Clowns

I'm trying to get ahold of this film because it sounds interesting. Where can I watch this?

A group of people go camping in the woods and are hunted down by a psychotic killer clown. I say "camping" but this is not your traditional camp with cabins. It's a campground where you use tents. Given the budget for this, it's probably really just an unmarked place in the woods. Still, I've somehow been enjoying this trash for over a decade now. There's a decent amount of ridiculous looking gore as well as some super cheap cgi gore effects. The acting is hysterical with lots of running and screaming and arms flapping and flailing about from pretty much everyone. I'm sure that most of you reading this will find nothing appealing about my descriptions, BUT if you do find yourself intrigued then this was probably made for you like it was for me.

I would've enjoyed this movie if it wasn't for the script. Very unimaginative and unoriginal, unlikable characters (especially the clowns themselves) and nothing made sense. It was quite obvious that nobody disagreed with with any of Tomb's scriptwriting flaws and they decided to go along with it despite the stupid plot-holes and confusing storyline. Hopefully this is a learning curve for Tomb as she clearly needs more advice on how to write.

As kids, people were taught that clowns are their friends, as they often saw them at birthday parties; but once those kids saw their first clown movie, they most likely had a change of heart. At a certain point, or maybe by accident, society changed the outlook people have on clowns and changed the picture into a much more sinister one. For decades, filmmakers have taken an innocent character and turned it into something audiences should be scared of. I went into this expecting to dread it as it looked like a typical clown-forest-horror movie, actually ended up liking it! It's not the greatest thing ever made, believe me, it has lots of problems! But, I still found myself enjoying this one for what it was! Lots of fun, cheesy gore and stupid characters making the cliché decisions. Kellyann Summers has fun with this role and it's obvious just by watching her performance. If this type of thing is your cup of tea, I say give it a watch or two!

One of the aspects I always loved about "Clowns" was the cheesy practical cut-out gore effects. In this one there are still plenty of those but the CGI blood splashes that accompany them kind of take you out of the moment. Also there are some silly found footage camera effects that are more distracting than they are effective. Lesson to no-budget filmmakers please stay away from the computer graphics (this coming from a guy who does CGI for movies), and keep to the practical effects.

Overall Clowns is a decent slasher flick that would have been much better if it didn't rely so heavily on computer FX. I like how it tried to do something a little different by killing the clown and introducing a new killer but ultimately the movie was a bit of a let down due to the digital fx.