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Terrifier 3 (2024) KILL COUNT is the four hundred and seventy-seventh video of The Kill Count.
Overview[]
The film opens in the present time. Art the Clown invades the home of a family during the Christmas season and brutally murders them.
Five years prior, after being decapitated by Sienna Shaw, Art's headless body decapitates a cop responding to the incident, and makes its way to the asylum where survivor Victoria Heyes, now possessed by the Little Pale Girl, has just given birth to his head. They kill a nurse and a guard before fleeing to an abandoned house. Victoria smashes her face into a bathroom mirror and uses a glass shard to kill herself in a bathtub, and Art sits in a rocking chair in the attic; the two become dormant.
In the present, Sienna is released from a hospital to stay with her aunt Jess, who lives with her husband Greg, and their daughter Gabbie, who idolizes Sienna but has no knowledge of the events. Sienna is suffering from survivor guilt and frequently has hallucinations of her deceased best friend Brooke, whose death she feels responsible for. She struggles to reconnect with her younger brother Jonathan, who is now in college trying to move on with his life. Art and Victoria are woken from their slumber when two workers stumble upon their bodies in the house. The duo gruesomely kills the workers, and Victoria begins working on a costume, while Art ventures off on another killing spree. Art meets a Santa Claus impersonator at a bar and murders him and other patrons. Art then impersonates a Santa at a local shopping mall and uses explosives disguised as gifts to slaughter several shoppers, including children. Sienna sees Art at the mall before the explosion, but her family does not believe her.
Sienna visits Jonathan at his university, where she meets Jonathan's roommate Cole and his girlfriend Mia, who hosts a true crime podcast. Mia pressures Sienna and Jonathan to participate in an interview about the Miles County Massacre, but Sienna refuses. Sienna confesses to Jonathan that she thinks Art is still alive, showing him letters he wrote to her while she was in the psychiatric hospital stating demons can be reborn through a host, like Victoria. She also tells Jonathan she plans to return to the Terrifier haunted attraction to retrieve her father's sword. Art arrives at the university and kills Cole and Mia with a chainsaw while they are having sex in the showers. Sienna learns about the mall killings on the news and panics. Greg leaves to collect Jonathan while Sienna falls asleep; she dreams about the angels crafting her angel warrior costume. She wakes to find Art and Victoria, now dressed in a clown costume, have invaded her home, and Art incapacitates her with a mallet.
As Sienna regains consciousness, she sees Greg's body pinned to the wall, and Jess tied up across from her. Victoria shows them a skinned head consumed by rats, telling her it's Gabbie's, and then Art kills Jess by hammering a tube down her throat, forcing the rats in her throat with a blowtorch. Art suddenly enters with Gabbie as a hostage, and Victoria reveals to Sienna that the head is Jonathan's. Victoria places a crown of thorns on Sienna's head and tries to possess her, but she resists and manages to open a gift, stabbing Victoria with its contents, her father's sword. Sienna decapitates Victoria, who disintegrates. Art attacks Sienna with his chainsaw, but she gains the upper hand. Victoria's blood burns through the floor and creates a portal to Hell. Gabbie falls and holds onto the edge, and Sienna leaves Art behind to save her. Sienna fails to save her, and Gabbie falls into the abyss with the sword. Art flees through a window and boards a bus while Sienna vows to find and rescue Gabbie.
Deaths[]
Counted Deaths[]
- Timmy - Hacked 7x by Santa Clown - 7 mins in
- Mark - Hacked ~11x by Santa Clown - 8 mins in
- Jennifer - Axed in stomach, arm chopped off, head cleaved - 10 mins in
- Officer Evans - Attacked, decapitated offscreen - 14 mins in (Head revealed)
- Nurse - Partially eaten offscreen - 16 mins in (Body found)
- Burke - Scalp, jaw ripped off by Victoria and Art - 17 mins in
- Art Cosplayer - Costume change - 18 mins in (Death presumed)
- Jackson - Stabbed to death with mirror shard - 33 mins in
- Dennis - Pinned, broken, face turned inside out - 35 mins in
- Eddie - Gunned down - 52 mins in
- Smokey - Gunned down - 52 mins in
- "Santa Claus" (Charles) - Frosty finish - 56 mins in
- Explosion Victim #1 - It's giving... gunpowder - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Explosion Victim #2 - It's giving... gunpowder - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Explosion Victim #3 - It's giving... gunpowder - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Explosion Victim #4 - It's giving... gunpowder - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Explosion Victim #5 - It's giving... gunpowder - 1 hr 12 mins in
- Mia - Cool guys don't look at chainsaw massacres - 1 hr 29 mins in
- Cole - Chainsaw bidet - 1 hr 30 mins in
- Uncle Greg - Hung by the chimney with care - 1 hr 36 mins in (Body revealed)
- Aunt Jess - Force fed rats, throat slit - 1 hr 43 mins in
- Jonathan - Decapitated, skinned offscreen - 1 hr 46 mins in (Death revealed)
- Victoria Heyes - Tasted steel, decapitated - 1 hr 51 mins in
Non-Counted Deaths[]
- Juliet - Likely killed by Art offscreen
- Rat - Frozen and smashed to pieces
- Gabbie Shaw - Fell into hell
Trivia[]
- This Kill Count features several veterans:
- This is the eighth Kill Count to feature Clint Howard, who was previously seen in Leprechaun 2 as a Tourist, Rob Zombie's Halloween as Dr. Koplenson, Ice Cream Man as Gregory Tudor, Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation and Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker as Ricky Baker, The Dentist 2 as Mr. Toothache, and 3 From Hell as Mr. Baggy Britches.
- This is the sixth Kill Count to feature Daniel Roebuck, who was previously seen in Final Destination as Agent Weine, Rob Zombie's Halloween Duology as Louis Martini, and in The Devil's Rejects and 3 From Hell as Morris Green.
- This is the second Kill Count to feature Jason Patric, who was previously seen in The Lost Boys as Michael Emerson.
- This is the fourth Kill Count to feature Tom Savini, who was previously seen in Dawn of the Dead as Blades, From Dusk Till Dawn as Sex Machine, and Wishmaster as a man in a pharmacy.
- Entire kill scenes (e.g. Burke, Mia, and Cole) had to be censored to prevent the video from being age restricted.
- In the 2025 Dead Meat Horror Awards, this film was nominated for:
- Best Practical Effects
- Best Kill (Cole)
- Best Remake or Sequel
- Best Villain (Art the Clown)