The art of Sadism for Sadism’s Sake has become a lost art at the multiplexes since torture porn’s heyday.

Is there room in today’s horror land$cape for a franchise to corner that market?

And can Terrifier fit the grisly bill? There’s been a snuff-film quality to the two films so far, another present-day rarity relative to the big-screen history of the genre.

More ways these movies are comparatively novel: Art the Clown is given no backstory to explain his motivation, and there’s nary a whiff of a suggestion that any of the horror doubles as an allegory for trauma.

More cinematic art like Art, please.