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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.