Clown in a cornfield movie review (2025)

“Clown in a Cornfield” tries to change the expectations around the modern Slasher’s film, keeping viewers on the fingers about what is happening in this small town that seems to be the assault klaun’s assault. The type of “this” meets “Scream“Energy courses through the film by Eli Craig, one that is smart enough and exciting in bloody gusks, even if he never reaches its true potential. Like the children at the root of horror images for likes, it is ultimately a bit shallower than it should be. Like real clowns, it is a bit scary and a bit funny, but often too. Despite this, fans of the genre should be happy enough from some high -quality killings from the director “Tucker and Dale vs. Evil. ” Sometimes it is really important for such a movie. In the end everyone loves the clown.

Working with the co -author of Blanchard Carter, Craig adapts a novel of the same name Adam Cesare, a story that will regain Eli Roth “Thanksgiving“In mixing the dark history of the city with young people trying to write their own future. Katie Douglas, the star of “Ginny & Georgia”, is an effective queen shouting as Sidney Prescott of this story, Quinn Maybrook, who moved from Philadelphia to the factory city of Kettle Springs, Missouri, a place that suffered a farm fall, which affected so many cities in this country when the factory closed. In this case, this is not coal or a car, but something sweeter: the Baypen corn syrup factory, which closed and then burned down in the act of setting fire to the city of Bad Boy Cole Hill (Carson Maccormac) and his friends, including Matt (Alexandre Martin Deakin), Tucker (Ayo Solanke), Trudy (Dina Leitold) and Jahet (Cassandra Potenza). One of the many small changes here is that the group that would be the most popular children in most Slasher photos are perceived as enemies by everyone in the city.

Cole’s innocence protesting in arson was not helped by the fact that he and his buddies distorted the image of the Baypen figure, a smiling clown named Frendo, creating viral films in which joyful claun becomes violent. After meeting a teacher who clearly attacks these teenagers, he ends with pulling Quinn into the same net, begins to flirt with Cole, which her doctor, Dad (Aaron Abrams), considers it dangerous, partly because of what Sherf Dunne (Will Sasso) talks about this group defeating claunors. How Kevin Durand The drow of the scenery as Cole’s rich father, things begin strange and bloody. Does Frendo actually come alive as a villain in the Pennywise style? Or maybe something else happens?

“Clown in a Cornfield” builds an impressive sequence when the teen party “trembles” with more and more crazy death. Energy in these sequences and other death scenes “Clown” are sufficient, but I still hoped that emotions would build something more satisfying than the blunt exposure drop, which literally follows someone that is happening in the last act here. It is difficult to write about some poorly developed themes of “Cornfield” without spoiling it, so forgive vagueness, but I decided that Craig’s film is much more interesting when he was allowed to be chaotic instead of explaining chaos.

Of course, he is not a spoiler to say that Cole, Quinn and their buddies are misunderstood by the old -fashioned community around them. This is a common subject of horror, especially those that influenced this project: children will have to be alone, because the generation has sold them before them, they are useless or both. Craig cleverly manages his film with charming young performers, especially an excellent Douglas, and then prevents them from supporting the cast of disgusting, worthless adults (other than Father Quinn, effectively played by Abrams). If the parts of “clown in a cornfield” are undercooked, it is almost forgiving not only for bloody makeup, but the place where the film lands: real clams are people who try to stop the next generation.

This review was made of the world premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. Opens on May 9^th.