Ben O'Shea - Clown In A Cornfield: There Was Litres & Litres Of Blood Used In This Movie.

Our movie guy Ben O' Shea was in studio to review the new horror flick called Clowns In A Cornfield. You guessed it, it's about killer clowns...in a cornfield. He have it a score out of 5 stars.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Great per flick with Beno. This movie is called clown
in a corn Field.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Really and you never guess what it does exactly what
it says on the box, You have clowns, you have
a corn field. That's basically it. So it joins a
long line of those kind of single premise films, like
you remember Phone Booth, just Colin Farrell in a phone
for the whole movie Snake's on a Plane as the
title suggests, it was Snakes on a Plane or is

(00:32):
Samuel L. Jackson says it. There's a few. Yeah, so
this is there's not really much to this film. It's
based on a book in the horror genre that was
was it's a horror film. Yeah, it's a horror film.
Or call the Cloud anything with clowns in it, right,
Like there's no there's never been a movie about clowns
where it's been positive towards the clown that's true.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
That's true.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Like you got you know penny Wise from the franchise.
Anytime you see a clown on screen, and it's because
a lot of people find them terrifying, you learn ter
terrifying why, thought.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
Don't know, just just too extreme, Like it's just it's
too much.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
Did you have an episode or anything in your childhood?

Speaker 1 (01:13):
No? No, but all the all the jolliness, the big shoes,
the big nose, the big everything all sort of accumulates
and makes it go the other way.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, it is saggerated. And then you've also got the
you know, all the different types of clowns, the sad
kind of tragic clown which kind of makes all clowns scary.
I think the painted tear. And they've got the huge, big,
huge clowns exaggerated. Now there's definitely I feel sorry for

(01:42):
any clowns out there listening who are doing kids parties
on the weekend. I'm sure you're all lovely people, but
it's fair to say that the industry has been has
been rocked by many, many bad films and TV shows
over the years. And it's a legit phobia, it is.
It's a legit phobia. Yeah, yeah, that's that's right. So

(02:02):
straight away, people going into this movie might already be
on edge just because it's got some clowns in it,
and it doesn't just have one clown in a cornfield.
It has many gods, doesn't have many clowns, So it's
basically it's said in the modern times in small town America,
this town that for one hundred years has had like
a harvest festival, and the town's mascot, for reasons that
have not really explained, is a clown called Freendo and

(02:26):
Frendo which is scary as well. And so so every
year there's the harvest festival and Freendo the clown goes
on a float down the main street. That's all fine,
but this time around, teenagers in the town are getting
knocked off, getting killed in a variety of gruesome ways
by Freendo the clown. And then when you think, well,

(02:49):
that's not that great, it turns out there's a whole
bunch of friends. There's a marauding pack of Freendo clowns
hunting hunting out the teens, the town's teenagers, and at
one point they all end up in a corn field
and they're chasing.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
Scary.

Speaker 2 (03:04):
So this is a slasher film more than a horror film.
So people that know the difference, you get a lot
of you know, a lot of blood spatter in in
a slasher film, as people are kind of killed in
a variety of inventive ways.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
A lot of people going somewhere with just their T
shirt on and you know immediately.

Speaker 2 (03:20):
Straight away don't go on, or they hear a noise
and they walk outside by themselves, gone, what's that down
in the basement. I'm just going to investigate. No crazy
These days with slasher films, it's it's all about like
how you can come up with different ways that no
one has seen before. So there's someone doing a bench

(03:41):
press and he gets his head chopped off, and so
that it's all sorts of a variety of different ways
of dispatching these poor kids in this film. Some of
them are quite funny because they're so over the top.
Others are just a bit gross. It comes from the
director of a kind of a cult horror film from
a few year ago, Tucker and Dale Versus Evil, which

(04:03):
people who are into that genre will be like, oh, yeah,
that's a classic. It's and so he's he's this is
now a film that he's done, and so he brings
a kind of a comedic approach to some of this stuff.
So there's a few jokes in there, and in the
end it kind of makes a point about the different
generations and which generation is worse, you know, who's done
worse for the world. Is it the boomers, is it

(04:23):
the you know, the millennials, is it the gen Z's
of the world who just locked their phones? And so,
you know, when you get to that point, you start
to question, you know, is this is this really the
best vehicle for an examination of sort of Yeah, spurting
blood young everywhere. But oh there's there is you know,

(04:43):
leaders and leaders of fake blood that was used in
the making of this movie, like hundreds of leaders. Because
I've all been used, haven't they The lawnmower or the drill,
or get a bit of a blender. There's a right
on lawnmower, and you get a bit of something for everybody.
I guess that's all there is to say. That's clown

(05:04):
right there.

Speaker 1 (05:05):
All right, Well, how many how many clowns are you
giving it? I have nothing?

Speaker 2 (05:10):
How many pictures? Pictures on the nose of the shoes. Yeah,
it sounds like that deserves thank you, Thanks guys,