12. Pennywise (It, 1990)
The Clown: In humanoid form, he’s very much a traditionalist, with a burst of red hair a stripy, frilly top and yellow trousers.
Why He’s Funny: Um… he has a funny… voice? Well, he’s played by Tim Curry…. Who… has an infectiously mischievous way about him? But that’s about it. We're frightened just looking at the picture.
Why He’s Terrifying: This is a pure force of evil that arrives in a small Maine town every 30 years to kill kids. Every scene he's in scares us more than the idea of being thrown in a room full of spiders, zombies and Paris Hilton clones. We're going to click on now, so we don't have to look at him anymore.
Oh, and he’s coming back.
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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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