Started ok. The footage in the first five minutes before the couple took over was better than everything after, unfortunately. Couple was ok for the first five or ten minutes when they took over, then it kept sliding downward. Constantly repeating the same basics about their clown agenda into their camera, got very repetitive. Kept thinking to myself throughout the movie, they have a nice house, but doesn't either of them work? They have all this time to drive around looking for clowns. One of their mothers even gave them money to buy a second camera. How do they afford where they live lol? Anyway, they drive out to interview a girl who saw clowns who AGREED to be interviewed.....then she ends the interview in under a minute after agreeing to the interview lol. I get they were trying to show 'fear' in an interviewee but really, then WHY AGREE TO THE INTERVIEW at all, right? Same with the 'evil clown expert' they interview -- he's a historian and expert who's studied evil clowns for YEARS, agrees to the interview -- then he ends the interview within two minutes because he's being asked questions about clowns and it freaks him out? LOL...WHAT??? You AGREED to be interviewed and this is your area of expertise!.....this comes across like stupid screen filler. Then the couple drive to the middle of nowhere at night to 'film and/or interview' clowns based on a tip. Ok, first one's just juggling glow sticks in the road so they guy approaches with his camera. Fair. Second one walks across the road into the brush holding a BASEBALL BAT, so guy with camera does what all horror movie idiots do - follows him. Um, BASEBALL BAT, dude. Gets cross checked by the bat and the clown holds him down on the ground and chokes him. Husband manages to escape and the couple drive onto the main road as another clown pulls a machete out from behind his back that they see as they drive off. So, what would a normal person think? Bad enough you drive into the middle of nowhere to see 'evil clowns' in a random deserted stretch of road and think 'sure, that'll be ok', but after all that, a normal person would say 'hey, they're dangerous', right? Weeellll.....guy at least thinks so and installs cameras around their house since he lost his wallet tangling with the one clown. His wife - beyond any logic - says he's probably going too far and they weren't dangerous (???? WFT????). Your husband was assaulted by one and another one had a big cleaver. Later, they get into a big argument about the husband's choice of a new location to search because the wife keeps beating on 'they have no proof' even though people have claimed to see clowns there, but "there's no pictures". So then they get a bunch of emails saying the same thing (we saw clowns there) and now she's gung ho to go film because of....what? There's STILL NO PROOF, same information the husband already had but now it's ok?. A few of the emails mention having a picture as proof, but they didn't see any before driving out there.....and after 27 emails, even without a picture, wouldn't that be enough to go out and check it out? Lol......just felt like a non-sensical manufactured tension / argument point to extend the movie run time and nothing else. By the end, the couple go out into a different creepy wooded area to 'interview' a clown that agreed to be interviewed.....in the middle of the night.....because, sure, that's totally safe. Of course it's not, and frankly by that point I was rooting for the clowns because people who make choices that stupid repeatedly earned what they get. Two stars for the first five minutes and the clowns in general - always have a creep factor if presented right. No stars for unlikeable characters that keep making illogical choices.
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