‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Review: Frendo The Clown Slashes Up A Down-On-Its-Luck Town In Eli Craig’s Horror Satire Adaptation — SXSW
deadline.comAlthough a film called Clown in a Cornfield might inspire little confidence in anything of substance, writer-director Eli Craig‘s latest film offers much more than the title suggests.
Based on the 2020 novel of the same name by Adam Cesare, the satirical slasher stars Katie Douglas as Quinn Maybrook, a troubled teen girl who moves with her doctor dad (Aaron Abrams) to the small town of Kettle Springs, Missouri.
A once-booming town stuck in the ’90s, residents still gather to celebrate its Founders’ Day, as well as Frendo the clown, the mascot for the once-thriving Baypen corn syrup factory that has since caught fire and left many without work.
After Quinn quickly befriends a group of troublemaking teens suspected of setting the blaze, the youths are picked off by the titular homicidal jester.
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