One year after the Miles County Massacre, Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera) and her younger brother Jonathan (Elliott Fullam) are preparing for Halloween after the tragic death of their father. After an ominous dream and several strange sightings, the siblings are pursued by a resurrected Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton), who once again gleefully slaughters and mutilates anyone in his path.
Terrifier 2 premiered at FrightFest on August 29, 2022 and had its theatrical release on October 6, 2022. It debuted on streaming as a Screambox Original on October 31, 2022, and is scheduled to be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on December 27.
Terrifier 2 contains examples of:
- 20 Minutes into the Past: The first Terrifier is revealed to have taken place in 2017 and since this film is supposed to take place a year later, it places this film in 2018.
- Action Girl: Sienna becomes one by the final act, taking on Art with any weapon she can think of despite her own injuries and eventually killing him with her sword.
- Admiring the Abomination: Art does this to himself when, upon awakening, he admires the eye wound Victoria gave him, as well as the bullet exit-wound at the back of his head. Could also crossover with In Love with Your Carnage in the case of the eye.
- Alliterative Name: Sienna Shaw.
- Amusement Park of Doom: The final act takes in an abandoned amusement park that features a haunted house called, appropriately enough, the Terrifier. It's abandoned because a little girl was killed and mutilated nearby, implicitly by Art, and Art may well be living there.
- Artistic License – Chemistry: Art steals a glass jar of fluoroantimonic acid from the morgue for later use as a weapon. Fluoroantimonic acid is actually too corrosive to be stored in glass, and its limited applications do not extend to mortuary use. Not only that, but its corrosiveness is severely toned down to just causing bleeding, marring, and blisters, instead of melting or disintegrating Brooke's head.
- Back from the Dead:
- Art is alive and well after his suicide and resurrection at the end of Terrifier. In the mid-credits scene, he is revived again after his second death, this time by having Victoria give birth to his animate severed head.
- In the climax after Sienna has been stabbed in the stomach and succumbed to drowning, her sword and then Sienna herself glow with a bright light, bringing her back to life and giving her a chance to finally kill Art.
- Bittersweet Ending: Sienna and Jonathan both survive after apparently killing Art, but Art has orphaned them and killed Sienna's friends. On top of that, the post-credits scene shows that Art isn't as dead as they thought and Victoria has been driven insane and possessed by the entity.
- Black Comedy: Art's antics are sometimes darkly humorous. One notable instance has him using a real severed head as a bowl to hand out candy to kids, then laughing to himself as they leave obliviously.
- Black Dude Dies First: Ricky, the costume store clerk, isn't the first person to die but he is the first one Art murders after making his presence known to Sienna.
- Bloodier and Gorier: While its predecessor is very gory in its own right, this film in the franchise amps up both the violence and the gore to the extreme where one could personally rate the film NC-17 because of this.
- Body Horror: Victoria's face, as per the first film, is horrifically disfigured, and, during a mid-credits scene, she gives birth to Art's animate, severed head.
- Boom, Headshot!: Barbara meets her end this way. A blessing compared to what happened to Art's other victims.
- The Cameo:
- Chris Jericho has a brief cameo in the mid-credit scenes as a guard.
- Felissa Rose from Sleepaway Camp appears as a teacher at one point.
- Call-Back: The scene of the interview between Monica Brown and Victoria from the previous film is shown again, this time revealing that the little pale girl called Art’s attention to the T.V and his preparation montage was for the events of this film.
- Carry a Big Stick: One of Art's weapons is a makeshift mace made from a table leg with nails and knife blades jammed through one end.
- Cassandra Truth: Downplayed with Jonathan. After he gets framed by Art the clown, suspended from school, and grounded, he protests his innocence but his mother refuses to listen to him and nobody believes him except Sienna. By the time Barbara realizes that Jonathan was telling the truth, it is already too late as a second later her head gets blasted off by Art.
- Catapult Nightmare: Sienna wakes up from her nightmare with Art white sitting up in a rush... only to find her bedroom is on fire.
- Chainmail Bikini: Sienna's armored angel/valkyrie exposes her midriff and cleavage. Justified, since it is in fact a homemade Halloween costume meant to pay tribute to her dead father's art rather than serve as any sort of real armor.
- Character Development: Art goes from stoically shooting someone with a gun, clearly unhappy about it, in the first film, to cheerfully shooting people in the Clown Café nightmare with a Tommy gun and shooting Barbara with a real sawed-off shotgun.
