Film Review — Clown in a Cornfield
Eli Craig’s adaptation of Adam Cesare’s novel attempts slasher horror subversion with moderate success
The opening of Clown in a Cornfield is an obvious echo of the opening of Jaws (1975). A group of teenagers circa 1991 drink, smoke, snog, and get high around a campfire. A girl catches a boy’s eye, and runs off, stripping and playfully inviting him to chase her. However, they aren’t on a beach but next to a cornfie…
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