‘Terrifier 4’ – Art The Clown Actor Teases Origin Story And Movie Details

For being one of the most anticipated horror movies of all-time, Terrifier 4 has shockingly few details about it right now. One of the only things we know about the movie so far is that it’ll be set around New Year’s Eve. That makes Art the Clown’s holiday takedowns to Christmas, Halloween, and now New Year’s Eve. David Howard Thornton will return to play Art and Lauren LaVera will come back as Sienna Shaw in the film.

Well, over the weekend at a panel hosted by ComicBook, David Howard Thornton teased what to expect from the film. He also went into what he DOESN’T want to see from the fourth film in the slasher franchise. Series creator Damien Leone teased that the film will go into the backstory for Art the Clown. Thornton said emphatically that he doesn’t want a sympathetic origin story for the killer clown. So that’s good that we don’t have to look forward to Art the Clown being a fat kid that got bullied like Rob Zombie changed for his Halloween films.

Here’s what David Howard Thornton had to say at the panel:

“When I first sat down in the make-up chair with [Damien], I was like, ‘Tell me everything about Art. Who is he? Why does he do what he’s doing? Because I just want to know that just for my own self.’ And he’s like, ‘I don’t know.’ So over the years, we’ve talked about different things, and we keep changing ideas and all that,”

He continued with this:

“So I don’t know what he’s going to land on. But I know one thing we’ve talked about is, we don’t want him to have a sympathetic background. In my head, he basically is evil incarnate. He came out of the womb just evil. In my mind, he would have strangled his mother with his own umbilical cord as soon as he came out of the womb.”

Finally, he wrapped up with this:

“So I’m very interested to see how we tackle it. I’m hoping there are different things we address… why he’s silent, stuff like that.”

A Very Terrifier Horror Landscape

We recently saw Terrifier take over Halloween Horror Nights on both coasts in 2025 and then the Terror Tram in Universal Studios Hollywood in 2026. Both attractions were among the most populated and busy attractions in the event’s history. Now with Terrifier 4, we’ll have to see how the entire universe comes together.

As we get more news about the film, we’ll make sure to let you know. The series kicked off with Terrifier in 2016 and then exploded in popularity with Terrifier 2 in 2022. Terrifier 3 was one of the most momentous horror releases of 2024, taking tops at the box office and becoming the highest-grossing unrated film of all time.

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