The titular It is a shape-changing entity that takes the form of children's greatest fears but usually appears as Pennywise the Dancing Clown. The evil clown is incredibly unsettling, but Warner Bros.

Move over It and Terrifier, as these clown-centered horror movies deserve the spotlight with their understated scares from ...

Getty Images It wasn’t long before Hollywood exploited the "killer clown" concept -- from the 1982 movie “Poltergiest,” that featured a scary clown doll under a child’s bed, to the 1988 ...

With upswept red hair and an unsettling grin, Bill Skarsgård follows Tim Curry's infamous footsteps as the shape-shifting evil clown. Both a coming-of-age tale and a psychological horror story ...

As reporters were quick to note in the case of the Penn State incident, no clowns were located in the clown hunt, and no evidence was found to suggest that evil clowns were ever there to begin with.

Are you more freaked out by a clown with razor-sharp CGI teeth or one who looks like he’s coming from a kid’s birthday party?

Whatever the reasons – or the blame – the creepy clown craze that has recently spread across the country is, in a word, stupid. ‘I just want people to know that real clowns don’t scare ...