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- Art, the clown's a huge part of Terrifi Fire's success.
- Ultimately, I think it is the charisma of the character
and the humor.
And a lot of that comes from David Howard Thornton,
who plays Art the Clown.
- I mean, like that, that grin, that white pale face.
Like everybody looks at that
and there's a little bit of like uneasiness to him
because you know what's funny?
Because a lot of people hate
Clowns.
So the amazing thing about art is that we don't have
to do much to promote him.
He, he promotes himself starring, I'll just say it,
horror's newest
Icon Art the clown.
I was, I was lucky that that face really resonated
with, with people.
But again, I think it's just classic imagery
that we're very familiar with, that's ingrained in us.
You really like him.
You want to see who he is.
Arthur Clown is very violent and vicious, and he goes crazy.
Cold-blooded
love's killing for fun.
I think that's what makes 'em very, very scary.
- I love the villain. I think most people love the villain.
They're just interesting. They're iconic looking.
- There was something about Art the Clown
that was very captivating, eerie and creepy.
And there was just something there that I couldn't,
you know, keep my eyes off it,
the way the character looked.
You just know that he has that iconic look just like
what everybody's looking for in like a slasher film
that's, that could be remembered.
- He's bordering between comedic relief
and then a scary villain.
But his timing
and that dichotomy is, I would say, almost perfect, because
otherwise he's laughable.
If he's too funny, he's not scary.
And then if he's too scary, please don't,
he's not compelling
because he doesn't have that two side of, of each coin.
- It's a clown that's like supposed
to be doing funny things, but he's
- Doing funny things in a murderous way.
And that's one of the reasons why people fall
in love with this character.
They love how much fun this character's
having, doing what he's doing.
And they love to laugh
and have fun with this character at the same time
Are the clown.
To me, he's like an embodiment of all the great horror icons
that came before him.
He enjoys what he's doing.
He's doing these horrible, sadistic things,
but he's having fun.
He is such a fun character.
I I, I have a blast playing him,
especially in this latest film
And I can't wait to see
where Damien Leon's Twisted Brain takes us next.
So here we are day, technically day two,
but day one of principal photography.
But really day two of Terror Fire three. Yeah.
And we got the whole gang back
together and it's going great.
We here at St. John's University.
A lot of the crews were alumni of here
and a lot of, not me, not him,
but we're, we're here, we're making it happen.
- What drew me back, I, I just simply love Terrifi Fire.
- Well first of all, what drew me back to the role is I,
I love playing the character so much.
I will play this character as long as I can.
He's such a fun little mischievous little bastard to play.
- I love working with Damien and the cast
and crew, Lauren and David.
Honestly, it's the family aspect
that definitely draws me in.
And also the story. I feel like Jonathan has more
to tell than if Damien feels that way,
then I'm willing to go on set.
- I want it to be a horror fan's like Dream,
where it's just, we can't, we, we, we can't give you enough.
It's just, it's just constantly throwing as much at you
as you can possibly stomach.
And, you know, hopefully it'll quench a lot
of horror fans, thirst.
- I would say the people are what drew me
to the project a hundred percent.
'cause they're who you see first.
They're who you talk to and
they're also what keeps you around.
Like I am personally. I'm the, I'm the outcast.
Say now I'm, I'm not the horror fan in the group
as much as everybody else.
- When Terra Fire Three came about
and Damien presented me with the script, we were just
so excited to collaborate. Again.
- Whenever Damien, you know, asks, if I wanna be a part
of anything, I would show up.
I'll get him coffee, just
'cause I really believe in his artistry and his genius.
- It has a cult following of really dedicated fans
that are just amazing and, and really supportive.
And I think that's part
of the reason why I was really excited to join this project.
The fan is there, in part
because they love the fact that Damien produces practical
allusions to the audience.
Three, he's, he's not trying to trick them with VFX,
he's not trying to hide anything.
He, he wants to expose all of it.
- We're, we're laughing because, you know,
people think I have a cameo in the movie,
and a, a cameo is, is when Bob Hope is in the Muppet movie.
That's a cameo. Not a lot of people can brag about this.
Not a lot of people would say,
I was in Star Trek and Star Wars.
Not a lot of people could say, I've been killed
by the Phantasm Sphere and Michael Myers
and now the Terror Fire Cloud.
- The big thing we decide to do is make it a Christmas film.
That was, that was something I've known about for about two,
about two years before, you know,
we announced Terra four Three was gonna be a Christmas film.
So that was a, that was a hard secret for me to keep.
And I I love that idea of making it a Christmas film action.
- Christmas is my second favorite holiday
and I wanna try something fresh.
Damien wrote a banger of a script for this movie.
Really got me excited.
I always grew up loving the Christmas
sub-genre in particular.
There's two iterations
of the Tales from the K Crypt episode and all through the house.
One was made in the seventies, one was made in the,
for the show in the eighties directed by Robertson MEUs.
And they're just
for my two favorite like horror short films.
And I always loved Maniac Santa Clauss,
but it's been done to death
and I never even thought about taking my crack at it.
'cause what could I do really differently?
- So one of the fun things about Christmas especially is
that you see all these like gorgeous like lights and decor
and that's like cozy and familial.
- I love Christmas horror films in itself.
I think that's a fun little genre.
So I thought that was a brilliant idea to
bring a horror icon into another like horror genre
because you haven't really seen that done before.
- This Terrifi movie being set at Christmas is
ingenious marketing.
And I think we will,
we'll separate it from the other movies in such a unique
particular way.
- Now, if I dress art up as a maniac Santa Claus,
that makes art fresh.
It gives him something new to play with
and it kind of makes the old maniac Santa
Claus trope fresh again.
So right there I could start having, you know,
that gets me excited.
We could start entering new territory here.
- Damon was telling me where he wanted
to take Victoria in the, in the franchise
and in the lore of Theier world.
I mean, just that alone and that arc of the character.
I mean, I've never been able to, to really see a character
through over that amount of time. Come on,
Halloween is almost over.
Christmas is coming. Let's put on Terra Fire three. Hi,
How are you?
What for Terra Fire?
The original, we had so little money, it was a,
I think a $35,000 movie at the time.
And my mindset was why is somebody gonna come
to see this film when they can go watch a multimillion
dollar Hollywood movie? The
- Script went through so many phases.
There is like the, the original script I read is a lot
different from the what we actually filmed
because we had to make adaptations as we went along going,
you know, like what, what time we had, what amount
of money we had in our budget to film what we had
to do and stuff like that.
- These guys making the movie in Damien's mother's garage
or Michael Levy's mother's garage.
Phil Fcon I think is why they're like, you know, we gotta,
those are intestines in the sink, just leave them there.
I need 'em later. I remember
Like my stomach being in knots
and being like, what the hell is this sick fuck?
Like, and I was like, I'm, I don't know if I can do this.
Like I'm, I'm an artist, I can't do this.
And now everyone's seen it in the world and now I love it.
And now I appreciate it.
And I don't think Damien's a psychotic individual.
I think he's an amazing artist.
Damien was an effects artist
or somebody who was striving to be an effects artist
who decided to sort
of make this independent film this horror movie.
And I think it was a launchpad for, you know,
his creativity and what he wanted to do.
And this was a vehicle for him.
- Like, there's something about making a movie like that
and having it succeed.
That for, for the independent minded artist, 3, 2, 1,
action is extraordinary.
- The audience has embraced it so much so
that it's made him a very good living
and has allowed him
to put more money into continuing this character in this
franchise right now without the help of the big studios.
- I hired Phil Falcon first and foremost. I hired him.
- I'm getting videotapes. I can't say whose name I'm doing.
I did it all. No, Phil Falcon,
I'm the executive producer. Producer.
My name is Michael Levy.
I was Willie Exterminator in the original Terra Fire.
Wait, Mike, come back. We took Johnny O's
Kid and I, producer
and assistant director on Terra Fire two and three.
My name is Jason Levy.
I'm one of the co-producers of the film
and also I did a little bit of casting in it as well.
Hey Dave, we're gonna need you on set. Dave, what
- This is like a big budget movie for a big audience
that's done on a small budget still.
