Warning: Contains SPOILERS for Terrifier 3!Terrifier 3 includes plenty of deaths, but the movie's decision to kill Uncle Greg is by far the most overlooked, as there's not even a reaction from the other characters. The film introduces Sienna's extended family as she goes to stay with them over the Christmas holiday. Aunt Jess, Uncle Greg, and their daughter Gabbie are brought into harms way due to their association with Sienna once Art the Clown and Vicky come back for their vengeance. By the time Terrifier 3's ending concludes, the family is torn apart with multiple deaths - including that of Uncle Greg.
The fates of Sienna's family members is very much at the focus of the finale. Gabbie has a fake-out death before Art and Vicky reveal that she is still alive, while Aunt Jess dies tied to a chair as rats are forced down her throat through a tube. There is then the reveal that Jonathan died in Terrifier 3, or at least that's what Art and Vicky want her to believe. These developments are what the movie chooses to focus on, and it means the film and its characters practically ignore that Uncle Greg died, too.
Uncle Greg Dies Off-Screen In Terrifier 3 While Waiting For Jonathan
His Body Is Found At His Home
Just like how Jonathan died off-screen, Terrifier 3 gives Uncle Greg the same treatment with his death. He's last seen alive at Jonathan's college while waiting to pick him up and he calls his phone to talk to him. However, his nephew's responses are slightly off, suggesting that this could be Vicky speaking and replicating his voice just as the Little Pale Girl did before. Audiences do not get the chance to see Greg's death, but Terrifier 3 leaves no doubt about his fate by showing the remains of his body.
Terrifier 3 saw many people die horrible deaths at the hands of Art the Clown and Vicky, but one of the major character deaths seems to be a trick.
Greg's body is prominently hung on the wall of his house. He's fully naked and cut open, and his head has been cut off. Art decides to use Greg's head as the tree topper then, giving Sienna, Jess, and Gabbie multiple opportunities to see his remains as the third act plays out. In fact, its Greg's body that Art shoves Sienna's face inside in one of Terrifier 3's most disgusting moments. So even though the film refrains from showing exactly how Greg is killed, he is still among Terrifier 3's brutal deaths.
Nobody Even Reacts To Uncle Greg's Death In Terrifier 3
His Wife, Daughter & Niece Don't Mourn Him
Uncle Greg certainly wasn't the best of the new characters and could be more annoying than helpful, but the way other characters react to his death is still surprising. That's because there's practically no reaction at all from them. The closest the movie comes to having the characters acknowledge that Uncle Greg died is having it be among the first things Sienna sees when she wakes up. However, Sienna does not take time to process this death as her focus turns to Aunt Jess, who is still alive and sitting in front of her at the moment.
Terrifier 3 kills off one of the franchise's most important characters, so why is their death so underwhelming and could this set up a future twist?
Greg's poor attitude towards Sienna does not completely excuse her from not having any emotional reaction to his death. It's even worse, though, that Aunt Jess and Gabbie have little to no response to their husband or father being brutally murdered and put on display in this fashion. Aunt Jess' lack of emotion is possibly more forgivable as she could've mourned him before Sienna regained consciousness after witnessing Art and Vicky arrange his body. Gabbie, on the other hand, is wholly concerned with her mom and Sienna's fates rather than acknowledging that her dad is dead.
Uncle Greg's Death Was Overshadowed By Other Characters' Fates
He's The Least Of Their Concerns
Tragically for Uncle Greg, his death is overshadowed in Terrifier 3 by the lingering fates of other characters. Since the movie bluntly confirms his demise, it is easy for audiences and the characters to move on. The reality is that whether Aunt Jess and Sienna were going to live and whether Gabbie or Jonathan were already dead took precedence at the moment. There was no time for the film, its viewers, or the characters to really digest Uncle Greg's death, making it a moment that is easy to forget overall.
It's hard to be too critical of the other characters and their lack of reaction to Greg's death due to this fact. He was already dead and there was nothing they could do to undo it. However, whether Sienna, Jess, and Gabbie made it out of that night alive was still up in the air. They had to focus on getting themselves out alive, even if they didn't succeed in every instance, rather than dwelling on the fact that Uncle Greg died. And with Jess now dead and Gabbie left in Hell, there's dwindling opportunities for future installments to give Greg's death justice after Terrifier 3.
Director Damien Leone
Release Date October 11, 2024
Writers Damien Leone
Cast Lauren LaVera , David Howard Thornton , Antonella Rose , Elliott Fullam , Samantha Scaffidi , Margaret Anne Florence , Bryce Johnson , Alexa Blair Robertson , Mason Mecartea , Krsy Fox , Luciana VanDette , Clint Howard , Bradley Stryker , Daniel Roebuck , Chris Jericho , Tom Savini , Jason Patric , Alex Ross , Kailey Hyman , Kellen Raffaelo , Lisa Marie Falcone , Stephen Cofield Jr. , Corrine Kelly , Joe Falcone , Peter Mitchell , Marie Maser , Jon Abrahams
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