- Cheap Costume: Downplayed with Sienna's Chainmail Bikini angel/valkyrie outfit. While it's a homemade outfit, she took meticulous care in doing it and her family and friends find it impressive, even if the concept is cheesy. When her wings catch fire, she's annoyed at having to resort to buying cheap-looking angel wings from a Halloween store.
- The Chosen One: Sienna and Jonathan's father's drawings of Sienna vanquishing Art (before they even know about him) with a sword he bought her, lead to Jonathan becoming convinced that Sienna is supposed to defeat Art.
- Coincidental Broadcast: Sienna passes by the TV just as a broadcast about Art's last massacre is starting. Although it's implied not to be a coincidence when to broadcast suddenly starts talking to Sienna.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: Art's killing of Allie descends into this. He scalps and partially flays her, then literally salts her wounds.
- Cool Big Sis: Sienna despite at times, in the beginning, getting creeped out by Jonathan's fascination with serial killers, does look out and care for him. She is also the only one that actually believes and defends Jonathan throughout the film. This trope further applies as the movie progress when she stops at nothing to defend Jonathan from Art.
- Cool Sword: Sienna's father gifted her with a real sword before his death (she even jokes she would get arrested if she went outside with it). While it looks unimpressive, it's implied to be supernatural in nature, as it's extremely sharp, immune to fire, and apparently revives Sienna during the film's climax.
- Couldn't Find a Pen:
- The first thing Art does after attacking the coroner in the opening is to use his own bleeding head wound from where he shot himself in the mouth to write his name on a mirror.
- In the mid-credits scene, Victoria uses her vaginal blood to write a number of obscenities on the wall of her psychiatric dorm.
- Crashing Dreams: Sienna's long TV-induced nightmare becomes real when her room nearly burns down, the fire having already taken the wings she made for her Valkyrie costume.
- Creepy Child:
- Averted with Jonathan who despite his morbid fascination with Art the Clown, is a fairly normal kid. Granted, that doesn’t seem to stop people from thinking the worse at times about him, including his own sister.
- Played straight however with the Little Pale Girl, who takes the form of a little girl killed by Art, now dressed like him but is clearly not a child at all.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: As usual, Art gives these out left and right. Namely:
- The coroner's throat is torn out before Art rips out one of his eyes and smashes his skull with a hammer.
- The clerk gets stabbed in the eye with the wide end of a broken bottle before Art chops up, then severs, his head.
- Allie gets the worst of it. Art cuts her eye in half, scalps her with scissors, breaks off one of her arms and tears her other hand in half, and partially flays her back. Then he pours bleach and salt into her wounds and tears off half her face. When her mother finds her, Art is cutting chunks out of her legs, and she's still alive.
- Jeff gets repeatedly stabbed in the penis before Art pulls it completely off. He presumably dies of blood loss.
- Brooke has acid thrown in her face before Art smashes open her chest with his mace, pulls her heart out, and eats it.
- Daddy's Girl: Sienna was implied to be close with her dad, which is she's shown to be putting so much effort into dressing as one of his characters. At least before he had a mental decline and became abusive.
- Denser and Wackier: The film leans much more into the comedy side of things compared to the first film, though the majority of it is still Black Comedy. Though there is much more humor, This does NOT by any means make the film Lighter and Softer, as the heavy horror and gore is just as prevalent in this as it was in the first, and the heavier amounts of comedy only serve to contrast and highlight the dark; if anything, things were turned up to eleven in terms of the horror and violence compared to the first.
- Dirty Coward: Somewhat downplayed, and also justified since she was apparently high on molly, but whenever Art attacks and starts killing Jeff, Brooke just tries to start the car and take off in an attempt to save herself.
- Disappeared Dad: Sienna and Jonathan's father died in a car crash shortly before the start of the film.
- Disproportionate Retribution: Art kills the clerk and Allie, the latter in an especially prolonged and painful way, because they were slightly rude to him in response to his own off-putting behavior.
- Driven to Suicide: Sienna and Jonathan's father killed himself several months before the start of the film, having been driven to insanity and violence due to a brain tumor.
- Even Evil Has Standards: When Art is giving out candy to trick-or-treaters, one kid tries to take more than one piece. Art slaps his hand and silently scolds him.
- Eye Scream:
- The Coroner in the opening scene gets an eye ripped out by Art. Then Art rips out his other eye for fun, until he realizes that he has no use for it.
- Allie, among many things in her death, gets her eye sliced with a scalpel.
- Facial Horror: Very common with Art's kills, just like in his other appearances.