So that kind of becomes the producer's challenge of
how do you still keep growing but not grow too fast
or forget where you came from and switch things up
and not do what you should do for the audience.
- Yo, yo you guys, you, you look so good.
I mean, way better than mine. I mean,
- I was gonna do the blood thing too,
but I I was just worried about the cleanup,
but can I, can I get a picture?
- One of the more compelling aspects
of working on Terra Fire three is the fact
that we have a team of super passionate people.
So all of us are emotionally invested in this movie.
It's not just a, you know, you show up, you do your job,
you collect a paycheck and you go home.
All of us have have stakes in this movie as far
as we all want it to do really well.
We want it to look the best, we want it
to have the best performances.
It can have everything that, that can make this movie great.
That's what we're all striving for.
- The terrify of three certainly raised the bar
for the franchise.
I mean between the kills, the effects,
the makeup, the lighting, the production design.
I mean it's really a bigger movie
and it, it's story-wise it's great too.
I mean it really, I think fans
are gonna really appreciate it.
- As a producer, your job is to make things keep going,
moving low flow smoothly.
And I'm pretty good at putting out
fires and, and doing things.
I'm very hands on. Throw that
- To the, we wanna do better than Terra two Terra Fire one.
We just want the quality to be that much better
and we can achieve that with the bigger budget,
but it's also the people and the heart
and the passion behind the scenes that help this movie get
to the level that it is
- Budgetarily for Terra Fire three.
It's definitely a huge difference from Terra Fire two.
It's a, it's a big step up
and I think pretty much what happened is everybody sat down
and Phil decided what he was comfortable working with
and and producing with.
And then we all went behind his back
and said, how can we make it more,
it's nice and chunky.
How'd you get it Chunky? Well, hot dog buns,
Cheetos, we can move
- These lights, wine - Beans.
- We, we just had a, a much bigger crew,
so more hands on deck, which made it much easier
for everyone else to just focus on their department
because there were so many department heads.
And even still this time, like Olga for example, she,
I think she was the head of two departments,
but there were so many department heads last time that had
to wear so many hats and do so many things
and it was hard to scramble.
It's a miracle that we even got Terra Fire two done. Yeah,
- Our most challenging thing is always time.
And the difference between two
and three was definitely time on two we would,
because we had such a small group, we would be prepping
for a week and then filming for a week
and that would just continue
- A bigger team set design everything.
Like it was, it was pretty, it was actually kinda surreal.
It was like, it almost felt like I was like all the time in
between Terrifi Fire three
and Terrifi Fire two was like a week.
- I mean we made the movie in three months now
as opposed to three years.
So that's a big trade off.
I don't have to waste, not that it was a waste of my life,
but that's a, that's a long, that's a big commitment.
Years of your life to make a movie.
So, so that's the, that's the balance
and that's the, you know, that's what you gotta do.
- Some of the challenges within Terra Fire three were
definitely packing a lot of action and gore
and effects within our 12 hour days.
Effects take a long time to set up
and then a long time to shoot.
We have to tarp everything off, make sure
that the room doesn't get blood all over it.
So there's a lot of steps for effects.
So makeup takes a long time
- And you have a budget and you know what that is
and it's just making sure
that you stay within it the best you can.
Something unanimously
that we've all decided was the special effects was not,
and when I say special effects, I mean practical effects was
not gonna be sacrificed on this film.
- Staying within budget on the effects is
not the easy part
and it's probably the part that makes them so good.
It's kind of just figure out how to do them
and then build the budget around
That.
I read the script for the first time, I would've been like,
you know, a $30 million budget would be nice.
So within the restraints of what we had and time
and everything, we really just honed in on
what was most important.
- It's like the effects came first.
This is what we have to do, this is what Damien wants,
this is what's in the script, then it's all right,
this is what's left, basically.
And then figure out the rest.
So it's definitely interesting when it comes to a,
an effects driven movie
and it's you, you follow your leader
who is Damien, he knows what he wants.
Just a little bit to the left
- And a little, - This is where I'm gonna get in trouble.
The, the truth is, bigger budget, bigger problems.
You, you, what what happens is there, there comes a time
where it becomes waste
and certain money gets wasted in different areas
because you, you you, you're forced to do certain things.
Whereas with the lower budgets, you know,
we had a lot more freedom in this one.
We had to do certain things that, that cost more.
Hello, another beautiful day on the set of two two,
- I think, you know, it's really when you are doing a big
budget film or you're with the studio
'cause there's so much red tape
and there's so many other things legally that
just are a part of it all Damien needs
to be allowed to be unleashed.
You know, you might not understand what he's doing,
you know, you might not understand
how it's all coming together,
but when you realize Damien Leon
and you see what he's capable of, you're like, just go.
- It's different when you're working out
of your own facility or your own garage.
It's another thing when you have labor
that you're paying for.
You have materials that you're costing out,
you have overhead that you are having to pay,
but there's all these elements
that really go into producing,
- Even though it was a much bigger budget than the other
films, it still had a lot of challenges
because going bigger, there's bigger problems
and different problem solving
and different things that you might not have foreseen.
- But because of the bigger budget, we were able
to do bigger things
and make it much more dynamic with, with the bigger budget,
you're gonna say, wow, that's really good.
- Definitely a fun challenge to be a part of.
And I'm honored that we finished the film.
- Damien Leone, writer director of Terra Fire three,
He wears so many hats.
Like he's the writer, director, I mean makeup artist.
He was able to defer that
to an actual department this time
because he had a bigger budget, which is great.
So he could focus on directing and, and just his vision.
But he's always so calm, which as an actor
and just a hyper person, it's, I'm in awe when I see that
because he's got so much on his mind
and I'm like, how is he able to just zone in and be so calm?
I'm in awe of him. When I see that
- As the producer, I try to let Damien get as creative
as he wants and give him everything he needs
and ensure that he has it.
I do voice my opinion quite a bit.
I'll, I'll always call him on the side
and say, why don't you know, why don't you try this?
I, you know, sometimes he listens, sometimes he don't
Comes Queen Phoenix, oh
- Baby Damien is a fantastic director.
He definitely has a vision. I have so much respect
For him.
He has been a believer in, in himself and this franchise.
And there's so many opportunities that he had along the way
to take and there's so many opportunities that I understood.
If he took it like I think we all would
where it would make his life a little easier and he didn't
and he kept his integrity, we love you,
We miss you.
I know that he wants what's best for the character
and the portrayal of the character.
So I have a lot of trust in him
and I know
that he's gonna tell the best story possible for Sienna.
- It's really special to have a director isn't just,
I like this and want it to look like this.
It's, I know how to make this
- Damien and I do like pre-production for months
where we're bouncing off ideas off each other.
- He's a master and I love watching him work
and as a producer it's up to us to figure out a way
to get his vision done
- And know that we had a hand in creating this is something
that's super humbling.
Something that I'll always be grateful for.
- He seems like a psycho based off of what he has written,
but he's such a nice guy
and thank God I got to meet him first.
Yeah dude, it's gonna awesome.
It's gonna be the best thing since sliced bread.
- Oh, no pressure. He knows he's done it from when Terra
Fire was this small, independent film.
And now what has this grown to, you know,
the mega slasher it's been, he knows what it takes to,
to make, you know, to make those,
those kills pop and look good.
- And when you see somebody that really pays attention
to every little detail
and you've got a lot, especially in the horror world,
his shots and really wants to make sure he has everything
and has what will be better than the last one.
- He's a good director. He's a really good director.
And I think when you wrap it into a slasher movie concept,
people don't give it the credit it deserves.
Great job, buddy.
- Was good. It's so much fun working with Damien.
I would work with him, with him anytime
- Because Damien is such a perfectionist
and very talented in
that he is very particular about everything
and is very focused on the details.
- This could have like a home improvement show.
The call with Damien,
- He's very actor, friendly director.
He, he has his ideas about how he wants things,
but he's also open
and willing to hearing other people's thoughts
and you know, see what they can also bring to the character,
which is, which is great
'cause he's given me so much freedom just
to build upon the character himself.
- I found that Damien was constantly asking me to do more
and more, which as an actor feels very unnatural.
And you have to, you have to just trust that the director,
once he's ready to move on, has got what he wanted.
And you're like, are you sure? That felt really
big and strange.
