14. Various (The Clowns, 1970)
The Clowns: Riccardo Bill, Tino Scotti and Fanfulla are among the japesters spotlighted by Frederico Fellini for his paean to the circus.
Why They’re Funny: They’re clowns in the very classical circus sense – buckets of water (over a film critic, no less… Oh, Mr Fellini, you wag!) pratfalls and general hilarity.
Why they’re Terrifying: The peeling, awful makeup slapped on to a bunch of leering older blokes is enough to give any child permanent coulrophobia.
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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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