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Whatever drugs these guys are on


So I found these comments about the movie (below). All I have to say to that is whatever drugs these people were taking that made them think Hitchcock when watching this horrible movie well I definitely need to get my hands on.

Dead Clowns -- about the return of circus clowns who drowned in a train accident during a hurricane fifty years ago -- Stars Brinke Stevens and Debbie Rochon. It was released in the UK in 2004, with a US release pending.“[O]ne of the most effective indie horror films I've seen in years . . . on the brink of terrifying.“ - bloody-disgusting.com. “Managing to be creepy, atmospheric, freaky, fun and frightening, 'DEAD CLOWNS’ is a wonderful low budget horror movie that kept me in suspense and freaked me out with it's clever ending. … Fans of low budget horror movies have to see this . . . one of the classiest and creepy shockers since the hey day of the horror in the 80's,” wrote www.sexgoremutants.co.uk. Said Unspeakablemag.com, "Think Hitchcock by way of Fulci's Zombi..." The movie featured music by Rock City Morgue and Switchblade Symphony.

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It just goes to show the fact that someone trying to sell you dog crap in a brown paper bag can tack a review on it by Joe Schmoe of Ireviewthings.com who never even looked in the bag. "The brown paper packaging is amazing - I've never seen 75% post consumer recycled goods look so new!"

Go check out the websites that gave the reviews!

- Unspeakablemag.com doesn't even exist anymore. It's yet another one of those "We're a website... yeah, you know we are. Just click on the big ad and buy us!" places that you can make your own for dirt cheap. Probably costs more to buy the site than "Dead Clowns" had in their entire budget.

- sexgoremutants.co.uk looks pretty cheesy at first glance, but I gave it a chance and dug into the Reviews section to find their review for "Dead Clowns." Ready to be entertained?

" Although working with a simple premise, writer/director Steve Sessions (MALEFIC; CADAVER BAY) fails to maintain momentum, due to a series of ridiculously stretched-out scenes that kill any sense of tension. Even the set-pieces are drawn out to the point of exhaustion. And Sessions' dull score doesn't help either. This is just boring! . . . I should've known what to expect when a Kiss-style rock song ("Falling Apart" by Rock City Morgue) played over the opening shots of bays and docks, and I saw Debbie Rochon's name appear first in the titles ...!?!"

Nowhere in this review on the website do I see the quotes listed up top. Hmmm... I actually feel this review gives the film a little too much credit. He states that part of the problem is that "Dead Clowns" focuses on too many characters: Let's see - a cast of give or take 10 characters should not be difficult to manage, even on a small budget. You don't have to go into a detailed backstory for each character where they get a major expository scene - "Well I was raised all my life here in Port Emmet, my dad beat me in a drunken rage every Tuesday night, and blah blah blah" - but you need to have a solid sense of your characters beyond "I'm a metal rocker criminal with long hair and a sadistic streak, but I'll suddenly go good" which was the only character with some semblance of depth at all. Give a few characters good development, then let some of the others at least have names we see beyond the credits that establish them as characters before you kill them. Because with writing like this, Cardboard has more feeling and depth.

Anyway, moving on...
bloodydisgusting's review is definitely more friendly to the film, but whacks pretty hard where it needs to. The review blurb the OP quotes is just about the nicest part of the review. And "On the brink of terrifying" is part of a longer statement, where he's saying the film moved about as slow as a zombie itself. I find it interesting that he says putting Brinke Stevens and Debbie Rochon in the film immediately force it into B-movie status.

B-movie? I'd say more like F-movie.

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