Like a bad Stephen King story
16 January 2007
Warning: Spoilers
I have genuinely enjoyed every episode of this series so far. However, this is the only one that has prompted me to make a comment. All of the elements of this story--the revenge from beyond the grave, the mistakes of childhood, etc--have all been done before. Rarely have I seen them executed so poorly. You may get some enjoyment out of it if you already have a latent fear of clowns, but I suspect that living, real clowns are scary enough. Having a dead, demonic clown go "IIIIIICCCE CREEEEEEEAM!!!" for 55 minutes isn't scary--it's just ridiculous. The show could have done something interesting with the idea of children wanting to kill their parents, but instead is more interested in doing a crappy knock-off of "It" (another story that did not translate well to screen). Note to filmmakers: if you want to create suspense, don't establish immediately in the first minute that there IS, in fact, a demented clown that has returned from the dead and is melting people. Bah! Wasted potential.
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