Wrinkles the Clown

This is one of the extremely rare cases where I turned a movie off. It was such an interesting idea, and they completely squandered it. There's no sense of order, you could recut the majority of this movie and it would not make a difference, if it weren't for a twist that rendered the first half of the doc a waste of time.

This is the cinematic equivalent to reading the comments on YouTube video called "scary 3:00 AM challenge". It is largely just kids yapping into cellphone cameras about spooky clowns. They even often fail to give an opinion. It fails at exploring its topic with any kind of depth and comes across as extremely lazy.

Let me save you 78 minutes. See that guy on the poster? Parents can hire him to scare misbehaving children. You learn nothing more by watching this film.

I was excited to see this after I saw the trailer, but was severely disappointed. This documentary could've been 10 minutes long. There really is no point. The production quality is good, but that's it. The "twist" in the final half hour is lazy and only served to make me angry. Save yourself the hour and a half and watch something else instead.

The documentary does a nice job of pacing the storytelling to keep you interested while not rushing through anything.

Takes the form of telling the story of Wrinkles while interjecting interviews with culture and folklore experts, and with everyday kids who find clowns in general, or Wrinkles in particular, interesting.

The tone shifts a couple of times into a darker or more evil tone which I found jarring, and it didn't really add much. I think it could have been done with more nuance or subtlety, which would have more accurately depicted how our culture sees clowns: as more of a trickster with malicious undertones than all out evil.

Overall the pacing, unique storytelling and unique subject matter made this an enjoyable watch that I will remember.

I like the concept of the documentary, it was just boring at parts

I hadn't had a chance to watch this movie until recently when I actually had a day off from work and other personal obligations. Honestly, I should've just worked that evening. This is BY FAR the worst documentary I've ever seen. The topic itself obviously was enough to get me interested in watching, but that's about it. The overall flow was awful... and focus was primarily on random people who have either come across Wrinkles or who have researched him themselves.. either way, none of the children nor adults featured say anything illuminating or interesting at any point. Just crap.