- As per the first film, Victoria has a horribly disfigured face, courtesy of Art.
- The coroner's face is almost entirely smashed in with a hammer after Art pulls out one of his eyes.
- Most of the left half of the clerk's face is reduced to a bloody, glass-riddled ruin by Art ramming a bottle into his eye.
- Near the end of her torture, the entire left half of Allie's face is torn off.
- Barb's face is entirely destroyed by a shotgun blast, reducing it to a bloody crater.
- Brooke's face is melted with acid so thoroughly it starts to bubble.
- When Jonathan wakes up in in the Terrifer, he witnesses the Little Pale Girl disfiguring her face to look like a Jack-o-lantern. Being an evil, supernatural entity, her face is later healed up.
- Failed a Spot Check: The trick-or-treaters Art serves candy to, and their parents, don't seem to realize how much the "prop" head resembles their neighbor.
- Facial Markings: Part of Sienna's Valkyrie Halloween costume is three scar-like markings around her right eye.
- Fanboy: Jonathan is one for Art the Clown and even wants to go to Halloween wearing a costume of him. Given he was a real Serial Killer, Sienna finds this in incredibly poor taste. He's quick to change his tune after he meets the real Art.
- Flaying Alive: Art scalps Allie with a pair of scissors then proceeds to flay her back with a scalpel. As if that wasn't enough, he comes back to pour bleach and literal salt in her wounds.
- Foil: Sienna becomes one to Art. Like Art, she has a high pain tolerance and even implied supernatural abilities, such as being able to revive from the dead. However, she is the heroine of the film, and Art is the sadistic murderer she goes up against. Moreover, it is heavily insinuated that her father created the battle-angel character for the express purpose of someone being able to vanquish Art, making her an equivalent force of good to his evil.
- For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: Art takes advantage of Sienna going to a Halloween costume store by antagonizing her there in plain view, while she's not quite sure if it's actually him or just someone with a costume.
- Foreshadowing: At one point Barbara tells Sienna to put the car in the driveway so no kids egg or soap her car. This ends up happening later on in the film, in spite of the car being in the garage, thanks to Art.
- Forgotten Fallen Friend: Allie is never referenced again after her hideous murder by Art, beyond Sienna briefly noting she hasn't responded to her messages. Granted, once Art starts gunning for her, Sienna doesn't really have spare time to make the connection between the lack of communication and Art's murder spree.
- Frame-Up: Art The Clown brings a dead possum into the school, plays with its entrails in the hallways, and frames Johnathan for it by tossing the dead possum to him, which covers his clothes in blood. Because of this, Art gets Jonathan suspended from school. Though knowing Art's sense of humor, he may not have even been trying to pin the blame on Jonathan so much as he found the idea of covering him with possum guts hilarious.
- Freudian Trio: Brooke is the Id: A reckless, blunt party girl who does drugs like molly and cocaine. Allie is the Superego: The kind, reserved, rational voice of reason who comforts Sienna when she panics over Art possibly stalking her. Sienna is the ego.
- Gainax Ending: Perhaps more so a mid-credits one, but after Sienna kills Art the clown we start up the credits only to have a mid-credit scene where Victoria from the previous movie is shown to be in a mental institution, writing multiple obscene words on the wall with her blood. Her stomach starts to expand and tear open with her organs coming out. Her scream draws the attention of a nurse who opens the door to see her cradling Art the Clown's now alive severed head, both of them smile at the nurse...the end.
- Genre Savvy: While being hunted by Art, Brooke takes off her high-heel boots after they cause her to trip.
- Genre Shift: While the film is still at its heart a Slasher like its predecessor, it employs a much greater level of supernatural aspects to its story than the previous. The first film was mostly grounded in reality with the exception of Art suddenly coming back to life at the end, while this one's introduction of the Little Pale Girl and Art literally dropping Sienna into a Drowning Pit surrounded by her own nightmare of the Clown Café (only for her stab-wound to heal itself upon her hearing Jonathan screaming for her) proves that greater paranormal forces than just Art himself exist in this world.
- Good Weapon, Evil Weapon: Sienna has an elegant, shiny short sword, while Art uses a collection of filthy, savage-looking weapons built largely from stolen medical equipment and clearly meant to inflict pain.
- Graceful Loser: Art the Clown gives Sienna a congratulatory look when he realizes Sienna is about to finish him off. Possibly subverted though since Art may have known he would come back.
- Greater-Scope Villain: Strongly implied with the Little Pale Girl. A strange and otherworldly being far more obviously supernatural than Art, she is all but stated to be the entity that resurrected Art, or at least a manifestation of it.
