The Horror Returns - THR - Ep. #468: The Clown At Midnight (1998) & Clown In A Cornfield (2025)

Episode Date: May 18, 2025

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Welcome back. We're going to try this again. I'm Philip. This is Brian and you are listening to the Horror Returns podcast. Lance is not with this today. But we'll start it out with Cool of the Week, man. What you got going? I checked out two movies this week, one horror, one action.

The first one is on Shudder, came out last week. It is the body horror Cinderella movie, The Ugly Stepsister. Oh, yeah. Pretty decent movie. It is subtitled, so you have to read quite a bit. Oh, what language is it in? I think it's a Swiss film. Oh, that kind of sucks.

well yeah oh well there was some decent body horror and nothing too outrageous and well in my opinion nothing too outrageous but it was it was pretty cool and it was a interesting way to tell the cinderella story from the perspective of the the step sister so where cinderella was the bad guy and the step sister is the victim in every situation let me guess well cinderella was kind of like a not even a main character really she was just she would pop in

every now and then and they would just kind of treat her like shit but she was just kind of basically a side character in this story oh okay so she wasn't like the bad guy I totally expected that to happen

if it was being made in America she'd be the bad guy guaranteed So I do recommend it. Like I said, subtitles. We got to read quite a bit. So there's that. And then I checked out a new action film in the theaters

starring Josh Hartnett called Fight or Flight. Josh Hartnett in an action film. How'd that go? He's pretty fucking badass. Really? Yeah. Okay. And I don't want to give the plot away

because I don't hear anybody really talking about it much, but if you take bullet train, the premise of bullet train, and add in the movie crank and put it all on a plane, that's fight or flight. Well, I don't hate that idea. Yeah.

So that's all I got. Okay. Well, I don't have much this week. We've had a, it's chaos. kids in work and stuff, you know. But I did check out the Netflix documentary. It's called A Deadly American Marriage.

And so it's this Irish guy has like this fairy tale life, marries his high school sweetheart has a couple kids. She dies. She has like an asthma attack one day and dies. And so now he's a single dad with two. kids. So they hire this O'Pere from America

to watch after the kids. And she looks a lot like Blake lively and is probably more crazy which should tell you something. But either way on the scale,

he's like maybe a four at best and she's like eight or nine. Wow. Yeah. So it was a little weird to start with. But he's making all the money. She apparently had a miscarriage before they got married.

And so kids, she really connected with the kids. Kids are always a thing that she's wanted. And so they get married and they move to America. Start having some issues. They're about to get divorced. And instead of letting him take the kids back to Ireland, some of this is speculation on my part, but regardless of how you think about it,

her and her dad apparently brutally murdered him one night. Now, it's possible that he was trying to attack her. That is the story that they're going with, but like,

bashed his head in multiple times with a brick that just happened to be on a nightstand. And the dad had a The 65-year-old ex-FBI agent dad had a baseball bat. Although my theory, well, I don't want to get too into it. But my theory is that he was dead before dad showed up, and he's just trying to cover for his daughter.

Anyway, it's a super interesting one. And it kind of leaves it up. It sort of presents both sides and kind of leaves it up for you to decide to have interviews with, like, his kids. who are living in Ireland with his family now and the wife and the father and the detectives and stuff that worked on the case and they're all out of jail now because

they're rich I guess I don't know fuck murder somebody you only get a couple years in jail why not American justice but it was it was a good one that's that's that's that's about all i've watched this week aside from the same trash tv that my wife makes me watch dance moms yeah still watching dance moms jojo siwa is on that is that her name siwa sawa yeah yeah i was like oh is this where she came from i don't know that anyway

all right so that's cool the week uh we'll we'll burn through this episode since lanc sitting here what it got for horror headlines? Not many. Just a little bits and stuff here and there. Micah Monroe is replacing Margaret Qualley in the psychological thriller Victorian Psycho. Micah Monroe. Is she blonde?

It follows long legs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah. I like her. And it was, like I said, she's replacing Margaret. quality, which we last seen her in the substance.

