Under the laws of full disclosure, I must admit that the entire "clown" sub-genre had worn out it's welcome with me about a year or so ago. However, I admittedly do not give up so easily thanks to the mere fact that you never know when you'll find something you can really sink your teeth into which could essentially reinvigorate my thirst for creepy clown films.



Unfortunately, this film did not hit that mark for me.



While there are a few redeeming factors to the film including the excellent use of practical effects (up until a specific action scene that is), a fun cameo appearance by genre legend Bill Moseley where he gets to use a wide array of insulting verbiage towards a couple of his lesser circus counterparts, some cool action scenes featuring real sideshow performers and the acting of one Jisaura Cardinale who is easily able to outdo and outshine every single one of her co-stars.





From start to finish, Cardinale is easily the shining light in what some would consider, a disaster of a film.





From the start, I noticed that the dialogue was very poorly pieced together. This specific issue was seemingly corrected as the movie advanced which is a plus but these issues mixed in with the unfortunate acting provided by most of the main cast was almost too much to come back from which will likely leave the notorious "one star IMDB complainers" to state they had to shut the film off within fifteen minutes of viewing it as they "couldn't bear to watch for another moment".



The worst of it all, in my opinion, had come from the character of Donny. He was way too over the top, behaving way too goofy and silly, taking me right out of the film.



I don't like to spoil movies at all (spoilers), but his early death made things much more tolerable for the remainder of my viewing experience.

