Gags The Clown
Directed by Adam Krause
An unidentified man in Green Bay, WI has captured worldwide attention for roaming the streets dressed as a clown. Many write it off as a harmless prank, others aren't so sure.
A small city is terrorized by a mysterious clown.
Cast: Heather Duprey, Chrissy Renard, Charles Randolph-Wright, Jake Gruber
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See, this is what happens when you and your friends make plans to go out.
A synopsis of everything that’s wrong with Gen Z and why an entire generation is a failure.
Considering we (at least the we in the US) lived through a spate of mysterious clown sightings at one point (a patch of history this film refers to, even), "Clown appears, hijinks ensue" can work as the beginning of the mystery. But it needs *some* substance beyond that. All we really get to go on is "Clown bad" with no other explanation. Why is Gags terrorizing Green Bay? No clue. Why did a reporter need to go out on 'clown watch'? Got me. And the rest of the characters are just as thinly drawn--the worried cop, the worried friend, the prankster, the 'You're not my mom!" teen (even if "teen" is stretched to the realm of absurdism, as said 'teen' looks like a soccer mom with three kids of her own), the stepmom trying to be maternal, the plucky reporter hoping for bigger stories, the alt-right gun-fetishizing lunatic. . . A film needs more than tropes to survive. Most of the run time of this feels like the production team was asking for a veil to be gently drawn over the core concepts, and the prop department returned with blackout curtains. And I'm not happy with the ending. It not only doesn't answer the film's questions, but doesn't answer the end scene's questions. Still, at the end of it all, I do know one thing: I'll take Gags over Art any night of the week. For that alone, I'll give it a two-skull rating.
Not terrible. Kinda dig the vagueness of the clown’s supernatural abilities/lore, leaves things open-ended. Pleasantly surprised to see a found-footage style film that didn’t try to give me motion sickness from a shaky camera.
Make likable characters pls. Watched this with a friend and we wanted everyone to die.