Maybe they watched "It" too many times? Dressing up as a clown was once prohibited on Halloween, as well as the entire month of November, in Vendargues, France. Anyone 13 and up required permission ...

This week, dozens of clowns descended on Orlando, Florida for the 40th annual World Clown Association convention. But these aren't your scary clowns, the ones you might know from scary movies like "It ...

If clowns are meant to bring us joy and make us laugh, then why do they appear in so many great horror movies as harbingers of fear and anguish? Whether these traditional symbols of comedy are used to ...

Clowns are theoretically supposed to be fun and whimsical, but somewhere along the way, they also became scary as hell—just like Pennywise from It. Where did it all go wrong? As it turns out, they’ve ...

As a horror filmmaker, Eli Roth admits to being into really strange stuff, but seeing himself dressed up as a scary clown in the movie Clown was legitimately weird. “You look at yourself in the mirror ...

For a few years of my life, I had a flurrying, fleeting, strange fear of clowns. In retrospect, it really may have been a sort of psychosexual apprehension, a quivering alarm at the feet of an idol I ...