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 factory ...

Horror movies about clowns are their own specific breed of awesome. Some of the best horror movies out there center around the diabolical sweetness -- or lack thereof -- of clowns, so there's no ...

Clowns have been known for being more frightening than funny for the longest time in the horror genre. There is a reason why the fear of clowns has its own term, "coulrophobia." What was once a ...

Coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, is considered to be one of the most common phobias. Approximately 10% of surveyed individuals report having severe coulrophobia, while an estimated 50% report some ...

Even the people who are supposed to like clowns—children—supposedly don’t. In 2008, a widely reported University of Sheffield, England, survey of 250 children between the ages of four and 16 found ...

“If we don’t educate, we’re a dying breed,” says a panelist at a Dallas convention for the World Clown Association, which skews toward an older generation. More than 100 clowns gathered at Renaissance ...

David Arquette bought the rights to Bozo the Clown in 2022. Instagram/@davidarquette David Arquette knows clowns have gotten a bad rap in the last few years with Pennywise from “It” and Twisty the ...