Terrifier 3 Confirmed For 2024 Release

Art the Clown will officially be back for more carnage next year, with a 2024 release for Terrifier 3 announced. Bloody Disgusting announced on Monday that the third film in the gory slasher franchise will arrive next year. This comes after it was reported late last month that production was expected to kick off late this year.

The Terrifier franchise has been the little indy slasher that could, with the first film building a reputation online as a cult film and the second, released in October of last year, showing remarkable box office legs to gross $15.1 million worldwide against a budget of just $250,000.

Damien Leone will be back behind the camer as writer and director with Cineverse, Bloody Disgusting, and SCREAMBOX having acquired the North American rights. Much like the second film, Terrifier 3 will arrive exclusively on SCREAMBOX following is theatrical release. David Howard Thornton (Art The Clown) and Lauren LaVera (Sienna) are expected to reprise their roles, with plot details still under wraps.

“We’re thrilled to be partnering with Cineverse and Bloody Disgusting again,” said Leone. “Aside from a yearning for new and exciting horror villains like Art the Clown, a large part of Terrifier 2’s success was based on its unprecedented theatrical release and its uncompromising nature. Many studios are unwilling to take that sort of a risk these days whereas Cineverse not only took it but embraced it. It’s pretty clear that we’re now entering a slasher genre renaissance; perhaps the biggest one since the 90s. Filmmakers like myself are gonna have to keep pushing the envelope so it’s encouraging when a company respects a director’s vision and understands what makes a certain type of film successful.”

“Produced for just $250,000, Terrifier 2 became a box office phenomenon, grossing more than $15 million worldwide,” said Chris McGurk, Chairman & CEO at Cineverse. “It achieved revenues of roughly 60 times the production cost despite being powered almost exclusively by social marketing. We are thrilled that Damien and Phil have chosen to stay true to the franchise and keep the film uncut and independent vs going the studio route. We are confident that Terrifier 3 will deliver yet another unparalleled horror experience, and we eagerly anticipate the creative vision that Damien and Phil will unleash upon audiences when we bring Terrifier 3 to the big screen in the fall of 2024.”