Oh, yeah. She's fantastic and super hot. Which I'm kind of bummed to find out some of those nude scenes. It wasn't her body. Well, I didn't know that. She looked pretty badass in the spandex, though. Yeah, she did. I was like, wow, I didn't know she had it like that. let's see Elizabeth Olson joins the vampire thriller Flesh of the Gods from Panos Cosmatos. He is the director of Mandy.

Okay. And the movie will also star Oscar Isaac and Kristen Stewart. The director of Mandy. That gives me hope and concerned at the same time. Let's see. Kid Cuddy is set to direct and star in the horror romance When the Light dies. All right.

Does he ever directed anything before? I don't know. This might be his debut. The guy's an artist, man. I'm down. I got a Kid Cuddy record back there. Yeah. Oh, I see it.

Yeah. I'm not really seeing any. anything big that happened. Doing a quick check. You know, that might be it for news. All right. Yep, that's it. We're headed on down to the trailer park.

Where we're being in the big, the small, and sometimes the very, very weird. Do you like that intro? Yes. What do you got? We got only one trailers. Listeners, it's going to be a quick episode. because not a lot of shit happened this week.

Well, that's good, because we are lagging way behind on our stuff. Yeah. We got the ritual directed by David Midel, starring Al Pacino and Dan Stevens. It took me a minute to realize that that was Al Pacino. Yeah, he's doing a whole, or at least trying to do a whole accent or whatever he's got going on. this is supposed to be the story that inspired the exorcist

that demons got a big ass what'd you think of the ritual uh i mean i'm definitely down dude alpuccino and dan stevens in an exorcism movie sign me up that that's all you had to say i i love i love exorcism movies i'll watch all of them yeah i it's kind of hard because the exercise set that bar so high. Yeah. But, you know, like you said,

this has Al Pacino, Dan Stevens, and it's the story that the movie is based on. So I'm definitely intrigued. Didn't really see nothing new in the trailer that just kind of stood out.

The typical possessed girl and the bones cracking and stuff like that, contortening. Yeah. There wasn't anything super exciting in the trailer. It's more about who's in it and what the story's about. Yeah.

I mean, honestly, I'm hoping for a wacky Al Pacino performance. Dan Stevens is kind of playing the straight and narrow priest and Al Pacino just flies off the handle. Oh, I do have another cool week. I clicked

on it last night. Dan Stevens is in it. There's a ah, damn it. What is that guy's name? It's also on Netflix. Tom Segrua has got a new a new series and it's like an episodic thing. Oh.

So he's a stand-up comedian, but it's all like sketch comedy stuff. It's called Bad, Bad Thoughts, I think, something like that. Anyway, so the first like episode and a half is just a big long, awful sex joke, which is funny,

but like, Very crude. And then he has this, I've only watched the first couple of episodes. And then he has this, he has this bit where he plays Stephen Seagall. And it is so funny. Yeah, I've seen, I've seen him play dress up like Steven Seagall before. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, like at first it's like young Steven Seagal where they like show a clip of his movie. He's like, hey, and then he like beats all the guys up. and then he runs off like a little. His run is hilarious. And then it shows him as old fat Stephen Seagall and he's like leaning back in a chair and he's like blocking guys with stuff. It's, it's great.

So I'll throw that in there as a tribute to Dan Stevens. Also, the kid from the Sopranos is in it. He's pretty funny. Oh, what the fuck is his name? The one that played the, one that played the son. I don't know his name. Yeah. I was going to call him AJ, but that's his character's name. All right. Do you ever check out Tom Sagar's podcast with his wife?

Your mom's house? Yeah, I've seen a couple of episodes, but it's been a while. Yeah, it's pretty funny. I'd recommend that. Tom Sagar is a funny guy, man. I like him a lot. He's like in shape now. Like the very first sketch is him as an assassin. And he shoots the wrong person like in, like in that Fast Bender movie. And then, and then he like shits his pants. It's like take his pants off and there's like shit running down his legs.

