10. Clown doll (Poltergeist, 1982)
The Clown: A floppy, stripy hat, a huge grin and plastic for brains. He’s a toy - harmless, right?
Why He’s Funny: When he’s not moving, he brings joy and happiness to his owners, with fun and laughter and frolics and…. Nah, he’s pretty scary even when he’s just sitting with his rictus grin, staring.
Why He’s Terrifying: When he turns animated, thanks to the evil spirits around, he's a head-turning allegory for why people are scared of face-paint people. Dragging young Robbie Freeling under the bed, he couldn’t be scarier to kids even if he was best mates with the school bully.
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dholleyuk
Mar 13th 2009, 12:32
Great performance - shame we will never see it again from him
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dholleyuk
Mar 13th 2009, 12:33
Not sure I agree with this - not creapy at all
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dholleyuk
Mar 13th 2009, 12:34
I thought this was a great performance by Williams and when you look at the subject matter it was so well thought and delivered by him
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Aeghast
Mar 13th 2009, 15:45
you can't comment individually, people
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Toursiveu
Mar 13th 2009, 17:10
You forgot the scariest looking clown of all time (well maybe after Tim Curry's Pennywise) : the living dead clown from George A. Romero's Day of the Dead. He's only on screen for a coupla frames but he scared the bejesus out of me when I was a kid.
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