Movie: Terrifier
Production Year: 2016
Tubi Provided Summary: A maniacal clown uses gruesome methods to viciously torture and murder women who have the unfortunate luck of entering his house of horrors.
Film Can Be Accessed At: https://tubitv.com/movies/559020/terrifier?start=true
Does This Movie Pass The Bechdel Test: Yes
Character Analysis:
- Tara: Highly drunk, vulgar language, stubborn, mix of masculine and feminine traits
- Victoria: Emotional, sensitive to others, hysterical, crumbles under pressure, feminine
- Art the Clown: silent but deadly, psychotic
- Dawn: Highly drunk, ditzy, overly sensual, feminine
- Monica: Pushy interviewer, stereotypically “bitchy” and catty, feminine
- Cat Lady: hysterical, caring, confused, maternal, feminine
- Mike: Confident, caring, logical under stress, masculine
Death Analysis
- Dawn: First to die, extended death scene, sawed in half, killed by Art the Clown
- Tara: Second to die, quick death scene, shot to death, killed by Art the Clown
- Cat Lady: Third to die, killed off-screen, mutilated and cut apart, killed by Art the Clown
- Mike: Fourth to die, extended death scene, hit with a large bucket in the face repeatedly before his skull is crushed, killed by Art the Clown
Survival Analysis
- Survive the film
- Victoria
- Art the Clown
Final Statistics:
Character Sex Ratio: 5 Females: 2 Males
Character Survivor Ratio: 1 Female: 1 Male (not including ambiguous characters)
Character Death Ratio: 60% of Females to 50% of Males (not including ambiguous characters)
Final Takeaways:
Terrifier, much like its prequel anthology film, All Hallows’ Eve, is a film focused on shock value and gore alone. Despite its full runtime instead of short stories, it pays little to no attention to developing characters outside of a few basic traits such as hysteria or leadership. Violence is the center of the film and with that comes a good amount of death and ambiguous characters.
These on-screen deaths do not favor female characters in the slightest. Nearly all female deaths were extremely violent and extended. Of those who managed to escape the film with ambiguous endings were either highly disfigured and disturbed, brutally attacked and left to possibly die, or all of the above. This number is much greater than male characters which only have one ambiguous ending or death combined.
This, as well as the film barely passing the Bechdel test if one conversation is stretched enough, makes for a very disappointing film. This franchise is anything but feminist in its nature as the violence is nowhere near equal and makes a sharp preference for its male leads.
Shared by: Ariana Nichols
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