From the director and writer team that gave us Marvel Studios beloved Spider-Man trilogy comes “Clown”, a grisly story about a loving father who dons a cursed clown outfit and unwittingly becomes the avatar for a murderous Icelandic demon. What fun! It’s a subtle trend that Marvel hires horror creators due to the fact that they are able to produce effective movies with lower budgets, essentially proving themselves worthy of a large blockbuster budget. This film was produced by Eli Roth, who also makes a brief appearance in the film. "Clown" is also a great film to those that love body horror, so you easily watch this with "Killer Klowns From Space" or "The Fly".
Kent is a loving husband and father and takes the task of donning a clown outfit that he finds in a house he is preparing to sell when the clown that was hired for his son's birthday doesn't show up. A smash at the party, Kent falls asleep in the clown outfit, and in the morning, he finds that he can't remove the wig, take off the nose, of pull off the outfit. He's forced to go to work in the clown outfit and tries once again to remove it but ends up hurting himself. When he arrives home, his wife Meg is able to pull off the nose but doing so causes Kent extreme, blood pain. It seems that he's become one with the outfit.
Kent tracks down the owner of the outfit, who warns him not to touch it. The mysterious man, Karlsson,played by Peter Stomare (Bad Milo), knows the history of the outfit, explaining that it is the embodiment of an Icelandic demon known as the Cloyne, who must consume a child for every month of winter. Karlsson drugs Kent in order to decapitate him, but Kent awakes and escapes in time. Unfortunately for Kent, he begins to change into the demon, slowly becoming possessed and giving in to his hunger for small children. Trying to resist the demon, Kent tries to kill himself, with disastrous results.
Finally, the demon takes control, and the feeding begins. His first meal was Robbie, who dies in an accident involving Kent's attempt to decapitate his own head. The second is a bully from his son's school. Then two more at a Chuck E Cheese. The movie is dark! For the fifth and final sacrifice, the demon goes after Kent's son. Meg tries to fight off the full demon Cloyne, but will she be able to save her son from the maniacal killer clown?
There's a great moment in the film when Meg meets Karlsson, who goes on to explain that he fell victim to Cloyne, and the only way to be set free was to devour five terminally ill children from the hospital that he volunteered at, as an entertaining clown!
