The Forest Clown

As a fan of garbage cinema, I genuinely enjoyed The Forest Clown. This is exactly what no-budget filmmaking is about: messy, rough around the edges, but made with heart.

What I liked most is that it's not just another mindless slasher. There's actually some backstory and connections between the characters, which gives it a bit more depth than you'd expect. The clown is a lot of fun too. Creepy in that low-budget, offbeat way, but also kind of hilarious at times.

Yeah, the acting isn't great, but if you're watching this kind of film for Oscar-worthy performances, you're in the wrong place. It's scrappy, it's cheap, but it's got a weird charm to it. If you enjoy underground horror made with more passion than money, give this one a go.

I'm rating it 10 to show support for those who are able to make a movie!

The negative reviews below are from people who can't even take a proper picture, let alone create a feature film. If you look at their profiles, you'll see they only leave 1-star reviews-some profiles were clearly made just to dislike this film.

Is this Hollywood? No! It's a fun, cheaply and poorly made film, but it has a flowing story and is entertaining at times.

The acting from the entire cast is far from good, though.

For a film made with ZERO BUDGET, I wouldn't expect much.

The hate this film receives is a test for the creators. Honestly, I'd give it a 5/10-the other 5 is just to show support. I bet most of the critics didn't even watch the movie. They don't talk about what the film is actually about-they just hate on Lukas DiSparrow, a guy making a passion project and getting flak for it.

Pretty funny and some good camera work.

If you Drop all expectations and leave yourself open, you will enjoy this.

Great story great acting. I love a good story set in the woods.

Only thing i struggled with is the sound, it did irritate me at times but i guess everyone has there issues when working with no budget.

The best thing i enjoyed was the camera tricks and the great ise of magic tricks on top. Very clever.

Again leave yourself open to enjoy the writing and the story trying to be told and you will enjoy this peice of art.

Definitely hope to see this picked up and shot with a full budget.

I really enjoyed this film which beautifully combined horror with humour. For a low budget movie the cinematography was excellent with a believable story and characters whose destiny I actually cared about. I would love critics to fully appreciate the hard work and personal sacrifice indie film makers make to bring their creativity and talents to an audience and those who trash talk and belittle their efforts need to stop. I was taught that if you don't have anything nice to say then say nothing. Congratulations to all involved you all did your very best and it shows.

Indie films can't rely on expensive special effects and cgi so the actors have to create the atmosphere and the technical crew also have to be more inventive creating scenes. Ok so it wasn't your cup of tea but please be polite and respectful to all involved.

Needless to say that I had indeed never heard about the 2025 horror movie "The Forest Clown" from writer and director Lukas DiSparrow prior to stumbling upon it by random chance, and opting to watch it since it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen. However, I have to admit, though, that I harbored zero expectations to the movie, as it's cover was just screaming low budget to High Heavens.

The storyline in the movie was the only thing that was 'horror' about the movie. It was totally devoid of anything exciting, thrilling or scary. And it was so insanely slow paced that I absolutely lost all interest in it and picked up my phone to browse social media contents instead. So writer Lukas DiSparrow utterly failed to impress me with this 2025 travesty of a movie.

I was not familiar with a single actor or actress on the cast list, which is actually something I do enjoy whenever I sit down to watch a movie. The acting performances were not too shabby.

Would I recommend you to waste 79 minutes on watching this garbage? No, not even remotely. This was a massive swing and a miss of an attempt at making a horror movie.

The movie's trailer even boasted "zero budget masterpiece". Masterpiece? Sure, if you compare it against nothing at all.

My rating of writer and director Lukas DiSparrow's 2025 excuse of a horror movie movie "The Forest Clown" lands on a very, very generous one out of ten stars.