He's got a bare ass. It's, it's, yeah, it's chaotic. All right. Back to the show. Ritual hits theaters, I believe. I believe this is a theater movie. June 6, so not too far from now. All right. I'll watch this one in the theater.

That Al Pacino will bring you to the theater. And there was a new, like, teaser or something for Oz Perkins' new movie Keeper. I didn't put it on there because it's basically the main actress, like, scribbling on a pad for an hour straight. It's weird. Well, that's not much of a teaser. Yeah, which everybody knows Oz Perkins did long legs and the monkey. So I'm sure this continuous scribbling on the pad probably has something to do with the movie that is just going over my head. But I didn't put it on here for the trailer park because like I said, it's like an hour long.

And that's all she's doing is staring at the camera, scribbling on a pad. That's weird. But I don't hate it. yeah we'll see what he does i mean hopefully that's not the whole movie but we'll see that would be that would be kind of funny if they just added another 30 minutes of other stuff happening to this hour long scribbling on a pad no she's just scribbling on the pad for another 30 minutes that's a whole movie but that's the only trailer for the trailer part all right on to listener feedback

This week we shall have the podcast spotlight on Chuddle the Pod. Chuttle the Pod is a weekly horror movie podcast hosted by Brian, hey, Ross. Good name. And Sam, where they explore the darkest corners of cinema from classics to new releases with a focus on embracing the darkness with a smile and fostering a community of horror lovers according to their website. The podcast is known for its blend.

to fear, laughter, and the joy of sharing scary movies. What does Chettle mean? I got to listen to a little bit of the podcast. I was going to message them to see where the origin of the name came from, but I didn't get around to it. Yeah, I'm not sure I get it. I think I'm just going to start from the beginning of their podcast. There you go.

I'm sure that'll explain it or not. Well, it should not. That would be great. And then you're just wondering the whole time, what the fuck does this mean? Or maybe I just am not with it, and that's a new selling. Well, I'm probably right there with you because I'm still trying to understand the, what is it, brain rot words?

No. Skivety toilet and all this. That's one my daughter throws at me a lot. And I'm like, what are you? don't fucking say that let's see in regards to welcome to Derry

Michael Prezaris says can't wait for the series on HBO Max yeah should be at least getting the trailer here sometime in the next couple weeks and that's the same dude playing Pennywise right? Yeah Scars guy

okay cool in regards to to Leviathan. Eriko Maharaj says what verse in the Holy Bible talks about the Leviathan? I don't know. Yeah.

Good question. I'll look it up. But that's it for listener feedback this week. Oh, wow. Yeah, no, it's going to be super quick, which is good because we're starting super late. but our logos and intro come from Steve Carlton from the geeks

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they're all picks that we have not reviewed Oh, nice. Dave, still need your picks, buddy. Yeah, let's do it. All right, on to featured attractions. Yeah, this will be super quick. It's clown week at the horror returns. So we're going to start with The Clown at Midnight from 1998.

If you've never heard of this movie, like I haven't, there's a reason for that. Seven teenagers are stalked by a murderous clown while refurbishing an old opera house. Uh, director is Jean Pellerin, also known for Daybreak and Laser Hawk. Laser Hawk. I don't know what Laser Hawk is. Daybreak was good, though, right? It was that with Stallone? Oh, was it?

Or I don't think it or something else. I don't know. There's probably a shitload of movies that have a real similar name. I thought it was a vampire thing. Oh, is that the one he did? Is it? I don't know. The Ethan Hawk.

Oh, yeah. I don't know. Well, there you go. I think we reviewed that. I don't know. Check the spreadsheet. Writer is Kenneth J. Hall, also known for Puppet Master and Dr.

Alien. Dr. Alien sounds like something I need to watch. Probably not. Filmed on location at the Walker Theater in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The theater opened in 1907 and was designated a National Historic Site of Canada in 1991. It was renamed the Burton Cummings Theater for the Performing Arts in 2002. Wow. All right.

