When we first see Stitches, the foul-mouthed clown, he’s
banging a babe in his trailer. Once he
arrives at a kid’s birthday party, he proves that he’s capable of being a
decent clown that can pull off a few OK magic tricks. Unfortunately, the kids are hellions and
heckle him mercilessly. One of them ties
Stitches’ shoelaces together which causes him to fall face first on a butcher
knife, bringing the party to an abrupt halt.
Since we all know that “a clown that doesn’t finish a party can never
rest in peace”, when the same group of now teenage kids come together to
celebrate another birthday six years later, Stitches rises from the grave to get
his revenge.
From the outset, it looks like the film is going to be a
variation on Bobcat Goldtwait’s Shakes the Clown. It quickly becomes a hilarious horror comedy
that features a healthy body count and gallons of splatter. Dicks, ears, arms, heads, and eyeballs are
all ripped off by the homicidal clown. The
film also contains one of the best exploding head gags outside of a Scanners
movie, which is reason enough to see it.
Even though the film can’t quite sustain the
balls-to-the-walls level of mayhem throughout the entire running time, it still
packs in enough juicy kills to keep any gorehound satisfied. Some
of the gore sequences are predictable (like when he makes a balloon animal from
a guy’s intestines or uses a dead body as a ventriloquist dummy), but they are
done with more style and humor than you’d expect. I mean how can you not love a movie in which
someone’s brains are plopped out with an ice cream scoop?
For anyone who felt let down by It, Stitches will be a
refreshing pie in the face.
AKA: Dark Clown.
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