At the 2018 edition of WinterCon, I had the pleasure of talking to actor David Howard Thornton (who was wearing one of the awesome and official shirts made by Terror Threads). He plays the evil Art the Clown in the best slasher movie of last year, the phenomenal and gory Terrifier. We got to talk about the movie and more.
20. Mathilide Ollivier- (new)- This stunning French beauty won my heart in the awesome and criminally underrated (by cinema goers, not by critics) action/ war/ horror flick Overlord. She is perfectly cast as the beautiful and good hearted French, village girl.
19. Claire Foy- (new)- Gorgeous and talented Claire Foy had a spectacular, year, with much critical praise. But, it's her starring role in Steven Soderbergh's excellent Unsane, one of the year's finest horror movies. that is my favorite of hers. She gives a great performance with many levels of emotion in this psychological terror flick that will suck you right in.
18. Lily Adams-(new)- One of the sexiest babes in the adult biz, Lily Adams is also one of the coolest. I absolutely love following her on her Twitter, as she has some of the best tweets in the biz. This gorgeous beauty also gave me what might be my sexiest interview this year at Exxxotica 2018. Don't worry you haven't missed it. It will be posted soon. And, I promise you that if you ain't a fan of hers yet, you will be after seeing it!
17. Catherine Corcoran- (last year #15)- A long time favorite of mine and many other horror fans Catherine Corcoran appeared in what is THE best death scene in all of horror in 2018. Her brutal, uncompromising, and fully nude demise in Terrifier will make even the most hardcore among horror fans, jaws drop!
16. Krysten Ritter- (last year #29)- The beautiful Krysten Ritter moves up some spots thanks to the awesome season of Jessica Jones, which I think ranks among the finest moments in superhero TV history. She had such an emotional and complex storyline with her character, and she deserves all the credit in the world.
15. Aly Michalka- (last year #21)- Aly Michalka is one of the sexiest and most beautiful women on TV. Her character of Peyton on iZombie is one of the most interesting and best characters around. This past season might have had her character's best moments, which believe me, is saying a lot!
14. Amanda Schull- (last year #11)- Amanda Schull's Cassie had a hell of a season in the final one of 12 Monkeys. The ending of which was perfect! Schull is an amazing actress, and thanks to this show, one of my favorites. I do hope this gorgeous beauty does more great science fiction and soon!
13. Melissa Benoist- (last year #12)- Even if Supergirl is terribly uneven and highly flawed, Benoist remains ever so likable and captures and embodies the title character perfectly. She is also breathtakingly beautiful! Oh, and for all accounts and purposes, she seems to be cool as fucking hell, in person.
12. Trillium- (last year #16)- Can someone please explain to me how Trillium is not one of the biggest names in porn? She is absolutely gorgeous, perfect even. Her porn scenes are jaw droppingly hot scorchers destined to melt titanium steel! Also, her Twitter feed is one of the sexiest on the whole internet. I love fucking love Trillium!! If you can add a new year's resolution for me, could you make it that you will buy her stuff? I know you will thank me later!
11. Madeline Petsch- (last year #38)- The absolutely gorgeous Madeline Petsch jumps several spots into the eleventh number. This is because her character of Cheryl Blossom on Riverdale is not just my favorite character on that show, but one of my favorites on all of TV! Badass, sexy, tough, and complex, Cheryl fucking rules all. And, honest to God, the two episodes from the current season that she wasn't in, suffered from the lack of presence of her. And, all this and Petsch is perfect as her! Keep an eye on her for next year!
Title: Terrifier Writer/ Director: Damien Leone Cast: Jenna Kanell, Samantha Scaffidi, David Howard Thorton, Catherine Corcoran, Pooya Mosheni Year: 2017 (Released in 2018) Min: 82
We start with a prologue, where pretty talk show host Monica Brown (Katie Maguire) is interviewing a horribly disfigured woman. This poor woman survived an attack by a killer named Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton). Art, himself, is actually watching the show from his TV set, while applying his makeup. After the show, Monica is in her dressing room talking on the phone. She makes some mean and bitchy comments about the victim, only to have said victim come in and gouge her eyes.
We then cut to, Halloween night, where two beautiful friends, drunk Dawn (Catherine Corcoran) and Tara (Jenna Kanell) are heading home after a clearly fun night. They soon encounter Art, who is carrying a large, black, plastic bag with him. Victoria is rightfully creeped out by him, but Dawn doesn't take it very seriously. When, they both head to a pizzeria for a bite to eat, the clown also walks in quickly there after. Dawn still finds it all rather funny and even takes a selfie with him. Soon after, he does something that is enough to get him kicked out of the eating establishment (we quickly learn that he left the bathroom covered in shit and piss!). The girls eventually go their own way.
