Terrifier 3’s American Psycho-Inspired Kill Scenes Deemed ‘Too Graphic’ for Release

While Terrifier 3 ramps up the gore significantly, one particularly brutal kill that drew inspiration from American Psycho was modified due to its intense graphic nature – even by Art the Clown’s standards.

This is impressive considering the track record of the Terrifier franchise. In the 2022 follow-up, viewers witnessed Art savagely skinning a teenager, dismembering her, and pouring bleach and salt on her injuries.

Art the Clown’s choice of victims is indiscriminate; he utilizes any available weapon, typically opting for those that inflict the greatest agony. In the very first scene of Terrifier 3, he commits atrocities against children.

As we delve deeper, a warning is necessary: spoilers ahead for Terrifier 3!

Among the memorable kills in this third installment – highlighted by the infamous shower scene – one that stands out occurs towards the film’s conclusion, arguably the most sadistic of them all.

After restraining Sienna’s aunt Jess to a chair, Art forces a large plastic tube into her mouth and begins to pour live rats down it. As these creatures gnaw through her stomach, Vicky slits Jess’s throat, causing the still-alive rats to spill out from her neck.

This sequence may seem reminiscent to those who are familiar with Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho, which was adapted into a film featuring Christian Bale. This is because one of the book’s most harrowing chapters describes a similarly horrific event (more on this later).

”That scene served as our inspiration,” he shared. “My friend and I were obsessed with that movie when it debuted on pay-per-view—even before it gained mainstream popularity.”

<img alt=”Art the Clown in Terrifier 3″height=”576″src=”https://editors.dexerto.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10/terrifier-3-1024×576.jpg”width=”1024″/><figcaption>Signature Entertainment</figcaption></figure>Art the Clown is indiscriminate in his killingsLeone elaborated that his friend was so captivated by the movie he decided to read the American Psycho novel. “He shared many excerpts with me. He was like, ‘This book is completely different from the film… it’s absolutely wild… you have no idea how graphic it can be.’

”The original scene in the book is highly sexual, explicit, and gratuitous—something I would never include in the film. However, I found the premise of using rats in the tube exceptionally unsettling, which I could portray in a less explicit fashion. A more toned-down approach.”

”We initially planned for that scene to be much more graphic, yet it evolved into something subtler… or at least, I hope it is. We executed quicker cuts, not allowing the camera to dwell too long. Compared to other moments in this film, less is more – the mere notion of what unfolds is disturbing.”

Now, with that information provided, you might want to explore the specific passage from American Psycho that sparked this idea.

We’ve extracted a segment below, omitting the lead-up due to its extreme content. Again, be warned: this material may be highly disturbing.

Having already drilled through her teeth and inflicted various forms of torture, he employs acid to insert a tube into her.

”The rat hurls itself against the glass cage as I move it from the kitchen into the living room. It refuses to consume what remained of the other rat I had placed within it a week prior, which now lies dead and decaying in a corner of the cage. (I have intentionally starved it for the past five days.)

<img alt=”Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho”height=”678″src=”https://editors.dexerto.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/10/terrifier-3-american-psycho-1024×678.jpg”width=”1024″/><figcaption>Lionsgate</figcaption></figure>The movie adaptation of American Psycho lacks the book’s graphic detail”I set the glass cage down next to the girl, and perhaps due to the odor of the cheese, the rat appears to lose control, initially racing in circles, mewling, before attempting to leap its weak and famished body over the side of the cage.”

As seen in the sequence from Terrifier 3, the rat crawls into the tube to consume the victim’s insides—albeit in the novel, it ends up in a far more horrific location. The passage concludes with, “The sounds the girl emits are, for the most part, indecipherable.”

Terrifier 3 is currently showing in theaters.Source</a>