Fear of Clowns (2004) (V)

User Rating:

3.1/10   

Director:

Kevin Kangas

Writer:

Kevin Kangas (writer)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Tagline:

Evil has a new face!

Plot:

An artist with coulrophobia ("fear of clowns") is stalked by a murderous clown resembling one of the ones she paints. |

Plot Keywords:

Evil Clown | Painter

Cast

Jacky Reres	...	Lynn Blodgett
Mark Lassise	...	Shivers the Clown
Rick Ganz	...	Tuck Reed
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Darla Albornoz	...	Mediator
John Patrick Barry	...	Officer Patrick
Steve Carson	...	Cop with children
Jed Duvall	...	Happy Clown
Judith Furlow	...	Gale
Steven Gleich	...	Marty
Rich Henn	...	Cop 3
Paul C. Kangas	...	Sean
Frank Lama	...	Detective Peters
Patrick T. McGowan	...	Mr. Parrish
Lauren Pellegrino	...	Amanda
Christopher Lee Philips	...	Osbourne
Jack Porter	...	Nicholas
Carl Randolph	...	Bert
Andrew Schneider	...	Phillip (as Andrew C. Schneider)
Bill Stull	...	Veteran Police Officer
Ted Taylor	...	Heston
Lisa Willis Brush	...	Julie

MPAA:

Rated R for violence, some nudity and brief language.

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R

Company:

Marauder Productions

Movie Connections:

References Good Boy! (2003)

Soundtrack:

Whispers

This will instill fear in you, all right...but not for clowns

Picked this up really cheap at a sale, I'd looked at it a few times before but had a Fear of the High Price that Lion's Gate slapped on this piece of work, so I thought $2.99 was a good price. I've been robbed. I don't really know what to say about this except that it was probably one of the worst "decent budget" movies I've ever seen. Meandering script, WAY too long, plot holes you could drive a circus through, not scary, not suspenseful, shall I go on? No? Well, I will. This woman has an alleged fear of clowns so she paints them on canvas and her work sells for lots of money. They aren't nice clowns though, they're mostly scary. She's going through a messy divorce and her husband is a slimy creep who has a hit man after her. So who the hell is this clown? You see, there's this clown, that dresses kind of like a Chippendale Clown, I guess, he doesn't wear a top for whatever reason, which is pretty weird right there. But he has nasty make-up and is stalking this woman and killing people with what appears to be a medieval broad ax. There are elements to this that are just ridiculous, like when this woman is commissioned to paint a portrait of a man's father, who was a clown, and one of her friends does research on this man's father and finds out he was a child-molester? But she paints the portrait anyway and instead of the $20,000 she was promised she gets a check for $100,000? Who wrote this, a 15-year old? Because this whole "child molestation" thing is brought up like a plot twist but then dropped like a hot potato. Further evidence of a juvenile script comes from this woman hooking up with a guy that bought one of her paintings. You see, he designs roller coasters for a living and he's rich and he has a cat that's "no ordinary cat" but you see it for about 10 seconds and that's all there is to it. Of course the woman almost turns down the opportunity to do this painting for $20,000 because she doesn't "have time" but she is spending lots of time doing nothing with this guy. Eventually the hit man her husband has out after her shows up and gets shot but the evil clown is still afoot and stalking and chopping, and by then you just want the film to be over but it's only getting its second wind. This will instill fear in you all right, but not for clowns, it's more a fear that this guy will make another movie, and lo and behold, "Fear of Clowns 2" is due out in 2007? I can't wait to avoid that like the plague, this one has gone right into the trade-in pile and hopefully I can dump it somewhere. The dumpster might actually be the best idea, why perpetuate this? 1 out of 10.