Gingerclown

Well, if Tim Burton directed this movie, it might have been a masterpiece. Unfortunately, he didn't and it's far from a masterpiece.

It's not the 80's style that disappointed me. I love 80's flicks especially the cheesy horror ones. This film just seemed so rushed and sloppily put together. The actors were lame and the creatures could have been in the movie a bit more.

On the bright side, some favorites in horror movies do the voices for the clowns including Tim Curry who was Pennywise and Brad Douriff who was Chucky. Also set in an abandoned amusement park in Hollywood. Horror movies about clowns in amusement parks pretty much sell me especially with these voices.

Overall the whole idea was cool, but the execution was poor. Only watch it if your curious.

I was at the actual world premiere of the movie (which was fully occupied, I don't know what the other reviewer is actually talking about...) and I can see, why many people will have their issues with the movie.

You need to understand, that if the trailer says "In the style of the 80ies", it REALLY means "In the style of the 80ies". It is having all the clishés over and over, that teenagers from now will hardly enjoy this. Gingerclown is clearly a genre movie.

So if you are an eighties child, you'll be more friends with this flick, but unfortunately still it's having several issues.

The actors are quite bad (most of all the woman and her endless yelling/screaming made my ears bleed), there is hardly anything you'd call horror, almost no gore and many of the scenes feel unreasonably stretched. You'll need a lot of patience.

Also the ending...Well, see it for yourself.

I liked the monsters though, even if mostly only their heads were built properly. They had their charm, the famous voice actors had surely their fun. They could've gotten a bit more airtime, but it was okay.

It had some funny moments too, but overall the movie was unfortunately a letdown, it's hard to call this a horror-comedy, when it's not that funny or scary. They tried too hard with all the nostalgic things what made many of the 80ies movies so bad, it was a bit too much in the end.

Gingerclown didn't even look like a clown. The effects were poor. The acting was poor. The ending was bizarre. The beginning of the film was the best bit because it was funny in how bad it was. The rest wasn't even laughably bad, it was just god awful.

I do watch strange movies all the time and this ranks as one of them. Although it does have the added "value" of all those known actors (starting with Tim Curry to Lance Henriksen and some others), lending their talent to this. You might wonder how they got involved, but I reckon it might have been easy money for them.

Clichés aside (Jocks bullying a nerd into going into a haunted place, GF of Jock turning against him and going with the shy "fella" and many more) this has some interesting choices in "monsters". I'm not sure how we're supposed to be scared of them, rather than mildly bemused and completely bewildered. Also completely annoyed ... A strange movie with more than just a clown, though no guarantee you'll have a good time ...

This film begins with a small group of high school students getting drunk in their cars on a hill overlooking the city of Los Angeles. The leader of this group is a loud-mouthed football player named "Biff" (Michael Cannell-Griffiths) who has a high opinion of himself and enjoys bullying everyone who crosses his path. His girlfriend "Jenny" (Erin Hayes) realizes that he is a jerk but, like everyone else in the group, tolerates it for the most part. However, Biff takes things a bit too far when he physically intimidates a student named "Sam" (Ashley Lloyd) into spending several hours in a nearby amusement park which has been closed due to safety concerns. This enrages Jenny who decides to break up with Biff and subsequently climbs the fence in an effort to help Sam out. What neither of them realize is that this amusement park is inhabited by a malignant being who delights in murder and mayhem and is only too happy to have two innocent people venture into his lair. Now rather than reveal any more I will just say that I thought this film had some really good potential with good sets and a cast which showed promise. Unfortunately, not only were the costumes extremely inadequate but the script needed significant improvement as well and--coupled with the lack of horror and suspense--I couldn't maintain much interest in this film. Again, this film had some potential, but it wasn't realized and for that reason I have rated it accordingly. Below average.