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Before watching it, I knew nothing about this movie. Just that people who liked movies I watched had liked it. I guess I was expecting it to be a Troma-type low budget gore fest but it was more, and somehow less at the same time. It had the look and feel of a big budget movie but the script and acting of a movie made by children. While they managed to get the hot girl naked and murdered before the opening credits, it wasn't so good after that. At one point a girl loses her phone. After driving for a long time they decide to call her phone and the guy who answers tells them to keep driving and make the next left and he will meet them there. And they do it! One thing that distinguished this from a Troma flick was the distinct lack of gore. We see the hot girl get killed by a machete that doesn't even cut through her shirt and then later we see one bloodless stabbing. Overall I'd have to say this movie is very average for the genre. Definitely worth watching once.

This movie is utter trash. Pure and simple.

I could go on about the atrocious acting, mediocre gore, run-of-the-mill baddies and so on and so forth but instead I'm gonna tell you this - stay away from this trash.

I do love myself a good clown horror - clowns have this mix of "always smiling, yet at the same time emotionless" type of thing. These clown all lack that. Some people will go for this flick because of the nudity which again - it is there, but in this movie you end up feeling like "tits? oh whatever". Unless you are a teenage boy you are going to roll your eyes and fast forward to the next scene. To avoid acting that is.

Do yourself a favor and look elsewhere.

Jon Watt's "Clown" is one option.

Killer clown films are not done quite as often as ones centred around sharks and zombies. Those that do exist are wildly variable, with good ones like 2017's 'IT' and really bad ones like 'Clowntergeist' (which made 'Killjoy' look like a masterpiece). When featured clowns are scary, they are the stuff of nightmares, a prime example being Tim Curry's Pennywise.

Not so with 'ClownTown'. It is certainly better than 'Clowntergeist' (the recent killer clown film seen, so sadly very fresh in my head, hence the comparison), as lame as its execution was there was nowhere near the same amount of the feeling that it was not trying. 'Clowntergeist' was an inept film all round and looked as if it didn't even try to do anything with its limitations, 'ClownTown' didn't have anywhere near as bad a problem.

The good news is that 'ClownTown' was not too badly shot, some of it is atmospheric and didn't look anywhere as uncomfortable-feeling/looking or haphazard as other low-budget efforts recently seen. An effort was also made in making the clowns menacing.

Sadly the clowns themselves were not very threatening and came over as silly at times. They were not well served with what they were given, with a lame opening, a lot of cheese and a complete lack of suspense and chases and kills that one expects to be disturbed by but were nowhere near brutal or tense enough for that to work. On paper, their action seemed disturbing, in execution it was pretty cheesy and somewhat tame.

For any disappointment that was had with the clowns, they are nothing compared to the rest of the characters and acting. The characters are bland and obnoxious, either or and in a few cases both, with truly dumb illogical decision making that makes them and even the viewer stupid and make one endear to them even less (and you don't even like them in the first place). The acting is a bad mix of over-compensating and disinterested.

Despite the photography not being bad, the rest of the production values were not so good, looking drab and choppy. The obvious and over-bearing sound really annoys and hinders the impact of any scares or suspense when they are telegraphed when being built up that they become predictable.

Script constantly sounds stilted and even cheesier than a large cheeseburger. It tries to include horror film references but they don't come over as affectionate or clever, they are random sometimes and too often are clumsily done and completely lack the impact of what is being referenced. The story is dull, lacking in any kind of atmosphere and due to trying every cliché in the book and having a not particularly original concept is very predictable. The direction is barely competent.

Overall, not appalling but very bad. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Of course can't be sure if the persons responsible for this movie have some urinary problems (hopefully not cancer) but no other explanation I can think of for the constant references to urination, people peeing, scenes with urinals, women and men discussing their urination. It is all very strange. As for the movie itself, found it entertaining and with decent production values. Still, all this talk about peeing and pissing is odd, at least in my humble opinion. Perhaps for teenagers this is an "in" thing, I don't know.

Maybe if this film had capitalized on the creep clown sightings that were all the rage last year, this film might have had something. Instead, this is a slavishly formula slasher film in the mold of "The Hills Have Eyes," "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" or "Wrong Turn," except with clowns. Very low budget, but so were the first two films I mentioned and they are both arguably horror classics, but this film lacks Hills or Chainsaw's suspense, originality, or even good old fashioned scares. This horror film is strictly running and chasing and creepy clown imagery. The creepy clown imagery was enough to hold my attention, but just barely.

Instead of being scared, I laughed. It's sad really how they actually tried to make the movie scary, it would of made a lot more sense if it was a comedy. Stay away from this garbage

There isn't anything truly terrible here, apart from maybe some of the effects. However it is also completely paint-by-numbers and there is nothing that stands out even a little, which is pretty bad for a killer clown movie. Have you seen Terrifier? Now that is memorable, although he is arguably a mime.

