Clowns In Stephen King's Movie It'

There was a remake of the movie called “IT”, which was released this year. This movie is about a demon, named Pennywise, who is dressed as a clown. Pennywise feasts on children’s fear, meaning that he eats the children that are afraid. When you think of clowns, you

The Obituary states that John Wayne Gacy was born on March 17th, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois and he spent most of his youth in a small house with his mother, two sisters, and a violent alcoholic father. As John grew up, his long downward spiral towards alcohol abuse, drug habits, and the death of over 30 teenage boys began to rise after his first arrest and sentence of 10 years for sodomizing a young man and the divorce of his first wife in 1968. After serving only 18 months of his 10 years sentence, John was settled back into his old surroundings in Chicago, which where John made a name for himself as the local party clown “Pogo”. Soon after the gratified “Pogo The Clown” made headlines as “The Killer Clown of

Cultural identity is created when a group of people feel a sense of belonging to a certain social group, religion, nationality or ethnicity that, over time, developed its own culture, traditions and definitive characteristics. The Clown From Snowy River is a play that revolves around the idea that we, as Australians, have developed our own identity based on our countries history, environment, cultural influence and occupants. The actors from this performance use classic Australian stereotypes regularly because not only does it add humour, but it also presents an outsider’s perspective of Australia. The clowns themselves are wearing “typical Australian” attire such as a netball outfit, an old outback-style suit, a green and gold Olympian sprinter

Clowns always frightened me as a child, but one Halloween made it even worse. I was on a haunted house tour with my family when I accidentally was diverted. Not knowing I was alone for a while I wandered into a room full of killer-looking clowns and they all swarmed me at once. The quick outburst of them from every direction was so terrifying that I passed out right where I was standing and awoke in the hospital. I looked over to my mom and she said "They have something to say." I looked to my right side and I saw the clowns once again this time they looked even more evil. Once again I passed out.

Clowns are draped all over social media and the news. People are using clown outfits just to get a popular video up on the internet. Clowns showing up by lampposts and chasing people around city streets. They send a mind crippling fear into people when they think of being in a situation with a killer clown. Imagine walking down what could be any street when you look down an old dirt road that you have passed a million times; You see it, it is what looks to be a blood thirsty clown waiting for a victim. Ironically it is most likely a guy who wants a funny video or just trying to get a good Halloween scare. A killer clown who is actually just a regular guy in a clown mask from Target... wait Target has missed out on huge clown mask sales due

One student, Katelyn Bramble-Plotcher, had this to say about the threats made, “I think the whole clown situation was horrible and people need to think more of what they are doing. This caused many people fear and stress.”

The Quad City Clown Troupe is a life time member of the World Clown Association (WCA). The troupe is also a member of the Midwest Clown Association (MCA). The link to the MCA round-up information is: http://www.midwestclownassociation.org/2018-roundup.html. You will find more information there. You can also look through some of the pictures of previous round-ups.

“It” in its origins, is Stephen King’s 1100 page literary masterpiece that has bred Coulrophobia within many who dared to sojourn through the novel. Nevertheless, it was the novel’s subject in focus, Pennywise the Clown, embodied in full flesh by Tim Curry that amassed a sadistic following and obsession with the arrival of the 1990 TV miniseries on ABC. Curry’s portrayal of the dancing clown quickly became a hallmark image for the horror canon, if not the face of horror movies altogether. Flash forward 27 years later, the fear of clowns has burgeoned into a commonplace phobia and horror trope. With all this to say, no clown has terrorized us in our nightmares quite like Curry’s Pennywise. Well, that was the case until Bill Skarsgård came along with a darker rendition of the fiendish entity in Andrés Muschietti remake of “It.”

John Wayne Gacy was a notorious serial killer and rapist who was known as the “Killer Clown.” The name was given to him because he often dressed up as a clown when torturing his victims. With a record of 33 murders of young males, Gacy went on to be one of the most spine-chilling serial killers to-date. He was born with a heart condition that led to multiple risk factors affecting his developmental growth as well as his relationship with his father. Although Gacy’s father did not care for him, his mother did her best to protect him. Coercion theory is used to describe how the relationship between Gacy and his father lead to the infamous killings that Gacy was soon known for. Luckily, Gacy was well-liked in his community after moving out. Society

To Dillard, the clown head evokes a feeling of distress. The clown head symbolizes her sufferings and problems her internal world. Although the essay is about the eclipse, Dillard continues to talk about the clown head numerous times as if it was a significant detail. She stresses over so much of the details that she even notices that it has “thin, joyful lips were red chili peppers” (Dillard 2). To me, the clown head evokes a feeling of unsatisfaction. In life, we always worry about the big things and never stop and smell the roses. As Dillard kept on rambling about the vegetables, it made me feel like I was rushing in life and that I have forgotten about the tiny things in life that made me happy. The clown represents the tiny things in life

Imagine being a king or queen in the medieval period being able to rule the kingdom with a iron fist. Imagine all the stresses that come with that. You have a unknown disease (later known as Black Death) mysteriously killing half of your kingdom. You have the stresses of other kingdoms coming to strike you at any moment. What would a king need in these stressful times?

In the movie, “IT,” this can been seen when Bill was in the IT House with Richie and Eddie, he kept on telling them that what they were seeing (their greatest fear) was not real. Before Bill went into the IT house with Richie and Eddie, they did research about the clown and Bill discovered that Pennywise, is more likely to kill the kids who are afraid so he will project images that are not real. He comes up with the solution that whatever Pennywise shapeshifts into, it is not real so when they go into the IT house, he reminds then that whatever they see is not real. This is also quality information to the audience because it shows that audience that fears should not define and you should conquer your fear because if you let it haunt you forever, you will always be afraid of

In the opening scene of the movie, a little boy is shown playing in the rain. The boy’s name is Georgie and he is doing what kids have done in the rain for years, which is playing with a toy boat in the gutter. The camera then shows Georgie’s paper boat unfortunately flow into a gutter in the sidewalk. Georgie starts yelling “NOOO” at the loss of his boat and scarmbles up to the gutter. At first the gutter appears empty, until the audience hears a terrifying voice say “Hi Georgie!” and the terrifying clown head shown in my image appears inside the gutter. The clown we know as penywise. Pennywise asks if Georgie wants his boat back and Georgie says yes. Pennywise then asks Georgie if he wants a balloon and cotton candy. Georgie eagerly reaches inside and the demonic clown pulls him in and murders the boy.

Name’s Tom Foolery. I’m a clown. Or what the normal people had designated ‘Homo fossor’ or human clown. There were many new classes of ‘humans’ in Circus City. From the fire-breathers, acrobats, freaks, contortionists, clowns, and numerous other ‘pseudo’ humans the Big Top had to offer. It had only been about forty years since the rest of the world

A monster, by definition, is a person who excites horror by wickedness or cruelty. One fictional character that fits that description perfectly, is the infamous Freddy Krueger. Freddy is the bladed-gloved adversary in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare On Elm Street movie series. Krueger is a serial killer, recognizable by his bladed gloves, that kills his victims in their dreams, also causing their death in real life as well.