• "Terrifier 2" has made headlines for being incredibly violent and making audiences pass out.
• It follows Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) after he's resurrected in the town of Miles County.
• As a horror fan, I watched "Terrifier 2" to see if it's as intense as everyone says.

In the last few weeks, "Terrifier 2" has made headlines across the world because of reports that audiences have vomited and passed out from watching the sequel from director Damien Leone. It's the type of publicity some studio executives can only dream of. 

All the chatter about the grisly return of Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) has led to "Terrifier 2" grossing over $7 million against a $250,000 crowdfunded budget. Killer clowns are good for business — just ask Stephen King. 

The film sees Art return to Miles County on Halloween and go on yet another bloody killing spree, while a supernatural force also gets involved in his reign of terror. 

After watching the first film a while back, I decided to give "Terrifier 2" a whirl for myself to see if the controversial film is really as gory and distressing as recent reports made out. As luck would have it, I also picked the perfect night to dive in: Halloween. Oh yes.

The first kill sets the tone.

I was instantly met with screams and blood confirming that, yes, this was going to be a gorefest as Art the Clown is bizarrely resurrected in a morgue and kills a doctor.

It's a welcome return since it's been eight years since the original "Terrifier," but I'm clearly in for a bumpy ride considering the opening kill is Art ripping said doctor's head in half. 

The fact that the infamous clown still refuses to make any noise is incredibly chilling. At least with villains who talk, we can understand their reasoning or get into their heads, but with Art, it's all just so senseless.

He's simply doing this for fun. I've got a relatively strong stomach for gore (thanks to a substantial horror education from my dad as a teenager) but this seems like it's going to push some boundaries…

At least it gives us a fun synth score to go along with the bloody mayhem. Although I have to say, some of the performances are all over the place. This was never going to be an Oscars contender, but yikes.

Art is an unpredictable gremlin.

Now look, I already knew that the killer clown would be an unhinged psychopath thanks to the first film, but I am absolutely here for Art being a chaotic little goblin in the sequel. Whether that's sitting naked in the laundrette making friends with a ghost, or playing with toys and trying on sunglasses in the fancy dress shop. 

Johnathan Davis' costume store worker definitely speaks for everyone when he asks Art, "Sir, what are you doing?" To be fair, I don't think Art really knows what he's up to. It's all so spontaneous, which is simultaneously refreshing and intense.

The second big kill cements the fact that "Terrifier 2" is scrappy and gross in a way that reminds me why the horror genre can be so great in the first place. 

Art gleefully hacking away at the worker's neck isn't the worst kill ever put on screen, but it's got that homegrown, unpolished sense to it that just feels nasty.

Sienna's (Lauren LaVera) role in it all is definitely positioning her as some kind of avenging angel if that outfit she's working on is anything to go by. But she should definitely go into the cosplay business… She'd make a killing at Comic-Con.

Up until this point, I hadn't found "Terrifier 2" scary in the slightest. If anything, I was quite relaxed just watching Art mill around the town being a murderous little scamp. There are next-to-no jumpscares, although the kills are undeniably wince-worthy. But that is all about to change.