Terrifier 4 will be ‘insane’, Art the Clown actor David Howard Thornton teases
David Howard Thornton has said Terrifier 4 will be "insane" and give fans a closer look at Art the Clown's origin story.
David Howard Thornton has teased Terrifier 4 will be “insane”.
The upcoming slasher will conclude the stories of Thornton’s dreaded Art the Clown, Victoria Heyes (Samantha Scaffidi) and Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera), and the 45-year-old actor has now said series creator Damien Leone, 43, has promised a “fun” and pulse-pounding climax to the Terrifier saga that will give fans a closer look at how Art came to be.
Speaking on Slasher Radio, Thornton said: “I’m very excited, but I don’t know a whole lot, because this time around Damien has been keeping everything very close to his vest about what’s happening in the script.
“Lauren, Samantha, and I, in the past when he’s been writing the other scripts, he’s been consulting us the whole entire time, running ideas by us. This time, he’s been pretty much silent.
“He just goes, ‘Oh yeah, you’re gonna love the origin story, Dave. You’re gonna love how we do it.’ And he said also, ‘The finale is bat-s*** insane. You’re gonna have a lot of fun with that.’
“Other than that, I don’t know, but that makes me excited.”
While Thornton believes Terrifier 4 will wrap up Art the Clown’s story nicely, the Screamboat star doesn’t rule out Leone revisiting the franchise later down the line.
Thornton said: “I feel like this might be the finale of this story arc that [Leone’s] going with for right now and might give it a rest for a few years and might return later on to it. I have no idea, but I’m excited nonetheless.
“I have so much faith in him.”
Leone had recently teased he was taking “some bold swings” with Terrifier 4.
During an appearance on the Talk is Jericho podcast, he said: “It’s going to be a really tough one to shoot, especially what I want to do in the last half hour of the movie … it’s going to be really intense and experimental and really out there.
“Like crazier than anything I’ve done before. It’s going to have some really wild stuff in it. I’m taking some bold swings.”
The All Hallows’ Eve director added Terrifier 4 was his favourite chapter in the slasher series.
He said: “It’s my favourite one I would say, just as a viewer that I wish I didn’t have to make. I just want to watch it.”
Speaking about where he was in terms of the movie’s development process, Leone said he was “fleshing out” the story beats for Terrifier 4 now.
He explained: “The script is like halfway there. Well it’s pretty much … cause I don’t write until I have it like broken down in like beats on a separate page.
“So, I have like bullet points, so I know where I’m going so I’m not just lost. Now it’s just fleshing all those beats out.
“So, I know what the movie is.”
