For Halloween Slasher Radio Podcast sat down with David Howard Thornton and Lauren LaVera from the hit film TERRIFIER 2! We discussed many different topics from behind the scenes, Terrifier 3 to Halloween Ends and everything in between! Please see below talking points with timestamps included:
-Not seeing original Terrifier before auditioning for role in Terrifier 2 (23:45)
-Working on set of Terrifier 2 with their skeleton crew (30:35)
-Selecting a script like Terrifier 2 and doing her own stunts plus stunts she wasn’t allowed to do (26:32)
-Working with David Howard Thornton on set and behind the scenes (32:19)
-The experience and difficulty working in Sienna’s armor costume (34:48)
-Being ‘A Woman in Horror’ (37:02)
-Final Girls in Horror and her joining that list (40:40)
-Being type casted as a ‘Scream Queen’ (43 minutes)
-Sienna return for Terrifier 3? Possible storyline. Wanting to be “the Bruce Campbell to your Sam Rami” with Damien Leone (45:30)
-How is Damien Leone (47:15)
David Howard Thornton:
-Damien Leone and himself believing this movie was going to be as big as it was (50:50)
-Art The Clown’s backstory (53:36)
”We’ll probably show how he became Art The Clown” comparing it to Joker/Red Hood
-Going up against Halloween Ends in theaters. Going up against Michael Myers in October (55:55)
-Reactions of reports of people passing out in theaters (59:32)
-BLASTS Halloween Ends (1:00:27) (1:14:50)
-A way they could have saved Halloween Ends with a shamrock… (1:03:00)
-Terrifier 2 keeping the same feel as original Terrifier and Damien having plans for the future of the franchise that no one knows. (1:05:19)
-Art The Clown being ‘a slasher’ in this while Terrifier 2 has a sci-fi style turn (1:07:17)
-Dealing with participating in the gore scenes and off-camera reactions (1:09:12)
-Having a nude scene (1:16:50)
-Confidence in the role of Art (1:20:08)
-Art The Clown using a gun as a slasher (1:24:36)
