I hate clowns. But clowns make great horror movie fodder. My girlfriend hates clowns more.  So much so, when I told her I wanted to see the movie “It”, she told me I was going alone. Well, I was very good this weekend. I went with her to a funeral for her father with all her family in Mexico. Even with the heat, the drinking and the fact I was battling the Tijuana Two-step (I didn’t know you couldn’t even brush your teeth with the water), I was able to keep my patience and not pick a fight with anyone or say something stupid. Josie awarded me yesterday with a six pack of beer and the movie “Clown” waiting for us on Netflix. I love that woman.

The movie “Clown” was released in 2014. It was written by Christopher Ford and Jon Watts and directed by Jon Watts. It stars Andy Powers (Kent, the clown), Laura Allen (Kent’s wife) and Peter Stormare (crazy guy who knows how to kill the clown). I was especially excited to see this movie because Eli Roth was a producer and Bob and Harvey Weinstein were executive producers. With those guys giving up their money, I thought the movie had to be good.

The movie was about Kent (Powers), who is a real estate agent, finds out that the clown hired for his son’s birthday party will not be able to show up. Afraid to disappoint his son, he does what all good fathers do and rummages through one of the houses he is selling, stealing a clown costume he just so happens to find (I know: he happens to find a clown costume? You need to accept the concept of poetic license throughout the movie). He puts on the costume and puts on a great show (what real estate agent to you know DOES NOT know how to make balloon animals and juggle?). Exhausted from his performance, Kent falls asleep in his costume only to find the next morning he cannot take it off. Worse his wig has infused into his head (becoming his hair) and his makeup keeps returning to his face. Worse, that stupid little red nose will not come off.

Things just keep getting worse for poor Kent. He finds out from a crazy guy (Stormare) that the costume is possessed by a demon and the only way to get rid of it is to chop off his own head. Well, he found out the hard way. The crazy guy tried to chop it off for him but he was able to escape.

As the movie moves on, his body begins to change, taking the form of a really scary clown (is there any other type of clown?). Worse, he has the insatiable appetite: for little kids. Things go downhill from there.

What could be better than a cannibalistic demon that is dressed as an evil looking clown? Not much. This movie did keep us at the edge of our seats. It was silly and we had to just stop using our heads or else none of the movie would make sense, but, as I said, we had beer. Josie could not stop watching it. When the children started getting eaten, she was mortified but she could not stop watching. It was your typical campy horror film. It is stupid, silly (nonsensical at times) and a lot of fun.

This is no kids movie and not much of a date movie (unless your date is like my girlfriend). There is no sex in the movie, but the violence can be a little extreme (remember, Eli Roth did produce this). It also can be a bit disturbing because a number of children and a dog were killed. The movie is worth seeing once if you are a horror fanatic. I would definitely not want to pay $20 at a theater but it is the perfect Netflix film.

I give it 3 out of 5 stars.

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