Signature Entertainment has announced that it is partnering with the University of Warwick to host the world’s first-ever Terrifier conference, taking place across May 2-3, 2025.
The Terrifier Conference 2025 will welcome global scholars to Warwick to take an alternative approach to enthusiastic critical dismemberment by engaging with the Terrifier film franchise as an object of scholarly importance.
Presented online (Friday 2nd May) and in-person (Saturday 3rd May) this unique international conference examines the blood-soaked franchise’s presentation of aesthetics, neurodivergence, women, subverted tropes – and the silent menace of horror icon Art, the killer clown.
Featuring contributions from academics from Ukraine, Italy, Brazil, Canada, France, US, India and the UK, the conference will explore the construction of practical visceral gore effects, aesthetically appraise kill scene carnage, and discuss the unsettling visual creepiness and comedy violence of clown performance.
Signature Entertainment’s own Head of Publicity Marek Pugh and Head of Social Jonny Bunning will be in attendance to conduct a special seminar on how their innovative marketing and social media approaches allowed Terrifier 3 to become their best-selling box-office hit of £3.4 million across the UK and Ireland.
For more details of the full conference programme and to register to attend: http://bit.ly/TerrifierConference
Whilst franchise mastermind Damien Leone is hard at work crafting the fourth entry in the franchise, Signature is gearing up for the release of Terrifier: The Bloody Duo UHD boxset containing the first two films in the franchise, in UK stores from May 26, 2025.
