Clown in a Cornfield is a deliciously enjoyable and gory deal with

For day considered one of Halloween season viewing, would possibly I counsel tuning into Shudder’s unique movie Clown in a Cornfield? It’s the right mashup of intelligent (and bloody) kills, goofy storyline and strong appearing performances. Plus, it was directed and co-written by Eli Craig, who introduced us Tucker and Dale vs. Evil, so it’ll have some laughs inbuilt.

And although it’s not technically a Halloween-themed film, we get scenes with bonfires, cornfields and clowns, so I might name that shut sufficient.

This movie begins off with a bunch of teenagers having a celebration in Kettle Springs, Missouri. Two of them are rapidly slaughtered by somebody dressed as Frendo the Clown, the mascot of Kettle Springs’ Baypen Corn Syrup manufacturing unit.

After that, we’re despatched to the current, the place teenager Quinn and her father are transferring to Kettle Springs an undetermined time after the demise of Quinn’s mom. She is decidedly unimpressed by the place, however rapidly makes some pals at her new faculty. She appears to get fairly cozy with the mayor’s cute son Cole and his pals.

The group tells Quinn how the city roughly fell aside after a fireplace destroyed the Baypen manufacturing unit, and the way a lot of the townspeople blame them for the fireplace. For funsies, they take pleasure in filming movies that characteristic Frendo, however the funsies go away fairly rapidly as soon as it turns into evident {that a} killer Frendo is on the free.

Quinn rapidly will get into large bother together with her dad after she and her new friends are blamed for setting a float on fireplace throughout the Founder’s Day parade. Even although Quinn is grounded, teenagers are gonna do what teenagers are gonna do, and he or she sneaks out that night time with Cole to go to a celebration.

The motion amps up on the barn occasion, the place lots of people are killed in some splattery, intelligent kill scenes, and I laughed at loud at a number of scenes. At one level, the buddies discover an previous phone, and although they wish to name 911, they’ll’t work out easy methods to use the rotary dial.

Katie Douglas makes a likeable Quinn, and Carson MacCormac, Vincent Muller, Cassandra Potenza and Varity Marks are nice as her pals. Their characters are largely dumb, however not offensively so; too typically, teenagers in horror films are so obnoxious that you simply virtually WANT them to be killed.

If you’re up for a barely campy, enjoyable horror film that’s fully acceptable for Halloween hijinks, Clown in a Cornfield will be watched now on Shudder.