Clown in a Cornfield (2025)
Zombos Says: A lot more fun and scary than being lost in a corn maze.
I can’t believe Art the Clown got his own popcorn bucket and Frendo didn’t. The selling potential for popcorn during this hayseed, retro-styled, filled with honey-glow lighting and humorous bon mots slasher, is enormous. Frendo is the clown mascot for the burned down Baypen factory that previously had been churning out corn syrup. The town of Kettle Springs (get it? kettle popcorn), in Missouri, has gone bust ever since the factory closed. Instead, a lot of blood has been churned out, flowing from the younger population in town, that looks for a brighter and less stick in the mud future that some of the older population is still mired in. So you not only have a slasher movie with solidly messy kills, you have a socially conscious movie that slashes back at those who can’t deal with needed change and just don’t want to. Both themes don’t trip each other up, which makes Frendo’s murderous clown antics even more fun to watch. Standard stuff we’ve seen before, but done with attention to craft, and the pacing to keep us and the victims running, is to die for. …