And he's just like, no, trust me, it works
for this kind of universe. It works.
- I'm a stage actor. I'm used to being big.
And I was like, well, you know, with this character,
he is a, so I can still
go a little bit bigger with my gestures.
And so that's what I wanted to add more to him.
- I saw what a real actor could bring
to this role, basically.
I mean, I saw all the theatricality and all the nuances
and the quirks that he could bring.
And then as we were making the first film,
I started really embracing the humor
that we could put into the movie
and we can inject that into the character, especially
after a very gory set piece.
- Sometimes he brings me back, he's like, okay,
you're a little bit too big and goofy today.
- The first time I saw what he can bring
to the character was shooting er in the pizzeria scene.
It's the moment he gives Tara the ring and then he gets up
and skips away to the bathroom,
put it on in the going.
So he just decided to, I think at that point in the movie,
I had him playing the character sort
of very straight the way Mike Gianelli was playing him.
And then Dave just sort of leaped up to his feet
and did this kinda like Bugs Bunny walk away to the bathroom
and immediately I was like, put off by it.
I was like, Ooh, that's like, that's like too
much. That's too hokey.
- Well sometimes do different takes on scenes
and it was like, okay, let's do a serious take
and make him more sadistic and evil on this one.
Okay, now let's do a little bit goofier now
and see what he can do with that.
And or sometimes Damien's like,
I just want him serious here. And then immediately
- I just go, I mean, it's aren't the
clown, I mean, he's a clown.
I said, why don't we just really start embracing that now
and injecting more of that into the character.
So once I saw that we had that to play with,
we would do that a lot.
- We've developed a shorthand, we communicate very well,
especially on set.
He trusts me, I trust him,
especially in our artistic departments.
- I wanna like pretend like it was awesome.
It's, it's brutal. It's, I I say it's brutal
because the makeup takes about six to eight hours.
- He's such a huge fan, like the rest of us on the team,
that it's just coming out very naturally.
And I think that shows across the screen to horror fans.
They know that no one's phoning this in.
Like, this isn't just a quick kind of cash grab or anything.
This is true, you know, fandom and appreciation
and love for the genre.
Damien knows what he's doing.
There's no reason to get in his way.
A lot of producers wanna step on their toes
or put your creative thoughts wrong in the mix.
And sometimes it's health in a lot of ways.
It's just, it's not needed.
If you meet Dave in real life,
it's like meeting Roger Rabbit or, or Bug's Bunny.
I mean, and then Roger Rabbit is his favorite
movie, his favorite character.
I mean, he couldn't be any further away from
what Arthur the Clown is.
- That would be amazing. - Christmas working
with David is so much fun.
I love how he can just switch it on
and off just so quickly and easily.
Like whenever you just say cut, he's back to being David,
but he's in the full makeup and everything
and it's always a good time.
You would do that on tar art too specifically.
We even had like a, a fart competition.
- Well, I, I love Dave as a person.
He's just a silly guy and, and thank God he's like that
because art is just a gruesome,
I can't even call him a human gruesome entity.
Please don't. No,
Not us.
He couldn't be any different than
what people expect when they read the script
or they see the film
and then they go to meet him or work with him.
They think they're gonna meet a psychopath.
Real, I'm the psychopath really.
When they meet him, he's immediately
Disarming.
It's all about keeping art consistent and
and letting him play around and do what he wants.
Letting Dave have fun with the character that's
so sadistic is a, is a nice twist on a lot of these things.
- Danger to yourself and everyone fucking,
there was a moment when we were between takes
and I just was watching Dave and Antonella
and they're just sitting there doing like patty cake
together and then they're like dancing around
and seeing Dave as art the clown in a Santa outfit dancing
around with Antonella as like this, you know,
he's this scary clown, but he's really just Dave
and he is the nicest guy.
- Dave brings the, I say the, the physical humanity to the,
to the ca to the character.
You know, I could write the jokes, I could write the humor,
but when you put the character in the makeup
and these little quirks and these little like nuances
and gestures that he gives, I mean that's
what really brings the character to life.
- Wait a minute, aren't you that guy from the costume shop?
You are. What are you doing here?
- It is really easy to work with Dave
because he's always attentive as a scene partner.
He's always coming up with ideas
and he's always fresh in his ideas, which is really
refreshing as an actor because you are always on your toes
and you can always play off of that cut.
- And that's my favorite part of that.
My watch just like this. He's just watching.
I love watching Dave work.
I've gotten to work with Dave, so I've always known about
Dave's brilliance as a human and as Arthur Clown.
I don't wanna take anything away from Dave
- 'cause Dave is the star and Dave is art.
But he'll tell you himself
that sometimes Ola coordination isn't his strong suit.
He's a, he's a, he's a real life cartoon character in a lot
of ways and that's what makes him great for art.
But it doesn't always make him great
for hitting this exact Mark was good. I actually
- Thought the first thing I noticed when I created art
that worked, I mean I didn't know he was gonna have this
longevity honestly when I first created him,
I just thought he was a visually striking character
and I just fell in love with the look I knew like,
and immediately when I would show people either sketches
or the prosthetic that I sculpted when I put him in the
first short film, soon
as they saw this character they said he looks amazing.
Like you need to just keep creating more
things with this character.
- Nope, my arms actually getting tight. I know.
Why are you holding those up? Oh, you have to.
- Well I know that there was a different makeup design
originally with Mike Gelli who played art in
the original Terra Fire Short in all Hal Eve.
And you actually see his makeup design evolve
during the course of all how to, what is more normal now.
So when I came on board, I originally went in
for a mold that they did in my face
and Damien had sculpted something.
We used that mold one time in the first terror fire film
and it's when the cops come arrest me
and it looks like my, my cheekbones are a little bit bigger
and stuff like that and just don't read write.
- So originally my buddy Mike Gianelli played the part
and he wasn't an actor, he was just my friend
who I would test makeup on basically makeup effects
or I would make prosthetics.
So he played the character
and he played him just very straight, simplistic, cold.
There wasn't that level of theatricality
or that humor really yet baked into the character.
But he was really working based off of the, the aesthetic,
like his visual aesthetic.
- For the first two Terra fire films that I did,
we actually used Mike Ellis original mold.
So that was actually Mike Gellis face on my face,
which I thought was really interesting.
My favorite show
of all time is the original Twilight Zone you
- Just crossed over into the Twilight
Zone.
And there's an episode
that I love called Five Characters in Search of an Exit
and there is a clown in one of those episodes.
And I did take a little visual
inspiration from that character.
If you see him, you can kind of see the similarity,
which is I always try
and pay homage to Twilight Zone somewhere.
- You're wasting your time, you know that, don't
You?
When I first put on the makeup back for Terra four one,
when I did the makeup test,
I actually went into the bathroom
and for about 30 minutes just sat there making faces,
trying, just seeing where I could take the makeup
and they probably thought I was having stomach problems
because I was in there for so long.
Also, for the first film, the,
the makeup process took a little bit longer.
We were using a different type of prosthetic.
We were using a gelatin based mask
and now we're using a foam latex mask
and the gelatin mask would fall apart very easily,
especially if any liquids got on it.
So you might see some like behind the scenes photos of me
with Q-tips in my nose
- In this film, this is actually the first time
where I did not do the special effects, which is a big deal.
I've always done the special effects on my films just
because of budget constraints and
because you know, like I, like I said,
I mean I can do any, anything I really want.
It doesn't matter what the budget is.
So now that we finally had some money, I was able
to hire some of the greatest makeup artists in the business.
I got to hire Christian Tinsley to work on this movie,
which is still blows my mind.
I mean he's responsible for the passion of the Christ,
no Country for All Men.
He works with the Cohen Brothers
Westworld, American Horror Story.
I mean this guy's like as good as you
Get for Tar Fire three.
Damien wanted a lot more help
for this one since we had a bigger budget.
So he went to a Christian Tinsleys team out based out in
Burbank, in in la
- Christian Tinsley makeup effects designer
for Terra Fire three.
We've sort of been communicating
with each other over the last six, seven,
maybe even eight years.
I remember when he released the first Tar Fire movie,
he would reach out on social media
and say, Hey, check this out if you can.
