10 MORE Horror Movies That Actually Benefitted From Bad Acting

Damien Leone's Terrifier movies have, over the past 14 years, clawed their way up from an initial obscure, ultra-low-budget short film to multiplex mega-hit, but the central style has remained the same. This alone is impressive, given how the brutality of the series' torture and death scenes would historically have had censors reaching for the red stamp. However, what's more impressive is how Leone has taken a franchise rooted in sketchy, am-dram acting from no-name actors and made it a feature of his films.

Terrifier 3 continues this trend with its 1980s aesthetic (despite being set in modern times) and cast of unknowns, who hum, haw, ham, and scream their way through its dastardly scenes. The film's lead, Lauren LaVera, is carried over from the previous picture and, while she puts in a saleable turn as an unspooling Sienna Shaw, she still manages to match the alternatingly hysterical and rote performances of the rest of the cast.

Rather than hire professional talent, the Terrifiers have put their incrementally increasing budgets to work enhancing the gore, kills, and bloody set-pieces, relying primarily on David Howard Thornton's equally captivating, humorous, and diabolical act as Art the Clown to sell the films. And somehow, when paired with his castmates' blunt line delivery and far from realistic dramatics, Thornton's slapstick clown brings home the stripped, salted, and tube-fed bacon every time.