Leone is fearless. He ups the shock value by letting Art the Clown loose during Christmas. Holiday horror is nothing new. But what's truly inventive here — and ultimately transgressive — is the subversion of Christmas tropes. Reindeer hooves on rooftops. Milk and cookies. Christmas shopping and mall photos with Santa. No tradition is spared.

The "Terrifier" franchise has always been Art for Art's sake, as its magical killer clown randomly slashed, bludgeoned, bit, scourged and even shot his way through whomever happened to be around. The third entry is mostly brimming buckets more of the same with Art the Clown going to town,

With all their slicing, dicing, stabbing, slashing, gutting, and goring, the Terrifier films aren't for the faint of heart. But for David Howard Thornton, who plays the films' big bad, Art the Clown, the release of Terrifier 3 marks a happy occasion to add a chilling new method of mutilation to the list — freezing.

Director and writer Damien Leone attempted to make one of the most vicious slasher films yet - and with Terrifier 3 he has succeeded

If they gave out an Academy Award for best performance by a silent harlequin in a white clown suit who can mime a giggle fit while slicing people’s faces off (don’t try this at home — the slicing or the silent laughing),