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Dead Clowns

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4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(13)

 

 

DEAD CLOWNS is just a headache waiting to happen. The story is that all these clowns on a train fell into the bay during a hurricane, and the town just didn't care to spend the money to look for them or remember them so now another hurricane rolls around and the clowns are back after 50 years or so to seek revenge.

Only they're not very funny. Really, what's the point of putting clowns in your movie if it's going to be a COMPLETELY humorless film. I don't pick up a clown film because I think it will have a good story, I don't pick them up for the great character development, I pick them up to see clowns killing people in clown-like ways. And zombie clowns? Well, thats brillaint. Except they screwed it up by letting them just be zombies dressed as clowns. I was expecting imagination, I got nothing.

The characters are boring, cliche and annoying and the dialogue is dull and drawn out to death. The pacing is all wrong. The only relief comes in waiting for the occassional stock hurricane footage because at least that was filmed well. Only it's the same shots over and over so that gets pretty awful too.

But yeah all of that I could've ignored for the most part if these clowns had actually been clowns and killed with imagination. That would have left the problem of the film being unbearably slow, poorly and weirdly lit with bad sound, and generally headache-inducing, but at least I would've thrown down two stars for the interesting deaths.

As is, there's no reason to watch this, let alone buy it.

I have decided I am TRULY in the wrong profession. If the people involved with this major catastrophe can get money, we ALL need to go the route of the movie industry.

I will say one thing: the majority of "indy" horror productions sell their movie with packaging. I picked this up and thought, "hey; interesting cover. I'll give it a try." STUPID, STUPID, STUPID. This movie is the WORST movie I've ever seen--and I've seen plenty of stinkers in my 54 years.

Supposedly set in Port Emmett, Florida, "Dead Clowns" is about (I should have read the back of the disc) a terrible tragedy involving of all things a clown car being dumped into the bay--never to be recovered. It's said, mind you, that on certain nights you can hear the sound of a calliope wafting over the waters...

Obviously shot on a shoe-string budget (not to mention a wing and a prayer), there is actually no story at all. There's some boring footage of a hurricane, the same old shot of wind blown palm trees, traffic lights, and stop signs. Yep; that about sums up the movie. Oh...I forgot. Seems that--for whatever reason--the clowns are now zombies and they have picked this particular night (keep in mind they've been buried for over 50 years) to show up and eat people. The effects are at an all time low: think Herschel Gordon Lewis--but WAY worse. The extras in this movie (and I absolutely refuse to refer to any of them as actors) have as much stage presence as a dead ferret. The editing, pacing, and directing are all horrible. The majority of the cast members do not even speak--probably for good reason.

This complete waste of time lasts 95 minutes and was distributed by Lionsgate. People, keep this up and you'll be as defunct as Orion Pictures. It was directed and written by Steve Sessions and probably shot on his one night off from Jack-In-The-Box. This movie should be pulled from the shelves and sent back to its distributor. It is not worth one star. Possibly the only movie I would give a negative rating.
STAY AWAY!!! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

This DVD is just plain awful. The setting is horrible. The storm scenes are terrible. The dialogue is non-existant and the actors deliver them with little emotion. The special effects are sooooooo bad. Anything on TV would have been time better spent.

I have seen much better productions from local community theatre groups. This one is definitely in my worst 3 horror movies of all time.

This was just not good. In the world of straight-to-DVD movies, this is one of the worst I've ever seen. There is minimal dialogue; which is probably a good thing because the actors didn't do too well with the simple lines that they had. The costumes might have been good, but the lighting was so terrible that you couldn't see what was going on most of the time. The lack of a plot was the film's biggest problem. It's just clowns killing people.

Unfortunately, there isn't even a cheese factor to give this movie some redeeming quality. I was hoping for something overly done like Killer Klowns from Outer Space. But there is nothing in this movie. This will never be a cult classic, or even a cheap thrill. At least the producers only had to make about 50 bucks to break even on the film.

I have seen this movie. Only the existence of`"Manos, the Hands of Fate" keeps this from being the worst movie ever made.

I generally find something to like about every movie, even just that 1 split-second scene. This movie making it to the mainstream market is what you can a "racket" - and should be COMPLETELY ILLEGAL. Someone actually suggested it to me during a great conversation about horror movies - and only now do I get his sick sense of humor. Oh, and there is no clowns, either - the movie just plain sucked!

How could someone have such a great idea and fail so miserably? Now I am not one who NEEDS a good plot to enjoy a horror movie or good acting for that matter. But there HAS to be something enjoyable about the movie, the only enjoyment I had while watching DEAD CLOWNS was making fun of every person involved in this movie. The FX were terrible, the clowns looked like any everyday schmuck wearing a Wal-Mart clown costume and a plastic "mummified face" mask, the acting (what little there was) was horrible, the plot (what little there was) was terribly written. Combine one good idea with a horrible follow through and you have yourself DEAD CLOWNS. I would not recommend this movie to anyone but if your curiosity gets the best of you, as it did me, rent this pathetic excuse for entertainment before buying it.

The person who gave it 5 stars either had something to do with the movie or has not seen that many zombie movies because it was just terrible. The acting (what little there was of it) was bad. Characters had almost no reaction to seeing zombie clowns. One guy gets his arm chopped off and just opens his mouth like he is screaming but you hear no sound. It's as if they couldn't afford to pay these people to speak. The few that did speak must have had mic problems because you could barely hear or understand them. The pacing is terrible, the gore is terrible, the editing is terrible. I could go on and on. The zombie makeup was the only decent thing about this movie. The idea behind this movie was good but it was very poorly executed.

Dead Clowns...What Can I Say?? It was TERRIBLE. Literally, Terrible. The Acting was Laughable...No Joke, i cracked up laughing. The Whole Film looks like it was shot with a Digital Camera. Some Parts, it was even shaky. The Clowns looked as if they were paper mach'e. Incredibly Idiodic. The Parts, where the Actors, were supposed to Act Scared, They Didn't. One Part, The clowns were in this womans house, and she saw them, and ran upstairs, without even screaming. the Whole thing was a joke. i seen all of the reviews, and still thought that it was going to be a good movie. Please, listen to all these reviews, and stay as far away from this movie as possible.

With review number Dan Q on the Octoberfest horror season we decided to go with a little of the clown horror variety. Now let us explain that never have we been the type to jump on the bandwagon when it comes to liking or disliking a film. We couldn't care less about what someones opinion is, but just about everyone was spot on here. This one's easily on par with world's top horrific films like Rise Of The Scarecrows and Halloween Night. No matter how b or how low the budget is Sid can find the enjoyment in almost anything, except a piece of trash like this. In all the disasters we've watched this one sits in the top 5 and will make an appearance on the "He's Gone the Evil's Gone from Here" list.

Dead Clowns (aka Man that looks like a dead bear) takes place on a home video camera somewhere in Florida. A hurricane is coming into the area and dominates the first half hour making you wonder if you watching a b version of the weather channel. All you get is landscape shots of the storm along with some mindlessly boring dialogue. You're literally seconds away from throwing in the towel when something actually happens. For some reason the storm resurrects a bunch of dead clowns from the sea who died in a bridge collapse. That's it folks, that's your movie. Now please thank Sid for saving you the hour and a half you could have spent doing absolutely anything besides watching this. So obviously we think this one blows and would have no matter what age we were in the past. When you return this one give it the right treatment and scream "he's gone, the evil's gone from here!"