I loathe the Terrifier films not because of how graphic and unquestionably brutal they are but because it's the same joke over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And over. And Over.
Prolonged torturous death scene after prolonged torturous death scene after prolonged torturous death bookended by just meh storytelling and character work. DHT is legitimately great at playing the character and the effects crew do some wonderful work but they just don't do anything for me.
Tom Savini has said that he never likes showing a fake head for longer than three seconds because if you look at a fake head for longer than three seconds, your brain will just know it's fake. The Terrifier films make you stare open eyed ala Alex DeLarge at the fake head for over 2 hours a pop.
I was about to come on here and make a comment like this. I appreciate the FX work growing up around it and doing it myself now, but there's just something I really dislike about these films and the emphasis to consistently follow the torture.
I was in the shop today listening to some HHN YouTubers and every single one I listened to made a comment along the lines of "Yeah Terrifier isn't my thing, but here's what the house is going to be like". I thought maybe if it's coming to the event, other people are "excited" etc., maybe I could understand the appeal if I just gave the next one a shot. I watched the first a while ago, decided to watch the second tonight (or try to) to see if it had was better than the first. Spoiler alert, I turned it off.
I love scary... heck I love fake gore and over the top film kills. Ones that make you go "WOAH did I just see that?" when it happens. But this film is the first one where I've had the combination of knowing how a lot of it was a done, a lot of it very obviously looking fake, but the idea behind it being so demented and sadistic I literally felt like I had to take a shower when I turned it off, without there being any entertainment value of it having an interesting story, characters, etc. to keep watching. That scene
@Legacy mentioned above is when I audibly said "are you kidding me right now?" and turned it off.
That's not to say people can't like what they like, by all means have at it. From a house perspective though, the "aftermath" of a lot of these kills looks like a lot of the props I've seen personally in haunts I've worked on/in. I still don't think the house is going to be nearly what the movies are. Yes, it'll be bloody. Yes, you will see the aftermath of things. Yes, perhaps there will be some gross effects like water spraying too, to make it seem like blood is coming out. But I just don't see it being as bad as people are thinking it's going to be. It's probably not that difficult to throw a fake corpse in each and every room based off the kills, splatter some fake blood everywhere, and boom suddenly it's the goriest house HHN has done. I do worry that maybe the focus of this house is purely going to be on that, and not on anything else that actually gives the house "value" or makes it one of the best of the year. Every haunt I've ever worked in and every haunt I've experienced, the best ones didn't rely on gore or blood, and yet there were some rooms that I did NOT want to walk into. Just something to think about.