Review of Clownhouse (1990) by Richard C — 09 Aug 2012

Watching Clownhouse now is a little creepy especially considering what happened on set between the director and his young lead actor. As a film and thats how it should be judged it's a mixed bag. The concept is a little creepy but the execution comes off a little generic.

A staple of the time it was made in it suffers from many of the genre cliches it may have been partially inspired. Although ultimately just an extended episode of Are you afraid of the Dark the film ultimately succeeds at being creepy for the wrong reasons like overlong closeups of his young actor in a bathtub or underwear.

But look i'm trying to be as focused on the film as possible when talking about this but it's hard to keep the history out of viewing this film. which is a sad thing, a very sad thing.