Primarily set during the 'killer clown' phenomenon of 2016 (obviously on a fictional level), the title of writer-director Phil Claydon's latest was apparently suggested by his sister in law Ruthie, so nothing to do with German power metal band of same name.
Jeanine Nerissa Sothcott - Doctor Ellen Marks
Ronan Summers - Carl Cane
Megan Marszal - Alice Marks
Caroline Wilde - Leah Marks
Michael Paré - John Parker
Summary
31st October 1996, 07:13pm.
On his birthday, a 10-year-old Carl Cane (director's son Brody), murders social worker Hannah Smith with an axe inside her house.
Exactly an hour later, he's taken into custody at Morton Downs Psychiatric Hospital.
20 years later, the daughters of Cane's doctor Ellen Marks, Alice and Leah, are approached by a clown.
Investigative journalist John Parker visits Ellen and suggests Cane is somehow connected to the spate of sinister clown sightings, even though serial killer has no ties to the outside world.
On 31st October, the sabotage of electrical substations allow Cane to escape his cell and begin a new reign of fear.
Lashes and slashes
Opening is a blatant love letter to Halloween.
Over the hospital's tannoy, a voice mentions Dr. Carpenter (as in John Carpenter).
But the adult Carl Cane behaves nothing like Michael Myers. Similarly, Ellen Marks shouldn't be compared to Samuel Loomis.
Anyway, this was watchable, but very predictable.
Once shit becomes The Purge, Cane's first accomplice Candy takes Leah hostage. At the end, Alice was in cahoots with Cane all along and is killed by Leah.
(Sigh).
Summers is okay, but Art the Clown (David Howard Thornton) made playful gesticulation way creepier.
Antagonist's goose is cooked by Ellen plunging a syringe into his forehead.
Performances overall are amateurish and a swift 80 minutes contains modest gore.
Oh, to put everybody's mind at rest:
"No clowns were hurt in the making of this film."
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