Way-hey, kids! Are you ready to have some fun? Because I’m
the fun fellow with the floppy feet who loooooves to have fun! I love all kinds
of fun! Like luring you into the sewer to play with my collection of balloons! They
float! They all float down here, kids, and when you’re down here with me,
you’ll float too! Sounds like fun, don’t it? I may take your arm, but just
consider that the price of admission to my fun, fun sewer circus! You’re not
scared, are you? I’m just the friendly, funny fellow with the floppy shoes, and
everyone knows that a clown is a kid’s best friend, right? Right?
Wrong! In fact, the creepy clown has become such a common
horror figure that it’s hard to imagine there was a time when children laughed
along with the likes of Clarabell, Bozo, and Ronald McDonald. These days it
seems that the easiest way to get distribution for a cheap-o, direct-to-video
(sorry…I mean “direct-to-streaming”) horror movie is to stick a leering, fanged
clown in it. Stitches (2012), Sloppy the Psychotic (2012), Mockingbird (2014), All Hallow’s Eve (2013), and of course, Clown (2014) are just a few of these fun flicks.
