These Other Clowns
Are the Stuff of Nightmares
By Desiree Pore
If you think we’re making up our fear of clowns well, we’re not. There’s even an appropriate term for it; Coulrophobia is the technical term for fear of clowns. With the release of It, we can’t help but stay away from children’s parties. And sewers, for that matter.
Aside from Pennywise, these other clowns from horror movies made us rethink of going to the bathroom at midnight.
Doll, Poltergeist
If there’s anything even more frightening than clowns, well it’s haunted dolls. In the film, the clown doll is seen terrorizing the family, and acts as a distraction so that other ghosts can claim the little girl, Carol Anne. A haunted clown doll isn’t something we would want in our house, tbh.
The Laugh, Amusement
A clown with full-on makeup is already terrifying, what more a nose-less clown? Amusement is an anthology horror film that tells the story of Tabitha Wright, Lisa Swan, and Shelby Leds as they are being stalked and hunted by a serial killer. This serial killer turned out to be a person from their past holding a grudge against them.
Kent McCoy, Clown
We’re all here for clowns with sad backgrounds; just like in Clown, where a father finds a clown suit for his son’s birthday party only for him to realize that the suit is haunted. Wait until you get to the part where he tries to take off the red nose.
Twisty the Clown, American Horror Story: Freak Show
We all know that if we want to satisfy our horror cravings, we’ll tune into American Horror Story, and the show never disappoints. On AHS: Freak Show, we were introduced with the character of Twisty the Clown. Behind his awfully terrifying appearance is a traumatizing past; he was dropped on his head when he was a baby causing a minor mental disability, because of their jealousy, some of the freaks from the carnival spread a lie that he was molesting children, his alcoholic mother died, he attempted suicide by shooting himself, only to earn his now disfigured face.
