Clown In A Cornfield as a film about a teenager and her doctor dad moving from a big city to a small rural town to start a new family practice, and then the town gets overrun by killer clowns.
And, honest to god, the most unbelievable part of this film wasn’t the tons of killer clowns, or a doctor leaving a well paying city job to a hostile, underpaid rural job… it was that there were minorities in this rural, conservative Missouri town.
Seeing a conservative population not lynching minorities in 2025 is so unheard of that you can’t even put it in a movie about killer clowns because it’s too unrealistic.
That being said, when I realised it was a thematic choice, it was actually quite a fun movie. It was directed by the Tucker And Dale guy, had Will Sasso, and there were a bunch of killer clowns with various weapons such as bats and chainsaws.
Normally horror doesn’t make you think. But not only was this story extremely relevant, and not only can I literally see it happening in Missouri in 2025, but the fact that seeing a certain subset of Americans not harassing minorities 100% of the time was the most outlandish part… well, fuck us I guess.
Anyways, moral of the story: the clowns had chainsaws, there were also explosions, and Will Sasso.