That's some pretty good trivia. What did you think about the clown at midnight? I try to be the positive one on this show. I try to give the benefit of the doubt to filmmakers and movies and stuff like that. But this movie is fucking garbage. Yeah. I was watching this and I was just, I just kept telling myself,

oh man, I got to fucking apologize to these guys for making them watch this movie. Because it is boring. It is not. 90s as hell with the music. It didn't even match anything. They were just like, let's play this weird fucking ska song.

Yeah, during a cleaning montage. There was a fucking cleaning montage for minutes. Yeah. I was like, the kills are not even, there's like, I guess, as far as this movie's concerned, one decent kill, it was a decapitation

that you actually get to see. but other than that. I did laugh at that one. Other than that, it's like off-screen kills and stuff like that. There's some recognizable people in the cast, Christopher Plummer.

Yeah. Who's in the movie for probably 10 minutes, hamming it up. That's where the budget went. Margo Kidder's in the movie. Original Lois Lane. Oh, yeah. She's in there for a minute.

Yeah. Ashley Banks Yeah, Tatiana Ali Yeah, she's in there She's in there for some reason This whole group of people Does not even look like they would even hang out with each other No, not at all

The music doesn't match The cast is unlikable And I felt like they didn't even like each other in the movie It's like a bad version of the Breakfast Club Yeah, even the I guess you would call him if you had to label him like the jock type guy. Yeah.

And the mean girl who are banging. They don't even like each other. Yeah. Even while they're banging. And then you got the story of somebody getting murdered by a clown. And then you flash forward years later and the main chick's like connected to it. And she keeps having these, I'm assuming psychic visions of what has happened in the past. Which makes no sense.

The mean girl does have. some great boobs though and they do show them. Yes they do. It doesn't make any sense in the movie, but yeah, because this movie played like it was PG-13. Oh, I absolutely thought it was. And then that happened and I had to hit stop. I was like, all right, everybody out. But I'm trying to summarize the story because I had checked out so long ago, like I said, when they had the musical montage playing the music that did not fit in this movie at all. I was just, I kind of threw my hands up. Yeah, it was so bad

and it went on for like four minutes too long. And then the killer, the clown that the murders were pinned on turns out to be the main girl's father. He's been locked up in this theater all these years by Christopher Plummer, who's the real murderer

and he wanted the mom, but now he wants the daughter. It got really weird at the end. Yeah, it was super eluded. I'm not sure I understood it and I really didn't need to. But I mean, I guess I can say this is another one checked off the list, but would it have ever been on my list? Probably not. I didn't even know this. Yeah. I didn't even know this movie existed. Well, I was looking for clown movies that we haven't talked about or anything that was associated with clowns.

and the movies that we actually do have on a spreadsheet kind of were like canceling out a whole bunch of other ones and then this one came up and then we mentioned it last week to Bede and Bede was low, oh, I kind of always wanted to watch that movie and I was like, okay, it might be a good one. Nope.

Nope. Yeah, I'm going to agree with you on everything that you said. I definitely checked out on the story halfway through it it was worse than I thought it was going to be and about halfway through it when the sex scene for no reason happened I mean not that I'm complaining a whole lot

but like I had it would like it didn't match the tone nothing in this movie matched the tone the the montage didn't match the tone the sex scene didn't match the tone and then they had this weird killer clown thing going on at the end one of the girls' names was walnut it was it

yeah the one that was like super into like supernatural occurrences and stuff like that oh the goofy one with like the curly hair that only showed up a couple of times yeah her name was walnut uh yeah this was this was just a really bad movie

like man I like I almost want to put it on the list with like to Jennifer and some of the others that we really shit on because this was so garbage. But it was like garbage enough for me to like not even give a shit. Like I forgot everything that happened in this movie immediately after watching it. So there's that.

All right. Scores on this one. What do you think? One. One. Yeah. I, yeah, I think it's a one. I mean, I, I, Christopher Palmer can only do so much.

