I watched the original Terrifier on a dare. My friend group has a tradition of horror film dares in October — someone nominates a film, someone else has to watch it alone, in the dark, and report back. I nominated Terrifier for someone else. They nominated it back for me. I watched it alone on a Friday night in October with all the lights off, which was the agreement.
I spent the first twenty minutes with my hands over my face. I spent the next forty minutes watching through my fingers. I spent the final twenty minutes with my hands in my lap, completely absorbed, because somewhere in the middle of being genuinely horrified I had become genuinely fascinated. Art the Clown is one of the most compelling horror villains I've ever encountered, and I've encountered a lot of them.
I bought the Funko POP Movies Terrifier Art the Clown with Bike Vinyl Figure the following week. It was the first horror collectible I'd ever bought. It was not the last.
Why Art the Clown
I want to explain what makes Art the Clown work as a horror villain, because I think it's relevant to why the figure is worth having. Art doesn't speak. He communicates entirely through mime and physical performance — through gesture, expression, and the particular quality of his presence in a scene. This makes him simultaneously more theatrical and more unsettling than a villain who delivers lines. You can't predict him from what he says. You can only watch what he does.
The mime aesthetic — the black and white costume, the painted face, the exaggerated performance style — creates a character who is simultaneously funny and horrifying in a way that's very difficult to achieve. Art is aware of his audience. He performs for them. He finds his own actions entertaining. This self-awareness is what makes him genuinely disturbing rather than just scary.
The bike is part of this. Art's bike in the original Terrifier is a prop that extends his theatrical quality — it's absurd and menacing simultaneously, which is exactly the combination that defines the character. A figure of Art without the bike is a figure of Art. A figure of Art with the bike is a figure of Art in his element.
Why This Figure Specifically
There are Art the Clown figures in various formats — standard, bloody variant, different poses. The with-bike version is the one I wanted because the bike is the detail that makes it specific to the original Terrifier rather than a generic Art figure. It places him in a particular moment and context from the film. For a collector who came to Art through the original film, that specificity matters.
The 9cm Funko Pop! format captures Art's distinctive look within the brand's signature stylised aesthetic. The black and white costume, the painted face, the particular quality of his expression — it reads clearly and immediately. The bike is rendered at the right scale to work with the figure without overwhelming it. The window display box keeps everything visible and protected.
The Beginning of a Collection
I bought the with-bike figure first. Then I watched Terrifier 2 and bought the Terrifier 2 figures. Then I started looking at what else was available in the horror Funko Pop! range and found that the answer was: a lot. My horror shelf, which did not exist before that October Friday night, now has twelve figures on it.
The Art with Bike figure is still the one I point to when people ask how the collection started. It's the origin point. It's the figure that made me realise I was a horror collector, which was information I didn't have about myself before I watched Terrifier alone in the dark on a dare.
My friend who nominated the film back at me has since watched it herself. She has also bought the figure. She texted me after she watched it: "I understand why you bought the figure." I told her I knew she would.
On Starting a Collection
There's something particular about the first piece in a collection — the one that didn't feel like collecting at the time, that felt like just buying one thing, that turned out to be the beginning of something larger. The Art with Bike figure is that piece for me. I didn't buy it thinking "I'm starting a horror collection." I bought it because I'd watched a film that had got under my skin and I wanted a physical object to mark that experience.
That's what the best collectibles do. They start as a response to something and become the beginning of something else.
My Verdict
If you've watched Terrifier and you want a figure that captures Art in his original context — with the bike, from the film that started it all — the Funko POP Movies Terrifier Art the Clown with Bike Vinyl Figure is the one. Find it in our Toys collection and our wider Toys & Games collection. Watch the film first. Then buy the figure. In that order.
— Steph Holloway
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