's I would probably be more on board of the train of ambiguity but because the first one is such a straightforward film then do your sequel which has this like mysterious ethereal supernatural elements hanging over the entire film like a couple of thing spelled out for me because other than what was really obvious that the movie spelt that at the beginning that dad has predictions he draws it out

sketches it out daughter you're going to be the one to behead art down the road but and like how did the candles get lit you know

yes the premonition stuff was interesting though I did really like this and I think it's a sign of how much we liked it that we wanted to look all this up afterwards

it wasn't like what it was like wait I got to figure this out and you even said that a couple times throughout the movie. Like, I want them to tell me what's going on. And that means we're invested. We care. They did a good job making us care about the characters. I really liked the sibling dynamic in this one, just like I liked the sibling dynamic in the first one. But I thought that this one was a little more interesting because times they kind of had to help each other as opposed to in the first one, where one was already dead by the time the other one comes. So this was like a little bit of give and take, which I liked a lot. I thought that the, main girl and this is excellent i thought that her two friends were excellent uh it was cool to see like

that philissa rose poppin jericho pop in clearly terrifier was catching on that this was like gonna be a cult classic um some really cool stuff yeah i think this one has a much more artistic voice i'm not gonna escape that work art art i think it has and like that's staring at me too as every time we say that got joker um yeah i think he's looking at me there's so much more it to, I think, the way everything about this movie is told, not just from the writing, but the directing as well. Like, in terms of, like, an improvement

upon a sequel, like, you get something completely different. In some ways, I was comparing some of the cinematography to how it looked like Terminator 1, but in a weird way, this is, you kind of compare this to the Terminator franchise. I don't remember any of it.

Okay, Terminator 1 is like a straightforward, there's a machine from the past, and then we've got to protect Sarah Connor. and then Terminator 2 becomes this like much bigger version of that story. I even said Sarah Connor at some point in this because I was thinking Sarah Connor Chronicles but. Oh yeah, I was thinking of Sarah Connor

and John, that's why I said like they're escaping the Terminator here at this scene. So and there's ways where you can't compare it to how this one actually does decide to go bigger and as a franchise I actually respect it because when we were going into the second one I really didn't want to watch it because I was like

it's like it's longer so it's probably just way gorier. That's all that's all people made it sound to us. I know that it's so weird because I actually don't find this one to be more violent, more gory. It's longer. So there is some more, but there was more downtime. I don't mean downtime in a bad way. I just mean room to breathe. Yeah. To storytell. Yeah, exactly. To actually have a movie. And that's what the director said. His problem with the first one was not really playing out his protagonists, you know, not giving them these arc stories, character building. And this one, I really feel like he did do that.

and i like that you're able to take this story because like if you look at like the Halloween franchise they tried doing that whereas like a straightforward serial killer story and then they try to introduce the supernatural quality to it and some people like it some people don't and it seems like everyone got so on board for this and i'm on board for that to take something that's like just a direct okay killer clown movie cool and then turn it into this giant mythos of trying to unpack like you really create a world now out of this what started off is what just seems like a killer clown movie and turn it into something completely different and I think the shocks of the violence

hits a little I don't know if it's harsher but it but it's because of the fact that there's more downtime you settle in with just scenes whereas the first one it becomes a little numbing yeah because it's just it's just like so nonstop yeah true what did you think like when if I asked you what was the scariest moment in this movie Is there one that comes to mind? Because the first one, obviously, the most gory, horrifying moment is the slicing of the Vahian. Yeah. I don't know if these movies are only scary in the sense of like, I don't know how violent it's about to get and do I really want to watch it.

You know what I mean? Like that's there a standout? I mean, the most violent one will be the girl in the bedroom for sure. Oh, my God. That was like, that was genuinely really gross. With her back and her scalp. But I'm really feeling like the director's more. interested in like this weird

story. What about the beginning even when he took somebody's eyeball and put it in his head? That's a little funny. Did you say that there's a third one? Yeah, third one's coming out. The third one should be out in the theaters by the time this one's already out. And then we're going to cover it here. I wonder if it answers these questions, man. I hope they do. I wonder if there's some trivia

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by budget like oh this this scene needed to have more money or something like that i'd never felt that yeah it actually worked really well and but especially about how large of a cast it is because there's so many actors there were a lot of people in this one as opposed to the first one too and that main girl is amazing yeah so i'm looking her up right now her name is loren lavera and she was in an episode of iron fist she she has a lot of credits but i don't know anything dispatches from elsewhere she was in as well as a barista so um looks like but it She really carried this movie. I don't want to give you spoilers, but do you want to know something?

