{"id":337834,"date":"2025-10-28T07:03:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337834\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T07:03:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T07:03:11","slug":"terrifer-actress-sues-for-unpaid-royalties-nude-scene-without-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/337834\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Terrifer’ Actress Sues for Unpaid Royalties, Nude Scene Without Consent"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cTerrifier<\/a>\u201d actress Catherine Corcoran<\/a> has sued the producers and series director Damien Leone<\/a>, alleging breach of contract and the distribution of sexually explicit materials without consent.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn a suit filed in California federal court on Sunday, Corcoran\u2019s attorneys presented a case, defined by the \u201call-too-common story of low budget film producers taking advantage of a young actress through fraud, sexual harassment and, ultimately, betrayal.\u201d The lawsuit names production banners Dark Age Cinema and Fuzz on the Lens Productions as defendants, in addition to producer Phil Falcone and Leone and the filmmaker\u2019s banner Art the Clown. The filing includes seven claims for relief, including distribution of sexually explicit materials, breach of contract and promissory fraud.<\/p>\n

\n\tLeone and producers could not be immediately reached for comment. <\/p>\n

\n\tCorcoran is best known to \u201cTerrifier\u201d viewers as the centerpiece of one of the original 2016 slasher\u2019s most memorably demented sequences, in which the actress\u2019 character is hung upside down, topless, and slaughtered by the villain Art the Clown. The suit alleges that filming for the sequence required Corcoran to be hung upside down by her ankles for \u201cover 10 hours in below freezing temperatures.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCorcoran is said to have agreed to act in the low-budget \u201cTerrifier\u201d on an \u201cextremely low up front per diem rate,\u201d with the agreement that she would receive 1% of the profits from the film, as well as potential future franchise entries and related merchandise, including other licenses of the intellectual property. Two \u201cTerrifier\u201d sequels have been produced, collectively grossing more than $105 million at the global box office, plus home video profits and \u201cTerrifier\u201d-themed fan events and other modes. The suit claims that director and producer Leone, \u201cagreed in writing to provide Corcoran with a share in 1% of all net sales generated from \u2018Terrifier\u2019 related merchandise.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHowever, Corcoran alleges that, in the years following the original film\u2019s release and its subsequent rise in popularity, her royalty payments \u201cbecame more and more sporadic and dwindled to amounts nowhere near commensurate.\u201d The actress claims she has not received back pay since July 2024, and had only received $1816.35 up to that point, \u201cwith no explanation as to why the royalty payments ceased or where the remainder of the payments are.\u201d Merchandise royalties are said to only total \u201capproximately $6,408.26.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCorcoran claims to have confronted both Falcone and Leone about her royalty payments and that she was \u201cbrushed off, with Leone stating that Falcone handles all of the accounting matters and then with an aggressive and defensive response from Falcone saying he purportedly \u2018doesn\u2019t keep records.’\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAdditionally, while Corcoran\u2019s death scene required her to be nude, the suit claims that the producers \u201cnever obtained Corcoran\u2019s informed written consent\u201d to film unclothed, as was required by the Screen Actors Guild. The suit alleges that Corcoran insisted she be allowed to wear underwear on the day of shooting, but that she still ended up performing the scene topless without written consent. It also claims that Corcoran was only provided a horizontal platform to break on between takes upon her request and that she \u201cwas wrapped in a blanket in between takes, but overtime the blanket became so saturated with fake blood that it ceased providing any warmth.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAfter filming overnight, Corcoran alleges she felt ill in the following days and that a doctor diagnosed her with cranial swelling and eardrum damage. In an allegation that ties together the suit\u2019s claims of unpaid royalties and unregulated shooting conditions, the suit claims that the defendants have profited from merchandise depicting Corcoran\u2019s nude body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cTerrifier\u201d actress Catherine Corcoran has sued the producers and series director Damien Leone, alleging breach of contract and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":337835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[166755,100904,171,77919,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-337834","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-catherine-corcoran","9":"tag-damien-leone","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-terrifier","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115450518452046334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}