Art from the "Terrifier" series may be the terrifying clown of the moment, but these clowns have been making people scream for far longer...and living in their nightmares, too.
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00:00What's up everybody, Griffy here. Clowns are objectively terrifying, and with
00:04Terrifier 3 everywhere, my favorite of the Terrifier movies by the way, I
00:08thought it would be fun to talk about five clowns scarier than art.
00:12Pretty soon you're gonna get here in funny places, and you're gonna start thinking about girls, ha!
00:16Five, the Violator. I can hear many of you now complaining, right? The clown from
00:21the Spawn movie with the PlayStation 1 graphics? Yes, that exact clown. Here's
00:25why. One, he's not just a morbidly obese 3 foot 10 clown, he is in fact a 20 plus
00:31foot tall demon whose exact job in hell is to cultivate evil souls to become
00:36minions in the army of hell. He also shepherds the hell spawns as they go out
00:41and carry specific hell missions and rule the armies of hell. He has fire
00:45breath, he has the ability to possess victims and pilot their bodies, he has
00:49shape-shifting which begs the question, why pick this little bulbous clown? We
00:53never find out. We watch him almost eat the neighbor's dog, talk about how he
00:58should go back and visit Spawn's ex-wife who's now happily remarried. That's a
01:03little more terrifying than a clown who just puts on a Santa suit and does
01:06normal chainsaw stuff. I will be the first to concede, this is not the pinnacle
01:11of what I hope Spawn will someday achieve. The comics, the HBO cartoon, they
01:15really captured more of that kind of whore in the shadows, dark violent tone.
01:20The movie took on more of the aesthetic of John Leguizamo playing the pest but in a
01:24small bulbous sumo suit. I will say John Leguizamo's performance as the
01:28violator is my favorite thing in the movie, but man it would be amazing to get
01:33another crack at this character.
01:41Number four, birthday clown dad from Clown. Now I know
01:45what you're saying, what is Clown from 2014? You never saw it, I barely saw it.
01:49The 2014 movie loosely produced by Eli Roth is the story of a dad whose son is
01:54having a birthday party. The birthday clown he hired does not show up, he puts
01:58on a clown suit that he has acquired himself without knowing that this clown
02:02suit is evil. This clown suit cannot be destroyed by acid, it cannot be burned, in
02:08fact it cannot be destroyed period. The only way to end the terror of your loved
02:13one being turned into a mutant clown is to decapitate them. There are great gags
02:17of the red rubber nose not being able to be pulled off, children randomly playing
02:21in a Chuck E. Cheese style human guinea pig tube and ball pits fall victim, the
02:25family dog falls victim. The son comes home and the dad is sitting there and
02:28he's kind of brooding, right, like he's listening to a Korn album. He's like
02:31daddy I've been bullied at school and the dad goes by who? That kid's dad goes
02:36to the bully's house and brutally maims him, leaves him on the carpet and
02:40literally a giant pile of ground beef and it is letting you know this movie is
02:44taking the hardest darkest turn. While art might be equally as destructive
02:49towards the physical body, I think the destruction of a good man makes this
02:54clown scarier to me than art. Art never has a moment of decency ever. Art smiles
02:59at us as he chops our bodies apart. This is just a good dad who because he tried
03:04to do a good deed for his son now becomes a murderous clown scarecrow
03:08monster who's murdering children and dogs only to then have to be murdered by
03:12his own family. That is another personal touch that the Terrifier series
03:17constantly lacks. That said, this movie stinks pretty much across the board.
03:21Don't watch it, just watch clips. You'll get the same gist. It's fun. It's fun.
03:30Number three, Toy Clown from Extro. This movie is a loose ripoff of Alien, right?
03:36A father gets abducted while playing with his son. Three years later, dad comes
03:40back in a horrifying rebirth scene. If you've seen it, you know. Drinks his son's
03:45blood, right? As one is wont to do. And the son develops insane paranormal powers.
03:50So what does he do? He turns his toys into killing machines. Just imagine this,
03:54right? You tell your kid no more snacks at night and next thing you know you
03:57have a six-foot tall bluey trying to kill you and insert eggs in you. The most
04:01famous of the toys from Extro is indeed the Toy Clown. This guy's real job is
04:06he's an egg farmer. So not only does he help capture women, he helps cocoon women,
04:11and then they essentially become the alien xenomorph queen alien egg factory
04:16of this film. The egg harvesting scene literally almost made this movie a video
04:21nasty which would have been banned across an entire country. I think the
04:25trick to the Toy Clown is how little screen time he requires to really burrow
04:29deep deep into the darkest parts of your mind. Art the Clown gets to be
04:32center stage. He is the main focal point of most of the Terrifier movie. This
04:37clown is just there for enough. He gives you hints. Art the Clown killing me is
04:41terrifying, don't get me wrong, but a twisted little Pinocchio trying to turn
04:45me into a repository for alien eggs is just scarier to me. I would rather you
04:50chainsaw me then fill me up with eggs and turn me into a birth machine.