- I became very close with the FX team of the,
from Tinsley Studios with Brian and Heather on set
and they said that
that made it like a lot more challenging not to speak
for them, but usually they're used
to someone who's not sober versed.
So it's really cool
'cause he'll even get in there with a paintbrush
and like add more blood.
I think Heather and Christian
and Ryan would kill me for saying this,
but at the end of the day they would, they would be like,
okay, we're gonna take you outta makeup.
And I'd be like, and I'd rip the mask off
'cause I was so like tortured that they were like,
no, no, no, don't do that.
And I was like, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
And then I learned the hard way where you don't do that.
'cause you start to, your skin starts to get very sensitive.
You do that too many days in a row.
- We used Christian Tinsleys group to, to build a lot
of stuff where all the stuff, I mean all the,
all the prosthetics, all the, all the, the molds
and everything and
- They're, they're award-winning team.
I reached out to him
because I have a separate company that
Halloween merchandising in Response came to me
and said, well hey, yeah, that's fine.
And you know, I'm, I'm in the middle
of writing Terra Fire three and it's gonna be big.
And I wanted to know if you'd be interested in taking on the
makeup effects for me
because I really want to sort
of remove myself from that aspect.
- Christian Tinsley was the one who said, listen,
I mean this is an iconic character.
He says, we can't mess up what you've already created.
We can't change anything.
It has to stay as true to your original sculpt as possible.
- So this is no longer about me designing
and creating something that no one's ever seen
or building a new character for you.
This is me taking the reins from you
to allow you the freedom that you need
to be a better director
and to give more focus on the elements
that need Damien's attention.
And so he sent me all his original molds to la the art,
the clown mold, the Victoria mold and everything.
And I immediately jumped on the phone with Damien
and I said, look, great, I appreciate it.
I have these, I want to do your work justice.
I don't want to change a thing, but these have to be remade.
- I mean the reason why it needed
to be res sculpted was just
because of the amount of prosthetics
that we needed made over the course of the film.
And I, I think I was still running the prosthetic outta one
of the original ultra cow molds, which is stone mold
that it's a very old school way of making molds
and it falls apart over time. I
- Went in and went in and had a new mold done of name.
And so we're actually using my real face
for Terra Fighter three and they did a fantastic job.
We had some of his team come out
and actually do my makeup for the film.
So Damien didn't have to do it.
- And so now we have really nice lifetime resin molds
of all these assets.
And, and he's, he's, he's, he's happy
- Seeing how excited everybody in his shop was
to work on this.
You know, I'm still under the impression
that no one really knows what, what this is.
And they were, they were so excited
and they never really had the opportunity
to work on a slasher, especially one
of this magnitude before. When you
- See these artists that are doing this kind of work,
they raised the bar so much on horror movies
that it was incredible to see that
- Damien has sort of unapologetically created a project
and said, this is what I want to make
and this is what I want to show.
And if you're willing to have it
and pay for it, $5 rental, $10 streaming,
whatever it is, I'll continue
to make it as long as I have money.
'cause this is my passion.
He's used to being behind the camera,
but he's also used to having that cup of blood
and his gloves on so he can rush in and do touchups and
and add more element to it.
'cause he was controlling the effect as well as directing.
And on this one I kept telling him it's like, your,
your job is to stand behind camera, be as involved
as you want, but this is really our job.
What the fuck?
- I'd rather just sit back and drink coffee, be like that.
More, more blood on that, please, that would be great.
But actually I still,
I can't really keep my hands off it totally.
I'm sure if you see some behind the scenes,
I'm always in there with blood, with a cup of blood
and the paintbrush, I'm always, I have
to like meticulously put my blood on.
- It seems like your blood is a very specific color
that you use in your film.
Let's work on that. Let's try to dial that in.
Let's try to get something that's gonna work well for you.
- As good as Damien is. These guys are amazing.
The budget was spent on the effects.
- You've tapped into something that not only people
of my age for nostalgia reasons are missing.
And you've created a character that fits into that zeitgeist
of, you know, horror icons, you know, the Freddy's,
the Jasons, the Mike Meyers, the people like that,
which in itself is a, a triumphant feat on his part.
Sorry,
- As Damien has said, many a times
that Art the clown is basically every horror icon kind
of embodied into one.
This
- Is God, there's a little bit of every character.
There's Jason Freddy, Michael Myers, I mean they're all sort
of baked into this character.
So at the end of the day, I mean, like I said,
it's coming from a very true organic place.
- There's a little bit of Freddy Chucky, leather face,
pinhead Jigsaw, all those guys are inside of art.
- They're very sort of mindless cold killers, which I love.
But there's something,
it's why people love Freddie Krueger so much.
It's like there's a, there's a humanity in there
that people could identify.
And I think even though art doesn't speak, there's
so many emotions that are, that are conveyed, you know,
by his facial expressions.
Oh shit, the
First one, watch this one.
It's in deep Freddy Krueger's at the
burn in the in the claw.
But like Art the clown, he's got his bag full of tricks.
- He's up there with Ghost Face Scream
and Leather Leatherface and Pennywise
and other horror icons.
And I think a lot of that has to do with the mystery between
behind Arthur Clown because he doesn't speak at all.
- I mean, I think there's a few boxes that you need
to check in order for one of these slashers
to really resonate with the audience.
First is I, they need a striking appearance.
- I kind of look at art as being the bastard son
of Freddie Krueger and Harpo Marx
or like an evil version of Mr. Bean.
And so that's what I always keep in the back
of my head. One thing for
- Sure is I'll never have him speak.
A lot of people ask, is he ever gonna talk?
Is he ever gonna speak? No, I could honestly say, he'll,
he'll never speak because it would never live up
to the expectations of what his voice could sound like
or what, what the, that one word would be.
Or that one line would be
You have many clowns
and they're all, they all talk like, I think Pennywise,
Steven, Steven King's Pennywise particularly Tim Curry's,
I think is one of the best portrayals
of evil clowns in history.
Hi Georgie, aren't
You going to say hello?
Most popular clown, arguably still is, right?
Is Tim Curry's Pennywise.
I mean, he's the king of all killer clowns.
So I said I can't do anything even remotely close to what
that character looks like.
Just visually his personality.
- I, Georgie and Pennywise, the Dancing Clown,
- He's the granddaddy of all the killer clowns from,
you know, horror movies.
And so yeah, he definitely, you know, both versions of him,
I I found things that both Tim Curry
and Bill Karska did with the character.
I was like, oh, I like that.
- But like I would say it's little bits
and pieces of all those slashes that we all grew up on
and loved and, you know, watched
- Beep beep, Richie - Come back anytime.
- So I decided to make him as like,
as colorless as possible.
So I just went black and white.
I said I didn't want to give him hair.
I didn't want to give him the bulbous red nose.
I love the comic book Joker.
I just love visually the way he looks.
- Damien was very smart in making art the clown the
opposite of that.
You know, Tim Curry talks and he has puns.
Art the clown is quiet and silent.
Tim Curry's a Shapeshifter.
Art the clown is a little more humanesque at least in the
beginning until he becomes this entity.
- That's the real deal. That's my, that's my beard.
If Santa doesn't have a real beard,
he's not a real Santa Claus.
- When I hear people using the iconic term, I'm like, ah, I,
I don't fuel myself personally,
but we've gotten to that place yet
because those guys like Freddy,
all those guys tho those are my icons.
- He's Freddy Kruger with, you know, the same personality,
but he doesn't talk, you know, so there's a lot
of elements there that are similar but different.
- It's weird for me to be equated in the same sentence
with those guys yet.
I don't know if I will ever be like, okay with that.
- You walk into a Spirit Halloween store
and there's a Freddie Kruger mask and a Jason Hocking mask
and Art de Clown.
That means that this character has ascended
to the mythological level of those other characters.
- Hey, if other people wanna say it, that's fine.
- We want better, better lighting, better acting,
and a little bit more of a background for Sienna.
'cause I think that's something that our audience wants.
- The 20-year-old was arrested at the crime scene and taking
- Lauren please Sanna is fantastic.
She's treated me like a a little brother since the get go,
since the very first audition,
Do you have any super glue?
- A little - What happened?