And, uh, I, you know, I don't think Tatiana Ali was awful. She wasn't good. She definitely couldn't. So weird. She has a sword fighting scene with the, with the gay friend. Yeah. And he was like, who has, who has a sword fighting. scene with the jock guy earlier

defeats him quickly yeah for some reason he's expert swordsman for some reason I don't know because he's gay that's what he does for a living sword fighting okay it makes sense

but he was like over the top gay it was ridiculous the whole fucking movie was terrible I don't even think yeah we did see his death scene I'm trying I'm trying to remember the movie. I think he got electrocuted and you only saw it for a couple seconds and then. Oh yeah. It was the jock guy that got his head cut off right?

Who was it? I think it was one of the girls. I don't remember what happened to the jock guy. Yeah, I don't know. I maybe even mixing up my movies at this point. What we're trying to get across is this movie is incredibly unforgettable, not unforgettable. Yeah, you can you can definitely skip this one. It was not good at all. Yeah. If you do want to watch it, I believe it's on Tooby. I watched a copy of it on YouTube. Oh, okay. Yeah, I

watched it on Tooby. Tube's got some good shit and some bad shit. So there's that. All right. Well, that one went quick. I figured it would. I was like, I'm not even really sure I remember a whole lot from this movie. But we'll talk about

the next one. Clown and a cord field. Sounds like a terrible name. We'll see how goes from 2025 you know what you're getting into clown on a Gordon field right a fading Midwestern town in which friendo the clown a symbol of bygone success

reemerges as a terrifying scourge director is Eli Craig also known for Tucker and Dale versus evil and Little Evil that was the one I don't think I watched that

That was the one with the guy from Parks and Rec, right? Yeah. Okay. You said it was all right, right? For a Netflix movie, it's fine. It's nothing that you're going to be giving high scores to, but I think you'd get some kind of entertainment out of it. Yeah.

Now, Tucker and Dale, on the other hand, is one of my favorites. It's classic. Writer, Eli Craig, with Carter Blanchard and Adam Cesar. based on the novel Clown on a Cornfield by Adam Cesar Two characters in the film are named Rust and Cole respectively which is the name of Matthew McConaughey's character

in True Detective, albeit spelled a little bit different as Rust Cole. Is that on purpose? It seems like a weird thing to have his trivia. Been a fan of Matthew McConaughey or a fan of True Detective. All right.

I guess so. What did you think about clown on a cornfield? I was actually looking forward to this one. This one looked like it could be a fun slasher with some interesting kills in it. I will have to say I didn't really start enjoying the movie until the last half of the movie because it took a while to get gone.

The first half really lets you know that this is based off a, I believe, a young adult novel. A Y-N novel. That makes sense. A novel, I mean. I don't think I realized that going into it. But yeah, that makes sense.

Because they were really into the character development part of this one. Yeah, a lot of teenage stuff, a lot of conversations amongst them, a lot of build-up to these characters who, I mean, it gives you some backstory on the main girl why she moves to his town from, I think, the East Coast. and she moves to the Midwest. They feel you in and why she's moving there, and then she befriends again. Maybe it's just me,

but a lot of these kids kind of didn't seem like they would hang out with each other. And these kids, like, run a YouTube channel where they make, I guess, like, horror videos, little horror movies based on Friendo the clown. Is that it or they just pranks? Well, maybe they are kind of slasher type stuff

that looks sort of real. Yeah, because from what I remember of seeing the videos that they were watching, it seemed to starve mostly them in it. Yeah, that's true. And she befriends them, and then while they're filming one of their video, well, actually, it's not really they're filming a video, they're filming a prank on her, which ends up being, she ends up being in the video,

stuff with the friend starts happening, deaths and stuff. that's when the movie picks up for me. Yeah. And then the twist is something I didn't even think was going to happen when it came into play. And I thought that was kind of a fun angle to play. And we'll get into that into spoilers. But a little disappointing in the beginning.

It picked up in the second half and ended up having some fun in the second half. I didn't know if it's going to raise my score as much as it I thought the movie was going to be. Yeah. So I didn't I didn't really even hate the beginning. I feel like it was it did something that a lot of young adult horror movies don't do. And it was, you know, character development.