Unbeknownst to them, the employee and the manager (whose decapitated head gets carved like a fucking jack-o-lantern!) of the pizza joint get slaughtered by Art. Meanwhile, their car's tire has been slashed. Tara thinks its the scary looking clown, but Dawn doesn't believe it is. Either way, they end up calling Tara's sister, Victoria (the lovely Samantha Scaffidi) to pick them up.
Tara needs to take a piss really badly, so she ends up going in a nearby building. Soon there after, Dawn hears on the radio about two people getting killed at the pizzeria that they just left by a clown! It soon dawns on her (pardon the pun) that Tara was right all along! It's too fucking late though, as Art is in the car. He soon turns his attention to Tara, and will do the same with Victoria when she finally arrives at the rat infested, dump of a building, where the majority of the remaining film will occur at.
Let's not mince words here, Terrifier is the best slasher movie since Hatchet II, hands down! This is 80's inspired splatter done right. It's brutal, uncompromising, and gory as fucking hell. The movie has been garnering strong word of mouth and reviews and is rapidly gaining an ever growing cult following, all of which it rightfully deserves.
Writer/ director Damien Leone has crafted a movie that doesn't simply play oving tribute to stalk and slash movies of their golden age but manages to surpass many of them. This is due to the fact that he doesn't have some cookie cutter bullshit that does the same tired shit over and over again. He also does not play it safe taking it to a far more extreme level than many of the weak ass Friday the 13th sequels and their ilk never had the guts to partake in.
Leone is also very apt at adding much tension and suspense. The pacing is fast and tense, resulting in a short running time that flies by. Most of the time when I watch a movie of this type I just sort of look at the screen and not much else. Watching this one, though, I was screaming at the screen and the characters, telling them to run, hide, fight back, whatever the scene dictated. I don't think there is a better sign that you have done a good job, then getting the audience to shout and be invested in what is happening onscreen.
To achieve this you need to care about the characters and for them to be played by a talented cast. The girls aren't just there to provide eye-candy, though they are certainly gorgeous. You actually don't want to see them die. Most of the cast are unknowns, save for the gorgeous Catherine (Return to Nuke 'Em High Vol. 1 & 2, Sociopathia) Corcoran, who is one of my personal favorite, current scream queens.
But, extra praise must be given to David Howard Thorton. He is perfectly terrifying as Art. Without saying a single word, he manages to be menacing and utterly bone-chilling. His creepy ass smile will fucking haunt you. And, for those of you who are scared of clowns, be prepared to clean the shit from your undies. Cause, Art manages to be more disturbing than Pennywise is on his best day.
Of course, it also helps that his look is unsettling to begin with. Also solid are the gore FX. Decapitation, slashings, stabbings, blood spurting gunshots, eye gouging, cannibalism, and bludgeonings hit the viewer with no mercy. Included in these acts is a snatch to head bisection that is more than likely the year's most memorable and shocking kill and probably one of the vicious kills by a psycho killer since the glory days of Lucio Fulci. Throw in a little bit of nudity, courtesy of Corcoran, and you have something that gives you everything you want and more.
Terrifier is a killer slasher movie and destined to become a modern, cult classic. The movie is brutal, vicious, and does not fuck around. It is also a shit load of fun and keeps you invested throughout its running time. Suspenseful directing and characters you actually give a flying fuck about played by a solid cast help things even further. And, here is hoping Art becomes the next big slasher villain, especially as how he is bought to life by Thorton. Distributed by horror website Bloody Disgusting, Terrifier is currently streaming on Amazon. It is an absolute must for those who like their throwback horror movies to be as uncompromising as possible.
Musicians: Terrifier Album Title: Weapons of Thrash Destruction Genre/ Subgenre: Thrash Metal Label: Test Your Metal Records Release date: Jan. 20, 2017
Terrifier are a quintet that hail from Kelowna, British Columbia. They play a very fast and furious take on old school thrash metal. Their second, and latest, full length release is Weapons of Thrash Destruction, and it ranks as one the best thrash albums of the year.
The music is technically savvy and unrelenting. It's a full frontal attack played with utmost ferocity and aggression. The dual guitar attack of Renee Wilkinson and Brent Gallant give you a shred filled experience that cut and slice like razor wire. They are accompanied by pummeling bass and a battering drums that will pound you to the ground. The vocals by Chase Thibodeau are filled with enough piss and vinegar to drive a final death blow with each and every track.