- Shrink came off. - I thought you
weren't gonna wear this tomorrow.
- I'm gonna clean my face then. Come on.
It's too late to get into the costume.
- Lemme see. - I love Elliot.
I really do feel that he's my brother.
I'm very close with him and his family.
I was so impressed with his performance this time.
I thought he did great last time too.
But he's really grown
as an artist. Everyone, I'm just really
Happy.
I'm just really happy. Hi.
And Action Court is shutting
Me off.
I'm not shutting you out. You don't believe me.
Why would he come back here?
Even if he was alive, which he isn't.
When you wanna get as far away from here as possible,
as far away from you, maybe it's me, they want,
isn't that what you said?
- I've said this to Lauren, I've never seen an actor go
to the place and the depth that she's gone.
And I've worked with a lot of actors in different capacities
or been an actor myself.
And to watch that was terrifying.
But also one of the most amazing things I've seen.
- I I would say in in Terra there are definitely some newer
characters and added into it.
I mean, you have the me
and Cole characters that are with Jonathan,
hi friends from college, his roommate
and his girlfriend, which they were a lot of fun to love
to hear from you to interact with
because you know, her character's very obsessed
with this art, the clown character.
She's like, she almost kind of idolizes him.
Sienna, you're Shaw.
I, I, seriously.
So I can't believe I'm sitting here with you guys.
I was literally just telling your little brother,
I'm sorry I'm, I'm probably being a little weird.
I'm just, I'm super stoked to see, to see you.
- Mia has been following our story.
Jonathan has been on a really wild journey,
especially just since the jump from Terra Fire
two to Terrify Fire three.
He has gone through a lot.
- I think our audience is gonna get a little bit
of a backstory for Sienna.
So I think that's gonna be huge for them.
I know a lot of people have been craving more of a story
for both Art The Clown and Sienna.
And I think with this they get a little bit of, of both.
- All right, big energy. Ready, here we go. And action.
- I really love what Damien continues to do
with this character.
He makes her so interesting and strong
and vulnerable, which I really love to play.
But there's this whole sequence
where Sienna is duct taped to a chair.
And I remember having issues about it with Damien
and I was like, I don't think duct tape is enough.
Like I, I think after everything she's gone through,
she's gonna get outta this duct tape.
And he's like, trust me, you won't get out of it.
So I asked the art department
to duct tape me multiple times from my wrist to my elbow.
So I was fully duct taped
because I was thrashing in that chair.
And every time I got out of it,
they had to duct tape me again.
'cause I was so fully engulfed in what was happening.
And, and adrenaline alone was enough
to get me out of that chair.
- We wanted to progress their story in some interesting ways
because, you know, what they'd gone through in part two
was traumatic.
And we wanted to address how that affects
trauma victims going forward.
Because I don't really see
that a lot in slash your franchisees. You're
Bad.
- No, - I'm
Let see you.
Are you okay? Oh my God, you really get to see
that more in Terrifi Fire three.
I mean, you can still see the, the hardships that she's went
through, especially
because she's been in the Mental Institute for
however many years, probably like five years at this point.
So you get to see all that.
She kind of wears it on her sleeve,
but she still has that strength buried deep beneath her.
- I feel like Jonathan contributes a lot with Storyline
and both that once again, that dynamic between si, sna
and Jonathan, just having that altercation
and conversations about art and stuff.
I feel like it sets, sets some cool stuff up.
- We see a new side of Victoria in this,
and this gave Samantha graffiti the place her
a lot more to do.
And she was able to go to some very interesting places
and she was able to really flex her her wings
as an actress instead of playing the damsel in distress.
She got to be, you know, the accomplice, oh,
you're no savior.
Ooh, the
Victoria character plays a lot in this film.
Anne goes through a couple transitions
and so we were going to add to her look as well
as incorporate her original look.
- Victoria Hayes in the third film is completely possessed
and she herself is no longer exists.
And that's because there's an entity
that in the terrifi lore is the entity
that makes art the clown supernatural.
And so because of of this entity, he's able
to come back from the dead.
And I mean has these supernatural powers that we see in two
and in now three.
And that her coming into this world through Victoria Hayes
as a vessel enables him to have his powers,
but also enables her to exist.
And they have to become like team members or teammates.
- I love watching Sienna and Victoria's dynamic.
They just, they have this visceral reaction to each other
and it is really so fun to see.
Oh yes, glorious freedom.
Oh, oh my goodness.
Oh, it's so nice, nice.
- I'm not really sure what day it is.
Maybe 17 of Terra Fire three, but doing a mall sequence.
We got our Santa display.
- Well, my favorite scenes to film in the movie was
with some of my icons.
I, I I I idolize, you know, growing up watching films
with Daniel Robuck and Clint Howard.
It's just this fun bar scene with these guys.
- He peed on him. - I've been in a lot of movies
and what we're always looking for is a little flash
of magic.
That's good.
Okay, that's enough.
Daniel Roebuck plays Santa Claus
and Clint Howard plays the town Drunk Smokey.
And just seeing those two guys bring their a
game and that was, that was a scene where I allowed
so much improvisation
and we were coming up with hysterical things on
the spot. What's so
Goddamn fun?
I'll tell you what, cloudy I'll kick your fucking clown ad.
- I don't fucking, it's never too gory.
You cannot have enough tubes running into the body.
You can't have enough tearing of flesh.
Like you literally can't have enough of it.
- Can't a fucking hint game. I'm not gonna tell you again.
- Oh fuck. When my friends were so successful
with Tar Fire two, I thought I wanna be part of that.
So who will I be playing in Terra Fire three?
And Michael Levy one day said,
we've got a great part for you.
And you know, I got all excited.
And then they secretly told me what it was,
gosh, two years ago.
And I was beyond myself with
Excitement.
Get the beautiful making
Party.
Seeing them together was cool.
And seeing how that scene became special
because of them was really cool
because it was one of the funnest ones on set. That's why
It's so fun.
And you can tell he's fun to watch.
Him and Clint both were fun to watch.
They're, they're fun, they're great performers.
- Santa Claus is frozen and then chiseled to death.
Horrible. You know, you come face to face with yourself
is one thing to come face to face
with your eviscerated self is something altogether.
Ah, why would they do
This to such a nice person?
And Clint Howard too is, it's,
it's the name doesn't mean anything.
He's just a regular guy just talking to you.
That's, that's how he is.
- Hey, why don't you tell Santa what you want
for Christmas? Little boy,
Better hygiene.
- Alright, come on, let's have a drink.
- He approached me. We met at a convention.
We were both guests and we were just hanging
out at the bar one day.
And I think he said, you know,
he would love to, to work with me.
He'd love to be in one of these films.
And then when I wrote the script, I was like,
Clint would be great in this, this role right here.
- Clint Howard. I, I'll be honest with you, you know,
I've seen him my whole life, you know, in films
and dynamite guy, really dynamite guy.
I, I couldn't believe I like got along really well with him.
I sat with him and his wife had a ball
Action with the kidding,
- The Santa Claus is drinking at the end
of the Daylin Howard is his buddy.
Bradley Stryker is, you know, the bartender.
And we're just, you know, sitting and,
and I mistake him like any performer would.
I'm like, I'm a guy acting, oh, here's a guy. He is a clown.
And I'm like, we're in the same business. You and me.
You know, David Howard Thornton in this makeup
is as creepy
as any single thing you've ever seen.
Oh God. Oh God, no.
Oh God, no, no, no, no, no, no, no sir. No sir.
No, no, no sir. No, no. Please, please, please.
- It was great working with Danny Robuck and Flynn Howard.
A lot of fun. It was actually one of the most
fun times that we had on set.
'cause both of 'em, not only are staples in the horror
genre, but they're also really great comedians as well.
And they've come from a background of comedy all around.
Even when tensions are high, he's always making jokes.
He's always having a good time.
Like Dan is really, you know, a down to earth type of guy.
Working with Danny
and Clinton, that scene was a lot of fun
because that's, that's the scene
that's kinda like the costume shop scene in part two.
Or the pizzeria scene in part one
where art just goes in there and res havoc
and messes around with people in public
and then bad things happen.
- Come on. Oh, look on please, please cla
help me, please.
