One of the breakout crowdpleasers of SXSW 2025 was “Clown in a Cornfield,” Eli Craig’s twisty slasher flick about a small Midwestern town that struggles to navigate life after the corn syrup factory ...

They didn't start out to scare anyone. Clowns have held a favored, albeit slightly outcast place throughout history – first, as comic relief to those in power, performing magic tricks, pranks or ...

Two YouTubers have been fined for dressing up as scary clowns and carrying a fake AK-47 assault rifle while trying to film a prank video back in January 2020, as reported by The Brussels Times.

Who hasn’t been scared by a clown at some point? For me, it was at age 4, when some well-meaning family friend took me to a parade in Fredonia, N.Y. As I sat on the ...

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Maybe you didn't notice the arrival of the clowns. That was back in 2016, a year that — now safely behind us — can be characterized by its burbling undercurrent of hysteria. We can be forgiven, then, ...

A scary clown pranks a dog in a hilarious moment.

LONDON -- Searches for clown porn have increased by 213 percent since the recent "creepy clown" craze took off, according to the porn website Pornhub. SEE ALSO: Stop scaring children, you creepy ...

TURLOCK, Calif. -- What do spooky clowns do outside of Halloween? Spread joy, of course. Four-year-old Brodie was celebrating a milestone moment — the end of his cancer treatment after battling stage ...