Leone’s talent for tone control and his ability to shift from...chaotic, blood-soaked joy into a horrifying, blood-soaked hopelessness...makes Terrifier 3 work as more than a special effects exhibition.

| Oct 17, 2024

Rarely has so much on-screen bloodshed been so lifeless.

Full Review | Original Score: F | Oct 13, 2024

It's really kind of a lot of fun.

| Oct 11, 2024

continues to confront us with the ever-uncomfortable question of not just what we are willing to watch, but why. And there is more to come. A cliffhanger ending suggests that this third entry is no trilogy closer. Art, you see, good or bad, never dies.

| Oct 11, 2024

Terrifier 3 puts the “E” in Extreme, and it has an ace gimmick, one that simultaneously winks at and fulfills franchise expectations.

| Oct 11, 2024

The film proffers plenty of funny gifts along these lines, foremost among them a written-for-the-film Christmas tune rivaling the Muppet Christmas Carol’s gold standard, but the real reason for the season is the simple, honest lust for carnage.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 11, 2024

I’m still rooting for Leone to figure it out, but it’s not in this one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 11, 2024

There’s nothing subtle or meaningful here, and fans of the cult franchise won’t expect anything less.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 11, 2024

Nobody is pushing horror boundaries quite like the writer-director Damien Leone.

| Oct 11, 2024

With stabs at humor, elevated production values and a continuing story, “Terrifier 3” improves on previous entries while spurting out the blood and guts in increasingly elaborate fashions that will have Art lovers laughing and screaming.

| Oct 10, 2024

The number of horror films that promise to sicken your soul and shrivel your stomach is enormous, but the proportion that actually do so, particularly for veteran horror-watchers, is small. I’m pleased to report that Terrifier 3 is genuinely gruesome.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 10, 2024

Leone’s growing mythology allows the wild turns in worldbuilding to make the wait for Terrifier 4 all the more deliciously torturous.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 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).

| Oct 10, 2024

After every one of these I feel pummeled to the point I can barely breathe, and my entire body has an icky sensation of being covered in such overwhelming filth I wonder if I’ll be able to clean the muck off of me or if it will instead be there forever.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 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. 

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 8, 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.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 27, 2024

It’s the best Terrifier yet, just in time to make your Christmas bloodier.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 23, 2024

Terrifier 3 continues the series’s trend of dotting a sparse and sinuous thread of plot with mini-masterpieces of cinematic ultraviolence.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 21, 2024