Clown

Potent graphic violence at times and bizarre premise are what somewhat
salvage a rather unspectacular presentation. Pacing drags and instead
of a sense of real horror exploited to its potential, the handling of
the film is a bit subdued and cold. I just found myself underwhelmed.
The plot has a real estate agent father finding a clown suit in a house
he's about to sell. His son's birthday party had a clown cancellation
so the father puts on the suit, wig, and red nose (applying makeup as
well) as a replacement. What the father doesn't realize is that the
costume curses him with a child-hungry demon which gradually transforms
him into a monster. Five kids must be eaten in order for the father to
be released! Ghoulish plot, to be sure. The fate of a kid who sees him
as a clown, continuing to come around his hotel room, with an attempted
suicide beheading with two running electrical saws going awry and the
evil influence of clown demon causing him to go after kids in a indoor
playground (similar to Chuck E Cheese) are both especially disturbing.
Eli Roth's name was attached to this much the same way as Craven and
Barker's were in the 90s to projects exploiting their name more than
anything as producer. The pregnant wife protecting her son and unborn
child while nearly deciding to sacrifice a girl who knows her as a
seemingly trustworthy dental assistant is a secondary conflict along
with researching her husband's clown costume dilemma. A gunshot in the
mouth causing brain matter spattering on the wall of a bathroom mixed
with colored clown paint and a really nasty attempted beheading after
the use of a blade and chain (eventually the head is pulled from the
neck wound, as the medulla oblongata makes it particularly difficult!)
are the film's showstoppers. The bloodletting is rampant...like when
pop goes after one of his son's foul-mouthed bullies while the kid is
in the middle of a shooter video game. Grisly accidental use of a box
cutter to pry away the costume from the father's arm and the
unfortunate episode regarding the red nose being pulled away from his
face are added violent bits.

Included is a dog getting its head severed by Peter Stormare right in front of Laura Allen (Stormare has ties to the demon through his scientist brother), Andy Powers combatting what the demon wants (that stomach gurgling) opposed to his humanity as it is robbed him, and the futile attempts of Powers to end his existence.