Terrifier 3’s director, Damien Leone, has a tendency that he is aware of.
Several of the kills in his gory franchise occur when the victims are naked.
Whilst to the (pun not intended) naked eye, this would appear to be exploitative, in our exclusive chat with Leone he revealed the actual reason.
The discussion came up in discussing the now infamous shower sex scene – that resulted into one of the series most brutal kills yet.
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Mia and Cole may not be the most lovable characters in Terrifier 3, but their deaths are brutal in a way that is hard to watch.
Mia’s arm is cut off and her skull is cut into with a chainsaw by Art the Clown.
Cole has his leg cut off and is then split in half from taint to top by Art. All is done in horrifying, gory detail, and all of it shown.
Whilst discussing this and the scene’s nudity, Damien said: “The reason why I put nudity in my films, they're only for during kill scenes, yeah?
“It's only because I want to show as much flesh as possible.
“To me, it's a cop out in terms of being a makeup effects artist, if, like… say you want to chop an arm off and the person's wearing a jacket.
“You don't have to go through the trouble of building a realistic fake arm, you know?
“So, to me, it's more impressive when you can actually absolutely replicate the body itself and just show as many horrible things as you can.”
Regarding the scene, which shows no actual nudity except for a small shot of Mason Mecartea’s a** who plays Cole.
The rest of the scene’s nudity is actually replicated versions of their bodies, such as when Cole is split in half and his penis is shown being cut in two.
Damien also spoke in our interview of how casting the two characters of Cole and Mia was tricky due to that scene, and that multiple dropped out when they learned what they’d have to do.
He said: “That was an interesting process, especially to cast that role.
“Because we had a lot of actors who, they were really, really good.
“And then when it came down to the specifics, because you have to be very open with what am I going to shoot, how I show it right?
“I couldn't be like, oh, there's a massacre. And then you get to set, you're like, wait, what do you want me to do?
“Not only that, I mean, we had to send them to the makeup effects studio to get the full body cast which is a very involved, elaborate process.
“So, some actors would get to a point where they were in the running for the top roles, and then when they found out what they really had to go through, they were like, ‘Nah, I'm sorry I can't do this'.
"And thankfully, to the credit of Mason and Alexa they were just so game and so excited.”
Topics: Horror, Film, TV and Film
Michael Slavin