The album opens up the shredtastic ''Reanimator'' which is inspired, I would imagine, by my all time favorite movie of the same name. It is filled with enough aggression to knock your ass into a morgue... ten states away! The pissed-off as fuck, ''Deceiver'' thunders right from the get go with unferreted rage and is accompanied by lightning riffs and blast beat level drumming. The intro of ''Skitzoid Embolism'' throws in a sample of one of Arnie's lines from the ultra-violent classic Total Recall to lead into a vicious song that is as mad and insane as the theme that it deals with. Taking a cue from Municipal Waste but doing it with a much more Anthrax or Overkill vibe to it, the band gives us what will be your new favorite ass kicking drinking anthem in ''Drunk as Fuck''. A peaceful and almost haunting acoustic instrumental ''Rider of Doom'' leads directly into the closing track: the Conan the Barbarian inspired ''Sect of the Serpent''. The thundering drumming of Kyle Sheppard feel like hooves of horse riding death dealers, as led by the evil Tulsa Doom in the bloody fantasy classic, as they slaughter the Cimmerian people. It's a scorcher of a song and is the crowning jewel in this gem filled album.
I was absolutely blown away by Weapons of Thrash Destruction. It kills from start to finish and has excellent replay value. You will want to keep listening to it over and over again. If you love and adore thrash metal bands like Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Kreator, as I do, then this is THE album for you. Terrifier are destined to be new thrash gods, as this album tops some more renown recent releases within the sub-genre. This along with the latest releases by Warbringer, Kreator, and Overkill, makes this another awesome year for thrash metal. No need to jump in a DeLorean to go back to the old of this style of music. Just get your patch filled denim jackets ready and thrash to this fucker, as soon as you fucking can!
20. Mathilide Ollivier- (new)- This stunning French beauty won my heart in the awesome and criminally underrated (by cinema goers, not by critics) action/ war/ horror flick Overlord. She is perfectly cast as the beautiful and good hearted French, village girl.
19. Claire Foy- (new)- Gorgeous and talented Claire Foy had a spectacular, year, with much critical praise. But, it's her starring role in Steven Soderbergh's excellent Unsane, one of the year's finest horror movies. that is my favorite of hers. She gives a great performance with many levels of emotion in this psychological terror flick that will suck you right in.
18. Lily Adams- (new)- One of the sexiest babes in the adult biz, Lily Adams is also one of the coolest. I absolutely love following her on her Twitter, as she has some of the best tweets in the biz. This gorgeous beauty also gave me what might be my sexiest interview this year at Exxxotica 2018. Don't worry you haven't missed it. It will be posted soon. And, I promise you that if you ain't a fan of hers yet, you will be after seeing it!
17. Catherine Corcoran- (last year #15)- A long time favorite of mine and many other horror fans Catherine Corcoran appeared in what is THE best death scene in all of horror in 2018. Her brutal, uncompromising, and fully nude demise in Terrifier will make even the most hardcore among horror fans, jaws drop!
16. Krysten Ritter- (last year #29)- The beautiful Krysten Ritter moves up some spots thanks to the awesome season of Jessica Jones, which I think ranks among the finest moments in superhero TV history. She had such an emotional and complex storyline with her character, and she deserves all the credit in the world.
15. Aly Michalka- (last year #21)- Aly Michalka is one of the sexiest and most beautiful women on TV. Her character of Peyton on iZombie is one of the most interesting and best characters around. This past season might have had her character's best moments, which believe me, is saying a lot!
14. Amanda Schull- (last year #11)- Amanda Schull's Cassie had a hell of a season in the final one of 12 Monkeys. The ending of which was perfect! Schull is an amazing actress, and thanks to this show, one of my favorites. I do hope this gorgeous beauty does more great science fiction and soon!
12. Trillium- (last year #16)- Can someone please explain to me how Trillium is not one of the biggest names in porn? She is absolutely gorgeous, perfect even. Her porn scenes are jaw droppingly hot scorchers destined to melt titanium steel! Also, her Twitter feed is one of the sexiest on the whole internet. I love fucking love Trillium!! If you can add a new year's resolution for me, could you make it that you will buy her stuff? I know you will thank me later!
11. Madeline Petsch- (last year #38)- The absolutely gorgeous Madeline Petsch jumps several spots into the eleventh number. This is because her character of Cheryl Blossom on Riverdale is not just my favorite character on that show, but one of my favorites on all of TV! Badass, sexy, tough, and complex, Cheryl fucking rules all. And, honest to God, the two episodes from the current season that she wasn't in, suffered from the lack of presence of her. And, all this and Petsch is perfect as her! Keep an eye on her for next year!
