Terrifier 3
Cineverse | Release Date: October 11, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
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8
Negative:
1
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83
IndieWireAlison ForemanSep 26, 2024
Terrifier 3 is decking the halls with a triumphant celebration that’s horrifying for all the right reasons and snaps into focus what it is that Leone does singularly well. That may or may not win people over, but it shouldn’t lose any repeat customers. Read full review
80
The Irish TimesTara BradyJan 2, 2025
This is a Terrifier movie: everything is bigger and scarier, including the psychological damage. Read full review
80
Little White LiesCharles BramescoOct 11, 2024
There’s something curious and pure about the way Leone disassembles bodies, like a child breaking open an old VCR not to see how it works, but to survey and play with the complicated stuff inside. Read full review
80
We Got This CoveredMarco Vito OddoOct 10, 2024
Terrifier 3 marks a significant evolution in the franchise. Director Damien Leone delivers the most vicious iteration of Art the Clown yet, while also maturing as a filmmaker and providing a solid foundation for future installments. Read full review
80
The GuardianCatherine BrayOct 10, 2024
It’s not for everyone, but for gorehounds this film delivers and then some. Read full review
80
Total FilmJamie GrahamOct 7, 2024
The gleeful nastiness will be too much for many. Fans, meanwhile, will rejoice as Art wraps intestines around a Christmas tree like tinsel. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerOct 10, 2024
The Nightmare Before Christmas said that it’s all right to wrap a few scares up under the Christmas tree. Terrifier 3, the latest in the extreme gore franchise, sets fire to the decorations, cuts off your eyelids, and makes you watch the whole house burn. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonSep 23, 2024
Primarily a vehicle for inventive and wince-inducing practical effects that best anything to be found in a 1980s-era Italian gorefest or the Saw franchise, Terrifier 3 continues the series’s trend of dotting a sparse and sinuous thread of plot with mini-masterpieces of cinematic ultraviolence. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanOct 10, 2024
Thornton gives a hell of a performance, like Marcel Marceau inhabited by the fiendish spirit of Charles Manson, with a touch of Divine. In his silent-clown way, he imitates ordinary human emotion — the grins and wide-eyed surprise, the innocent moués, the cartoon-sad frowns — with a stylized frivolity. Read full review
70
SlashfilmJacob HallSep 20, 2024
This is a movie that sets out on its own dark mission, and accomplishes that mission with a skill that is undeniable. Read full review
60
EmpireKim NewmanOct 7, 2024
Managing to go further over-the-top and pushing more offence buttons than you think possible, this is recommended only for the strong of stomach and hard of heart.  Read full review
60
LooperAlistair RyderOct 7, 2024
Yes, it's still rare for a horror film to be longer than two hours, but it's especially rare for a horror film of that length to feel rushed. Terrifier 3 progresses to its climactic living nightmare too fast to be properly processed; this is likely to mirror Sienna's mental state in that moment, but it is still in dire need of an extra couple of beats to build tension before all hell breaks loose. Read full review
60
IGNMatt DonatoSep 25, 2024
Terrifier 3 is a bounty of practical effects riches that cannot be denied, but its storytelling is scattershot in ways that hold the sequel back. Read full review
58
The PlaylistCharles BarfieldOct 11, 2024
Terrifier 3 is the Gwar of films. The story isn’t very good. The antics are pushing the limits of silliness. But if you can look past that, then holy sh*t, you better brace yourself for some of the bloodiest, most gruesome things you’ll ever see in a film. This is not for the faint of heart. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoOct 11, 2024
Leone continues to grow as a filmmaker—and there’s something interesting about watching that unfold throughout the franchise. But his screenwriting continues to let him down, jumbling his concepts with shallow mythology, atrocious dialogue, and ridiculous padding, leading to another film in this series that pushes over two hours. I’m still rooting for Leone to figure it out, but it’s not in this one. Read full review
50
The New York TimesErik PiepenburgOct 10, 2024
Leone’s new “Terrifier” film sags under its predecessors’ trappings: a bloated running time, an unfocused script, uneven pacing Read full review
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The Daily BeastNick SchagerOct 10, 2024
Terrifier 3 is a juvenile splatterfest with an ignorable plot, and its performances veer from the competent (LaVera and Thornton) to the inept (most everyone else). Read full review
50
ColliderRoss BonaimeOct 9, 2024
The budget might have ballooned to ten times what Terrifier had, and the kills have gotten far more gruesome, yet Terrifier 3 is still the same mixed bag that this franchise has always been. Read full review
30
Screen RantZachary MoserOct 10, 2024
Terrifier 3 has a real lack of tension that all the sawed-off limbs in the world can't Frankenstein together. Read full review
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