Clown in a Cornfield 4K 2025 Ultra HD 2160p

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High school senior Quinn moves with her father to a small town where he has been offered a job as a family doctor. The girl quickly fits in with a mischievous group of classmates who love to shoot fake scary videos with the local mascot, Fredo the Clown. When the teenagers throw a party in a barn in a cornfield on Founders Day, the creepy clown begins to kill them off in the most brutal way.

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Young Quinn moves with her father to a quiet town surrounded by cornfields. Her new classmates tell her about the creepy clown Fredo, the symbol of a recently burned-down corn syrup factory... Soon, Fredo himself appears from the cornfield, armed with a pitchfork...

The original title of the film is Clown in a Cornfield, which is a very honest title, just like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And indeed, there is a clown. And there is a cornfield. Two archetypes, each of which boasts entire franchises — corn has been associated with King's Children of the Corn (although any cornfield has been associated with deadly horror ever since), and clowns have been associated with a whole range of coulrophobia, from King's “It” to the latest franchise, “It's Horrible.” At first, this crossover seems like a silly marketing ploy, and the first half of the film looks like just that: a hollow piece of work, with a script that seems to have been written by a neural network. It literally contains every cliché of cheap slasher films about teenagers in cornfields: schoolchildren are played by actors in their thirties, a burly killer running around in a mask, a scarecrow, pitchforks, the rustling of stalks, no cell phone reception, “run across the field!”, “hide in the barn!” — the whole shebang. However, if you don't run out of the theater halfway through, you will be rewarded.

The film slowly begins to “wink at the audience” - the characters suddenly say directly from the screen: “It's like we're in a stupid 80s slasher movie!” and “In a horror movie, I'd be killed right now!”. You begin to suspect that the authors do not consider the audience to be complete idiots after all—and in the middle, the film takes a twist that breaks the slasher formula (a muscular killer kills teenagers one by one until the “last girl” remains and reveals that the killer is someone she knows), shifting Clown in a Cornfield into the realm of meta-ironic horror films like Scream, where the question “Who is the killer?” becomes almost irrelevant.

The young actors perform poorly, but in the given circumstances, this only benefits the film—we really begin to perceive them as canonical horror characters. The “old guard” is represented by a more experienced cast, including the burly Will Sasso from the series Young Sheldon as the local sheriff and Kevin Durand as the mayor of the town. As for the script, a little research after watching the film revealed that it has a solid literary basis in the form of four horror novels for teenagers by Adam Cesare, the first of which was published in 2020, and it is this novel that has been adapted for the screen. And the film's financial success, which recouped its budget on its first weekend, gives it a chance to become a new franchise.

So, behind the simple packaging lies not just another “mindless slasher,” but a whole statement about the conflict between generations and the notorious “traditional values.” Of the initial archetypes—clowns and corn—it is the “corn” part that takes the lead, since Children of the Corn was also based on conflict and misunderstanding between adults and children. “Why are adults so stupid?” the characters shout directly, and in response they hear... well, more or less the same thing: sometimes, in pursuit of satirical intonation, the authors create completely comical scenes, such as the inability of the young characters to use a rotary dial telephone (“where are the buttons?!”), or to drive a car with a manual transmission. In short, don't ignore this film because of its silly appearance—it can entertain and surprise you: and if the former is a mandatory component for slashers, then the latter is as rare as... well, a clown in a cornfield...