04:56Do you want a balloon too Georgie? I'm not supposed to take stuff from strangers.
05:01Number two, Pennywise. I'm sure no one is surprised to see Pennywise on this list.
05:06Pennywise is a literal titan in the horror genre. What makes Pennywise scary
05:11is that Pennywise is an interdimensional creature who is nearly immortal and
05:15feeds off of our fears. There is a playing with your food aspect of
05:19Pennywise that is absolutely terrifying. The other thing that makes Pennywise a
05:23more scary clown than Art is that whatever you're afraid of that's what he
05:28looks like. Pennywise somehow is tapped into the true fear that we all have
05:32which is seeing our elderly relatives naked chasing us around and if that's
05:35not scary enough what if she's 10 foot tall? His preferred sustenance is not the
05:40normal tropes of horror movie adults that we don't mind seeing killed in all
05:44these movies, but kids that we actually love. Watching him try to eat the loser
05:48club makes that movie more personally terrifying than just watching college
05:53age caricatures getting chopped apart. It just does. I can hear you now, but
05:58Griffey, Pennywise got killed by being bullied by children. Cool man. Art the
06:02Clown got beat up by a 16 year old girl who got a literal cartoon strip sword.
06:06Every horror movie ever the villain dies in hideously dumb ways. I'm not taking
06:11that as an excuse. I can hear another argument you're about to make. They're
06:14telling me off-screen. Terrifier 3, Art the Clown disguised as the mall Santa
06:19blows up a ton of children. Yes that is intense, but you know what that is?
06:23Wasteful. Have you seen the price of groceries? Focus carnage is scarier than
06:27just blowing up mall Santa. It just is. Pennywise can become Art the Clown.
06:33Pennywise can literally turn into Art the Clown. That makes him scarier. The
06:38Pennywise disrespect in this room is unacceptable. It's cool that Art is
06:43starting to dabble in gaining demonic powers. Pennywise is the power. He has all
06:47the powers. And Art the Clown doesn't talk, so Art the Clown can't bully
06:51Pennywise, so he's getting bodied. It's over. This is not even close. I don't know
06:56what we're debating. I'm really upset. I'm sweating.
07:07Number one, killer clowns from outer space. Undoubtedly the greatest clown
07:12contribution to cinema are the killer clowns from outer space. This is an
07:16entire race of alien monsters who built their entire dynasty on the trappings of
07:22a circus. Their spaceships are the big top tent. They turn us into a food source
07:27by cocooning us in cotton candy and turning us into literal juice boxes.
07:31Their weapons are carnival popcorn, right? They breed new killer clowns from
07:36popcorn kernels. They have the look and the trappings and the gags of the
07:41comedic clown, but with horrifying consequences that we just kind of gloss
07:45over with sugar-coated comedy. But make no mistake, this is one of the most
07:50terrifying alien races to ever be on a movie screen. It was one of those movies
07:54that felt laughed at, right? I feel like people lump this in with Attack of the
07:58Killer Tomatoes and do not realize the absolute powerhouse that killer clowns
08:03from outer space is. The small-town rude sheriff played by John Vernon getting
08:07turned into a ventriloquist dummy puppet has haunted me my whole entire
08:11life. The real treat at the end of the movie is that not only do we have baby
08:15killer clowns, we have our soldier killer clowns, we have a kaiju killer clown.
08:20There is a 30-foot clown behemoth that stomps around and can kill everyone in
08:26its path. Again, I can hear the arguments now. You can beat a killer clown by
08:30hitting its red bulbous nose. I get it! You got to get close enough to punch the
08:35nose. That's still scary. I don't care. Art the Clown, with his various little
08:39tools and contraptions, cannot hit the red nose of every member of this alien
08:44race of mega warriors. These clowns are the scariest that have ever been on a
08:48movie screen. That's it! That's my top five clowns that are scarier than Art
08:53List. What did I miss? Let me know in the comments, and do not bring any of that
08:57Pennywise disrespect. Don't!
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