Rajaah
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Having seen all 3 of these here's my quick review. Mild spoilers but nothing big.
Terrifier - More grounded than the others, just a gritty serial killer movie with a terrifying antagonist. Only one of the kills was a little too brutal and the rest were all pretty much within the realm of normal horror gore. Decent movie, liked it more than I expected to.
Terrifier 2 - Wasn't crazy about how it left the realm of the normal and made the serial killer into a supernatural entity, preferred it to just be a really bad human. Explains why he was able to shrug off so much damage in the first movie though. The final girl is super fuckin hot. I mean insanely gorgeous, wife material, etc. I really liked how the whole movie builds up to her wearing the angel/amazonian costume for the final showdown and I think her entire look there is a bit iconic, or should be anyway, for modern horror. Also liked the opening credits and how much they tell you about her without a word being said, just by watching her building things. I can take or leave the brutal gore scenes. Liked this one a lot, in spite of them, might actually watch it again someday.
Terrifier 3 - This felt like a big step down from 2. Just redundant and felt more mean-spirited than the others. Rather than the sexy-as-hell Final Girl taking him on in an angel costume, she just gets tortured a lot and they sequel-bait really hard. Not even sure what the "rules" are at this point when we have gateways to Hell opening up and all the bad guys are unkillable.
All in all I think I'm good on ever watching any more of these. They definitely get you queasy at times. The parts I liked were the suspenseful parts and the character-driven parts (around the main character in 2, that is).
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