Good. I'm good. Help me out. Good. Lanny. Come on.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
- Danny really brought, oh, brought his a game during the,
during his, his death scene.
Some of our crew actually could hear him screaming
and basically pleading for his life from, from far away.
Help me, help
Me, help me.
Damien took that simple two-tone clown
and he created a thing with an actor, the perfect
blend of the makeup and the actor.
And it's terrifying. It's terrifying.
- We had this playground, this idea that we could sort of
go back and that would be okay
and it would actually, in some ways be better
because we're, we're making it look
and feel like an old 1980s horror film.
- It was a lot of fun on and off the set, working with them.
I've worked with Danny on a few projects, actually, one
of which is Stream.
And we did it right before Terror Fire three.
And that's where Damien had met Danny
and, you know, decided to put him in this film.
And it was just a, a riot
- What Damien did in his, in his genius
or in his limited budget, he made a movie
that seemed like you were watching it right
after you watched Maniac starring Joe Spinel
mean Yeah, yeah.
The, the visceral reaction to the,
the onscreen violence.
And you were transported to another time.
You know, these movies were like something you'd see on 42nd
Street in New York.
- We added more tubes, we added more of this.
We, we ended up, you know, ripping this part of the body off
and, you know, figuring out how
to make the, the effect work.
And so it was a constant reconstruction of the effects
that we were sending to him.
- It was fun, really getting to play around
with Clint
and also Bradley Striker who's in the scene with us.
The three of us had
so much fun those days just playing.
The people my age love it
because it reminds us of those Helion days when Dawn
of the Dead came out
and you'd see a, a zombie bite someone's arm
and you'd see the viscera and the, you know, the, the bone
and everything come out in their mouth.
And you had never seen that before.
Damien figured it out when nobody else could.
He made it, made it old fashioned and new fashioned.
Maybe like Obiwan Kenobi Art the clown.
Come use use, use the fos, you know,
and I'll be like a ghost
of Santa Claus who's in all the movies.
That would be good. I'm gonna, I'm gonna try for that.
So with Terra Fire two
and three, we've sort
of taken a supernatural detour in the Arthur,
the clown franchise, let's call it now at this point
where once I decided to bring him back from the dead at the
end of part one,
I figured we should really embrace the supernatural element.
Like what is this evil that's resurrected this killer?
- I think the main thing that de Damien
and I had discussed early on was that we wanted
to find something that hadn't been done
before with a possession,
but we wanted her to be fun and fresh.
Something that was different.
And I really hope that people laugh and,
and enjoy her and, and,
and know that she's absolutely balls to the wall.
Ridiculous. 'cause she is, and,
and does some extreme things.
- The hardest part honestly for me as a costume designer,
when he is already an established character is all the
continuity of the blood and everything.
'cause we don't shoot in sequence of course.
'cause that would be easy. So to go back to like,
say pristine look and everything.
So we had to make probably about eight of the costumes,
just the black and white.
And then the Santa, we probably made about four.
- Blood is so uncomfortable, especially the blood.
Damien likes to use, he likes to use the sticky blood.
- We've just opened up this other dimension
and let's really explore that.
Let's not just gloss over it.
Let's, let's embrace it and see what could that
entity be doing and why is it doing what it's doing.
So we've, we've explored that in part two
and we really brought up a lot of questions where now we're,
we're answering those questions
and addressing them in part three.
- Oh good. I want them to, to love me
and hate me all at the same time.
I want them to have fun watching me.
And then I want them to applaud, you know,
as I go out in my last chapter.
So that's, that's, if that can happen, I'm, I'm good
For this one.
I wanted to make him a little bit more
cocky and arrogant.
'cause he's, he's come back from the dead twice now
and he's, he's having a lot more fun, I guess you could say.
Also, especially since he has Victoria with him.
- In the original Terra Fire Art wore black contact lenses
and then they got destroyed.
We only had one pair
and then I think by the end of the movie they got destroyed.
So then it turned into, Dave's realize,
I'm sorry, nice.
Nothing.
- So then by the time we made part two, I said,
just leave the contacts out.
They're a pain in the ass and we will just play
it as you're normalized.
But I always wanted this character.
I loved the black irises that he had.
I thought that was fantastic.
So I said, we need to bring that back for the third one.
So he now has these really cool full sclera lenses
that have like these tiny little pupils in the middle
and they're very bloodshot
and it makes him look more demonic
and a little more frightening.
So, so that's, that's been cool.
- So I think what really separates er from every other
franchise is the gore.
Ah, we really have
to deliver the goods in the Gore department.
So I make sure that every movie now we have basically
horror, gory set pieces that we have to keep trying
to one up ourselves from the prior movie,
which is getting a little difficult
because there's only so many ways you can kill somebody.
- But if you really watch the difference between one
and two, number two, he exposed much more to camera.
And on number three,
it's almost like you've taken the filter off of the camera.
It's like everything had to be seen.
- There's a huge element of why it's
so different from other horror films.
They, they tend to pull back these studio films, whereas
with Terrifi it's, you know, balls
to the wall, we're gonna do it.
Ah, we're gonna figure it out.
Believe it or not, there are limits that we will not,
you know, kind of go beyond.
So we try to do it tastefully in many ways,
but that's really, you know, kind of our,
our motto is just deliver the goods, make it fun,
make it gory, make it exciting.
I don't even think about it.
Like Damien has picked the head up, I picked the head up.
You know, I'm not even thinking where did
the head come from?
And it takes a lot of care
because you're also working
with other individuals in very physical scenes.
So you really have to be present.
There's scenes with, like I said, Chris Jericho who
we're both checking in on each other constantly.
'cause it's technical, but you're also trying to make sure
that that person is safe.
- Growing up as a makeup effects artist, I had
that skill set in my back pocket
and I can do all these effects
for virtually nothing other than the expense
of the materials.
So I said I need
to put things in this movie since it's a slasher
that I've never seen before.
And I've seen a lot of slasher films
- Like it's nothing safe about it.
It's basically whatever someone is scared to do
or doesn't want to do or is just afraid to do
for whatever reason, is something we kind of need to do.
- I started just researching, you know,
maybe torture methods that I'd never heard of.
I mean just going to some dark places trying
to get some inspiration.
And I came across this medieval torture method
of hanging people upside down by their ankles
and cutting them in half with a giant hacksaw. Who's that?
- Dave? - Hey
Dave, Jesus Christ.
- And I said, if I can do that to somebody in a film
and show every piece of that, don't shy away from it.
I said, I've never seen that.
I think that'll get people talking only intestine splatting
on the ground somewhere else, obviously. No, not right
Here.
- Well you can, well now we gotta go into the second kil
and have the stroke get bleached
and salt thrown on it, a skull ripped open.
And then the third one, without getting any spoilers,
there's another huge, huge kill
that I think fans are gonna really enjoy.
- Of course there's the infamous hacksaw scene that was,
that was a pretty brutal scene to film,
both physically
and mentally, I guess, especially for Catherine more than me
because it was 20 degrees around that night
and there was no heat in that room.
- But the thing with art is sort of taking traditional kills
that aren't necessarily flashy,
but then trying to do it in a, in a unique way.
Or when you see art put his spin on it,
that's what makes it fresh.
So it could be as simple as just him having a butcher knife,
but how would he kill somebody differently than say,
you know, Michael Myers would kill
somebody with a butcher knife.
I mean that's always the challenge. That's the game.
I like to, I like to play
As a real knife.
I have built the blade,
but it's still a thin piece of metal that can poke you.
No one will touch it. But Dave, he's about
to place on the table.
Then I'll take it and make it perfectly safe for people.
- There's no bars keeping us held back from
what we want to do.
If anything, what we found along the way of working
with Damien is it was never enough.
And that really, that was, that was my, my
my training wheels that I had to, I had to get used
to very quickly and then tear off.
He's a nice guy.
Like the people who scare us the most are like
the nicest guys. Evidently
- Each film we tried to make one step up, even
with the kill scenes.
I think that was the most important thing for us is to get
that type of story out there to everybody else
because you have to,
you don't wanna just stay at the
same plane with Terrifi fire.
You always gotta up the kills up the gore.
And that's what we, I think we did with the third one.