There just wasn't enough effort put into making an original and fun film and instead this comes off as people who just wanted to make a movie, and they did that, and I'm sure it was a lot of fun to make, but none of that translates to the viewer.

Overall I'd give this one a pass, there is nothing you haven't seen before and it never falls into 'so bad, it's good' territory.

Traveling to a nearby concert, a group of friends get stranded in a remote, desolate town with another pair of travelers and being chased by a gang of deranged, homicidal clowns determined to kill them one-by-one and must find a way to stop them and get out alive.

This here turned out to be quite the enjoyable effort. One of the more engaging efforts to this one is the way it manages to work out the group getting trapped at the town and setting up their inevitable being hunting down. Going for the group getting lost and then purposefully directed to their hunting grounds where the first incidents give this such a great starting point for the action to come later on. The groups' first encounter on the streets of the abandoned town where the near-accident leads into the clowns emerging and beating down the first of the group is a nice beginning, and leading into the ambush in the junkyard as well as the eventual escape gives the film a great sequence. The multitude of chases and the rather brutal action that emerges inside the abandoned facility where the great chases down in the bathrooms or the endless hallways lead into some really fun and exciting scenes of the clowns hunting them down, and the brawl out on the rooftop is exceptionally good which has a lot to like about it. The film's best action scenes in the finale really work nicely when they're captured and forced to brawl with the remaining gang of clowns makes for a rather fun time overall here, and once it gets to the big final escape here really gives this one some fun and somewhat chilling scenes that work rather nicely overall here. Alongside the brutal, graphic kills and the rather creepy look for the various clowns, these here hold this up over its minor flaws. The biggest issue is the fact that the simplistic story offers nothing about what's actually happening here. While the group is thrown right in with their encounters against the clowns, we get nothing about what's the point of being hunted or how the whole affair got started with a lame opening that gets tied into the rest of the story in a throwaway line that doesn't connect at all, and the reasoning for the whole story is really underwhelming. The other issue here is the fact that while the clowns look threatening, it's not that hard to laugh them off as lame as the fact that taking them on as a group would probably have saved themselves a lot of trouble against what they're trying to do and it really doesn't help this one much. Otherwise, it's not that bad of an effort.

Rated R: Graphic Language, Graphic Violence, Brief Nudity and mild drug use.

If you watch assault on precinct 13 and Texas chainsaw massacre and have no idea of how to write a script you could make your own clown town movie.

I tend to grade a movie on a different metric based on where it's coming from. It would be unfair to hold it to same standard as a big budget movie or a known director or production company with years of expertise under their belt. So with clown town I'm being a little more generous than others may be willing to be. Also I've recently seen Clown Motel and Him so those movies showed just how bottom of the barrel killer clown films can go. This film is fairly generic , it doesn't pave any new ground or contribute anything we haven't already seen . However there are some pretty competent moments scattered throughout for a first time director,writer,and producer. The clowns are fairly intimidating as they mostly wear greasepaint and old dirty clothes, rather than full on clown costumes . There are some legit jump scared and some fair gore scenes ,that at least didn't choose digital blood effects. So overall it's still a low budget regional indie horror film that's nothing new , but is very far from being the worst movie I've ever seen.

When a film called "Clowntown" bills itself as inspired by 'True Events' you know that you are in for a cult classic, or an absolute piece of trash. I'll refrain from saying which this film is but seeing the number of stars I've awarded probably gives the game away, just like the title of this film gives away what to expect.

A group of friends (2 couples) travelling to a concert find themselves having to take a detour to a small town because of a lost mobile phone. The mobile phone is filled with personal information and identification. Upon calling the phone, a mysterious man gives the owner directions to the town where he will meet them. They head out to the small town and wait for the stranger who found the phone. As night falls, they discover that the town is, as the title of the film gives away, a town that is run by clowns. Imagine that instead of gang and gangsters, you have clowns and clownsters (I just made that word up). The clowns in the film terrorise the group, trying to kill them all off, one by one. The group must survive and escape.

Why are clowns terrorising a town - it is never really explored. This is basically a slasher film that looks pretty but does not have heart or a brain. There are loads of plot holes and silly concepts, that many in fact that I was annoyed from the start of the film. As well as being a slasher film this nodded its head to other horror films by using lots of cliché's and the occasionally very very subtle Easter eggs. While this is clearly a low budget film, it did not necessarily look like one. The look and feel were that of something with a bigger budget. The main detractors from this decent looking film though came in the form of the writing and the acting. There was no sense, when you break it down it wasn't original, and the characters being portrayed were flat, one dimensional idiots that I didn't care about. The clowns got off lucky, they had no dialogue, they just had to look menacing. Most of the time this was fine, but then the writing also made them do stupid things that you would only expect to see in a badly written script with limited imagination.