Like I kind of gave a shit about these. Like so the guy's daughter, like the main character. I kind of loved her in this movie. She was pretty awesome. Yeah. I expect to see her in a lot more stuff upcoming, hopefully. But yeah, I mean, I thought it was pretty good. Of course, they had to have the cheesy message at the end, but we'll get to that.

But, like, I did kind of see where they were going with it. And so I sort of guessed the twist, I guess. But I'll get your take on that once we get into spoilers. But yeah, like I actually enjoyed this movie a lot more than I thought I was going to. I mean, with a movie, with a name like Clown on the cornfield, you know, you're not going there for an Oscar-worthy movie. but it gave me more than I expected. So I'll give it credit there. I like it.

All right. I guess we'll go scores and spoilers. What do you think? I really wanted this to be like a hidden gym movie that I wasn't expecting, and it didn't quite live up to it. I did ended up having a lot of fun at the end. And there was some pretty cool kills in here. Yeah.

But it did do the thing where I wanted some gore. Yeah. But it did more of the blood sprained in someone's face. Right. Type of kills. And I think they kind of missed a mark on having a super fun movie with creative kills in there. There was a decapitated head getting thrown around. That was fun.

Yeah. So. But yeah. I think I'm. I want to say seven, but I'm kind of at a six and a half. Okay. I'm going to go seven on it. I think it was a lot more solid than I expected it to be.

I had a lot of fun with it despite the ridiculous message. Really, that was my big downfall. That and it was a stupid clown movie. but uh uh i guess i guess we'll get into more of that one in the spoilers because i i didn't expect what they did with with the clown you know what i mean uh all right let's go spoilers

this is a motherfucking spoiler alert you've been fucking warned this is a motherfucking spoiler alert you've been fucking warned this is a motherfucking spoiler alert you've been fucking warned. Multiple clowns. Multiple clowns, yes.

Honestly, I didn't see that coming because I was like, I thought of it might have been another clown because I was like they killed this clown pretty fucking easy. Yeah, there has to be someone or they killed the wrong person. And they never unmasked any of them.

Yeah. Which is weird. You get that shot of the cornfield where one friend will pops up, then another one, then another one, another one. Yeah. I'm like, okay.

And I kind of took it as, I was like, is this kind of like reverse children of the corn? Yeah. It's the adults like killing the kids. That's exactly what it was. And that's exactly what I expected it to be. But yeah, that's exactly what it was. I mean, because you knew as soon as that dude popped up, I don't know his name, the guy that played the main kid, that, that, the love interest. dad, like the mayor of the town or whatever?

Oh, Kevin Duran. Yeah. As soon as he popped up, I was like, okay, well, he's going to play a bigger part than just one scene. Yeah, he was barely in the movie. I think that Kevin Duran probably filmed all his scenes in one day. Probably. And then we also had the other recognizable name, Will Sassow. Oh, yeah.

the sheriff. Yeah. Who was not as funny as I expected him to be. No, he kind of played it more straight in this one. But he was doing a pretty good accent. He does good impressions and stuff like that. Oh, yeah, for sure. I think he does a great Steven Seagal too.

Yeah. He does a good rock. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He doesn't see to do the rock. That sounds good. A lot of the comedy came from the kids.

And the timing was spot on, especially from the main girl. I liked her a lot. Yeah, she was good. There was a couple of the girls that I thought were, I can't, looking for the actresses name. Verretti Marx, she was not the blonde one, but the other girl. Okay. I thought she was pretty good in it. Yeah.

Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the two dumb ones. Yeah. And I thought, I thought they did a good job of kind of subverting what we thought was a killer. Because, of course, when you meet the neighbor that walks out of school, yeah, kind of no emotions, no expressions, likes to hunt, doesn't do anything else. Yeah, you thought for sure he was going to be the killer. Yeah. I mean, well, Not really, except that that's what they're obviously setting it up for is for him to be the main. You know, that guy's for sure the killer.