Of what? Terrifier 3? Yeah. What do you mean? You just got a spoiler? Well, just she's in it. Oh, no, that's not big deal. Get the main girl's in it.

All right. I'm looking up her credits. She's in it. Well, that's cool. So we're actually carrying on the story. Probably the brother, too, but I won't look. Yeah, that would be cool because that's how it should be. And they should explain, especially if there's like a relation to them, you know,

which that part kind of feels like, scream in a lot of ways. Let's look. Okay. Let me look. Let me look. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. There's a couple of other things I'd like to point out. Is that okay? Is it the sound? Is it the look? Is it the feel? No, no, no. It's about the hurt. That she was a beast. Yeah. Beyond the fact that she's a beast is like this film franchise is really interesting to me because it pitches itself as just kind of a play on a genre that we all know, just a slasher genre. And if you look at this is like, scream queen character you know she's a final girl character in so many ways but i think she really elevates beyond that with this whole like weird destiny um quality to it and she never struck me as this character who was like so weak and then become strong like it was it actually felt like appropriately human um the entire time i was really impressed with how they wrote her character like i would never there's nothing about the writing i really liked about the first one but this one there was

elements of the writing actually like i agree i thought that she did such a great job she was such a stand out i know we're not here yet but i do want to say because i saw this as you were saying it the actress is trained in martial arts and she did most of her own stunts and i feel like that was she was amazing she was like seemed so uh sometimes you know when somebody hold the weapon and you're like you that's not how you would hold the weapon like everything's felt really natural on her um probably because she's kick ass and she had some guns too and i was like oh yeah Yeah, like when she swung at Art's head, I was like, oh, it was a surprise. That was a really good swing.

Totally. It looked like she knew what she was doing. Completely, I agree. Yeah. What else you got? Okay, let me see. So the scenes shot and terrify her haunted house were filmed in a real haunted house called Fright Factory in Philadelphia.

Filmmakers used what was already available to them. That probably was a big cut cost. Wow. So all that authenticity was authentic. Yeah. Stephen King acknowledged the film on Twitter slash X with Terrifier to grossing you out old school. That'd be so cool to see. Yeah, maybe this one just got more attention because there's an actual story people could get behind, whereas the first one kind of just felt like gory schlock, you know?

This is gross. And now I want to go back and look at her face. The pale little girl's prosthetic teeth were switched from upper to lower and vice versa to make her look more unsettling. Oh, smart. That is smart. The events of Terrifier 1 take place in the year 2017, and Terrifier 2 takes place one year later, so 2018. That answers our question about timing. That was great.

Oh, I love that tie-in, too, to the timing. Oh, and it looks like they did that because of pandemic purposes, because they were complete before filming of Terrifier 2 began October 2019 and was almost complete before COVID-19 quarantines. Oh, geez. Really quick. I think that's really smart what they did at the beginning because that the first of terror fire one to have the opening seen me on the news report and then he breaks the TV and then that tied into this yeah it's a tie that in that when he did that that's what I'm kind of curious I'm like I don't know if it did but but to tie it in like that actually it to put that in like at beginning of act two or something is makes it feel like oh you're completing a story here now and it doesn't just feel like a gimmicky opening of the first one I feel like I feel like a gimmicky opening of the first one I feel like a Julia. When Brooks' boyfriend Jeff first appears at the Halloween party, he arrives wearing a ghost costume made of a white bed sheet with a pair of glasses, a direct reference to the original horror movie Halloween. Yep. That's cool. I love when people do that. Writer director Damien Leone stated on Instagram, Sienna is a character that he has been trying to get from page to screen for more than a decade.

