13 of The October 13

With this film, the October 13 comes to a close for 2025. For the final movie of the list, I decided to give Terrifier 2 a chance.

I had watched the original Terrifier last week as a part of the October 13, but I did not like it much. Outside of a neat new killer, Art the Clown, there wasn’t much to the film.

Terrifier 2 however takes a much different route. I did enjoy this one much more.

It started off with some brutality that made me look away from the screen a couple of times. I am not a huge fan of the graphic blood and gore in the franchise, but that is something that I have never been much of a fan of.

What was different with this movie compared to the first one was the protagonists. Sienna (Lauren LaVera) and her younger brother Jonathan (Elliott Fullam) were two characters that I really enjoyed. I thought both of them had much more development than any character in the original and I wanted to see them survive the movie. It was nice to have some characters to root for.

Now, the third act was weird and magically bizarre and I am not sure if I loved how things happened, although the conclusion to the movie was oddly satisfying.

I did like this film better than the first one. It was still too long, but I was cheering for Sienna and Jonathan the whole time. Maybe I can watch Terrifier 3 for next year’s October 13.