YMMV / Art the Clown

• Complete Monster:
  • All Hallows' Eve: Art is a sadistic Monster Clown who finds humor in torture and murder. He's introduced in the first segment, "The 9th Circle", drugging Casey and taking her underground, where she's abducted by a coven of witches who tie her down to an altar to be raped by the Devil. In the third segment, "Terrifier", he viciously murders his way through a number of victims, all the while relentlessly pursuing a young woman who saw him dismembering the corpse of the gas station attendant. When he finally catches up with her, he shoots her would-be rescuer and takes her back to his lair where he horrifically mutilates her while she's unconscious. He spends most of the wraparound segment stalking and tormenting Sarah and the children, particularly Tia, which all culminates in him killing the two children.
  • Terrifier duology: Art the Clown is a twisted killer with a habit of butchering nearly everyone who crosses him, usually for morbid amusement. Art often gets creative with torture and mutilation: bisecting a woman in front of her friend, crotch downwards; scalping and partially flaying a woman who tried to appeal to his conscience; disfiguring Vicky, and driving her to madness; and mutilating and disfiguring a teenage girl, keeping her barely alive for her mother to find. After his initial spree, Art kills himself to avoid arrest, only to be resurrected by a demonic entity for further mayhem. A year later, Art starts a new killing spree while stalking the Shaw siblings, Sienna and Jonathan, kidnapping Jonathan after killing their mother. Art would torture Jonathan and try to eat him alive, before fighting Sienna to the death; Art is reborn through Vicky following his second death.
• Creepy Awesome: A major part of his appeal with fans is just how genuinely disturbing he is.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Surprisingly enough, Art started out as one. He was a minor villain in The 9th Circle, responsible for the abduction of a young woman, but he was so popular with fans that Damien Leone created another short film where he appeared as the main antagonist, and the rest is history.
• Evil Is Cool: Another part of his appeal, for reasons similar to the slashers of old.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: He's a silent clown, not a mime.