- Groin Attack: Like the previous film, Art employs a lethal variation, this time on Jeff. Ambushing Jeff while he's obliviously urinating, Art stabs him over and over again in the crotch and eventually tears off his penis, before leaving him to presumably bleed out.
- Halloween Episode: Much like the previous film, the events of the story occur during Halloween.
- Heroes Prefer Swords: Protagonist Sienna uses the sword her father gave her to fight and defeat Art.
- Hidden Depths: While Barbara may be somewhat harsh and get angry a lot, but, when she sees Sienna’s costume, she tells her she did an excellent job and that she and Jonathan's dad would have loved it. Also later, when she calls Sienna and starts flipping out over her car being covered in shaving cream, and then realizes Sienna is drunk, Sienna tells her she loves her. At first, she seems to think she’s just telling her that to manipulate her, but then Sienna says she really does love her and she doesn’t tell her enough, she tells her she loves her too and even apologizes for calling her while she’s at her party. Sadly, she never gets the chance to reconcile with Jonathan before being murdered by Art.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Art taking Sienna's dagger with him when visiting her house, and especially him stabbing her with it, provides her easy access to what's apparently the one and only thing that can actually do him lasting harm.
- Hollywood Acid: Averted with Art's fluoroantimonic acid. It is a clear liquid that, while highly corrosive to human flesh, actually seems less dangerous than the real substance.
- Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Like the previous movie, this takes place on Halloween.
- Horrifying the Horror: Upon first encountering the Little Pale Girl, Art quickly becomes visibly uncomfortable, confused, and even disgusted by her. That is until she laughs with him at his injuries and starts playing patty-cake with him.
- Humanoid Abomination: The Little Pale Girl is an obviously inhuman thing with overtly magical powers that takes the shape of a little girl in Art-like clothing and makeup. She is implied to be the being that resurrected Art in the first place.
- I'm a Humanitarian: Art has no qualms about feasting on dead bodies and at one point even starts biting Jonathan's hand while he is passed out. He then proceeds to start biting on his leg.
- Immediate Sequel: After a quick establishing shot of a street, the film picks right back up from the ending of the first with Art in the middle of killing the coroner after he resurrects.
- In Love with Your Carnage: Goes both ways between Art and the Little Pale Girl. While Art is at first visibly confused and even possibly scared upon seeing her the first time, especially after she apparently has a heavily bloody miscarriage in front of him, he quickly comes to enjoy her obviously equal love for the macabre and depraved when she mocks his injuries, literally poking fun at his wounded eye and playing a game of patty-cake.
- Invisible to Normals: The Little Pale Girl seems to be able to choose to who she appears visible. Art is the only one who can always see her, but Sienna and Jonathan glimpse her a few times as well.
- Irony: After receiving a worried phone call from who she assumes to be her brother, Sienna emphasizes to Brooke that she can tell from his tone of voice that he wasn't lying. This is despite the fact that Jonathan didn't even make the call, and it was the Little Pale Girl imitating his voice.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold:
- Barbara is quite unlikeable and questionable as a mother and too quick to anger; however, she does care about her children. A lot of her anger is implied to be the aftermath of her husband's change in behavior and eventual suicide.
- Brooke at times seems insensitive to some of the things occurring with Sienna and likewise laced her drink with molly without Sienna's knowledge or permission. However, she is still shown to like Sienna and at one point even tells Jeff that Sienna is doing well considering what she has gone through.
- Jerkass Has a Point: Once again, Barbara is pretty unlikeable and has anger issues. But she isn’t necessarily in the wrong for not wanting Jonathan to dress up as Art the Clown, a real serial killer, and thinking it’s a bad idea. Her first instinct when Jonathan allegedly vandalizes his school is to take him to a therapist, which is not an unreasonable response given the circumstances.
- Karmic Death: Considering how much Art brutalizes women, subjecting them to more horrifying deaths than men, it's only fitting Art meets his (temporary) end at the hands of a woman.
- Kick the Dog: Art does this quite a bit for his own amusement such as his vicious drawn-out torture of Allie, or how he places Barbara's corpse at the table and mocks Jonathan by smashing food into her faceless body.
- Kitschy Themed Restaurant: The Clown Café, which was advertised on television in-universe, but also serves as the subject of Sienna's dream.
- Modesty Shorts: Sienna's faux-metal skirt rides up multiple times during the climax, revealing her to wear black shorts underneath. Modesty short-shorts, that is.
