Gags the Clown

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It's been a while since I saw a new found-footage/mockumentary horror flick, so "Gags the clown" was welcome on the screen this evening & I really did enjoy it, however, it's not a very good one. A pretty fast moving found footage horror comedy (with nearly zero actual comedy) taking course over one night, put together from live news, police cameras, teens and their smartphones, cctv's, a podcast team etc. - I liked this approach, the many cameras, characters, locations really helped with the pacing and visual diversity. So the whole city is either looking for or hiding from Gags the clown. The characters involved are very simple and one-dimensional, with a concerning amount of a-hole roles. As it happens in a lot of horror movies, some characters and their actions don't always make sense. The acting is as good as the script allows. The story is pretty straight forward, trying to build up the climax, the mystery behind the clown, only to reveal what it had revealed already before - it's all a social commentary, a satire on today's media, society and other related things. Not that it's bad, it's just that somewhere "Gags the clown" falls a bit flat, not hitting the nail on the head. The scares and most of the potential for creepiness is abruptly stopped with digital glitches and the gore is weak. There were a few little, cool elements I liked, for example, the balloon shtick (You'll have to watch it if You want to know). Visually, judging by the found-footage genre standarts, it's quite alright, could've been better if the budget allowed more than a "let's cut it with a glitch". I think "Gags the clown" has a great idea somewhere in it, but is confused within itself. The fast pacing & many faces and locations provide a level of entertainment, and if you like or, even better, are scared of clowns, you might enjoy this. My rating: 5/10.

I went in with the lowest of expectations and was very surprised cause this movie is actually really nice. I love the found footage format and I found this one being well executed. About the recent clown hype, it's not at all my thing but thought that the story went a bit further than just depending on a scary clown. I really recommend this movie to fans of both horror and maybe especially found footage. And yeah read the synopsis and look at the trailer, you can't expect much more than to be entertained, don't expect any cinematic masterpiece. This type of movies are supposed to be wiewed for what it is and this one happens to be very entertaining! Well, except for the ending which I found really disappointing.

Gags the Clown (2018) is currently free on Amazon Prime and wasn't a terrible addition to the clown genre of horror films. The storyline surrounds a mysterious clown that appears all over the city with strange balloons that when you find them and they pop a white powder in the balloon if inhaled causes you to go crazy and start killing people. The local media and a blogger start a search of the city looking to bring Gags to justice after the police struggle to find the clown. Adam Krause directs Gags the Clown as his first major motion picture. The kill scenes were good and storyline was entertaining and worth following. I liked the way the blogger and competing news crews were delivered as well as the final funhouse scene. The acting by Tracy Perez (The Strain), Lauren Ashley Carter (Pod and Jug Face) and Aaron Christensen (Dead Weight and Gray Matter) was above average and believable. Overall, this is an entertaining film worth your time. I'd give it a 5.5/10.

How do you screw up a found footage film about a creepy clown? Well, you need bad actors to say poorly written lines of dialogue, meaningless subplots, a confused tone, and some ideological crap that is meant to insult people who happen to own guns. In this film, they are raving lunatics who carry guns secretly hoping to kill someone and praying that a situation occurs where they can legally shoot someone dead. Complete rubbish. Half way into the film I almost forgot it was about a clown, it was that confusing.

Honestly I don't know where to start with this film except that it's a iconic slasher built into a found footage film with hints of hilarity, but all in all I feel it's your typical blumhouse paranormal activity style film but with a great & Underated Indy cast with sum cheese ball like dialogue that doesn't have to try hard to be itself starting with the story of "Gags The Clown" not even having to say a word much like your typical slasher killer but having that Satan is amongst us vibe even though he's paranormal but his point is served throughout the movie & then you have the driven plot through the movie that revolves around several different stories of people going after "Gags" and ultimately finding there fate amongst him and mind you I'm filling this plot without spoilers and story breakdowns because I truly feel that everyone should see & feel this with an open mind & needless to say the ending may as well be the greatest found footage ending of all time. And I wanna say thank you reading this and please wait for a full review on my YouTube channel Dead Vision Entertainment

I love this film. It's perfect for what it is. A low budget horror comedy with some really good and not so good acting (which makes it even more charming) I really enjoyed this.

After watching Gags I thought "meh." Its underdeveloped, not really gory, mostly creepy, the characters have no depth, and there's not a lot going on. But given a moment to think about, the actors were entertaining, the story moved along, and it was legitimately freaky. Given it looks like it was made on $50 and a bottle of ketchup, I'd have to say I thought Gags the Clown is a fairly done B-movie.

A few laughs combined with an interesting plot. Certainly no award winner but better than you might expect.