Social media is clearly helping to drive this year’s Scary Clown epidemic ... mean-spirited assault on childhood, at a time when nothing is sacred. Certainly it seems that way to Rieger.

One of the breakout crowdpleasers of SXSW 2025 was “ Clown in a Cornfield ,” Eli Craig ‘s twisty slasher flick about a small Midwestern town that struggles to navigate life after the corn syrup ...

Ask the internet why clowns are scary, and you’ll come up with a variety of answers, none of them particularly satisfying. Clowns are unpredictable, and that makes us nervous about what they ...

Stott is the author of several articles on scary clowns and comedy ... a man who’d already been convicted of a sexual assault on a teenage boy in 1968, was given access to children in his ...

Clowns are scary. Despite largely being associated with children's entertainment, people have a deep-rooted fear of these ...

The scary clown has become a horror staple. It can be hard to imagine a time when clowns were regularly invited to children's birthday parties and hospital wards – not to terrorize, but to ...