Damien Leone försvarar Terrifier-uppföljarnas långa speltid

Det är tydligt att Art the Clown är här för att stanna och hans popularitet bland skräckfilmsentusiaster går inte att blunda för. Men frånsett filmernas extrema våld så är det en annan aspekt av dom som fått utstå en del kritik, nämligen speltiden.

Den första Terrfier var knappt 85 minuter lång, vilket kändes ganska lagom för en slasher. Men något hände i samband med den andra filmen vars speltid tilläts att växa till synes okontrollerat till hutlösa 138 minuter.

Även den tredje filmen, om än lite kortare, är fortfarande 125 minuter lång och i en intervju med Coming Soon har Damien Leone själv besvarat varför filmerna blivit så långa.

I'm happy with what Terrifier 2 is. I'm happy with the length of it, but what wasn't working for a lot of people was the length. It was too much for just a mass audience. Especially now we're living in TikTok era. 2 hours, 18 minutes, which is the runtime of Terrifier 2, is a lot to ask of the audience. So I don't think it was a mistake, so to speak. That was just genuinely the movie, the story I wanted to tell.

But I don't wanna double down on that now and say, 'Well, you didn't like 2 hours, 18 minutes. Here's 2 hours, 40 minutes. Deal with it.' That's not what I'm trying to do. I'm trying to make this as accessible for people while not losing what's important to the franchise. So, that's the reason why (Terrifier 3) came in at now 2 hours.

I think it's 2 hours and 5 minutes. So it's like two hours, not including credits. But this could have been longer. Again, my original cut was like 2 hours and 20 minutes, and I had to just cut out like five or six scenes because I really didn't want to deliver that 2 hour, 18-minute movie again because it's a lot to ask.

Your typical slasher movie is an hour and 20 minutes, an hour and 30 minutes, and your killer's only in the movie for five minutes, like seven minutes. The kill scenes add up to about three minutes of the entire movie. You know what I mean? So you probably have more filler and more drama in your typical 80-minute slasher than you do in Terrifier 2.

It's just there are so many big scenes with Art the Clown where he's toying with his victims for four minutes, where he's killing somebody for four minutes. You don't want just one kill. You want a bunch of kills. That's what this franchise has become known for. So again, it's a very unorthodox slasher film, and I think it gets unjustly criticized for its runtime.

Vad tycker du om Leones argument, är den långa längden på uppföljarna berättigad?