- Mind Rape: The Little Pale Girl hits Sienna with one by grabbing her head and blasting her with visions of Art killing her mother earlier that night.
- Mind Screw: Some aspects like the little girl Art meets, the drawings and news clippings of Art and his victims Sienna and Jonathan’s father left in his sketchbook, the significance of Sienna's sword, the candles on Sienna's dresser burning her wings, and the after credit scene where Victoria gives birth to Art the Clown's head could potentially make the film this for some people.
- Mummies at the Dinner Table: Less a mummy and more a woman whose exploded face is barely hanging onto its shoulders, but Art poses Barbara like this for Jonathan to find her upon returning home.
- Mythology Gag: The film contains an assortment of references to Art's previous outings:
- During the opening credits, we see Sienna putting together her angel costume, contrasting with Art's Lock-and-Load Montage from the previous film.
- When Art first meets the Little Pale Girl, she's sitting and waving at him at the same angle he was when knocking Casey out in The 9th Circle. The Little Pale Girl is at times shown to have glowing, lightbulb-like eyes, a feature Art had in that short (and only that short).
- Sienna and Jonathan's father was a Mad Artist who created images of Art, much like the husband of the protagonist in "Something In The Dark".
- Several of the demons that figure into the climax previously appeared in ''The 9th Circle", and are even credited as "9th Circle demons" in the credits.
- The obscenities Victoria paints on her wall are the same ones Art carved into the body of the costume designer in the original Terrifier short.
- Nigh-Invulnerability: Art, even more so than the previous film. While in the first movie, he only got beaten around and stabbed a few times, with his most severe injury being a self-inflicted bullet to the head, here he gets stabbed through the skull and shot in the chest point-blank only to get right back up after only a minute or two.
- Nightmare Weaver: It's implied that Art can infiltrate people's dreams, giving Sienna Shaw a wicked nightmare where he kills a studio full of people before burning the whole place down with a flamesthrower. When she wakes up, she finds her dresser in fire in the real world.
- Off with His Head!:
- Art kills the clerk ultimately by cutting off his head.
- Allie's mom is seemly Killed Offscreen this way.
- In the end of the film Sienna ultimately overcomes Art and beheads him, though his head is taken by his supernatural benefactor the Little Pale Girl and it won't be enough to put him down for good...
- Once More, with Clarity: The Cold Open from the previous film is shown again, displaying Art's television tuned to Victoria's interview regarding her experience since surviving his attack. This time we get a wide shot of his operation of constructing his weapons cache while watching, as well as the Little Pale Girl's ability to turn it on without it even being plugged in.
- Orange/Blue Contrast: A lot of the scenes in to film include the use of orange and blue as main colors, having both of them contrast at the same time and having the lighting angled to where it makes the film look like it was filmed in technicolor. Sienna’s dream scene is where the color contrast between orange and blue is at its most obvious.
- Rasputinian Death:
- Art is stabbed a bunch of times, including straight in the head, as well as shot point-blank in the chest by a Sawed-Off Shotgun, but still remains alive; it's only after Sienna decapitates him that he finally does die. There's an implication that only Sienna's sword does him any real harm, with the rest of his injuries not really affecting him.
- Hell, some of the victims go through this. You think Allie would have quickly died of blood loss from Art’s prolonged torture of her, however, she is still alive by the time her mom finds her.
- Reality Is Unrealistic: Speaking of which; some have mocked Allie's death as bordering on
Narm. However others have compared it to real cartel torture/execution videos where people have sustained the most heinous of mutilations while still conscious (albiet with heavy use of drugs). - Savage Spiked Weapons: Art's club is a table leg jammed full of nails and knives to create a gruesome-looking makeshift mace.
- Sawed-Off Shotgun: Art has one to replace the pistol he lost in the last movie. Like the pistol, he keeps it in a concealed leg holster. He uses it to kill Barbara.
- Supernatural Gold Eyes: The Little Pale Girl flashes these twice at Jonathan and Sienna presumably as a call back to All Hallow's Eve. In the mid-credits sequence, Victoria's only eye glows the same way after giving birth to Art's severed head.
- Shout-Out:
- Jeff in his first scene sneaks up behind Brooke and scares her while wearing a sheet over himself and some black rim glasses, which is a shout-out to Halloween (1978), where Michael Myers pulled the same prank (albeit with much worse intentions). He also wears a shirt with a bloody knife drawn on it which looks a lot like Michael's iconic one.
