NOVA Horror Club Discussion: Terrifier 3 (2024)

NOTE: This is NOT a screening, please watch the movie before the discussion.

“It’s a Terrifier Christmas!”

Five years after the events of Terrifier 2, Sienna Shaw and her brother Jonathan are still living in the shadow of Art the Clown’s brutal rampage — a massacre that left multiple victims dead, including their mother. After years of therapy and psychiatric evaluation, Sienna is taken in by extended family, hoping that distance and time might finally allow the past to loosen its grip. With the Christmas season approaching, she dares to imagine a fresh start.

But for the Shaw children, the holidays are about to be anything but happy. Art the Clown returns amid colorful lights and snowstorms, accompanied by an entity that has possessed his previous victim, Victoria Heyes — her body defiled and transformed beyond recognition.

Terrifier 3 leans hard into the franchise’s identity, pushing its violence to obscene new heights through handcrafted gore set against warm holiday iconography, treating Christmas not as a backdrop, but as a ritual waiting to be corrupted.

Terrifier 3 is streaming on Peacock and Tubi, and available for rent on Amazon Prime and Apple TV.