KILLJOY
I feel completely violated at the moment. Why you
ask? Because a no-talent ass clown named Killjoy just had his way with me ensuring
I'm going to have to be sitting on a doughnut pillow for the rest of the week in
order to heal. I just don't understand why all these clownsploitation horror
films of last decade are so damn bad. Clowns are scary right? Well 9.9 times
out of ten it doesn't translate into a scary movie with "Killjoy"
being a complete incompetent 'joy killer' instead.
Taking place in inner black gang territory in an
unnamed city, "Killjoy" opens with a 'nerdy' high school student
getting the shit kicked out of him for hitting on a gang leaders bitch. This of
course gets his ass killed but not before he brings his demonic
clown toy "Killjoy" to life to
get revenge on all the thugs. The problem is Killjoy doesn't stop with his
killers, but continues to murder anyone else involved in the nerds life.
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| Pennywise he is not... |
The clown character of "Killjoy" is
nothing but a lame, carbon copy of Freddy Krueger with a dose of Pennywise
from Stephen King's "It" as he tries to be scary but all his mega
lame comedic one liners causes the doofus to fall flat on his big ass red nose (the worst being
the line "That's how you bust caps motherfucker" as he spits out bullets to
kill a thug). The character of Killjoy
will NEVER go down in the annals of history among the likes of Freddy and Jason
and for that I thank the horror gods every day.
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| Much like the audience, this character gets beaten to near death due to the films sheer ineptitude |
The look of the film is nothing more than a small
step up from a homemade movie. Not "Secrets of the Clown" bad, but
close and if you have had the displeasure of seeing that hunk of shit then that
is a scary comparison indeed. Everything
about this film is bottom of the barrel (of monkeys?) as the non-existent production
values, sophomoric acting, mundane script writing, laughable computer effects and incompetent directing
ensures the film will be a total bore to the senses. And seriously how did
B-movie icon Charles Band get suckered into executive producing such a
shit-fest?
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| Black Magic + Demonic Clown Doll = Shitty Movie |
"Killjoy" is nothing more than a
less-than-routine would-be slasher in which someone thought up by quickly writing
up an outline on a cocktail napkin while getting drunk with some buddies at a strip
club. I'd say it's by-the-numbers but even that's too much 'praise' for such
a hunk of worthless crap. Absolutely no thought went into writing such a banal
'horror' film and the killer clown shtick has been done death, and much
better. It's hard to imagine that such a lifeless horror film would end up
mutating into a franchise, with two sequels and a third in the works.
Seriously, what the fuck?!
Written By Eric Reifschneider
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