Being a horror fan, Ive heard to old argument of misogyny in slasher movies - women take longer to die, rape,nudity, etc. I never believed them until now. This movie is really over the top. With the girl from the gas station, when the story ends, her ending goes too far. I dont want to spoil the ending but its very hateful.
I like guns, slasher movies, and more guns.
Yeah, I get the impression that Damien Leone had his heart *beep* on by an old girlfriend and is trying to work it out on film. That or he has serious mommy issues. The slasher genre is indeed often accused of misogyny, but I think it's usually misguided. Classic films like Halloween, Friday the 13th Part 2, and A Nightmare on Elm Street feature smart, resourceful heroines that the audience is clearly meant to side with over the villain. Leone, however, really earns that accusation of misogyny. His heroines only exist to be traumatized, raped, and murdered. That sort of horror film has never appealed to me.
And really, though Terrifier is almost a slasher, Leone seems more interested in just developing his own brand of supernatural torture porn than paying any kind of homage to the slasher or horror genres. The clown is just an evil godlike entity that for all intents and purposes controls reality. It's invincible and inescapable. Which completely kills any suspense that the story might have created otherwise. And the ending to Terrifier is so over the top that it can't be taken seriously. Firstly, the bit with the gun was pure narm. Second, the woman's demise is completely hamfisted in its attempt to shock the viewer and be generally repugnant. It feels like a 13 year old kid's attempt to be edgy.
It's a shame that Leone seems content to just make one "Art the Clown" torture porn film after the other. Terrifier had brief moments of inspiration and creepiness mixed in, but his dual obsessions with this one villain and the extreme degradation of women are a real turn off.
Yeah, it's always been pretty obvious that horror movie makers have some serious issues with women.
Any girl who has an active sex life is definitely going to get killed in a horror movie. Of course the little virgin queen of the movie maker's fantasy always ends up surviving.
I'm glad it didn't go the cliched woman at the end lives crap we been seeing for the past 30 years
shareI apreciate the OP giving women some credit. It's a rare thing.
shareThese were some of the most annoying whiney screamy women I've ever seen in a horror, the clown was fully justified.
shareIt's a shameless attempt to be buzz worthy at the cost of, or with the intention to, push gender division. Just imagine if out of nowhere they'd made it about race instead. People would realize how cheap and trashy it was much easier.
shareExactly. If the director replaced the woman with a black person and the misogynistic words with racial epithets, the movie would be trashed. Extreme misogyny is routinely allowed in horror movies, even in the 21st century.
sharei dont see how nudity is sexist? if an actress chooses to do it then that's her right. also i rarely see rape in horror movies. (maybe during the early 80s)
i've got feelings too, ya know - inbetweeners
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