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🤡Clown in a Cornfield (2025)🌽 begins streaming on Shudder on August 8, 2025. Based on the first novel in author Adam Cesare's young adult slasher trilogy, with a fourth book coming soon.
The slasher film was released in theaters on May 9, 2025 followed by a VOD release on June 10, 2025. DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD release date is set for September 16, 2025.
"Quinn and her father have just moved to the quiet town of Kettle Springs hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she discovers a fractured community that has fallen on hard times after the treasured Baypen Corn Syrup Factory burned down."
"As the locals bicker amongst themselves and tensions boil over, a sinister, grinning figure emerges from the cornfields to cleanse the town of its burdens, one bloody victim at a time. Welcome to Kettle Springs. The real fun starts when Frendo the clown comes out to play."
Directed by Eli Craig (Tucker and Dale vs Evil) from a script he co-wrote with Carter Blanchard, it stars Katie Douglas (“Ginny & Georgia”), Carson MacCormac (Shazam), Aaron Abrams (“Hannibal”), Will Sasso (“Mad TV”), and Kevin Durand (Abigail).
Clown in a Cornfield is said to be a "harrowing, savage, heart-pounding adaptation," with director Eli Craig recently promising "an insanely fun, action, horror, comedy."
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It's Frendo movie clip:
Frendo takes the streets of #SXSW2025. Have you spotted him? 🤡🌽:
Interview: Katie Douglas Was a Warrior Fighting Frendo the Clown:
Interview With Kevin Durand and Eli Craig!:
Stars Katie Douglas, Kevin Durand & More Reveal Their Personal Phobias:
Star Wants to Pick a Fight with Pennywise - Full WonderCon 2025 Panel:
Carpet Interviews: Aaron Abrams, Carson MacCormac, Cassandra Potenza (Shudder):
ScreenRant interviews director Eli Craig, author Adam Cesare, and stars Katie Douglas, Aaron Abrams, Kevin Durand to celebrate the movie’s premiere at SXSW 2025:
Cast & Director Interview at Wondercon 2025:
Coloring With The Cast:
Tour of the Frightening Fan Experience 🎃🌽 at San Diego Comic-Con:
Frendo Tribute (Conquer Them All) Music Video:
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Reviews:
"What begins as a straightforward slasher deftly shifts gears, tackling heady topics with infectious snark and bloodletting. It’s a rare film that speaks directly to its teen audience while refusing to water down the horror; Clown in a Cornfield knows its demographic is resilient enough to handle the terror just fine." ★★★ Bloody-Disgusting.com
"Clown in a Cornfield, I’m pleased to share, totally understood the assignment (even if it couldn’t escape the gravitational pull of overworked tropes) and gives Horror Fans exactly what they’re looking for. I can’t speak to its faithfulness to the source material but if it’s anything like the movie, I can’t wait to finally tear through the pages of that buck wild book this summer, laughing at dead teens while sipping on sugary drinks (hopefully next a killer-free cornfield in my own small town)." 78% NOFSPodcast.com
"Clown in a Cornfield has so many inspired kills among the carnage that it’s hard to not have a good time. It’s also effortlessly funny as it takes us through familiar territory, but does it slightly better than some of the movies that come to mind when reading the premise. This feels like a gory extended episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? I mean that in the best way because that is the kind of nerd I am. This also makes sense because the source material was a YA horror novel, so even as an R-rated movie, it’s baked into the final product...It is hard not to love this violent, funny, and just plain cool slasher." HorrorPress.com
"There are some appreciated tweaks to the formula here, attempts to update what could have easily just been an “80s slasher horror movie” but with smartphones. But they mostly come within a busy last act, a little too late, given how run-of-the-mill the majority of the film before that can be... It’s only really in that final act when the we can see the source material, in a neat and genuinely surprising - twist far more interesting and subversive than anything related to the cut-and-paste lead...Clown in a Cornfield...just doesn’t have enough to make it remarkable. Frendo is just some clown, never given all that much to separate him from the many other horror clowns we know better, and while the deaths are certainly grisly, they’re interchangeable. There’s definitely a clown in that cornfield but there’s precious little else." ★★ TheGuardian.com
"This teen slasher movie is pretty generic for a long time before finally ramping things up and getting smarter, but the skillful filmmaking and likable characters balance things out. For almost an hour, it's hard to believe that Clown in a Cornfield was directed by Eli Craig, who made the genius horror parody Tucker & Dale vs. Evil. This movie is as blandly routine as that one was a sharp skewering of routine... But as things head toward the final act, the story—based on a YA novel by Adam Cesare—begins to let on what it's really about: destructive behavior disguised as conservative values... It's too bad that the movie as a whole couldn't have been cleverer or gone a bit deeper, but overall Clown in a Cornfield works well enough, like a pair of big, red squeaky shoes." ★★★ CommonSenseMedia.org
"While the script is not quite as razor sharp as the aforementioned Tucker & Dale, it doesn’t change the fact this is enjoyable from start to finish. While the story itself is nothing new, the characters and setting give it a slightly fresh and spine-tingling feel that we haven’t seen often before. It’s not going to live up to the classics... and that’s just fine. Not every movie needs to become permanently etched into the annals of history, but this definitely needs to end up in everyone’s rotation to watch each October. Silly, scary, and bloody sounds like a good time to me, and I think that’s what most people expect and will get from Clown in a Cornfield." ★★★★ BigShinyRobot.com
"When it comes to the horror itself, it's not bad. Almost all the kills are done with practical effects, often with wirework that helps to sell the physical strength and unstoppable nature of the killer, and there are a few deaths that, while not outrageously gory, work well because they happen so suddenly and unexpectedly... A bit more exploration of the lore surrounding Frendo the Clown wouldn't have gone amiss, and a more even distribution of its snarky, goofy tone would have served the final product better. Although Clown in a Cornfield has a built-in fanbase thanks to its literary origins, I don't see Frendo being the next horror icon, mostly because of who he is underneath the mask. It's a passable teen slasher, and not much more..." 5 out of 10 Collider.com
"It reminded me of another recent slasher — Eli Roth’s holiday-themed Thanksgiving. That, too, was light on depth but full of gruesome kills, gross-out humor, and dumb teenagers... Clown in a Cornfield can be gut-churning and gnarly. It can play into teen horror tropes with the awareness that they are tropes, using that confidence to make it feel just right. It’s also quite hilarious, playing many moments for laughs with just the right timing. Humor and horror can often be a hard balance to hit just right and though not all of Clown in a Cornfield lands, the cast is game enough... you may come across Clown in a Cornfield on Shudder and decide to put it on. You won’t regret that decision." 7 out of 10 ScreenRant.com
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