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 ...

Is there anything as dependable as the slasher movie formula? It waxes, wanes and winks its way through cultural cycles, but it is enduring; malleable yet sturdy, high or lowbrow (usually low), and ...

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 delight and ...

I told the BBC that clowns tend to be scary because of their exaggerated looks and evil representation in films. Obviously, the vast majority of individuals are not scared of clowns in a day-to-day ...

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 ...