“ Gag the clown ” leans in an urban legend which was perhaps not a legend

It has been almost a decade for an epidemic of clown observations scared people, first in the United States, then later around the world. A clown in the right context is not necessarily scary, but a random clown appearing Without obvious objective is horror film equipment. And, in fact, part of the frightening clown epidemic of 2016 can be traced at Gags the clownAn undes upstream that has transformed intelligent basic marketing into a cascade which has become viral.

Gags the clown was released in 2018, which means 2017 of Andy Muschietti He First knocked out his giant shoes in the pop-cultural conversation. (Remember the “clowns only” projections that Drafthouse Alamo organized at the time?) Creepy was released in 2016, but Art The Clown did not reach the status of consumer monster until he was held in 2022. And while Gags For having played with a much smaller audience, you only need to dig into the Green Bay Press Gazette archives to discern its lasting impact.

In an article published on August 10, 2016, the newspaper reported that photos allegedly showed that local observations of a “sinister clown with a pouch of black balloons” were in fact “the first salvo of an online marketing campaign for a short film produced locally”. The article underlined a Facebook page – created a week earlier by the filmmaker of Green Bay Adam Krause – Annoucing GagsA short film. He hoped that the article noted: “He and other people involved in the film could use social media to create a small viral campaign that would reach a few hundred people.”

As we know now, clown’s observations have become one of the largest strange news in 2016. Even if it started as a way to arouse interest in a short film, the phenomenon supported in a nightmare, many people do not even realize that they had until they start reading new ones in nature. Gags The short film was released in 2016, but you must assume that Krause knew that he had grasped a certain type of magic, and the feature film Gags the clown follow up.

Clown in a cornfieldA horror film on the theme of the clown, SO SPLASHY that he obtained his own activation during the recent Comic-Con San Diego, strikes this week. It is therefore logical that the streamer wanted to strengthen his clown inventory – you can also look at several Hell House, LLC Films there, as well as the first appearances of art the clown All Hallows’ Eve– by bringing Gags In the fold this week too.

Gags And Wheat field The two dig the idea of the observations of a killer clown, but Gags Assesses its history through images found assembled from different sources through a night filled with misfortune to Green Bay: phones, video surveillance sequences, police cameras, new breaks, etc. The film follows various groups when they react to the clown phenomenon. There is the determined journalist who insulted that her boss put her on the gags – until she understands an angle that she will certainly be her ticket for a pulitzer. There are annoyed teenagers who decide to grasp a clown costume and to ignite people will be absolutely hilarious. There are the cops trying to maintain peace in the middle of chaos on the theme of the circus. And then there is the right -wing podcastor and the livestreame which decides that it is up to him to do justice for the vigilance against the joker in balloon which narrated his city.

Although Gags is clearly capable of making his disaster promise, he doesn’t really need it. No amount of staby violence can compete with the psychological terror which it emits while respecting. Do not speak, do not move other than to appear and to disappear suddenly, and to paralyze an entire population by simply or even in mind when it is the least awaited. He is not theatrical like Pennywise or Art; Instead, he’s just there … Looking at. The imagination makes overtime to fill all the possibilities of what it could plan or what it could do next.

Gags the clown finally sprinkle in an explanation and a motivation just enough – in the great tradition of Blair Witch projectIt is always a good idea to listen carefully when an old guy appears with exposure – and he also offers a lot of body horror along the way. There is an unequal game that could distract a less indulgent spectator, but the clown and his threat aura are extremely effective. The fact that this film on clown’s observations helped to generate a legitimately disturbing rash of real Clown observations? It just adds another bizarre layer of delight.

Gags the clown is now streaming on chills; Clown in a cornfield Arrives on thrill and AMC + August 8.

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