- Fans are gonna be very, very excited about the Gore aspect
and I feel like Arthur Clown just went all out Once again.
Damien went all out.
It's gonna be a, a brutal,
a brutal horror Christmas. See what you guys are
Doing.
- I got here on break time unfortunately.
- Who is this? Santa? He's scaring my kid.
- Yeah, he's scaring me - Too. Hey
- Santa's handing out prisons, the Kills
and the practical effects are just so much bigger batter
and bloodier this time, which is hard
to imagine if you haven't seen it
because the second one was all of those things already.
- We wanna make Terra Fire three have the best special
effects, the best Gore. Damien really
- Has like changed a lot of the changed the game
- That I think Damien takes that as a personal challenge.
- I wanted people to have a fun experience
with these movies, but I also love the graphic kills.
I mean, I grew up idolizing Tom Sini
and idolizing special makeup effects, especially Gore.
So I knew if we were gonna push the limits that far
and really kind of make the audience a little, you know,
uneasy that we were gonna have to wink at them at some point
and just, you know, make them feel like,
all right, this is okay.
- This movie is a practical effects movie.
It's a Gore movie, it's an effects movie.
And we know that's where Damien thrives.
That's where the fan base really, you know, comes
what they come out to see.
So that was number one for us to make sure
that we delivered that.
- Who's nearby, what - Do you need?
We had a lot of professionals that that handled this.
Heather Ryan, of course Damien stepped in.
We had Alana on set.
So we had a lot of people that came in
and filled the
void that me and Damien
Left.
As soon as we knew what the number was for the effects of
what we wanted to do, then everything
else kind of fell into place's.
A lot of preparation
and making sure you have all the necessary things
to make the kill happen
and then get everybody on the same page so
that it takes into a timely matter.
- One of the, one of the more interesting sides of
of filming was seeing how David Arthur the Clown,
actually reacts to some of the effects in Terror Fire three.
- Let's go ahead and address the big rumor that was going
around that, you know, I almost puked on set.
That is true. And it's, it's,
it's at the climax of the film.
It's one of the big kills that we have in the movie
and it grossed me out and,
and my thing is, I can't stand puke.
And we had that in the scene and I'm like, oh no.
- And I actually got a kick outta that
'cause David was already feeling sick from the scene
and there were rats around and,
and then I just casually was eating corn nuts
and Dave got really sick and I just enjoyed that.
I love torturing Dave.
- I'll grab some miracles. So we had the use of fake vomit.
Obviously our art department
and our effects team did a great job creating
this fake white looking vomit.
It was really gross. And Dave couldn't even,
Dave couldn't even look at the, at the, at the gag at at
what was happening because he's very anti vomit.
- Thankfully everyone gets it, understands it
and enjoys puking and vomiting.
So that's a good thing. And they were using this
- Nasty soup concoction and they had put starch
and everything, so the smell was horrible.
And then the look of it is horrible.
So I'm actually sitting there, you know, having
to do the scene and I'm like, like when,
when I didn't have my face in frame, I'm just looking away
and it's like, I can't look at this
and this thing just projectile vomit.
- The minute that throw up goes into that tube,
he, he turns away.
He is like, I can't do that. That's
just, he can't even look at it.
Can't smell it. Like he, he was out.
So that was really funny.
This murderous clown who's done terrible things
to people is afraid of vomit.
- So that was, that was, that was true.
I almost puked but I, I held it, I held it together.
I held it together. I was proud of myself.
But that's, I can, I can handle all the blood and the guts
and the feces, all that kind of stuff.
That doesn't bother me.
I can, I can watch all that kind of stuff
and eat a hamburger and be fine, but puke, nope.
- There was even a gag where Sienna takes out the sword
and hits art the clown with it.
Or I guess I think she slices his throat with it
and then she slices herself out of the chair and
because like it was sticking to my,
the sword was sticking to my hand.
I had to let go of it and grab it again
and I was like praying that I'd grab it
'cause I had to flip it in the air and it worked.
Thank God, I dunno how it worked.
I think my delirium took over
and it ended up looking very cool.
But it was just because Damien likes
to use this sticky blood
and he, I think he just likes his
actors to be uncomfortable.
He will be like it
best gift ever.
- To see that level of quality put into the things
that I wrote on the page has been, you know, it's like,
that's like a childhood dream come true.
- I wanna know what it's like to be in the presence of
that kind of evil.
- I feel like fans are gonna be definitely,
it's gonna meet their expectations for sure.
Art the Clown is back
- Looking forward to the best Christmas ever filled
with fun, smiles and laughter.
Dave? Laughing, laughing. Dave
Laughingly.
All right. I think the audience can expect a movie
that exceeds expectations as far
as quality goes comparatively to Terra Fire Two, just
because we have a bigger budget.
- I think the fans are really appreciate Terror Fire Three,
we pushed the boundaries, we worked so hard
and it, I think it shows on screen
and I think it's just gonna help build the franchise.
- Everything's bigger, everything has changed a little bit.
I want them, I want people to smile. I want them to laugh.
I want them to enjoy themselves.
I mean life is so, so hard and, and we get to do that.
I hope that Terror Fire
and a lot of other indies that have had this type of success
show to, you know, even bigger suits with more money
that, you know, take a chance, take a risk.
- I wanna see how crazy this thing is and they laugh
or they scream or they cry, whatever it is.
If it entertained you in any sort of way,
that puts a smile on the filmmaker's face.
So that's what I would like to encourage everybody.
If you guys are gonna go see this movie,
just go into it and have a good time.
Things are gonna change.
- I hope the audience enjoys it. I'm pretty sure they will.
I'm confident with what we shot.
They're gonna really enjoy it. It's all about the fans.
- Oh, I can't walk. I thought why?
- Alright, - Fuck everything else.
- I just hope people have a good time watching Terra Fire
three and I hope they see that we are,
we've all worked very hard to deliver a fun
and exciting film for them and we don't wanna let them down.
Cory, get back over here.
Back in line Kids Time for the Real Santa.
I wonder what I got Corey.
- My guess is that this film's gonna come out
and it's sort of going to be this shocking surprise
to the studios.
- Why I think people will love this movie, especially
as you see you, you know, it's not just David back as art,
but Lauren is back and Elliot is back and,
and we're watching their characters five years later,
they're grown up a little more
and they've experienced this other thing.
And I think that the audience is gonna want to see
where their story goes.
- If the demon enters this world in the flesh,
a counterpart must be appointed
to stop it from becoming too powerful.
It's you Sienna, as long you're alive,
they're vulnerable and they know it.
That's why Daddy created the Sword.
Whoever chose me was guiding him.
He was preparing me for this.
- I think they're gonna be blown away by the Kills.
And just the fact that the movie itself looks
significantly better than, than the first one.
And, and then also the second one,
She's always like in a corner.
- It's really a bigger movie and it story, it's great too.
I mean it really guess, I think,
I think fans are gonna really appreciate it.
- I think this is one hell of a finale for
at least not finale for the franchise of course,
but like finale for the film.
It's, it's, it's a scene. It is a scene.
It's a brutal scene. Very emotionally draining scene.
- I got to do my own fight scene with Art The Clown.
It wasn't performed, most of it wasn't performed by Dave,
it was performed by a stunt performer,
Bobby, who was incredible.
And it was choreographed by Drew, who was our stunt
coordinator and we've worked with him in Terrifi Fire too.
He's phenomenal. And that was, I mean, first
of all, very fun
- Seeing her like struggling and screaming for her life
and battling Arthur the Clown Sword versus Chainsaw.
It's a really epic scene.
And watching,
just watching her totally enveloped by this character.
It's she, she blows the roof off of the, of the scene.
I can't wait for people to see that.
- I really hope that everyone enjoys like the storyline
as well as the effects.
All of it is, you know, just, there's so much hard work
and so much detail into every ounce of the film.
There's a lot of underlying themes involved
and which allows a continuation
of the story for years to come.
So we're excited and we hope the fans are too.
- I I hope they, they take away the
joy that I
as a child would get from watching the icons
that came before.
Like, I, I want them to have that same excitement
as we did growing up watching Freddy Krueger and Jason
and Michael Myers and Chucky,
because I feel like that's kind of been lost in the past
Decade or so.
