This week saw the opening of the film sequel to IT ("Chapter Two"). This is one of over 50 films to date rooted in individuals' fear of clowns, known as coulrophobia. Obviously this is not my ...

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His nose was round and bright red, his face white as a sheet. His mouth was surrounded by an exaggerated smear of red makeup and his arched eyebrows hung ridiculously high on his forehead. Such was ...

This September marks the second attempt to translate Stephen King’s massive, culrophobia-inducing novel It into audio-visual form, with the first of two planned movies dramatizing the evil that ...

They didn’t start out to scare anyone. Clowns have held a favored, albeit slightly outcast place throughout history – first, as comic relief to those in power, performing magic tricks, pranks or ...

First things first. The makers of It Chapter Two know that the ending of the book is a mess. They know the miniseries ending felt obligatory rather than natural. And they show us they know by having ...

Warning: In so much as a documentary can contain major “plot points,” this review reveals them. It’s too bad, because the story of Wrinkles The Clown and the public reaction to his antics is funny, ...