If clowns are meant to bring us joy and make us laugh, then why do they appear in so many great horror movies as harbingers of fear and anguish? Whether these traditional symbols of comedy are used to ...

Clowns have been known for being more frightening than funny for the longest time in the horror genre. There is a reason why the fear of clowns has its own term, "coulrophobia." What was once a ...

Gaby Shedwick is a senior author for Collider, joining in December 2023. During her undergraduate Sociology degree at the University of Warwick, she found a real love for horror cinema, writing her ...

Clowns: They can delight, and they can terrify. And it’s not just that sweet, innocent clowns can be creepy while simply going about their clowning business. Oh no. Filmmakers have long taken the ...

Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk really love scary clowns. Throughout American Horror Story‘s seven seasons, the pair has played on people’s discomfort around the oil ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. For the director of Nosferatu, Robert Eggers, seeing Bill Skarsgård in It: Chapter Two as the creepy clown Pennywise convinced the ...

These clowns are not (all) funny. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I used to find the idea of “creepy clown horror movies” as a ...