10 Most Disturbing Deaths in Terrifier 3, Ranked (2025)

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This article includes detailed descriptions of torture and murder in Terrifier 3.

The explicitly horrifying slasher film Terrifier 3 has the most gore anyone has seen on screen in recent years. From the opening scene to the last, Art the Clown terrifies the audience with endless torture and killing, outdoing himself in the process. Terrifier 3 features the franchise's worst crimes and takes the most disturbing ways to die to a whole new level.

Nearly every scene has some gore in it, and the amount of violence has attracted controversy since the movie's release. From the shocking opening scene to the infamous shower scene to Art's final kill, Terrifier 3's worst deaths are also the most inventive. Art has a new device in the film. While he tends to repeat some of his tricks, one move is reserved for special guests.

10 Vicky Has a Messy Death in Terrifier 3

Art the Clown isn't responsible for Vicky's death. Instead, the movie's heroine takes the torch. She takes the sword from Vicky and stabs her in the face, takes the sword out again, and chops Vicky's head off clean. By doing so, Sienna opens the door to hell.

The scene is messy, with black blood spilling all over the place. While Sienna isn't capable of delivering the same level of brutality as Art, she's tasked with making sure that Vicky is truly dead. Hence, stabbing and chopping her head off is necessary. One thing that makes Sienna's killing worthy of this list is the level of mess in the horrific death scene. Vicky, being something that resembles a walking corpse, has a particularly revolting death.

9 The Officer Becomes Part of Art

The officer who's sent to investigate an abandoned building finds a body without the head. While it seems suspicious, the officer doesn't perceive the body as a threat, which is a judgment that he'll later regret. What exactly happens to the officer is left to viewers' imaginations. However, what happens to his body is truly horrifying.

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The headless body uses the officer for parts. It takes limbs and a head from the officer to assemble a full human body. The following scene, which follows a half-officer and half-Art walking into the subway, is simply shocking. Since the film dives into details with other kills, the shock of the officer's death can only go so far.

8 Burke Becomes One of Art and Vicky's First Victims

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Ripping off flesh little by little from a man's face marks the beginning of a long journey of gore in Terrifier 3. The kill is more detailed in comparison to the previous ones. Burke, played by Chris Jericho, is a hospital worker, who stumbles upon Vicky's room and becomes the killer duo's first victim. Vicky has just given birth to Art's evil head. After witnessing Art biting the flesh off of another staff member, he then receives the same treatment.

This is the first time Terrifier 3 shows details of Art's killing, marking the significance of his official return. Burke suffers a great deal of pain before Art ruins his face. However, compared to the later kills, this one is relatively short and focused. The torture doesn't extend to other parts of his body, nor does it involve the use of tools and other killing devices. Burke dies in a horrific way, but worse things do happen in the film.

7 One Construction Worker Had It Worse Than His Partner

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One construction worker who finds Vicky in the bathtub had it easy in comparison to his partner. He dies swiftly with a stab in the neck. His co-worker, on the other hand, isn't so lucky. Art takes killing to the level of pleasure, taking things slow. With Art being the lead and Vicky pleasuring herself by repetitively driving a knife into her pelvis, the poor construction worker suffers a lot of pain in one of the couple's most revolting moments.

In the scene, Art first shoves a stake into the worker's hand and proceeds to bite his fingers off. Art then opens the man's scalp, peeling the skin off of his face. The scene isn't the only place where Art prolongs his killing to make a body bloody and exposed. He later repeats the same trick in the infamous shower scene, adding in a lot of worse things at the same time.

6 The Mall Massacre Takes Art’s Crime to a New Level

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Death by bomb is hardly the worst thing in the world of Terrifier 3, given that a lot worse has happened to Art's victims. What's really awful about the mall scene is the fact that the victims are only children. Terrifier 3 first spends some screen time familiarizing the audience with Art's next victims — innocent children who have done nothing wrong.

The bomb wipes out all lives in range. One minute, they are unwrapping Christmas presents happily, and the next, they are gone. No one expected Terrifier 3 to go that far, but it did. Art crosses the line for the first time to be the sole person responsible for a massacre. The film even depicts the aftermath of the crime scene, covered by brain matter and organs.

5 Santa Claus Is Art’s Saddest Target

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When Art goes to a bar, he's looking for victims. In this horrifying Christmas-themed movie, Santa is the victim who transcends Art's killing for thrills to torturing for pleasure. No matter what happens, no one in the bar is going to see the light of day again. But the man who is dressed like Santa receives some extra attention from Art. The guy didn't do anything wrong. Art first provokes Santa, leading the guy in the costume to try to throw him out of the bar, which then gives him the reason to extend the kill.

While Santa's friends each receive a quick death, Art uses nitrogen to freeze Santa's legs. He shatters the guy's limbs while he screams, then points the nitrogen to Santa's face before giving it the same treatment. To complete his work, Art rips a carrot nose from the snowman and places it at the center of Santa's ruined face. The complexity and the length of the kill make this one even more heartbreaking.

