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Dead Clowns | 
| Director: Steve Sessions
Actors: Brinke Stevens, Debbie Rochon, Eric Spudic, Jeff Dylan Graham, Robyn Griggs
Studio: Lionsgate
Category: DVD
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Rating:  1 reviews
Format: Import, Ac-3, Dolby, Ntsc, Subtitled, Widescreen
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 21548
UPC: 012236215486
EAN: 0012236215486
ASIN: B000QCQUN8
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: July 31, 2007
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Not only those suffering from coulrophobia should avoid "Dead Clowns" August 22, 2007
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
An abnormal or exaggerated fear of clowns is known as coulrophobia. It is not an uncommon fear among children (e.g., Chuckie Finster on "Rugrats," Chris Griffin on "Family Guy") and sometimes manifests itself in teenagers (e.g., Xander Harris on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Haley James on "One Tree Hill") and adults ((e.g., Cosmo Kraemer on "Seinfeld," Alan Shore on "Boston Legal," and Adrian Monk on "Monk"). So the idea of zombie clowns could be pretty scary, but that is not really the case with "Dead Clowns," yet another DVD from the folks at Lions Gate to prove that the films they select for Horrorfest are no where near the bottom of their barrel of horror films. br / br /You know this film is in trouble as soon as you hear the back story: Once upon a time a circus was coming to town, but as the train was crossing the bridge over the bay a big storm wiped out the bridge, the train, and all the clowns (what happened to the rest of the circus is not clear, thereby setting up a whole series of sequels like Dead Elephants, Dead Bare Back Riders, so on and so forth). Local legend has it that when its raining you can hear circus music and now another big storm is brewing. In other words, the new storm is going to bring all these dead clowns up from the sandy bottom of the ocean and they are going to start killing people for apparently no logical reason whatsoever. We never really learn enough about these victims to rejoice in their demises, but then most of them do not have names and appear in the credits as Weather Reporter, Tormented Woman, or Girl with Shotgun. br / br /"Dead Clowns" is written and directed by Steve Sessions ("CREMAINS," "Malefic"), who also did the music for this 2003 horror film, so pretty much everything was under his control. More than anything else this film reminds be of the Blind Dead films of Amando de Ossorio (the first of which is "La Noche del terro ciego)." The films have many things in common: a minimum of dialogue and slow moving murderous zombies that make you want to yell out to the victims "Walk away! Walk away!" Basically "Dead Clowns" is about clowns killing and eating people, so anything that gets in the way of that like character development apparently would just get in the way. br / br /The gore factor is fairly high in the last part of the film, but without anybody really saying anything or without the usually musical cues we end up being oddly detached from it all. On the one hand Sessions gets credit for trying to do things a bit differently, but on the other hand this different approach does not really work. I also have to say that the clown outfits have held up way better than they should have for all those years at the bottom of the bay, although the same cannot be said for the clowns themselves. Given the art on the cover of the DVD, I was expecting the outfits to be a lot grungier, especially when all you get to see are those oversized clown shoes. So if you want to check out a scary killer clown movie you would be better off with the 1992 mini-series "To Catch a Killer" where Brian Dennehy portrays John Wayne Gacy, or, of course, Tim Curry as Pennywise in "Stephen King's It."
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