Dawn Emerson is the tritagonist in Terrifier.
Biography[]
Terrifier[]
Dawn Emerson was out one evening at a Halloween party with her friend Tara Heyes. Both women are quite intoxicated as they left the party, but Dawn is considerably more drunk than her friend. Tara convinces Dawn not to drive home, and instead, they stop at a pizza place for some food.
While there, a creepy looking clown in white and black make-up known as Art comes in and sits down in a booth. Tara is disturbed by the presence of the strange man, but Dawn is amused. She sits next to the clown, and tugs at his little hat, then takes a selfie with him. She had no idea that the man she was teasing was actually a demented serial murderer.
Dawn and Tara leave the pizza place and go out to the car, only to discover that it had a slashed tire. Tara leaves off to find a place to urinate leaving Dawn in the car. Art the clown breaks into the car and kidnaps Dawn. He later manages to capture Tara.
Death[]
Terrifier[]
When Tara awakens, she finds herself bound to a chair inside of a large and dark room. Art pulls away a curtain revealing Dawn, who is naked and suspended upside down with her legs spread apart. He then takes a hacksaw and proceeds to slowly saw her in half from groin to head. After Dawn is dead, Art uses her cell phone to take a selfie with her corpse.
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- She is mentioned in Terrifier 2.
- In Terrifier 2's dream sequence, the box of "Art Crispies" contains a small cartoon drawing of Dawn's sawed in half body on the box, alongside a hacksaw.
- Her death won Golden Chainsaw on the Kill Count of Terrifier by Dead Meat.
- (Catherine Corcoran) said that several fans, who she referred to as "nudity-seeking Twitter trolls," complained about the lack of female nudity in this one. Its absence is unusual, since the movie is a conscious nod to slasher films of the 70s and 80s in which it was a common trope, wasn't subject to MPAA approval, and features extremely graphic content.
- The pizza restaurant scene was originally gonna be in a burger restaurant but because Catherine Corcoran is vegan, it was changed.