Terrifier 2 and Skinamarink‘s villains have united in one creepy piece of fan art. Terrifier 2, which premiered in October 2022, is a horror sequel from writer-director Damien Leone that follows the bloody exploits of serial killer Art the Clown. The villain in Kyle Edward Ball’s debut feature Skinamarink is much more nebulous, as it is an unnamed and barely seen malicious entity that haunts two children who are trapped in their own home.
On Twitter, the account DisciplesOfArt shared brand new artwork combining the villains from Terrifier 2 and Skinamarink.
This unsettling mashup was inspired by the fact that Skinamarink is now streaming on Shudder following its theatrical release. It features the fuzzy image of the entity from the end of Skinamarink joined by an equally diffuse image of Art the Clown, with a caption reading, “Go to sleep.“
Skinamarink & Terrifier 2 Couldn’t Be More Different, Except for Their Box Office Journeys
At first glance, it doesn’t make much sense for Terrifier 2 and Skinamarink to have much overlap in their fan bases. Terrifier 2 is a maximalist slasher film, with blood and guts galore and an extended two-and-a-half hour run time. Skinamarink, on the other hand, is a minimalist, experimental horror film that avoids showing the faces of its characters, stoking fear by the subtle manipulation of the atmosphere in the space around them.
However, both films’ journeys to the screen mirror each other so well that linking them seems inevitable. Terrifier 2‘s box office take of $14.1 million was astounding, given the fact that it only cost $250,000 to produce. This came as a result of a tremendously successful word-of-mouth campaign, with reports of people falling ill and even fainting due to the extremity of the film piquing the interest of hardcore horror fans.
Although it couldn’t quite match Terrifier 2 as far as raw numbers, Skinamarink had a similar path to success. The film first became well-known thanks to a leaked version going viral on TikTok, freaking out a host of horror fans online. What followed was a theatrical release that saw the film earn $1.9 million off a $15,000 budget, an even larger return on investment that multiplied the budget by a factor of more than 100, compared to the Terrifier sequel’s factor of just above 50.
Source: DisciplesOfArt/Twitter