Director Tom Nagel and writer Jeff Miller have attempted to deliver something scary and engaging, but unfortunately after sitting through 86 mins of an attempted coulrophobia film, I was not sold. It felt like had this concept been given to John Carpenter, Wes Craven or perhaps Rob Zombie, then you would end up with a freaky or thrilling horror masterpiece. Unfortunately, with Nagel and Miller at the steering wheel, the film never gets out of first gear. I laughed more at the ridiculous events unfolding than I should have considering this was a serious horror slasher film - and I was not laughing because the clowns were funny. Never really falling into "that bad that it's good", and not strong enough to merit much of a cult following, I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news and say that this film will be forgotten quickly and will be extremely lucky if it makes it onto low budget cable.

Yes, there is blood and gore in the film, but not that much though. Yes, there is sexual content, nudity, and bad language. No, I would not recommend watching this with a young audience. No, I would not recommend watching the film and having high expectations. The best I can give is 2 out of 10; looks good, but actually quite weak.

I mean it wasn't no Rob zombie type of scary movie but it was definitely creepy it wasn't the worst movie I've ever seen either I don't know everybody's expecting but it wasn't that bad

Alright, I confess the main motivation for me seeing this film was simply so that I could use the legendary quote from "Chinatown" in an insignificant, but semi-wit new context. Yes, I find that sort of stuff amusing, sue me.

Speaking of amusement, "Clown Town" is sorely lacking in this department! It's a dull, clichéd, predictable and formulaic stalk-and-slash effort, with a quartet of stereotypical peeps getting knocked off by psychotic clowns that don't necessary put a lot of time and energy in their costumes and make-up. Not that it matters, really, but I still don't quite understand the whole background of the story. The little town of Clinton (get it? Clinton... Clown Town) is supposedly deserted ever since a railway disaster and now forms the turf of a dysfunctional clown family. I don't see the link between train wrecks and killer clown behavior, but whatever.

I'm not demanding when it comes to this sort of horror films. I'm long happy if they feature excessive gore, imaginative kills, brutality and scantily dressed girls. "Clown Town" only scores a few points on the last element. Shallow as it may sound, lead actress Lauren Elise is gorgeous, has an impressive chest size and runs around in a tight & white tank top the entire film. And, in the opening sequences, the even prettier Kaitlyn Sapp has a gratuitous (but very welcome) topless scene. These shouldn't be the highlights, however, and I can't fathom why the film isn't gorier and more sadistic.

First of all, when I first watched the trailer of the movie I didn't really like it and I didn't had high expectations about it, because it was a low budget slasher movie. Eventually, it wasn't as bad as I had imagined and I would describe it as an average slasher horror film. The movie synopsis was very interesting, but it wasn't innovative because there are too many horror movies similar to this one. The storyline was very simple and kinda easy to understand, even though there were some plot holes in the script of the movie. The main characters (group of friends) weren't interesting, nor well-developed. The casting choices were just nice (even though, I didn't recognize any of them) and their performances were average. It was definitely NOT a scary movie and most jumpscares were absolutely predictable. The killcount of the movie was very bloody, but most death scenes were done off-screen. Unfortunately, there weren't any chase scenes, however there were some intense scenes during the movie. The opening scene was definitely predictable and it wasn't really promising, but it was kinda suspenseful. The ending was kinda predictable, but I still kinda enjoyed it. By the way, the clowns were probably the only creepy thing about this movie. Overall, "ClownTown" was an average low budget slasher film, kinda brutal, fast-paced and I would probably recommend it to my friends.

Clowns are adorable, but they are far from being sharks and zombies, and the film is quite forced. They could have invested in funny deaths and a comic tone to break up the unconvincing seriousness, like taking something like "Clowns are like packs of dogs, or like ghosts that have haunted the city for years" seriously.

I love B movies, but even for trash lovers there is a limit, and it had so much potential, grotesque dialogues, excessive shouting, wasted blood and silly deaths...

During a trip to a music festival, a group of friends get lost in what seems to be an abandoned city and end up crossing paths with a group of psychopaths dressed as clowns.

This could've been really scary had really high potential, but unfortunately it was just mediocre. OK... The clowns were scary. The characters were just mediocre acting. Had it had a better director or gotten into the hands of someone else it would've been really good. The plot was OK the storyline was, OK, but to be a lot stronger it was still kind of short, but this movie had a high potential to be a really good scary clown movie which I still think we need... "IT"just doesn't do it anymore. We need a new original horror movie when it comes to having fear of clowns and I think if the Director gets a hold of one, it could be a great horror movie.