7 killer clown films to haunt your nightmares before Terrifier 3

Terrifier 3 is bringing panic to the Christmas play arsenic Art The Clown returns to Miles County.

In Damien Leone’s latest instalment successful the wildly fashionable franchise, the slayer clown (played by David Howard Thornton) is backmost to bring execution and mayhem to the townspeople for the vacation season.

Meanwhile, Sienna Shaw (Lauren LaVera) is attempting to portion her beingness backmost unneurotic pursuing the events of the 2nd film, but she is soon plunged into chaos aft seeing Art return.

Terrifier 3 has already garnered rave reviews praising its gore and shocking content, with its UK premiere seeing one idiosyncratic vomit and 11 walkouts – 9 of which were during the archetypal 10 minutes.

Art The Clown is simply a horror icon, but helium is the latest successful a agelong enactment of slayer clowns that person graced our screens and haunted our nightmares.

So, let’s instrumentality a twisted travel to the circus with these 7 clown fearfulness movies that volition marque you laughter and shriek successful adjacent measure.

Clown

Before uncovering fame with the Spider-Man films, manager Jon Watts released his diagnostic debut Clown successful 2014 to terrify fearfulness fans.

The movie follows Kent McCoy (Andy Powers), a existent property cause who, erstwhile hosting a day enactment for his lad Jack (Christian Distefano) alongside his woman Meg (Laura Allen), is forced to execute arsenic a clown erstwhile the clown they hired cancels past minute.

He soon finds that the cursed suit helium discovered successful the attic to represent the quality cannot beryllium removed arsenic Ken’s beingness transforms into a nightmare.

Where to watch: StudioCanal Presents via Prime Video and Apple TV, ITVX, and disposable to rent via the Sky Store

Stitches

A acold outcry from his accustomed comedic self, Ross Noble was the worldly of nightmares successful 2012’s Stitches.

Directed by Conor McMahon, the iconic Irish fearfulness film tells the communicative of Richard Grindle (Noble), aka Stitches the clown, who is killed portion performing astatine Tommy’s (Ryan Burke and Tommy Knight) tenth day party.

Six years later, Tommy and his friends are enactment successful mortal information aft Stitches rises from the sedate and seeks vengeance connected those helium deems liable for his death.

Where to watch: Prime Video and Shudder, and disposable to rent via Apple TV and the Sky Store

Killer Klowns From Outer Space

More than 35 years since its release, Killer Klowns from Outer Space remains arsenic warped, hilarious, and disturbing arsenic ever.

The iconic 80s fearfulness movie sees teenagers Mike (Grant Cramer) and Debbie (Suzanne Snyder) witnesser a comet clang extracurricular their tiny town.

They cannot judge their eyes erstwhile a battalion of aliens who look similar clowns embark connected a murderous rampage done the town, with the section authorities they pass believing their claims to beryllium a prank.

Where to watch: Prime Video, Freevee, and disposable to rent via the Sky Store

31

Rob Zombie has fixed america not one, but 2 iconic fearfulness clowns (more connected that later).

Starring Malcolm McDowell, Sheri Moon Zombie, and Richard Brake, 31 follows 5 carnival workers with are kidnapped connected Halloween eve by 5 homicidal clowns.

Their captors unit them to play a twisted crippled called 31 successful which they are chased done a maze by the clowns successful a contention of beingness oregon death.

Where to watch: Prime Video and Shudder, and disposable to rent via Apple TV and the Sky Store

Fear Of Clowns

Fear Of Clowns, released successful 2004, volition springiness you precisely what it states.

The movie centres connected creator Lynn Blodgett (Jacqueline Reres) who suffers from progressively horrifying nightmares owed to her fearfulness of clowns, dreams that person gotten worse pursuing her divorce.

She soon finds herself stalked by a terrifying clown who resembles the nonstop monster she has been painting.

Where to watch: Prime Video and Plex, and disposable to rent via Apple TV

House Of 1000 Corpses

Zombie graces this database erstwhile much with the archetypal movie successful his legendary Firefly trilogy – House Of 1000 Corpses.

Sheri Moon stars successful different of his projects alongside Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Rainn Wilson, and much successful the movie that centres connected a radical including 2 couples travelling crossed America to constitute a publication astir roadside attractions.

After gathering the antithetic clown Captain Spaulding (Haig) astatine his macabre attraction, the radical find themselves astatine the hands of the murderous Firefly household portion looking for assistance owed to car trouble.

Where to watch: Shudder via Prime Video, and disposable to rent via Apple TV and the Sky Store

IT

While it whitethorn not person been the archetypal clown fearfulness film, the archetypal adaptation of Stephen King’s IT has been rumoured to person sparked an summation successful coulrophobia- aka a fearfulness of clowns.

Released arsenic a miniseries successful 1990, IT is acceptable successful the fictional municipality of Derry, Maine, which is plagued each 27 years erstwhile a mysterious being – that takes the signifier of Pennywise The Dancing Clown – abducts and murders the children of the town.

It is up to a radical of 7 misfits to bring the clown’s vicious spree to an extremity and escaped the municipality of Derry of an past evil that the adults look to beryllium oblivious of.

The movie was remade successful 2 parts by Andy Muschietti successful 2017 and 2019 respectively – which are some disposable to rent via Prime Video, Apple TV, and the Sky Store.

Where to watch: Available to rent via Prime Video, Apple TV, and the Sky Store

Terrifier 3 is released successful cinemas connected October 11.

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