Terrifier knows exactly what it is and doesn't try to be anything different. Art the clown is truly terrifying (and incredibly acted) and the gore is outrageous and obscene. These are the things that Terrifier cared bout and it does them very well. The problem is that it barely qualifies as a movie. There is almost zero story and there isn't a single character that has any real personality. Characters do things that make no sense beyond the "horror movie logic" (Art is chasing them through an abandoned building, that for some reason has all of the interior doors locked, and the characters just keep running back in instead of down the street. You are outside! Stay outside! Don't go back in the house of locked doors; that's where Art is!). The cinematography is fine but other than David Howard Thornton (who plays the clown) all the actors are terrible. Terrifier is entirely propped up on David Howard Thornton's performance and the copious amount of gore; there is nothing else. The story is almost nonexistent and there are way too many questions left untouched. We have no idea who Art the clown is, there is a character credited as "Cat Lady" who clearly has a backstory, but we never get a single bit of it, and the ending introduces an entirely new dynamic to the story that is wholly unnecessary. I give Terrifier credit for some truly surprising swerves and being the only movie I've seen as an adult that unsettled me, but Terrifier is not a good film. It's a fun experience, but as a movie, it's missing far too much.