The writer director says she is my favorite character I've ever written and seeing Lauren Levera breathe life into her. has been an absolute dream come true that I will cherish always I cannot wait for all you terrify our fans to see her in action I promise you won't be disappointed yet Slavera was born to play Sienna so how we're feeling is exactly how he felt and that absolutely shows

which I think yeah I definitely really appreciate that yeah it was a great level to how we wrote her and she's I mean she's obviously excellent but again the writing of her was really well done I don't know much about this I guess there was some controversy you want me you want to hear about it or no uh you get to like kind of watch your words

a little bit maybe yeah let's see what you what you have to do i guess there was allegations of misogyny from the director um he denied the allegations that he got after making terrifier the first one so he was raised by women who taught him to love horror movies he spent a lot of time investing in the character sienna for terrifier too because he wants the audience to root for her not for art a clown however he also stated the audience often subconsciously identifies with the killer and that is virtually impossible to create something in 2020s

that doesn't offend anyone so I'm guessing that that's probably about like the nudity of the first one and the slicing which I didn't you know take as misogynistic I thought that it fit the tone of the film

yeah yeah totally well he murders everybody like yeah he going after her. And this movie has so money. So much money. There's like so much women in this movie. Yeah, for sure. So I don't see that, but that's interesting. Well, originally planned for a limited

theatrical release for a single weekend. The movie reached top 10 at the box office on multiple weekends, and its theatrical run lasted well past Halloween. The film domestically grossed over $10 million on $250,000 budget, a $39,000 return on investment, making it the most

profitable film of 2022. Oh, wow, really? Oh. that's cool that's crazy oh this is cool David Howard Thornton who plays the silent art the clown performed

voiceover for the Art Krispies serial commercial during the dream sequence oh fun you can actually hear his voice that is fun and then this one in case you didn't hear

last time we talked about this but the movie was completely independently made production money was raised through several sources without the aid of a studio and writer director Damien Leone created all the special effects himself in order to cut costs

He was able to be uncompromising his depiction of violence and gore because there was no studio making demands or insisting on cuts. Well, I still think the first one... That's how you do it. I still think the first one was way grosser. Yeah, me too. It's interesting that you and I both have that feel. To have Terrifier 3 has a 91%?

I never thought these... It's so weird. Usually critics don't like movies like this. I know you think they'd hate this. So what did Terrifier 1 have a score of? Let's find out. I think Terrifier 1 is the only one that's like kind of... That's Rodden. That's so weird to me because...

Tarifier 1... Yeah, 58% critic. 53%. With only 24 reviews. And then Terrifier 2 out of 80 reviews, 86%. That is honestly kind of nuts to me. Just because of the kind of movie this is... The critic consensus, Terrifier 2 out does the original in every way,

which makes it bad news for the squeamish, but a bloody good time for the genre enthusiasts. Actually, the audience scores. what we were saying at the top of our review of like hardcore slasher fans, I wonder my Terrifier 2's Gore was so heavily hyped. Yeah, because I was here going like, oh, that's what it says. This is going to be the grossest thing in the world.

And I was like, it was gross. It was gross. Yeah, it was gross. But it wasn't like the, yeah, I think the first one just feels like icky or two and just like more mean.

I think because of the seediness of it and like because of the darkness, because of the way it shot because it just was down and dirty and brief. It feels like you're really, The first one feels like you're really trapped in arts like hellhouse, you know, where this one is, you're kind of like, what's going on in the story? You know, you're definitely, and it feels a little bit more like Halloween with the art, the clown touch to it. You know, like taking place on Halloween, going to people's houses, checking on the three girls.

Is there anything you want to see from the third one? The third one out here is a holiday movie. Like a Christmas or Thanksgiving. I was going to see these both were holiday movies too, Halloween. Yeah. Well, the third one I'd like a little. little bit of exposition yeah like a little bit of like spell out just a couple things for me it's kind of crazy to see on rotten tomatoes terrifier three and then right next to a joker folia do

and you could kind of compare some elements to the two of these movies i guess in the sense that they're clowns mental health there's commentary on mental health in a weird way yeah Damn, 91%. How many reviews? How many reviews? There's 23 right now. Wow. Can't get over.

Okay, what are people saying? The best terrifier yet is one I read. Really? Yeah. All right. I guess we're going to get out of here. Any final thoughts, Greg? No, I enjoyed that more than I expected to.

And I like that it's an actual movie and not just a gross time. Thank you to all you guys for following us on social. Thank you to Praper for editing us down. And thank you to chat GPT. for attempting to answer our questions. Chat deep, he didn't answer shit. It just didn't answer. We need you guys to leave comments on this one.

If you understand the things that were happening better than we do, let us know. I'm going to read or a single one of them. And I bet you can catch us back here for Terrifier 3 whenever that comes out. Look at me, holding myself still. I look more like a beetle than before her. At some point, this was me for an hour. So I must have been really stressed because this is. me. Okay, later.

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