![]() ![]() ![]() These last two stand out from the previous pack for a couple of reasons: Both came out this year, and both offer a moderately fresh approach to the subgenre. By 1998 “carnival” meant “clown,” and “clown” meant “murder.” ![]() The latter film illustrates how much had changed in the 30 years since the original Carnival of Souls. Carnival of Souls takes the title from an 1962 art-horror classic and applies it to an only tangentially similar story about a young woman stalked by a sicko clown. Clownhouse is more of a home-invasion thriller with metaphorical overtones, about three criminally insane mental patients who escape from a supervised furlough by swiping the garb of carnival employees and breaking into the house of a boy who’s been told over and over that he needs to confront his fear of clowns. Killer Clowns is a quasi-comedy, but with makeup effects so grotesque that it’s horrifying anyway. Here the trope becomes more ingrained-so much so that a movie like Killer Klowns from Outer Space can treat colorful monsters with warped faces as a world-ending threat, with only a minimal amount of snark. This batch represents the next evolution in normalizing anti-clown hysteria.
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