antic in a Cornfieldis such a summary yet resonant title for a repugnance movie . Your villain and your setting are right there , plus all theawful connotationsyour imagination can worst up regarding both . Eli Craig ’s new slasherhas a batch to go up to with a title like that , butthe directorofTucker & Dale vs. Evilknows what he ’s doing .
He ’s got all the constituent : appeal characters , a small town with a huge secret , a morbid killer , and an rudimentary subject matter that makes certain the film is about more thanjusta killer clown splattering victims around a cornfield — though eternal sleep insure , there ’s still plenty of that .
After a prolusion set in 1991 that straightaway delivers — kids partying in a corn field are ambushed by a maniac withvery largeshoes — we cut to the present day and get a closer look at Kettle Springs , Missouri , a farm Ithiel Town that ’s fallen on hard times since the Baypen Brand Corn Syrup factory closed . The company ’s mascot , a smiling clown named “ Frendo , ” still hover over the townsfolk as a monitor of more well-to-do days . More late , urgently world-weary local stripling have disgorge him as the masked killer in horror shorts they put out on YouTube .
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The sleepy rural community soon adds two new residents : Quinn ( Ginny & Georgia‘s Katie Douglas ) and her father ( Aaron Abrams ) . He ’s admit the job of Ithiel Town doctor , envision that after the sudden red of Quinn ’s female parent , the twosome could expend a overbold start . Though she quickly befriend the YouTube clique , Quinn ’s not thrilled about relocating to Nowheresville , especially as she picks up on how unfriendly the old resident physician are toward the local adolescent .
But there ’s not much time to marinade on that as things get going;Clown in a Cornfieldtakes place over just a few day and nighttime , and a good amount of sieve time is given over to reddish - nosed , violent - wigged panic , wielding chain saw , crossbows , cattle prod , and other conveniently available implements of destruction .
Despite that claim , and despite Craig being the guy behind the cult - belovedTucker & Dale vs. Evil , Clown in a Cornfieldis actually less of a comedy than you might think . There are witty , ego - referential lines — the script is by Craig and Carter Blanchard , adapted from the novel by Adam Cesare — but Frendo is not to be do it with , as one character monish Quinn . Whoever ’s under the masquerade party is ruthless and angry , andClown in a Cornfieldengages in some sly misdirection about the killer ’s ID as more and more soundbox pile up .
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Throughout the moving-picture show , Clown in a Cornfieldpulls on the threads of that generation - gap dispute and even convey engineering in as part of it . Quinn ’s new friend lie with making videos and being online , but they ’re surround by adults who do n’t see the peak of even the most basic procession . ( One of the funniest scenes , teased in the picture show ’s trailer , is a crisis that takes place when the only way to call for avail involves a rotary phone . )
The motivating behind Frendo ’s slaughter ties into this divide , and if the pieces do n’t quite completely fit together at the end , Clown in a Cornfieldhas by then build up a deal of up-and-coming goodwill . It ultimately proves itself to be amostlystraightforward slasher film — complete with many of the expected image , admit pleasingly ghastly gore — with some canny and subversive poke along the way .
Clown in a Cornfieldalso champion Kevin Durand , Will Sasso , Carson MacCormac , Vincent Muller , Cassandra Potenzo , and Verity Marks . It hits dramatics May 9 .
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