Filmserien Terrifier om den drabelige Art the Clown er blevet lidt af en kultsucces, og den tredje film oplever i øjeblikket stor succes i de amerikanske biografer.
Den ekstreme vold er selvfølgelig det helt store samtaleemne, når det kommer til serien, men også filmenes længde har været omdiskuteret.
Den første Terrifier var 85 minutter lang, hvilket er nogenlunde, hvad de fleste kan kapere fra en splatterfilm, men efterfølgeren var hele 138 minutter lang.
I et interview med Comingsoon.net forholder instruktør og manuskriptforfatter Damien Leone sig til filmens længde, og forklarer hvorfor Terrifier 3 - med sine 125 minutters spilletid - er en smule kortere.
"I'm happy with what Terrifier 2 is. I'm happy with the length of it, but what wasn't working for a lot of people was the length. It was too much for just a mass audience. Especially now we're living in TikTok era. 2 hours, 18 minutes, which is the runtime of Terrifier 2, is a lot to ask of the audience. So I don't think it was a mistake, so to speak. That was just genuinely the movie, the story I wanted to tell.
But I don't wanna double down on that now and say, 'Well, you didn't like 2 hours, 18 minutes. Here's 2 hours, 40 minutes. Deal with it.' That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make this as accessible for people while not losing what's important to the franchise. So, that's the reason why (Terrifier 3) came in at now 2 hours."
Terrifier 3 får dansk biografpremiere den 31. oktober.