TITLE: ClownTown
ITN Distribution
DIRECTOR: Tom Nagel
WRITER: Jeff Miller
CAST: Brian Nagel, Lauren Elise, Andrew Staton, Katie Keene, Jeff Denton
RATED: Unrated (Violence, Language)
RUNNING TIME: 82 minutes
SPECIAL FEATURES: None
DVD and VOD RELEASE: October 4, 2016

Two couples (Brian Nagel, Lauren Elise, Andrew Staton, Katie Keene) are travelling through Ohio when they stop at a diner. Their GPS goes on the fritz and they have to ask for directions. After driving for some time they get lost, and one of the girls realizes she lost her phone. They call her phone and the man whom answers tells them to meet him in a nearby town called Clinton so they can retrieve the phone.  Once they arrive in the town, they are witness to an attack on a poor sap at the hands of some guys dressed up as clowns. They give chase and the couples get separated. They must find their way back to one another and get the hell out of town alive.

The Good: I’ve got nothing.

The Bad: The filmmakers were seemingly depending on the fact that coulrophobia is a thing, so let’s make the villains clowns with no other reason behind it. The acting was fairly bad. The practical make-up and effects were cheap. The story did not make any sense. If I were the chick who lost her phone, I would’ve gotten a new phone. There’s no way I’m going to some town in BFE to get it back. That’s like scary movie 101.

I’m not one to buy into conspiracy theories, but with all these clown sightings, I’m starting to think it’s some lame attempt to draw attention to this film. The film opens with a babysitter that gets murdered in a house, and then 15 years later the town is ghosted and terrorized by killer clowns. What the hell did clowns have to do with anything? They couldn’t spring for much makeup or practical effects, so they decided clown make up would be kitsch enough to skate on.

ACTING: D
STORY: F
TECHNICAL: D
TOTAL RATING: D-
REVIEWED BY: JM Willis