Big mistake watching this film. What made it scary for me is that i have a massive phobia of clowns! I did like this film becasue Shawnee Smith (Sandra Grant) is one of my fav actresses, she made the movie watchable because she has such talent of acting. I wonder why film makers decided to make clowns evil, out of everything in the world, they chose clowns!!
shareClown seem so funny, and they do have a reputation for being scary
shareyeah tell me bout it. i think my fear of clowns began when i was being babysat when i was little and the babysitter made me watch stephen king's IT. i was freaked. i dont see why they chose clowns to become a horror icon. WHY?
shareIn the novel, Stephen King's IT, the clown is only partially the horror icon. IT mentions that IT takes that form as a bribe, because what child doesn't love a clown? Then IT turns into something more frightening to each particular child, drawing an image, like a werewolf or a dead little brother, from their heads to scare them more. The clown is sort of underlying though, because there are always elements from the clown in each of IT's other forms, like orange puff balls from IT's suit. That movie pretty much botched the book, as far as I'm concerned, but I can understand why it would scare anyone at a young age. My six-year-old nephew saw it and wouldn't go to the bathroom by himself for a month. Personally, I did not really understand Carnival of Souls, the ending confused me. Maybe it was trying to watch it at 5 AM, or maybe I am just stupid haha.
shareCarnival of souls is a pretty confusing film, i had to watch it a few times before i actually got the end haha now that i understand whats going on lol i think its a pretty decent film but if the acting was crap i dont think i would watch it coz in a film like that you need strong emotional actors to actually make it convincing to the audience.
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Adults who disguise themselves and hang around children? That's not in any way creepy?
shareIt's really not that hard to understand peoples.
Alex was visited by her mother's killer and she drove off a dock and into the water. What we see after that is apparently her thoughts that ran through her head before she died.
But when Shawnee Smith (forgot name of her character) gets a call in the end from the carnival of souls, it means that what Alex experienced was real (it just happened in another world) and that the carnival of souls does exist.
I grew up in Sharon, PA. My doctor, who just about every child in Sharon had as a doctor, was Dr. Stypula. Nicest guy ever. I loved him. He always had clean hands and he was the mellowest person you could imagine, even though he dealt with screaming, sick children all day long.
Anyhoo, he had these paintings on the walls of his examination rooms. Some Paul Klees, which I loved because they looked like messed up string, and some watercolors. And some clowns.
I hated those paintings. Even though they were supposed to show the humanity behind the paint, all I ever saw was a bunch of grown men wearing make-up and looking creepy. Over the years, I realized that the reason I don't like clowns is because of the same reason Mister Rogers always creeped me out - I never got why grown men would have kid's shows or dress up. The concept of grown men doing this freaked me out. Why, I used to think, are these guys doing this? What's Mister Rogers' deal? Why is there no picture of his family? Is he divorced? I used to look at him talking to the puppets and think, 'There's something really wrong with this dude.' There I was, in our livingroom, having to watch freaking PBS because nothing else good was on, around eight years old, flummoxed as to why this guy needed to:
1.) change his clothes all the damned time
2.) played with toys
3.) wasn't married
4.) didn't have a real job
5.) seemed to have a different house for playtime
Looking back, I think I'd have been totally whacked out had I known the meaning of the world 'pedophile', because he could have been a poster child for the stereotype. Poor Mister Rogers.
Over the years, the concept of what clowns are only got weirder and weirder to me. I think those pictures in Dr. Stypula's office started my discomfort, and Mister Rogers pushed it to the limit.
The clown in Poltergeist didn't help matters much, you know.
By the time It came out in 1986, I was well on my way to some serious clown hate. There was no stopping the train I rode, repleat with cars carrying excess childhood baggage and a caboose stuffed full of emerging adult knowledge. Nope. No clowns for me.
Bastards.
The gene pool could use a little chlorine......
I've hated clowns since a very small age. Before I even saw one on tv.
There is just something wrong with a person having a permanent smile all the time.
The ones that can show other emotions I don't mind at all, shows they are human. Which might explain why evil clowns don't scare me much.
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Personally, clowns in general don't seem that scary to me, but I do admit that there are some creepy clowns. For starters, Pennywise from It scares me along with the Joker from The Dark Knight.
Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger
I like clowns. Never ever scared me, not even when i was little. Ive always liked them.
And for some reason when a girl dresses up like a mime or a clown, I like that a lot. sounds funny i know lol. but it looks cute