If they have half as much fun as we had making this
or making the second one even just being together
and getting the ledger of working with this team,
if they could have that much
fun, then we did something right
- Before I started being a guest at conventions.
I used to frequent conventions as a fan
and I always wanted to be on
that other side of it all one day.
That was always a goal of mine.
I wanted to be, I wanted to be on a panel one day.
- It, it really is a dream come true.
It's the greatest feeling in the world.
It, it really, it really sinks in.
When, when I'm at a convention and someone comes up to me
and they just express how much the character means
to them on levels that are unimaginable.
Like people will, they, you know, they've met their wives
or husbands, they've bonded over this film
and then they've gotten married.
I love meeting people.
I love the support for Tar Fire, especially
because I'm a fan of horror myself
and I grew up going to horror conventions
and now I'm signing at them.
- They showed tattoos all the time.
I mean, when you're putting, you know,
permanent ink into your body, you know, with my character
that's the greatest honor imaginable.
So this little 7-year-old Damien especially was just
screaming with joy that, you know, that it kind of paid off,
especially for my mother who I tortured my entire life.
- A few of us had done the convention circuit, met fans and,
and started to really understand, oh,
this is is really affecting people.
But then two years ago it went viral.
- I was really excited to start participating in conventions
because I, I was excited to meet people.
I, I love horror and I love spooky things.
So I knew I was going to horror conventions.
I knew that I would get to visit these really cool tables
with really interesting artists and their work.
- If a fan comes over to me, I, I talk, I'll talk
for 20 minutes, I'll talk for an hour.
Same thing with Damien.
- Anybody ever cosplay is one of my characters
that would just make me so happy
because I know as a cast player what that means.
Because that's, you, you love that character so much
that you're like, I I want to go out in public
and dresses him I and act like him
because that's why I really enjoy about these cos players.
They, they commit, they commit to the character.
They just don't come up to me, Hey
and man, how are you doing and all that.
They come up to me as art
and do all the pantomime and play around.
And I'm like, I love to see that.
But I didn't realize how many
fans loved Sienna
and that they did in Indeed find strength in her story.
I, I've had so many conversations with
so many wonderful people who have come up to me like crying
and shaking that they've had similar experiences to Sienna.
They've lost a family member, sometimes a parent
who they loved very much
and they found strength in Sienna's story
and overcoming whatever hardships in their own life.
I'm so thankful
for the horror community being this awesome
and the success from Terra Fire two in Terra Fire
Three.
It's all word of mouth connecting with another human.
That's whole reason I became an actor was
to help people feel less alone
because that's what television
and film did for me growing up.
It, it helped me have a better understanding of the world
and it helped me relate to stories
that were different than mine and similar to mine.
- We're all just feeling really lucky and grateful
and especially grateful to the fans and all the supporters
and all the people who came in very early on
and believed in the film and really went to bat for it.
So still, I don't think I'll ever process it
- When I see children dress as art, first of all, I'm like,
first of all I'm like, your parents let you see this.
But at the same, same time it was like, yeah,
but when I was a kid we were all dressing up like
Michael Myers and Jason Freddy and Chucky for Halloween.
So to see children now dressing up as art
or the Pale Girl for Halloween
or Sienna, that, that, I think that's pretty cool
That I get to see firsthand
and hear firsthand from these strangers from all over the
place that how Sienna
or just the film in general has
touched them and helped them.
And it, it really invigorates me and,
and makes me excited to make more work
because that's the dream.
It's the dream to connect with others
and have my work connect with others.
When I'm doing the conventions
and I do the photo ops, I like to do the true art,
the clown experience with people.
So the moment I walk out of the room
where I'm doing my makeup, I am in character is art.
So I, I am messing with people
and it's, I, I especially love it when it's people not
necessarily there for the convention.
They're just staying in the hotel that I'm at
and just getting the real reactions when people don't expect
they get in the elevator with me.
I I had one time just a cleaning lady
that got in the elevator with me and she looks at me
and she just starts praying to herself in like Spanish
and she, she had like, hit a different floor
that she's gonna get out and the door
just opens up another phone.
She's, no just me. I really just, I love those type
of moments just to interact with the public in that way.
You get some great moments, everyone fall back,
repeat, fall back.
- I think Art's Visual aesthetic really is largely
responsible for the success.
I'm amazed at how many people are into
It.
I I think the, the, what the fans really enjoy about him
that, that I really like to bring
to the character is his playfulness.
- I'm honored and humbled to just be a part
of this great team and to be a part
of this great franchise and he's doing these
- Horrible things, but at the same time it's entertaining
for the audience as well.
And so I I think that also helps us get away with a lot
of the things we do in our films.
'cause if it it, it didn't have any of that levity there,
I think people would wanna slit their wrists.
- All right. Set. Are we - Ready? Yep. And 3, 2, 1, 5.
I really don't know what the future holds
or what's gonna, what opportunity's gonna come,
but I do see potentially just one more film in this
franchise where I would have a satisfying story
that I could step back and, and be proud of.
- In my opinion. Terra Fire is, we're,
we're at the beginning of a nine film, you know,
I think they'll be doing Terra Fire films when I'm 80.
- You know, I would love to see Damien's vision
through whatever that is.
Whether it's Terra Fire Four or Terra Fire 14.
As long as he's there, I'll I'll be there.
I mean, unless he wants me to direct one, I'll do that.
Hey, we,
we definitely at least wanna do one more film with art.
We, we, I I think just the ending for part three sets some
of that up there for you.
- I really got to see Art The Clown grow
and just become just a
horror icon.
It's, it's quite amazing, honestly.
And I feel privileged
to be alongside Damien creating the visuals
and making magic with him on the screen.
It's really been a great process throughout all the years.
And just wanna see where it goes.
I mean, we'll just keep bringing it up further and further
and then see where we can take it.
- Bravo Independent Cinema and Bravo.
With all respect for everybody who make other movies,
it's nice when, when the independents,
you know, win a weekend. It's good.
Okay. And action.
- I would love to see an opportunity
to work with Damien again.
And, and I've had many conversations with him about
what he does next.
Where he goes from here even when this franchise is over
or he decides to put down Art the Clown
and go on to do other things.
What's that look like? What's, what's that picture
that's being painted for Damien?
Because, you know, he's sort
of being a sought out director in the horror genre.
- I think there's definitely gonna be a terrifi of four.
And then after that, I hope it continues to, to five and six
and see where, see where it goes
and what Damien can do with Arthur Clown
and see how his, his story develops.
- I'm looking forward to what else they come up with.
And I think it's Nons stoppable.
If they, if they want it to continue, it will.
And of course the fans, the fans want more.
- The greatest gift has been to work
with all these individuals and,
and to work with people who actually consider themselves
artists and, and really give everything that they have.
It exists. I feel very lucky to have that.
'cause you don't always get that in the industry.
- Hey, I, I'm glad you saw the movie,
I'm glad you enjoyed it
and, you know, stick around
for whatever great stuff Damien has next up his
very bloody sleeve.
- But that doesn't mean if I come up
with an idea years down the line,
or I think there's another way
to inject something fresh into the franchise.
I mean, I'll totally do it.
I love this character
and seeing what antic he comes up with.
I wanna see more about art.
I wanna see the rest of his backstory.
If I'm 70 years old
and I can still play him, I'll still play him.
I, I, I love this guy.
I think there's always new things to find to do with him.
Action. I would love to take like the Chucky route with him
where, you know, they keep finding new, new ways to take
that franchise in new directions.
Woo.
Ah, and I'm really excited
for the future of this franchise.
So let's bring on Terra Fire four Your
Eyes.
I do. It's a pretty cool ride. Seeing it's fun.
Don't get into all that Blood and gore.
I'm more of a romcom guy.
Frankenstein, that's a good movie. A classic.
I love art. He's such a,
a fun little mischievous little bastard.
And I, I want to keep playing him for as long as possible.
So I, I hope people enjoy what we're doing.
Save sake.
- Save, - Save a soul from
Damien doesn't want to cheat the audience.
And that's what makes them special movies.
- Never say never, never, never, never, never.
Cut.
- Cool. That's that. Was that all right?
Was that fantastic? Was it Oh good.