Despite being best known as some of the goriest and most brutal horror movies the genre has seen, director Damien Leone says his independent Terrifier franchise was almost picked up by a big mainstream studio.
"They wanted to reboot it for a wider audience. That’s not what I was interested in. They would say, 'It’s gotta be rated R, it can’t be as gory as you made it,'" Leone tells Total Film in our new issue out on Thursday, September 12, which features The Penguin on the cover. The director refrained from mentioning which studio asked to remake his Clown-centric flicks, however, he ultimately turned them down.
