Think the kills in "Terrifier 2" are next-level disgusting? Wait until you hear how they actually made the blood and guts look so real.
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00:00 Think the kills in Terrifier 2 are next level disgusting?
00:04 Wait until you hear how they actually made the blood and guts look so real.
00:07 There are countless horror monsters and villains out there, but few, at least in recent years,
00:12 have had the same impact as Art the Clown.
00:20 The enormously successful sequel, Terrifier 2, was designed and crafted from the ground
00:24 up with a ragtag FX team, where most of the gloriously gory set pieces were done almost
00:29 exclusively by director and special effects artist Damian Leone and producer Phil Falcone.
00:35 To achieve the amount of viscera needed to send even the most hardcore gorehounds heading
00:39 for the aisle, there were some very special ingredients involved to ensure the maximum
00:43 amount of gross-out potential.
00:45 Throughout horror history, there have been countless recipes for blood that have been
00:49 used.
00:50 For example, there's the Hershey's chocolate syrup flowing down the drain in Alfred Hitchcock's
00:53 Psycho, or FX artist Tom Savini's famous mix of pancake syrup, food coloring, and Kodak
00:59 Photo Flow solution in George A. Romero's Dawn of the Dead.
01:02 For Terrifier 2, Leone relied on his local butcher to make the blood in his absurdly
01:07 over-the-top follow-up appear as disgusting as humanly possible.
01:11 To call some of the ingredients incorporated into the film's gore creative would be an
01:15 understatement.
01:16 In an interview with Flash Films' Jacob Hall, Leone went into excruciating detail about everything
01:21 that went into some of the most elaborate kills in Terrifier 2.
01:24 Continuing where the first Terrifier left off, we find Art in the process of killing
01:28 the incredibly unlucky coroner who was tasked with inspecting the clown's temporarily dead
01:32 body.
01:33 Leone and his team discovered that one ingredient in particular could make the coroner's demise
01:37 look even more disturbing on screen.
01:40 He explained, "What we use a lot is just fat.
01:43 We know a butcher who would give us sausage casing, and then we'd fill them all with just
01:47 fat to make intestines or whatnot.
01:49 We use that a lot.
01:51 Or if we ever just got to dig into a body, we'd just sort of see all that mush."
01:55 When it came time to shoot the effect sequence, the fat would make the blood appear chunkier
01:59 when they pumped it through the large tubes, adding another viscous layer to the overall
02:03 look of the blood.
02:04 He elaborated, "And you could see it a lot, especially in the scene where he's killing
02:08 the coroner.
02:09 You just see this chunky blood, and the fat is just so soft that it actually could work
02:14 its way through the tubes."
02:15 Without question, the most elaborate death in Leone's drawn-out sequel is the bedroom
02:19 scene involving the character Allie, who experiences a level of torture rarely, if ever, depicted
02:24 on screen.
02:26 That scene is so seared into the twisted brains of brave moviegoers that it's easy to forget
02:30 some of the other kills.
02:31 "Ew, why is mine so sticky?"
02:32 "Don't worry, it's just fake blood.
02:33 Just put it in the bag."
02:38 But it's another kill from the movie that contains another oddball ingredient, and one
02:42 that will make even the most hardened horror fan flinch when they try to imagine what the
02:46 set must have smelled like.
02:48 When Arthur Clown kills a clerk working at the costume shop, Leone was looking for ways
02:52 to make the scene stand out a little more, leading him to add another household ingredient
02:57 to make the blood look more like what he remembered seeing in 70s horror films like Dawn of the
03:01 Dead.
03:02 He said, "I wanted that blood opaque, and it looked like paint almost.
03:05 I had to put a lot of powdered milk into the blood to sort of kill the translucency.
03:10 So I was putting some other weird things in there too, maybe like strawberry syrup or
03:13 things just to brighten it up and stuff.
03:16 So that was maybe paints as well.
03:18 That was an interesting one."
03:19 In the end, it sounds like Leone and his team tried anything and everything to try and give
03:24 audiences a level of gruesomeness they'd never experienced before.
03:28 Before long, Leone might be putting out a blood recipe of his own for future effects
03:31 artists to play with.
03:33 Leone recalled, "It was very sticky and gross.
03:36 It smelled… interesting."
03:38 If the smell is pungent enough to make a homemade batch of blood stand out from the pack, you're
03:43 probably on the right track.