Review of Terrifier 2 (2022) by Gumdrop — 23 Oct 2022

Any time I see stories about a horror movie being so scary/gory that people walked out of theatres, threw up or passed out - I’m immediately sceptical. And my scepticism is justified every time. Mostly, they just turned out to be publicity stunts. In fact, I now just assume that to be the case. To be fair, I’m probably not the best judge of these things, since it takes a lot to elicit that kind of reaction from me. But a few movies have got close.

And so, I watched Terrifier 2 partly because I enjoyed the first one but also to see if there really was any validity to these claims. It’s really gory. More so than Terrifier 1 and more than I expected. Do I believe the claims? Yes, I do. Even I was on the edge a couple of times. Although that may have had something to do with watching it while eating lunch.

I’m still on the fence as to whether I enjoyed it or not. On the one hand, it’s a good 80s horror cheesiness. On the other, there were times it felt like some of the gore was done purely for the shock value. It feels like they did it just for the sake of making it gory.