Yeah, because they even do the thing where they're like driving out and he's just walking out hunting deer in the middle of the night. Looking kind of sinister. Yeah. Yeah, carrying a buck back across the road and they almost hit him with their car. But I think where it just kind of, it's just kind of. probably would have got seven or eight if they would have just went gory on the kills. Yeah, for sure.

Because there was some good ones in there, but nothing really stood out to me. Yeah, I like the weightlifting one, where they cut the guy's head off. That was kind of neat, but they also showed that in the trailer. So, what are you going to do? But then that's where the comedy kind of picks up,

because like those two girls are tossing his head back and forth because they think it's a joke until they're like, guys, he's really fucking dead. And they're like, gone. But yeah, I think that main girl,

she killed it with a comedy. Her timing was beautiful. Just in general, the message of the movie was these guys are old. They're like old clowns. Like, totally. Like,

they're so dumb because they're old and we know more because you know, we just are here now. And old people, like, they didn't even have phones, right? They're so dumb. Like, what about before them? They didn't, they're like, they didn't even have airplanes.

They're so dumb. Yeah. They did the thing with the rotary phone. That was a great. Where are the numbers? That was a great bit. And they had the bit with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, when your dad wants to teach you how to drive stick, you say yes.

Yeah, I mean, they kind of overplayed it a little. But I think it was trying to, trying to sort of dole it out to both sides a little bit. And how is the town going broke when didn't they invent corn syrup? Is that what it was? I don't know. Yeah, I think that's what it was.

Like the Kevin Durant's, like his family, like his great, great-grandfather. or something invented corn syrup. Oh. Well, see, they could have played on that for sure, because now, like, if we were trying to get rid of corn syrup,

which we totally should, that would be detrimental to them. And they could have gone that route. Yeah. Do you see? Yeah, it was pretty straightforward. But good comedy, fun kills. You always got to have the explosion. character, which

I'm all in for. It makes me laugh every time. Like when they hit that guy with the car and he exploded. That was fantastic. So I believe if anybody missed this in theaters, I think it's getting

the number of theaters that's in added to and it's going to be on shutter. Yeah, because it was a shutter produced movie or something, right? Yeah. Yeah. So I expect it. And maybe it was supposed to be originally just released on shutter,

and they just decided to go to the theater with it because it's decent. Yeah, I think a lot of word of mouth from like film festivals it was showing in kind of helped it out. And I don't have the numbers here, but I heard it did pretty well. for the budget that it cost to make the movie did pretty well in the box office. Like I'm I'm not mad at paying

money for that one. Like I had a better time than I thought I was going to for sure, going to a movie called Clown on a Cornfield. Would you watch a sequel? Yeah. I think so. Like, I was pleasantly surprised with this movie.

Yeah. I also like the look of Friendo, too. Yeah. See, I guess that's my only thing is that it didn't have like a big bad. I mean, it sort of did because it was Kevin Durant, but like... Well, he wasn't even in the Friendo mask. He just had face paint on. But he looked kind of better. The rest of them sort of looked like killer clowns from Matterspace, which is not a bad thing. Yeah, I kind of saw it like a mix between original Pennywise and killer clones. Yeah. So.

But yeah, I think they pulled it off. I don't know. I'm not sure how they would do a sequel. But I'm sure they could come up with something. Well, I think at the end, her father's running for mayor. Oh, really? Yeah, because I think he had a bunch of those little signs out in his yard, I think with his name on it. The main girls?

Yeah. Oh, wow. Okay. I didn't even catch that. So maybe they can play off of that. Maybe some of the original town people don't want him to be mayor, and he ends up becoming mayor. Oh, and then they'll have the young friend those that kill all the old people.

Yeah. Movie rights itself. There it is. We're going to start making movies, man. Yeah. I think that's it for spoilers. Yeah, but yeah, pleasantly surprised with the movie, man. But as always, we want to thank you for listening to another episode of The Horror Returns.

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