‘I’ll never do that’: The director of Terrifier 3 has no boundaries…except for this one

In October, pundits expected Joker 2 to top the box office, and it was Terrifier 3 that created a surprise. If Todd Phillips’ film grossed more worldwide than Damien Leone’s, the gaping gap between their budgets speaks volumes. Because the former will lose money when the latter is already a huge success, grossing over $41 million worldwide (when it only cost 2) and 376,352 viewers in France.

France, in fact, where the film was banned under the age of 18, which ultimately had a positive effect on the feature film, as one of its distributors confirmed to us, surprised by this unexpected success.

At this point, the formalization of the fourth opus is only a matter of days, and many are already wondering how the director will be able to go even further than the first three films. he asked DiversityDamien Leone isn’t saying anything about it, but he’s talking about a line he swore he’d never cross.

“It’s as if you’re so desperate to shock the audience that it becomes hopeless.”

“I’m always looking for lines to cross, to push boundaries”he said. “Or maybe you just step over them. But then you run the risk of reaching the extreme level of bad taste, which I try to avoid. There’s a scene earlier where Art kills a kid off camera and all you hear is noise. It could have shown that, just like we did the scene. glorious way

“I would never do that because to me it’s just disgusting and you risk alienating part of the community. It’s as if you’re so desperate to shock society that it’s hopeless. I think this is my job as an artist, I try. Let’s walk this line in the most responsible and interesting way.” People who have seen Terrifier 3 have noticed that it barely misses pushing its limits, whether it’s the opening scene or the supermarket scene showing the bodies of children killed by Art the Clown.