When I was a kid in the mid-90s (like 8 or 9), I was at a sleepover with like three other boys my age and we watched the original NOES. First horror movie any of us had ever seen, and we lost our minds. After the movie, we started talking about all the other horror VHS boxes we'd seen at the rental store. None of us had actually watched those movies yet, but we were so caught up in the adrenaline from NOES that we got carried away describing them. Like someone would go "I heard in Candyman, the bad guy poisons little kids with candy." And then not to be outdone, someone else would go "I saw Hellraiser, and there's a part where the bad guy shoots nails out of his head and it kills a naked girl and there's all this blood everywhere." Each kid had to one-up the next kid, until we were just straight up inventing movies that didn't even exist because we wanted to come up with the goriest thing we could think of.
That's Terrifier. There's nothing inherently original or creative about it. It's just a litmus test for gore hounds... When something is trying so hard to be transgressive, it kinda negates the quality of actually being transgressive, and the whole thing just comes across as the invention of some dweeby kid at a sleepover trying to sound as edgy as possible... When I was a kid, back when I had literally only seen one horror movie, I thought the thing that made horror "horror" was extreme violence. Any concept of style, form, creativity, or narrative theme was completely unknown to me. I think Terrifier is proof that some people -- grown adults -- appear to still think this way. So the entire thing just strikes me as juvenile.