Needles resembles Art in both appearance and in referencing the movies, such as sawing off a character's head and using a handgun. Danny Peterson covers entertainment news for WGTC and has previously enjoyed writing about housing, homelessness, the coronavirus pandemic, historic 2020 Oregon wildfires, and racial justice protests. That seems like a fairly accurate moniker, considering Art pals around with a ghost-like little girl in the sequel and can also apparently possess and impregnate a woman from beyond the grave after he was decapitated, as that is exactly what happens at the end of Terrifier 2.

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Art got incorporated into Leone's directorial debut, the short film "The 9th Circle" (2008), merely as a background character, as Leone states, "I threw in everything, clowns, witches, demons, monsters, everything up against the wall hoping something would stick. The idea that becoming evil or demonic is a kind of contagion also serves as an explanation for why Samantha Scaffidi’s Victoria Heyes, the final girl from the first film who was disfigured by Art, becomes a killer herself in the sequel. Thornton saw a posting on Actors Access for "a tall, skinny comedic actor that had experience in clowning and comedy. Although the nature of Art’s supernatural characteristics is not divulged in-depth in the films, his penchant for coming back to life and only appearing during the spooky season has led me to believe he transforms into a demonic figure through the course of the franchise (more on that later).It would evolve into All Hallows' Eve (2013) and included a wraparound story of a babysitter that becomes the target of Art after one of the children she's watching receives a VHS tape depicting Art after trick-or-treating.

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At the end of the movie, Sienna also gets resurrected by her father’s sword after previously being killed by Art with that same weapon. This is also why the dream-like Clown Cafe we see near the end of the sequel resembles hell — because it probably is. However, he is brought back to life after Victoria Heyes, who is in a mental hospital, gives birth to his living head.He consciously continued the goal of making Art the opposite of Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the It franchise both in characterization and design-wise; Art is bald, dressed in black and white makeup and attire, silent, and uses weapons. In addition, Lauren LaVera’s Sienna Shaw — the protagonist in Terrifier 2 — battles the evil clown while wearing an angel costume. In a positive review for the magazine Starburst, Sol Harris wrote "Art is a truly enigmatic and memorable villain. American rapper and singer Ghostemane cites the character as influence for his studio album ANTI-ICON (2020). Now that Terrifier 2 made history by becoming an unexpected smash hit in theaters last year and continuing to gain a following on digital platforms — all of which has inspired a forthcoming 2023 theatrical re-release — let’s take a look at the character’s origin.