“Terrifier 3” exceeded all expectations, including box office numbers; however, only a handful of people are responsible for the gory scenes that make Stephen King seem kid-friendly.

The Post has spoken Christian TinsleySlasher’s Oscar-winning make-up and prosthetics specialist and special effects supervisor Jason Baker, who shared all the details of how they helped bring director Damien Leone’s gory and graphic scenes to life.

They also tackled the gruesome final shower scene, which Baker called “pretty nasty”, which left many moviegoers vomiting or leaving the theater at the UK premiere. Tinsley revealed it was the last scene filmed – and the fake blood was dripping.

For those who haven’t seen the movie, Art the Clown bombards two naked lovers with a chainsaw while they’re showering, slicing off limb by limb — and it’s one of those scenes that will make you want to throw away your lunch.

“One of the things that he (Leone) told me early on that didn’t make it into the script was really a small part of the script, which was ‘killing the shower scene.’ And that’s about all he had there. I said, “What’s going on?” And he said, ‘I’m still trying to figure it out … but that has to be the big crunch,'” Tinsley said, adding, “I know we had to raise the bar. We had to give something the audience had never seen before.”

As for how much fake blood they used in the film, Tinsley told The Post, “If I had to guess, I probably easily went through a few drums (55 gallons per drum) with that film.” admitting the shower scene. alone was about “20 gallons of blood”.

They used so much blood on film before shooting the “big kill” scene that Tinsley and his crew “wiped out every grocery store within 10 miles,” Baker revealed.

Tinsley confirmed that he and another crew member had to run around town for supplies at the eleventh hour to make more blood.

“We got right down to the last day – we were so close now and we knew we were going to run out of blood. And so me and my partner on set, Ryan Ward, we went to Walmart, we went to grocery stores, we went everywhere and we bought all the Karo syrup that we could get,” Tinsley said, revealing that they mixed syrup with pigments from it Los Angeles Tinsley Studio that it was transported at the last minute to the film location.

In the end, they had only enough for Art the Clown to make his demonic blood angel.

“The last scene I did in the movie was Art doing the Snow Angel in the blood,” Tinsley said. “There was still a ton of blood left in the shower, still on the floor. And then it became a preserve of “nobody goes here.” We want to keep as much of that blood on the floor as possible.”

Tinsley said they took what little blood they had left and “very judiciously” poured it on the floor to “give us enough blood for him (Art the Clown) to spread out and get his make the blood angel”.

Tinsley also revealed that the crew was “covered in blood” at the end of each day.

“Everybody walks out of that room rinsing their shoes,” he laughed. “Damien just threw his shoes at the end of the night.”

Baker said: “I keep telling everyone I’ve been doing this for almost 20 years, and ‘Terrifier 3’ was the first movie where I couldn’t get the blood out of my shoes at the end of the day and threw them away. away.”

Leone’s ‘Terrifier 3’ breaks records everywhere. The low-budget slasher beat out Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker: Folie à Deux” for the No. 1 spot in North America, topping the box office with $18.3 million on its opening weekend earlier this month.

While the director of the horror franchise said Variety that he “can’t see” the “Terrifier” saga “going beyond one or two more movies,” Tinsley isn’t too sure.

“In this one, he (Leone) says, ‘I’ve got one left in me,'” Tinsley told The Post. “You don’t want to hold anyone to it.”

“He plans to finish the fourth. You know how these things go,” he continued. “You have enough success and enough money behind something. There’s always a way to keep everything going.”