“ No man can hide from his fears; as they are a part of him, they will always know where he is hiding.” At the end of the film the previous quote is seen as the credits role. I soon as I saw this quote it all made sense. This movie follows three boys mostly and the youngest named Casey is terrified of Clowns, yet his brothers still decide to take him to the circus. I took it as a way that the director, Victor Salva wanted his viewers to take note of the fact that it is best to face your fears since there is no possible way to hide from. Yet in this movie, I guess it makes you not want to face your fears. The truth is, Nothing significant happened during the film till the last 20 minutes. Doesn’t that suck? The brothers all go to the circus and the oldest meets up with a girlfriend as the other two watch the show. A clown from a corner starts to wave at Casey and he starts to get a bit freaked out but noticed that the clown was making signs to another young boy. He’s kinda of cautious or at least a tad in the back of his mind after having his palm read and following the physic’s request from earlier that evening. The clown chooses Casey to go on stage with the clowns and immediately refuses and runs the fuck out of there. His brother Geoffrey begins to console him and reassuring them that clowns aren’t bad. Wait, clowns not bad?! I’ll get into that a tad later. They head on out and play some carnival games and Casey wins a prize! Yay! Wait no. Your prize is a creepy clown that laughs. The boys head home after the circus show soon after. We then see three clowns after the show taking of their make-up in the dressing rooms and they get killed. Not much of a murder scene honestly. Then three men got dressed up as clowns and started to parade around the circus and eventually finishing up near the brother’s house. If you pay close attention in the radio you hear news of three psycho’s escaping a mental institution. Oh! That makes sense, that’s who the clowns are now. Yet I wondered who they really are. Honestly, we never find out! The film doesn’t even dabble into their past which I think would have made the movie more interesting to know all their sick shit.
Maybe they at the house for a birthday party?!
Most of the time in the house, I felt was a waste. Nothing was fucking happening! Except a clown popping its head in for a bit and looking around, or playing on the swing or pushing the Halloween decoration of the body on the noose on the tree outside. The brother’s do things and stuff in the home, two of them go to the store to get popcorn and a clown follows them there, Casey is the only one who notices him and nobody else believes him. They get back home and the lights go out, so they draw straws to find out who goes into the attic to reset the lights, somehow there was a clown up there too. Sounds like a whole lotta nothing. Finally a clown breaks a window another opens the door and the one in the attic gets hit by a boy with a wood thing and he hits him with it and he’s out cold. Really? Out cold from a swing from a ten-year old?! The best part of the whole movie is that the oldest brother dies and gets killed and his brothers find his body in the closet. The brother’s run around to look for help and call the cops and they don’t believe the kids. I adore the idea of Killer Clowns but this movie did not do it for me. You’re going to have to watch this movie to find out the ending yourself! Suffer as much as I did!! Not much bloodshed was seen, the director concentrated heavily on the lighting to scare the viewer.
We all know that clowns aren’t bad, right? Right. I mean the truth is that clowns are for kids entertainment and to make you happy and laugh and squeeze their fucking flowers on the shirt that squirts water or laser beams. Lets take a look at some well-known clowns! The simpsons is the longest running cartoon show and features Krusty the clown. Krusty has his own TV show that kids love, like bart and lisa. It’s not like he’s ever miserable, he can’t be. He’s a clown. Right? I mean he does smoke sometimes and drinks, gets miserable and had a sidekick who wants to kill bart.
Look! He's happy! ...Well maybe not...
Hmm, maybe I was wrong. Nope can’t be. All cartoon clowns are good. It’s fact, and it’s science. Lets take a look at Rockso, The Rock and Roll Clown from Metalocalypse. He’s Toki’s good friend, and makes Toki laugh so much. Not just that but he sings! Musical Clown that even had a music video. Just because the song was about him doing cocaine isn’t bad right? He does introduce himself by his name and is able to fit his line “I do Cocaine.” He got sober at one point though! …Then fell back into it.
Maybe Rockso was a bad example too. Although Krusty and Rockso are cartoon clowns and aren’t real so lets take a look at some real life clowns. The media portrays clowns to be fun or else why would we go to the circus. So what about Stephen King’s most well-known clown Pennywise in the movie “IT”. He’s a good clown who doesn’t do cocaine and doesn’t smoke! See, we are off to a good start already! He has never hurt a single soul, although the movie he is portrayed in proves otherwise.
Eww, what’s up with his hand/claw thing? I could have sworn that in the movie he had a bunch of pointy sharp teeth. Acutally he did. Oh, I bet this picture of Pennywise was taken right after he saw the dentist. He got all his shit fixed up. Once again maybe Pennywise isn’t a good example. I still have hopes because although he is a real clown, he was a movie clown, so it doesn’t count as much! Real clowns who come to our birthday parties are not bad at all! They can’t be killing children or anything, so lets take a look at Pogo the clown, otherwise known as John Wayne Gacy. Gacy was a man who had a family and two children. He cheated on his wife as was bi-sexual and then went to jail for being accused of sexually molesting children. He got out of jail and then began working as a clown name Pogo. He designed his own costumes and applied his own make-up. He allowed a boy to sleep at his place to catch a bus the next morning and Gacy killed the boy and hid him in a crawlspace and filled it with cement.
His coworker name Butkovitich was killed by Gacy because he owed him money and then strangled him and buried his body under the cement floor. He then killed over 8 more boys and hid them in floor boards and crawlspaces and then killed the guy who helped dig those crawlspaces. He lured another man into his home to sell him his car and killed and put him in a crawlspace as well. Kidnapped a 19 yr old at gunpoint, raped and tortured him then released him and the cops didnt investigate because they believed it was mutual. He killed another 19 year old and put him in the crawlspace. Eventually no more room was in his crawlspace and then started to dispose of bodies in the river. Gacy eventually got caught for all his crimes and assisted the police in where he hid the bodies, 29 were found. He went to jail and began to paint. Some of his paintings were of himself as Pogo the Clown. He was sentenced to death row and died in 1994 and had his brain removed for further study. What The FUCK?! I was totally wrong! Clowns are fucking Evil!! I guess I was wrong. Damn.
- Sycka
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