Two years after with its gruesome scenes, the third installment in the series is taking things up a notch. which follows relentless serial killer Art the Clown as he terrorizes a town before Christmas, made some audience members within five minutes of its U.K.
premiere. Writer-director Damien Leone the first scene was so over the top that he’d never get it financed by a , and the film’s PR team confirmed in a statement that there were at least 11 audience members who left in total and one who vomited. For theaters in the U.
S., where it will open on Oct. 11, the film has been labeled “unrated,” and France has minors from seeing it in theaters.
Leone told Yahoo Entertainment that he had to “push the envelope” after the unexpected (and fainting audience members) of “You want the next thing you do to be better,” he said. “It’s become a staple of the franchise that we really have to have delivered the goods with at least one epic kill scene ..
. [it’s] sort of built on controversy and exploitation and shock value.” The first two movies have standout murder scenes: The first one involves a dingy basement and a hacksaw, and the second involves a bedroom, salt and bleach.
Art the Clown does unthinkable things to people, silently laughing through the whole act. That’s what the actor who has portrayed him since 2016’s David Howard Thornton, says is his appeal. “He’s doing horrible things, but he’s doing it in such an entertaining way,” he told Yahoo E.