YMMV / Clown

• Complete Monster: The Cloyne was a clown-like being that ate five children a year for each month of winter. In the present day, it exists as a costume that allows it to possess whoever wears it, forcing the wearers to either decapitate themselves or eat five children. After it possesses Kent McCoy, it forces him to eat a child who bullied his son, Jack, before making him attack a Chuck E. Cheese's restaurant and eat two more kids. After it gains complete control over Kent, it tries to use his body to kill his entire family, solely out of petty cruelty. It snaps the neck of Kent's father in law, before trying to eat Jack and tear open the stomach of Kent's wife Meg to eat the fetus of their unborn child.
• Crosses the Line Twice: A man, alienated from his family, shooting himself in the head in a bathroom? Tragic. The rainbow blood splatter which results? Hilarious.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In this film, Peter Stormare plays a man trying to stop a Monster Clown. In Animaniacs (2020), he voices a parody of another famous Monster Clown.
• Narm: Kent's attempted suicide to try and stop Cloyne is rather dramatic and genuinely emotional. Then when Kent pulls the trigger the blood that splatters on the wall is rainbow-colored. The movie still treats the shot completely seriously regardless, and might be unnerving considering how much he has changed. It's... just a bit much.
  • After Kent has fully transformed, the Cloyne's roar sounds like the stereotypical party horn often associated with clowns. Again, the film treats this with absolute seriousness.
• Nightmare Fuel: Narm aside, the film offers some genuinely unnerving and at times horrifying moments.
  • Cloyne's design and horrific, painful transformations Kent is forced through as the possession progresses. The final form Kent takes as he attacks his own family is up there with Pennywise in terms of terrifying clowns. It looks like a demented, primitive, damn near demonic perversion of a clown, it's effective in getting the terror across.
  • The slaughter in Chuck E. Cheese has the aspects of a child being attacked and killed in a presumably safe environment shown in full effect. However fake the arm sliding into the ball pit might look, the scene still winds up being pretty nerve-wracking and chilling.
• Retroactive Recognition: Jon Watts's first feature film he made before hitting it big with Spider-Man: Homecoming.
• Tear Jerker: Jack asking his mother "is this all my fault?" Coupled with him looking at the drawing of "Dummo" makes you want to give the kid a big hug…

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