Starring Eli Roth.
A typical horror/thriller movie of a white suburban, wealthy family who have been unaware of an unknown curse nobody else has heard about apart from creepy, middle aged men. Meg (Laura Allen) has set up a birthday party for her son, Jack (Christian Distefano), who is obsessed with clowns...for some reason. The clown Meg originally hired for the job is unable to make it, bringing home Meg's husband to hurriedly find a clown costume to take over. I'm assuming he's some sort of architect or land owner, as he goes into one of his multiple houses to find a very old and very pretty costume in one of the basements to make it to Jack's birthday just in time as "Frowny the Clown". Except, when the birthday party is over, he can't take the costume off and it begins to consume him so the demon can feed.
For a movie called "Clown" and about clowns, it actually wasn't half bad. This might have been because I jumped into the movie thinking it would be bad for obvious reasons so I could have a nice laugh at it, but that's not what happened. Now, as a thriller/horror...this is bad. The first half of the movie was just a comedy. No gory or sadistic action going on there, really. Just "Frowny" continuing his life and trying to figure out how to get the costume off. The second half was a bit more exiting, but nothing to keep you up at night or to make you jump. It's something someone who was starting to watch horror movies would enjoy, but no horror-movie-fantic would be raving about any time soon.
Gore factor was minimal. Bit of blood, bit of guts, but if you molded that together, it would probably create a five minute YouTube clip and even that might be pushing it. Plot line was probably a 4/5 out of 10. It was something I have heard before, something I wasn't gripped into - it was very under-complex, it was the skeleton structure with none of the meat or vessel added to it. Jumpscares, none at all. Luckily for me (as someone who really hates movie sex/nudity scenes), there was no sex or nudity at all.
Overall movie rating 5/10.
Would I watch it again? No.
