History Film / ArtTheClown

* DirtyCoward: Art doesn't seem to believe in fair fights. As soon as Tara has him pinned down, [[spoiler:he whips out his pistol and shoots her. Then he takes his own life once the cops have him cornered.]] Whenever a victim turns the tables, Art is quick to panic and try to retreat, a trend that continues with Sienna Shaw.

* ''Terrifier 3'' (????): Plot unknown at this time. Leone has [[https://variety.com/2022/film/news/terrifier-2-sequel-ending-deleted-penis-scene-1235416008/ stated]] that the third film might be split into two parts due to his desire to avoid another 2-hour film.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: In ''All Hallow's Eve'' Art is more clearly supernatural, crossing over into the real world from the short films, but his actual origin and nature remain a mystery. In the ''Terrifier'' movie he seems to be nothing more than a ''very'' evil man, showing no supernatural or unusual abilities [[spoiler:until he's resurrected at the end.]]

* NoCelebritiesWereHamred: David Howard Thornton claimed that whan he played him he took inspiration from comical actors of the mute era like Creator/CharlieChaplin, Creator/BusterKeaton and [[Creators/MarxBrothers Harpo Marx]].

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He always acts goofy and buffoonish like any normal clown would do. This is only a way to mask the fact he's a very dangerous homicidal lunatic. In ''Film/{{Terrifier}}'' Dawn even states that [[TemptingFate "he's harmless"]] and even makes fun of him. Very predictable it doesn't end well...

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He always acts goofy and buffoonish like any normal clown. This is only a way to mask the fact he's a very dangerous homicidal lunatic. In ''Film/{{Terrifier}}'' Dawn even states that [[TemptingFate "he's harmless"]] and even makes fun of him. Very predictable it doesn't end well...

* BewareTheSillyOnes: He always acts goofy and buffoonish like any normal clown. This is only a way to mask the fact he's a very dangerous homicidal lunatic. In ''Film/{{Terrifier}}'' Dawn even states that [[TempingFate "he's harmless"]] and even makes fun of him. Very predictable it doesn't end well...

* WhipItGood: One of Art's main weapons is a makeshift whip, made of of human hair and dirty surgical instruments.

Art the Clown is a murderous, sadistic MonsterClown featured in multiple short and feature-length films directed by Damien Leone. Making his debut as a minor character in the short film ''The 9th Circle'', Art, played by the now-retired Mike Gianelli, where he torments a young woman at a subway station before drugging her and giving her to a witch coven. [[BreakoutCharacter He was met with critical acclaim]], and Leone released a 30-minute short film called ''Terrifier'', which features Art as the BigBad, chasing after a woman who witnessed one of his murders. Between these two shorts, another one — ''Tortures of the Damned'' — was planned, but never finished.

* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: Gianelli's take on Art was a lot more blatantly misogynistic and generally hateful, and seemed to be just as giddy with using a gun [[spoiler:(or at least at crushing his intended victim's hopes of escape)]] as he was at using knives and hacksaws, whereas Thornton is much goofier and seems to absolutely hate being forced to resort to firearms.
* AmbiguouslyHuman: In ''All Hallow's Eve'' Art is more clearly supernatural, crossing over into the real world from the short films, but his actual origin and nature remain a mystery. In the ''Terrifier'' movie he seems to be nothing more than a ''very'' sick man, showing no supernatural or unusual abilities [[spoiler:until he's resurrected at the end.]]

* BigBad: Though he started off as more likely being TheDragon in his debut appearance, he eventually came into his own, causing mayhem completely of his own accord. As of ''Terrifier 2'', he seems to have been DemotedToDragon to an unnamed sinister entity.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: In ''All Hallow's Eve'' Art is more clearly supernatural, crossing over into the real world from the short films, but his actual origin and nature remain a mystery. In the ''Terrifier'' movie he seems to be nothing more than a ''very'' sick man, showing no supernatural or unusual abilities [[spoiler:until he's resurrected at the end.]] To drive home how uncanny he is, despite Art appearing to be a person with a prosthetic mask, both ''Terrifier'' films are also included on Wiki/TheOtherWiki in the monster movie category. No joke.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: In ''All Hallow's Eve'' Art is more clearly supernatural, crossing over into the real world from the short films, but his actual origin and nature remain a mystery. In the ''Terrifier'' movie he seems to be nothing more than a ''very'' sick man, showing no supernatural or unusual abilities [[spoiler:until he's resurrected at the end.]] To drive home how uncanny he is, despite Art appearing to be a person with a prosthetic mask, both ''Terrifier'' films are also included on TheOtherWiki in the monster movie category. No joke.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: In ''All Hallow's Eve'' Art is more clearly supernatural, crossing over into the real world from the short films, but his actual origin and nature remain a mystery. In the ''Terrifier'' movie he seems to be nothing more than a ''very'' sick man, showing no supernatural or unusual abilities [[spoiler:until he's resurrected at the end.]]

* ''Film/{{Terrifier 2}}'' (2022): Art the Clown is back again on Halloween, and this time, he's after a teenage girl and her kid brother.
* ''Terrifier 3'' (????): Plot unknown at this time.