4 Mia’s Obsession With True Crime Comes Back to Haunt Her

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The infamous Terrifier 3 shower scene tops all former kills by the inclusion of a chainsaw as Art's new torture device. Jonathan's roommate, Cole, is making out with his true crime-obsessed girlfriend, Mia, in the shower when Art sneaks in with a chainsaw. Having been obsessed with Sienna's story, Mia is dying to know more about Art. She then becomes the killer clown's new victim.

Art has gotten a new toy after ditching his handsaw for a chainsaw. He repeatedly saws into Mia using it. There is so much blood that the running shower water becomes nearly non-existent. The horror doesn't end here. After being reduced to resting meat sauce, Art then finishes his work by placing his Christmas sunglasses on Mia, or what's left of her. It seems that Art's biggest fan has gotten special treatment from the killer clown, which makes the kill slightly personal.

3 Art Drives a Chainsaw up Cole’s Body

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If Mia's kill is a stretch, Cole is where Art really dives into the art of killing. Art takes his time with Cole. He also gets more creative with his new toy. It's a good thing that there was no one else in the shower that night. While cutting Cole's limbs off might seem a little tame in comparison to the film's previous kills, one finishing touch makes sure that viewers will never forget his death.

Art drives the chainsaw right through Cole's scrotum. Terrifier 3 doesn't gloss over the details in the scene. Viewers get an eyeful of what's happening while being immersed in an earful of chainsaw noises. The scene is as shocking as it is revolting, but for Art, it's an accomplishment. The killer clown then swims in their blood. The image isn't something viewers can easily get over. It easily surpasses all the previous kills with this one move.

2 The Woman in the Opening Scene Witnesses Her Family’s Deaths First

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So far on the list, the only person who has to suffer through their loved one's death is Cole, but the woman in the opening scene witnesses the deaths of her husband and children before suffering from the same fate. Art involves psychological torture in the opening scene, and the only other place he uses it again is with Sienna near the end of the film. The horror of waking up to find her husband being repeatedly cut through by an ax is unmatched, and Art doesn't kill her right on the spot.

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Art taunts his victim as the woman runs from room to room only to find that one of her children has suffered the same fate as her husband and that her other child is missing. The woman then runs for the door, but there's no escape. At this point, the woman's desperation really sinks in. Art proceeds to swing his ax into the woman's back. He takes it out and strikes again. It takes a while for the woman to die, but Art has killed all the light and hope in her before granting her final release. While others have only suffered the extreme physical level of pain, this woman had both.

1 Aunt Jessica Receives Art's Worst Treatment

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Because she's Sienna's aunt, Jessica receives the worst death in Terrifier 3. Art makes sure that her death is the worst of them all because, this time, he has an audience. He's torturing Jessica in order to break Sienna's spirit. Unlike the previous deaths that Art did for fun, this time, he's serious. The killer clown ties Jessica to a chair and violently shoves a plastic tube into her mouth.

The vomit-inducing scene then sees Art forcing a rat down the tube. Once it reaches its desired spot, Art then slices Jessica's throat to allow the creature and blood to come out. The idea of it is already horrifying enough. With the scene spending a lot of time there, capturing every single detail when everything pours out, there are no words after that. Terrifier 3 has outdone itself with the final kill. The horror ends there, though not in the audience's heart.

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Terrifier 3

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Horror

Director
Damien Leone

Release Date
October 11, 2024

Cast
Lauren LaVera, David Howard Thornton, Antonella Rose, Elliott Fullam, Samantha Scaffidi, Margaret Anne Florence, Bryce Johnson, Alexa Blair Robertson, Mason Mecartea, Krsy Fox, Luciana VanDette, Clint Howard, Bradley Stryker, Daniel Roebuck, Chris Jericho, Tom Savini, Jason Patric, Alex Ross, Kailey Hyman, Kellen Raffaelo, Lisa Marie Falcone, Stephen Cofield Jr., Corrine Kelly, Joe Falcone, Peter Mitchell, Marie Maser, Jon Abrahams

Writers
Damien Leone

Runtime
125 Minutes
Main Genre
Horror

Studio(s)
Dark Age Cinema, Fuzz on the Lens Productions

Distributor(s)
Cineverse
prequel(s)
Terrifier, Terrifier 2

Franchise(s)
Terrifier

Character(s)
Sienna, Art the Clown, Gabbie, Jonathan, Victoria Heyes, Jessica, Greg, Mia, Cole, Jennifer, Juliet, Smokey, Eddie, Santa / Charlie, Burke, Bystander, Michael, Mark, Brooke, Timmy, Dispatch, Officer Evans, Bag Lady, Dean, Cosplayer, Receptionist, Dennis
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