As Terrifier 3 arrives in the world, how the Terrifier franchise has come to prominence by basically going outside of the Hollywood system.

The story goes that at one stage, Damien Leone – the writer and director behind the Terrifier series of films – was offered Hollywood money.

Having fought to get the first Terrifier movie made, off the back of a short film or two, and a failed crowdfunding campaign – he’s found himself at the steering wheel of a growing, profitable horror franchise. He’s not going to be out of pocket by the time Terrifier 3 is released by any measure (early estimates suggest that the $3m production could be looking at a gross upwards of $20m in the US alone). Yet he could have taken the Hollywood millions and be living in a beachfront property by now.

Leone said no.

The trade off would have been that his film,...