12DOVE Verdict
No laughing matter.
Pros
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Blu-ray release: 2 March 2015
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Director: Jon Watts
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Starring: Eli Roth
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Peter Stormare
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Laura Allen
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Andy Powers
Cons
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After donning a clown suit for his son’s birthday, Kent (Andy Powers) can’t get the damn thing off and then turns into a clown-demon that preys on children. Produced by Eli Roth, this monster/were-clown/possession flick has a neat premise and interesting subtexts (domestic abuse, paedophilia) but is neither as unsettling nor blackly humorous as it should be.
Perfunctorily lit and shot, it comes with a creaky backstory delivered by Peter Stormare as the suit’s previous owner, and is worth seeing only for the bit where a dog eats the clown’s nose and turns into a red-eyed savage.
Extras:
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