Oh no! Not another f*cking killer clown movie! I f*cking hate clowns(Except for Heath Ledger’s Joker)! Nobody is supposed to be smiling for that long! They always have some ulterior motive beneath all that white and red face paint! Which is why (like I’ve always said) they make perfect candidates for horror movie villains. Our latest case in point is the deceptively jolly character up top. He’s the sick killer in the new scary indie simply titled CLOWN (I mean, what more do you really have to say anyway?).
This flick is coming from director Tate Steinsiek, who’s already done some amazing FX artwork for ZOMBIE HONEYMOON and the piece of shit KNOCK KNOCK (the effects were the only good thing). Here’s how he describes CLOWN’s out-there plot: “It’s a completely off-the-wall story set in the late 1800s, about a young boy kidnapped by two random torturous circus clowns, and held captive for a number of days. The abuse he endures over the course of this drives him to escape and, rather than run, attack the clowns in a remorseless revenge.
“We jump 34 years ahead and find a lone traveler, Clown (played by Peter Greene, up top), walking down a dirt road, where he encounters a traveling freak show and its ringleader Lucien. Clown is offered union and joins the group, and he and his new ‘family’ travel into the township of Fable. They encounter a Puritan mob convinced they are devils—heretics—and that’s when things get crazy. Lots of insane freaks, Uni the One Eyed Girl (shown below), Otis the Frog Boy, Bearded Lady—the whole gang.”
Damn, that does sound like one wild ride. I do like the idea of a boy taking remorseless revenge against two scary clowns. Perhaps I’ll have the balls to check this one out. It will be premiering at this year’s Screamfest on Friday, October 16th. The rest of the cast includes Norman Reedus, Paul Sampson, and Rony Cutrone.
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