- Barbara's death appears to be a reference to a similar death in the film "Maniac", where the titular maniac kills one of his victims by blowing their head off with a sawed-off shotgun, which Art reenacts, but with the positions of the killer and victim reversed.
- Shower Scene: Sienna takes a shower before going to the Halloween party. It's a fairly fanservice heavy one, with gratuitous close-up shots of her washing her legs and midriff as well as a Toplessness from the Back shot with plenty of Sideboob.
- Slipping a Mickey: Brooke, who wanted Sienna to have a good time at the Halloween party after the past day’s events, confessed to her that she slipped a half-tablet of Molly in her rum and Coke.
- Soundtrack Dissonance: The Clown Café theme is an obnoxiously upbeat tune that plays while Art is busy massacring the guests in Sienna's dream. Doubles as Mood Whiplash when it plays again after the post-credits scene displays Art's living head being held by a Laughing Mad Victoria after's apparently given birth to it while her remaining eye glows in the same manner as the Little Pale Girl's.
- Spiteful Spit: Sienna does this with a mouth full of blood to Art, and he does it right back to her after pushing her though some floorboards. Could also constitute Last Disrespects if he believed she was dead.
- Struggling Single Mother: Barbara is constantly busy or stressed, clearly struggling to juggle raising and providing for her two children after her husband's death.
- Surprisingly Sudden Death: As Barbara begins cleaning the shaving cream off the car, she wipes away some on the driver's side window to reveal Art sitting inside pointing a shotgun at her. She barely has time to react before he blows her face clean off.
- Sweet Tooth: Allie's constantly eating or talking about chocolate or candy.
- Stripperiffic: Sienna's Valkyrie / Angel Halloween costume is a very revealing Chainmail Bikini. Her mother is pretty reluctant to let her go out wearing it.
- Symbolic Wings: Sienna's Halloween costume has angelic wings attached to it, to illustrate her as an "angel" while fighting off the devious Art.
- A Taste of the Lash: Art’s crude whip made of hair, string, and scavenged sharp objects returns in this film, used on Jonathan and Sienna, then on Art himself, when Sienna is able to snatch it from him.
- Tempting Fate: After Sienna and Jeff decide to drive to the carnival to pick up Jonathan, Brooke angrily says that it's not as if the night could get any worse.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Art's whole MO. He delves into savagery just as gory and over the top as the first film.
- Tie-In Cereal: An In-Universe example is present in Sienna Shaw's nightmare where Art the Clown is a mascot of his own cereal — Art Crispies — the cereal itself full of glass, razorblades and live crickets. The child in the commercial that was being film even dies from internal bleeding from eating it while Art goes on a rampage in the studio.
- Title Drop: The carnival ride Art and the Little Pale Girl trap Jonathan in is a haunted house named the Terrifier.
- Took a Level in Badass:
- Art is significantly tougher in this film than the last, walking off injuries that should be instantly fatal, and also shows superhuman strength on a few occasions. This may be the result of his supernatural resurrection.
- Sienna in the beginning is more of a normal everyday girl and even gets terrified by Art when she first sees him in the costume store. By the end of the movie, she becomes very heroic and willing to fight and stop Art.
- Villains Out Shopping: The first thing Art does after murdering the coroner is strip off his clown outfit and take it to a laundromat, though this does result in him sitting there naked while he waits for it to finish washing. He also literally goes shopping at a Halloween store later in the film, though in this case he didn't really buy anything so much as use it an excuse to scare Sienna and kill the cashier.
- Voice Changeling: The Little Pale Girl reveals she has the ability to perfectly mimic others' voices when she calls Sienna with Jonathan's phone and uses his voice to tell her to come to the carnival grounds.
- Voluntary Shapeshifting: In addition to being able to imitate others' voices, the Little Pale Girl displays the ability to shift into other people (or at least project the appearance of others) when she tricks Sienna into believing she's Barbara.
- Would Hurt a Child: Art almost certainly killed a 10-year-old girl a couple of years before the movie, and he clearly takes pleasure in attacking and torturing Jonathan.
- You Are Grounded!: Jonathan gets this punishment from his mother Barbara after he gets suspended from school because he gets framed by Art The Clown for leaving a dead opossum in the school hallway. Jonathan gets barred from leaving the house and is banned from all Halloween activities as a result, but his grounding is automatically lifted when Barbara is murdered by Art.
- Your Head Asplode: Art shooting Barbara in the face with a shotgun blows her head almost completely apart. It’s later shown that while her head isn’t quite gone, her face is.
