Terrifier 3: Art & Victoria Background, Explained
Who are they and what do they want from Sienna?
Terrifier 3 revealed new details about Art and his relationship with Victoria Heyes. At the same time, the movie left questions about the true identity of the demonic killer clown. Who is he and what does he want?
Why Victoria Sided With Art and What They Want From Sienna?
In Terrifier, Art went on a Halloween massacre in Miles County. The canonical final girl was supposed to be Tara Heyes – but unexpectedly for slasher fans, Art killed her.
In the finale, Victoria, Tara's sister, arrived at the scene of the massacre. Art disfigured the woman and shot himself. Victoria's fateful encounter with evil drove her insane; she killed the host of the show who was interviewing her.
In the second part, Art was resurrected, and one year after the massacre in the first part, he spoiled another Halloween. His primary target was a girl named Sienna Shaw. When Sienna was little, her father, a comic book writer, created a warrior character for her and even gave Sienna a sword.
Sienna's father suffered from mental illness and took his own life. For Halloween, the girl created a costume inspired by her father's heroine. Sienna's younger brother Jonathan showed his sister an old notebook of their father's in which he seemed to predict Art's attack and the fact that Sienna would become the chosen one capable of stopping the evil.
It turned out to be true: Sienna chopped off Art's head with the same sword. Only Sienna and Jonathan survived the massacre in the second part.
At the end of Terrifier 2, Art's mysterious ally – a mute girl in a clown costume – took the madman's head. In the post-credits scene, Victoria gave birth to the head. The woman, traumatized by Art, became obsessed with her abuser.
In Terrifier 3, Art and Victoria teamed up and started a new hunt five years later – this time on Christmas Eve. They had to wait so long because Sienna had been in a mental hospital all that time.
Victoria And Art Are Actually Demons
There is also a mystical explanation for Victoria's switch to Art's side. After the massacre in Terrifying 2, Jonathan investigated and found out that Art and the girl could be demons.
Evil spirits need vessels to exist freely in the world of the living – only people who have committed a crime can become them. It is also important to demons that the "vessel" suffer psychological trauma and lose everything they hold dear in life.
Victoria lost her sister in the first part, her life was destroyed. She also attacked a journalist, which made her an ideal candidate. So the demon moved from the clown girl to Victoria – which explains why there was no child in the third part.
Sienna Is the Only One Who Can Kill Art and Victoria
Sienna is the Chosen One with "angelic" powers that can kill demons. The demon in Victoria's body wanted to enslave Sienna and become more powerful. To do this, he and Art had to traumatize the girl.
Sienna and Jonathan lost their mother in part two. In the third, Art and Victoria killed Jonathan as well as Sienna's aunt and uncle. To finally break Sienna, Art and Victoria had to get rid of Sienna's cousin, Gabbie. However, the girl managed to give Sienna the sword, and she cut off Victoria's head. Sienna wounded Art and he escaped.
The clown intends to make Sienna a new vessel for his "demonic partner." Gabbie fell into the hellish portal formed by Victoria's blood, so in the fourth part, Sienna will go to save her.
Who Was Art in the Past?
At the beginning of Terrifier 3 we were shown what happened to Art and Victoria right after the second part. They killed the staff of the mental hospital and hid in an abandoned house. There they lived for five years, waiting for Sienna to return to Miles.
Inside the house, Art and Victoria killed two men who were preparing the building for demolition. In conversation, they mentioned rumors about the previous owner of the house. Allegedly, a maniac lived there who hunted children and kept their bodies in the basement – surely it was Art.