Ready to be scared – again.
This is the Terrifier horror series. scaring audiences into vomiting in the cinema with its latest iteration being turned into a video game.
“Terrifier: The ARTcade Game” is described as a “retro-inspired, pixel-art beat-'em-up fighting game” based on Damien Leone's horror and slasher series about the sadistic Art the Clown.
The game's trailer claims it will release in 2025 on Steam, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.
According to IGN, “Terrifier: The ARTcade Game” offers six different game modes.
Users of the game play as Art, who hunts for movie sets where his gruesome deeds are transferred to the big screen. In an act of revenge, Art focuses on his new victims: policemen, firefighters, camera operators, stuntmen, make-up artists, and even unsuspecting civilians.
After the trailer premiered on Friday, fans compared the upcoming game to “Scott Pilgrim,” based on the graphic novels and the 2010 film of the same name starring Michael Cena.
“It looks a bit like the Terrifier version of the Scott Pilgrim fighting game,” one YouTuber said in the trailer's comments.
“How is Scott Pilgrim,” someone else wrote.
Another comment read: “Lol they just took the Scott Pilgrim game and swapped some assets.”
However, other YouTubers have expressed their excitement to play the game when it launches next year.
The “Terrorizer” films, which premiered in 2016, are about Artie the clown terrorizing teenagers, and in the second and third parts, actress Lauren LaVera plays the main role.
The latest film, which premiered on Friday and is set on Christmas Eve, has struck fear among some viewers straight from the cinema.
Last week, at a horror screening in the UK, the film's distributor, Signature Entertainment, posted on X that theater staff “reported that 11 people walked out and 1 person vomited during the viewing.”
The official X film account also posted an image showing a warning for “extreme violence and excessive brutality.”
“If you feel unwell, find a member of staff. There are staff trained in first aid on site,” we read in the statement.
Leone, 42, told X that he “personally witnessed some crazy things during the British show.”
An audience member getting sick or escaping from a “Scary” theater is nothing new for the show. By the release of the second film in 2022, ticket sales increased significantly, which was apparently related to reports of viewers fainting or vomiting during screenings.
According to Variety, Leone confirmed that he will be making a fourth film.
“Terrifier 3” is now in cinemas.
