Art the Clown

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## Evil-doer

### Allies

Satan
The Witch Coven
The Little Pale Girl

### Occupation

Clown
Serial killer
Demon (All Hallows Eve continuity only)

### Resources

Cunning Manipulation
Immortality
Reality warping
Stealth
Trickery
Murder skills
Superhuman strength
Intimidation
Clairvoyance
Dimensional travel
Regenerative healing factor

### Hobby

Reading newspapers.
Constructing and customizing his weaponry.
Playing sadistic games with his victims before brutally murdering them.

### Goals

Harm his victims and strike fear (succeeded to date).
Kill Sienna Shaw. (ongoing)

### Moral Event Horizon

Taking several women to be raped by Satan.
Decapitating two children.
Cutting Dawn in half in front of Tara.
Torturing Allie to death.

### Kill Count

12 (directly; confirmed)
Several women (caused)

### Crimes

Mass murder (inc. child murder)Trespassing
Breaking and entering
Terrorism
Sexual harassment
Kidnapping
Assault
Mutilation
Vandalism
Torture
Incrimination
Rape complicity
Psychological abuse

### Type of Villain

Demonic Serial Killer

**Art the Clown**, better known by his real name **Arthur**, is the main antagonist of the *Terrifier* franchise, serving as a minor antagonist in the short-film *The 9th Circle,* the main antagonist of the 2013 low-budget horror film *All Hallows' Eve*, along with the 2016 film *Terrifier* and its 2022 sequel *Terrifier 2*.

He is a demonic killer clown with mime-like qualities who appears on Halloween nights to wreak havoc. The character appears in many of director Damien Leone's works, originating in the short film *The 9th Circle* before taking on a more prominent role in feature horror films. He is also the arch-enemy of Sienna Shaw.

In *All Hallows' Eve*, he was portrayed by Mike Giannelli, who also played the demonic figure in *The 9th Circle*. He is later portrayed by David Howard Thornton in *Terrifier* and *Terrifier 2*.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

#### In *All Hallows' Eve*

* He drugs and kidnaps several women, sending them to be raped by the Devil, and eaten by evil creatures or other demons. These may be perhaps the most abhorrent things he's done so far in his franchise, other than serial killing.
* He kills a gas station worker by dismembering him with a hacksaw.
* He kills an unknown victim by devouring his face offscreen.
* He shoots a costume designer's savior in the head.
* He kidnaps and leaves said costume designer alive after amputating her arms and legs, cutting off her breasts and carving misogynistic slurs into her body, giving her a fate worse than death.
* He rips apart and decapitates two young siblings, Timmy and Tia, in their own bed, leaving them for their babysitter to find and writes his name on the wall with their blood.

#### In *Terrifier*

* Kills two pizzeria workers by turning one's decapitated head into a jack-o'-lantern, and then stabbing the other in the face 10 times after amputating all of the fingers on his right hand, just because they kicked him out for rubbing the walls in their restroom with his feces.
* Vertically cuts Dawn in half right in front of her friend Tara with a hacksaw.
* Fights dirty against Tara (who uses a huge wooden plank) by pretending to be weak before shooting her in the leg, proceeding to shoot her 6 times in the face, leaving her corpse for her sister Victoria to find.
* Wears a cat lady's scalped hair and skinned breasts after she tries to empathize with him, which she bleeds out from.
* Tries to suffocate Victoria to death with a plastic bag.
* Whips Victoria to near death as she grieves over her sister's dead body.
* Stabs a man in the head with a knife and then beheads him with a machete, before kicking his head like a soccer ball.
* Curb-stomps a fumigator's head until it explodes right in front of Victoria.
* Rams Victoria with a car and then eats her face off once she's unconscious, leaving her physically and mentally scarred for life.
* Strangles a coroner after shooting himself in the mouth right in front of the cops.

#### In *Terrifier 2*

* He tortures the coroner to death and rips out his eye to replace the one he had lost.
* He reads a newspaper in the laundromat only to sadistically and silently laugh at at a news article of a family that was killed in a car crash.
* He kills a patron in the laundromat by impaling him with a broom stick from his scalp through his neck after the latter catches Art playing pat-a-cake with The Little Pale Girl.
* He brings a dead possum into Sienna and Johnathan’s school and plays with its entrails in the school hallway. He then frames Johnathan for it by throwing the dead possum at him, covering his clothes with the possum’s blood in the process and he does this to Johnathan for no reason other than pure sadism. Art gets Johnathan suspended from school and grounded by his mother because of this.
* He murders a costume shop cashier after harassing him and Sienna multiple times. He first clubs the cashier with a beer bottle then uses the shattered bottle to gouge out the cashier’s left eye. He then chops into the cashier’s forehead with a meat cleaver, decapitates him, and uses the severed head to fool a child and his mother into thinking that it is an elaborate shop prop.
* He slowly tortures Sienna's friend Allie to death by scalping her after cutting her eye; slices her back open; ripping off her arm and then breaking her good hand. And then pouring bleach and rubbing salt into the wounds before slicing her legs up while she was somehow still alive. He then kills her mother and uses her head as a Halloween candy bowl and offers the blood-stained sweets to unsuspecting trick-or-treaters.
* He kills Sienna and Jonathan's mother and later props her up to "feed her" by stuffing food into her destroyed mouth to mock Jonathan.
* He tries to kill Jonathan, a younger child. When he was unconscious, Art starts eating him.
* He kills Brooke by splashing corrosive acid on her face before using a self-crafted mace to smash her ribs open, reaches into her chest to pull out her beating heart, and eats it.
* He murders Brooke's boyfriend Jeff by repeatedly stabbing him in the crotch and ripping his privates off.
* He kidnaps Johnathan just to lure Sienna into a trap where he tortures them both. This torture extends to Johnathan when Art bites Johnathan’s ankles sadistically and tries to eat Johnathan alive but this was thwarted by Sienna.
* Has proven throughout the films that he possesses moral agency, considering he shows sadistic delight in murdering people in the most gruesome of ways, many times infront of their loved ones.
	+ Further proof extends when he sends a text to Victoria, lying about being Dawn to lure her into his clutches.
* Although he does have some comedic moments, his actions are still played 100% seriously in-universe.

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