Clowning Around 2022
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“Clowning Around” is a short horror film that’s available to watch on youtube. The film is less than 10 minutes, a quick watch. The main idea to the movie is that it’s Sara’s birthday, but her friend cancels plans with her because they have to work. Sara goes to get a bottle of champagne, and when she gets home, she gets a creepy package delivered by a clown. When she opens the box, there’s a tablet that reveals that the clown was following her and took pictures of her inside her house, while she was out shopping, as right as she went inside her house after accepting the package! This made me laugh, because it was so stupid! How did the evil clown take a picture of her, after she took the tablet, then put the picture on the tablet?!
Sara calls the cops, but it’s obviously the clown, who tells her to open the door. The door magically opens but no-one is there. She turns the corner in her house to see the clown standing outside her sliding glass doors. For whatever reason, despite it being night time, she had her blinds wide open, for everyone to see! I mean, no wonder the clown was stalking her. He could just look inside!
The clown magically pops into the apartment and hammers Sara to death. The next scene shows her bloody at a desk, with a happy birthday hat on. The clown takes her phone and reads her texts for some reason, I guess he just wanted to be nosey? The friend texts Sara talking about how a customer clogged the toilet or something, and they wished they could go drink with her. The clown then gets the idea to haunt the friend, then poofs into thin air. The movie ends with a picture of the clown trying to torment the friend, and they stated that they quit their job.
Overall, the movie is cheesy, but I laughed! I think that it was pretty amazing how quickly they established some plot points; a full length movie surely would have fleshed out the stalking scenes more. I think this film is more like a “proof of concept”, of something that could be made into a full length movie if it were ever given the chance. Yes, there are other creepy clown movies, but I welcome them; anything about clowns is always entertaining, especially anything low budget. I could definitely see this being fleshed out if written properly, though it would have to establish some sort of background about the clown. As far as we see as viewers, this evil clown just shows up, but we never know why.
I give this movie 3 slimes.
My video: https://youtu.be/HUxQYua6u7U
