Justin Moritz, a professionally trained clown, weighs in on the clown horror subgenre and why these figures are so terrifying ...

Getty Images It wasn’t long before Hollywood exploited the "killer clown" concept -- from the 1982 movie “Poltergiest,” that featured a scary clown doll under a child’s bed, to the 1988 ...

The scary-clown fad has real-life clowns scratching their wig-covered heads. “A professional clown would never want to scare a child,” Cedarholm said. “It cracks me up when these thugs and ...

This terrified many folks, but as fans of clown movies, we were delighted by most of the sightings. If you enjoy this horror subgenre as much as we do, be sure your streaming queue includes the 21 ...

I used to find the idea of “creepy clown horror movies” as a subgenre kind of odd because people in white makeup, big red noses, ridiculous wigs, and colorful baggy clothes never scared me as ...

In 2020, horror novelist Adam Cesare published Clown in a Cornfield, a Midwestern Gothic tale of small-town terror, murderous clowns, naive, big-city interlopers and a lot of butchered teenagers.

The scary clown has become a horror staple. It can be hard to imagine a time when clowns were regularly invited to children's birthday parties and hospital wards – not to terrorize, but to ...

This got me thinking about all of the clowns haunting the horror genre on screen (and on social media). So, I went down a never-ending rabbit hole where I visited many creepy clowns. The kind from ...

One of the breakout crowdpleasers of SXSW 2025 was “ Clown in a Cornfield ,” Eli Craig ‘s twisty slasher flick about a small Midwestern town that struggles to navigate life after the corn syrup ...