Super Happy Fun Clown (FrightFest 2025 Evaluation)

Super Happy Fun Clown, directed by Patrick Rea, has its UK premiere at London’s FrightFest 2025, however it can depart audiences feeling something however tremendous completely satisfied. When workplace employee and part-time clown Jen (Jennifer Seward) lastly snaps after years of emotional turmoil by the hands of her mom and her husband, she decides to turn out to be as well-known as her favorite serial killer idols by committing a homicide spree on Halloween, her favorite vacation. Whilst at first look this movie could seem like a enjoyable rampage of villainous glee, the enjoyment stops there because the viewers is as a substitute force-fed a badly scripted and shallow mess that is similar in its strategy to psychological well being as Joker: Folie à Deux, and that isn’t meant in a complimentary method.

Main character Jen is continually making illogical choices, which some will argue is because of her psychological decline, however others may be put all the way down to poor writing and a lack of knowledge of the feminine perspective in a method that feels akin to incel tradition. Sexual acts for the sake of lewdness, a craving for consideration from a convicted paedophile husband, and an overbearing Karen-style mom whose solely character trait appears to be exploiting her kids all really feel very lazy. On high of this, the scene with a pressured lesbian encounter involving a scare maze actress is extremely male gaze-focused in a method that feels icky and pointless. All in all, if this have been going to be a sluggishly written movie a few girl who goes loopy for being unseen, it could have been higher to go even shallower with out the ‘deep reasoning’ it tries to justify as a method for males to get their rocks off.

To add to this mess, the detectives chasing Jen, performed by Nicole Hall and Matt Leisy, lack any type of character to make them likable or entertaining, with pressured makes an attempt at humour, akin to a phobia of horses, constantly falling flat. Their police procedures and protocols go fully out the window, with no concern for search warrants and even ethics by the top of the movie. The solely optimistic to Super Happy Fun Clown could be the kills. Admittedly, it nonetheless suffers from price range constraints with poorly executed CGI fireplace and bullet holes, however different moments did convey a smile to this author’s in any other case unimpressed face because the fixed provide of potential homicide weapons by no means appears to expire.

The ultimate concern to flag is whether or not Jen needs to be clowning part-time in any respect. It seems that she merely units up a stand in her native park, taking part in with kids and making balloon animals for suggestions, with none signal of a authentic enterprise or license to be doing this in public. The kids (and typically adults) within the park additionally by no means appear to be having a superb time both, resulting in additional concern about whether or not this a part of Jen’s life is even actual. Super Happy Fun Clown is making its UK debut at Frightfest on 24 August, the place audiences will be capable to make their very own choice about if this clown ought to have been allowed close to kids even earlier than her homicide spree.

Super Happy Fun Clown had its UK premiere at FrightFest 2025 on 24 August