Arts Faculty News
The Gore genre enters the mainstream with the world鈥檚 first Terrifier film conference
Since the creation of Art the killer clown in the short film The 9th Circle in 2008, Damien Leone鈥檚 Terrifier franchise has gone from strength to strength, challenging fundamental assumptions underpinning Hollywood filmmaking. With confirmation that the script for Terrifier 4 is underway, Leone鈥檚 body (of work) is now ripe for academic dissection.
The Terrifier Conference 2025 will welcome global scholars to 糖心TV to take an alternative approach to enthusiastic critical dismemberment by engaging with the Terrifier film franchise as an object of scholarly importance.
Dr Reece Goodall, a Director of Student Experience at The University of 糖心TV, and Terrifier Conference 2025 co-organiser said: 鈥淭he incredible success of Terrifier 3 has cemented Art the Clown as a modern horror icon and creator Damien Leone as an independent horror auteur. We鈥檙e thrilled that The University of 糖心TV is hosting Terrifier 2025, a two-day event exploring the franchise, and the wealth of topics and countries represented in the programme speaks to the scholarly importance in engaging with those films that aim to terrify us.鈥