This was a movie I had long anticipated seeing and boy did it ever live up to the hype. First off it wasn't even supposed to be a movie... this was born from a fake trailer of fan's of movie great Eli Roth who then saw the fake piece and decided it was a great idea and he would make the fake movie into a real one.

Clown is a movie about a father who does not want his son's birthday party to turn out badly when the original clown cannot make it so he finds an old clown costume and makeup and decides to become the clown himself. Easy enough, he saves the party, impresses his wife and makes his son happy and it is there that the creepy factor slowly starts to sink in. The costume does not come off, the wig does not come off and what seems like a simple solution to the problem leads to a really really good movie as only Eli Roth can do.

This was a really good movie with plenty of chilling suspenseful moments, some good scares, blood galore and a nice twist on how to "un clown" yourself. Eli Roth is a master at these kinds of movies and if your a fan you'll love this and if you think clowns can be creepy then you will not be disappointed.

For the record, I am not a fan of Eli Roth's work at all. Cabin Fever was disgusting, Hostel was just torture porn, and all of the characters were awful. I've never even seen The Green Inferno and I don't plan to. But since he was only the producer of this movie, I had a glimmer of hope that this wasn't going to be all that bad. And boy I was glad to be proven right! This was a pretty decent movie: the characters are likeable, which is an improvement over the obnoxious ones in Roth's other films, the makeup and practical effects are really impressive, the backstory of the clown costume is ridiculous and imaginative ( it reminds me a bit of Goosebumps ' The Haunted Mask) and even though it relies heavily on jump scares, which I don't mind, it does good at building suspense. The movie does rush a bit at the beginning with it starting immediately with the son's birthday party and the dad having to be the birthday clown really fast, which kind of prevents us from seeing what he was like before wearing the clown costume. Also for a movie about a man who slowly transforms into a clown demon it takes itself way to seriously. Of course there were some funny bits, but sometimes I couldn't tell if some of them were intentional or not. But still it's a pretty creepy horror movie that has a demonic clown eating little kids before 2017's It did...even though the 80's miniseries did that before both of them...WHATEVER!

I decided to view this movie based on the (at the time) four-star rating. I always enjoyed Eli Roth's movies and this one was not a disappointment- in some aspects. Since majority of the reviews already went into the plot- I will just give my personal opinion. There were a few creepy moments such as the clown slow transformation, the night scene in the woods, and the creepy old man. On the other hand, there are also a few frustrating predictable scenes. When the mother got blocked in by the cops it was hard to imagine how she got away. Not much else can be told about this movie without ruining the scenes and creating spoilers for future watchers. Overall, a decent movie that killed some time on a Labor Day night. According to my partner who watched it with me it was a satisfactory movie. The acting was decent, the plot had potential, yet some of the scenes were not realistic. If clowns make you feel creepy then this movie might work in your favor towards the horror factor. I appreciate you taking time out to read my review. I hope it is informative.

Okay so I've never been one who was scared of clowns. Even AFTER watching AHS: Freakshow. But also I've never (to my knowledge) found them very entertaining. Just something to put up with at birthdays and circuses on occasion.

But I KNOW some people get creeped the hell out by them. This movie offers up a good (albeit not historically accurate) reason for that.

I'll try to explain without spoilers but just in case;

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The movie follows in the footsteps of others I like - The Last Exorcism had Abalam, The Rite had a REALLY inaccurate version of Baal. The Possession of Michael King had Daungore.

And this movie has...Cloyne. A Nordic demon that would take and devour one child for each of the 5 coldest months of the year.

Which brings me to my warning; far and away the largest demographic of people getting killed in this movie is...kids. So if you're disturbed by the concept of children being killed and eaten, this movie is not for you.

For the rest of you , this is an original, well-made, and ultimately CREEPY movie that will have you looking at everybody like they're John Wayne Gacy incarnate for at LEAST a week. This movie was awesome - there's just no other word for it. Don't pass it up because of the name, EMBRACE it because of the name!!! And for what it's worth...at least two of the kids killed by Mr. Cloyne needed killin'.

Such an underrated horror movie. A unique take on clown horror with excellent character development, empathic characters, great acting, and a steadily-over dread that unfolds into genuinely unnerving horror that stayed under my skin. Extreme gore was replaced with terror and a compelling story. I actually found this scarier than It.

The movie is pretty standard fare for a demon possession movie. It's not bad, but never great. The story is fairly solid but the acting, especially by Laura Allen, is unconvincing. The biggest problem is the gross misrepresentation that this was an Eli Roth film. Roth surely had next to nothing to do with this film, other than lending his name for a "producer" credit and "acting" as a previous evil clown, for a hefty fee I'm sure. If he was ever on set for more than a day, I would be shocked.

There was far more hype for this movie than what it deserved. While mostly tolerable throughout, the ending was awful, which diminished the experience even further. Overall, not a complete waste of time, but don't go out of your way to see it.

This was a nicely done horror movie that puts an imaginative spin on how clowns could've had a very dark and sinister origin! It's well worth the rent for anyone who's a fan of the horror genre! If you have a fear of clowns, that would make this an even better scare for you! I think you can tell that most of the one star reviews were wrote by people who aren't the sharpest tools in the shed! This should be, at the very least, a 4 star movie, if not a 4.5! I sure hope that they green-light a 2nd one!!! Maybe in the next one they could introduce a "Hunter", or two, into it just like in the TV show Supernatural! I know, I know... it could come off as too much of a knock-off of Supernatural; but if done right, it could be just as an imaginative dark and real-world adaptation to hunters as this movie was for clowns! Maybe even Eli Roth is just the guy to do it too!

The concept for this movie is fantastic. Loving dad turned into Insane Clown monster. The movie itself actually has a pretty compelling story line when you lay it out on paper. But unfortunately a lot of the demon Mythos doesn't get explained. And the editing jumps around from character to character making it hard to figure out what events are happening at what point. As in, does this movie take place in a matter of days or over a week? Most of the set-pieces make this movie looks rather cheap as well. Like they spent most of the money on the actors. Put the money seemed well spent the actors were very believable. It's worth a rent at $1.99