Terrifier 3 is a 2024 American Christmas slasher film[7][8] co-produced, written, edited, and directed by Damien Leone.

On the days leading up to Christmas, Sienna Shaw attempts to rebuild her life, while pursued by Art the Clown alongside his new accomplice, a possessed Victoria Heyes.

Art reattaches his head to his body; he and Victoria kill a nurse and a guard before entering an abandoned house and going into hibernation.

Sienna is suffering from survivor guilt and experiences a hallucination of her deceased best friend Brooke, whose death[a] she feels responsible for.

Sienna learns about the mall killings on the news and panics, demanding Jonathan return home from college and warning the family they are not safe.

When she walks into the dining room, Sienna instead finds Art and Victoria decorating Greg's decapitated and eviscerated body pinned to the wall.

Art flees through a window and boards a city bus, and Sienna looks down at her wounded hands as they heal, vowing to find and rescue Gabbie.

The original ending of Terrifier 2 set up Victoria's demise in the opening of this film, but Leone deemed it to be too similar to the concept of Malignant (2021).

While conceptualizing the birthing scene, he decided he wanted to keep Victoria alive and give her significant character development, as he enjoyed working with Samantha Scaffidi.

[16] In July 2024, it was announced that Antonella Rose, Krsy Fox, Clint Howard, and Jon Abrahams were set to appear in Terrifier 3.

[18] Principal photography began in February 2024 and wrapped in April 2024,[12][19][20] with additional scenes completed in New York until early/mid June.

As an indie film, Terrifier 3 notably placed ahead of DC Comics holdover Joker: Folie à Deux.

The website's consensus reads: "Taking an axe to yuletide cheer and everything else in its path, Terrifier 3 is a bloody fantastic stocking stuffer for the holiday season.

"[44] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 62 out of 100, based on 19 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.

[28] Writing for Slant Magazine, Rocco T. Thompson described the storyline as being "half-formed" but praised the leading performances and the practical effects.

[46] Thompson highlighted Scaffidi's performance in particular: "it's the surprisingly spooky Victoria Heyes who emerges as the film's villain MVP, what with the overwhelming Art often playing second banana in their scenes together.

[46] In a review for The Austin Chronicle, Richard Whittaker highlighted the film's continued worldbuilding, the transgressiveness of the Art character, and Victoria's expanded importance as a villain in the series.

[61][62][63] On January 29th 2025, Damien Leone posted on his social media that Terrifier 4 will mark the end of the franchise and fans would learn more about Art's backstory and activities before the first film.